Ben Nye Lumiere Grande Colour Palette Look

Hey folks! Today I bring you a fun, colorful look. 

Enough blabbering, tutorial time!

I  applied the blush from the Lune+Aster Desert Moon Palette as a base for Hourglass Blush in Mood Flush with my Sephora Collection Pro Mini Airbrush 55.5. I also applied highlight from the Lune+Aster Desert Moon Palette using my Sephora Collection #74 PRO Small Blush and Contour brush as a base for Chaos Makeup Highlighter in Strawberry Lemonade.

As a base for my eyeshadow I applied Maybelline 24 HR Color Tattoo in Front Runner and blended it out with my Crown Pro C511 brush. 

For the crease I applied Cosmic Violet along with Amethyst with the wet n wild Crease Brush and Crown Pro C511 Brush, respectively. 

For the lid I applied Tangerine wet with the Pixi Makeup Fixing Mist using my Crown Pro C510 brush.

To highlight the brow-bone and the inner corner of the eye I applied Colourpop Lux and a blend of Iced Gold and Ice using my no-name gigantic paddle brush from Crown and Crown Pro C528 brush, respectively.

For eyeliner I applied the Physicians Formula Eye Booster Waterproof Ultra-Fine Liquid Eyeliner with a nice cat eye; I also applied Urban Decay 24/7 Junkie Glide-On Eye Pencil to the waterline.

For the lower lash line, I applied Cosmic Blue and blended it out with Aztec Gold using my Bubbi Detail brush.

The look sans falsies. 

For lashes I used The Crème Shop 3D Faux Mink Lashes in Lolita along with the Duo Brush On Adhesive.

For lips, I applied Colourpop just a tint lip crayon in chimichanga, the blush from the Lune+Aster Desert Moon Palette, and MAC Lip Pencil in Cherry.

Hope that you liked this! :D It was super fun for me to put together! 

Please let me know if you have any comments or questions. 

Disclaimer: The Sephora 55.5 brush, Lune + Aster, Pixi, and Hourglass products were provided for testing purposes.  I paid for everything else you see here myself. 

Ben Nye Lumiere Grande Colour Palette Review

Today I bring to you the Ben Nye Grande Colour Palette

Availability: This retails at $60 - $65 at various online retailors. It is also available at various beauty supply stores that carry Ben Nye.

Would I buy this again? Yes!
Notes: Frankly I have owned and loved this palette for an embarrassing length of time - I won't even tell you folks how long I've had it for fear of being judged. That being said, technically, powder shadows don't ever go bad and unless they develop some kind of strange odor they are safe to hold onto for years. I've never had an issue with this bothering my eyes in any way. I have brought this up on my blog in the past - in fact here and here but I've never reviewed it and I figured it was high time! Also just a heads up, I purposely arranged my palette in rainbow order, it comes ordered in a slightly different way so if you see it online and in stores looking a little bit different, that's why. All shades have a metallic, shimmery finish to them.

Ice is a pearly white.

Iced Gold is a pearly white gold.

Silver is a pearly silver.

Aztec Gold is a pearly yellow gold.

Azalea is a pearly hot pink fuchsia shade. It really captures the shade of real life pink azaleas really well.

Tangerine is a soft, pearly orange.

Sun Yellow is a pearly bright yellow.

Chartreuse is a pearly lime green. Fun fact: this shade really made me fall in love with wearing greens with my brown eyes.

Jade is a pearly, cool-toned grass green that's borderline a little bit teal.

Cosmic Blue is a pearly aquatic blue shade.

Cosmic Violet is a soft, pearly magenta with a violet blue duochrome.

Amethyst is a pearly neutral purple.

Please let me know if you have any questions or comments.

Disclaimer: I bought this myself. 

Love It Or Leave It; Review 2.0: Ben Nye Lumiere Grande Colour Palette, the Balm flirty Mini Nude Eyeshadow Nude Dude, and Buxom Room Service Eyeshadow Bar Single

Hello folksickles. As a makeup junkie and blogger you may have realized that I review a LOAD of eyeshadow palettes and I like to think of myself as being largely an eyeshadow junkie. In order to de-clutter a bit  I've decided to pick out a palette or series of eyeshadows for the month and have that be my monthly selection for those instances where I'm not doing a tutorial for the blog. Every month I'll do a recap on the eyeshadows - how I feel about them and whether I'll be keeping them or giving them away (and why :P) as well as if I think it's worth its price tag. Yes there's two a month now! I figured maybe I could get through more this way :D

Ben Nye Lumiere Grande Colour Palette, the Balm Mini Nude Eyeshadow Nude Dude in Flirty, Buxom Room Service Eyeshadow Bar Single

For a look I created with the Ben Nye Lumiere Grande Colour Palette you can click here. These are the looks I created this month:

This look below features MAC Reflects Transparent Teal on top of the white eyeshadow

The below look was done with as The Face Shop lovely me:ex You & I Eyes in Sand Brown a lid topper

So as you can see I created a bunch of fun colorful looks. Honestly these eyeshadows are keepers - the shades here are ultra pigmented and easy to blend, there are endless combinations of color that you can use to create softer looks with "pops" of brights or to add to more neutral palettes. This is a palette that is absolutely "top shelf" for me (if we think of it as bar liquor) in that it's one that's top of mind and one I reach for often - if I'm looking for a shimmery chartreuse or yellow this is what I'm going to think of to use first. Its only downfall is its lack of mattes. 

Disclaimer:  I purchased all the eyeshadows/products mentioned myself.