Lunasol Spring 2012 Collection Review, Swatches and Photos

Long time no blog? Or rather, I feel like it’s been a while since I’ve written a real post, minus a chapter from my Book of Fables. I’m going to blame work and a higher than average amount of social activities that have crept up. My goal has always been to blog every day if I can, which I think I managed to do quite well for a few months straight. I guess I just need a better organisational system, one unscheduled late evening out with friends and I feel like my entire blogging schedule gets thrown off!

Anyways, enough whinging, I want to show you a few products from the Lunasol Spring 2012 collection 😀 Probably one of my favourite collections so far because I feel I may have actually found my new almost HG brow product!

Petal Pure Eyes – 03 Soft Beige

I picked out this particular palette because the shades were highly wearable (just what I need, another wearable nude / neutral eye shadow palette…). The pigmentation for this palette is pretty amazing, didn’t experience any issues what so ever. Was able to apply the shadows both with my brushes and fingers easily.

The design is truly gorgeous, even though I cringe at the idea of using beautiful designs such as the white rose above. All the shades are of a shimmery to satin nature, minus the top left hand shade which is clearly a purely shimmer shade that can be either worn alone as a highlighter to overlayed a more solid colour. It reflects pink under the light. None of these shadows contain any glitter and all apply buttery smooth.

Brow Styling Pencil Oval – Grayish Brown

The highlight product of this collection for me! (even though I actually love all the products here). I find it incredibly difficult to find natural brow products I can use. Day to day I don’t fill in my brows as they are naturally very strong, but if I’m going out to say a wedding or particular event I like to be able to fill in my brows just a touch. The problem is my brows are not brown (not even dark brown), which is the case for most brow kits. My brows are far more ashy, almost black / gray. As a result I end up lightly using black powder, which quite a number of my readers have already slapped me on the wrist for.

Introducing this brow pencil, a perfect mix of gray and brown tones mixed together to create a lovely shade for my own natural brows. I won’t go as far to say that the colour is seamless to my own brows, as you can clearly see in the photo below. But if I didn’t point that fact out, you can see how natural my brows actually look. Almost like I didn’t fill them in, which is exactly what I want in a brow kit. For now, this is as close to perfect as I can get (and I’ve been searching for a long time), so I’m truly in love with this pencil! 😀

Full Glamour Lips G – 42 Light Pink

Lucky last, a light moisturising pink lipstick! My favourite kind. I find that the Lunasol lip products are quite similar to SUQQU’s lipsticks. Probably not as moisturising and creamy, but extremely close.

As you can see in the swatch, the colour is very sheer. I’d almost compare it to a balm to be honest, but this shade is incredibly work friendly and wearable, which is my favourite kind of lip product. It feels great on the lipsticks, not at all drying, but unfortunately lasting power isn’t the best. I found it lasted around 2 hours tops? It’s a small price to pay for a moisturising creamy lipstick in my books. But if you’re looking for lipsticks high in pigmentation, I’d look else where.

To me brands like Lunasol, SUQQU, Bobbi Brown are more about natural looks, enhancing what you already have rather than covering it up, or emulating a different look all together, hence why most of their products contain more neutral tones or are very sheer.

In other words, these brands are perfect for the work environment or people who are not comfortable with heavy transformations. Lunasol certainly has a place in my collection 😉 Unfortunately this collection is only available in Asia, but there are plenty of websites online who will ship to Australia.