LORAC 2 Palette!

As soon as I found out about this little beauty I jumped on Amazon and ordered it straight away. AmazonGlobal is one of my favourite places for beauty shopping online as you can usually pick up what you want at US prices so I scored the Lorac 2 for $42 plus about $5 shipping which ended up being about 53AUD which is pretty fantastic compared to what I would have payed elsewhere.

Like its predecessor the top row are mattes with the shimmer/satin colours running underneath

Lorac and Lorac 2

The quality of the shadows is as usual with Lorac, on point. Super soft and glide on the skin easily. I have found that there is more fallout with the Lorac 2 – especially with the shade “cocoa” which turns to a crumbly mess as soon as I run my brush over it. I think I prefer the colours from the original palette simply because it has more matte brown shades which I wear on a daily basis but I’m also glad that they haven’t repeated themselves and produced another palette which is just a muted version of the colours in the first palette and instead leaned more towards the grey side of the spectrum and added those two amazing pops of colour which are “Navy” and “Jade”.

When I first received the package in the mail I sat there for a good 10 minutes trying to match up the names from the 2 palettes which you may have noticed seem to correspond with each other (or I might just be imagining things), like ‘Champagne’ and ‘Rosé’, or ‘Gold’ and ‘Silver’ and ‘Garnet’ and ‘Jade’, which (intentional or not) is a fun addition.

        The mattes (colours are going backwards unfortunately and ‘Buff’ was too light to show up on my skin)

                                                                        The shimmers

Maybelline Hyper Diamonds, and Eyeshadow Quads!

For some reason I just can’t get enough of these mini palettes!

To be completely honest I don’t reach for them all that often but I keep buying new ones!

I’m a total ‘what if’ girl. ‘What if I go travelling and need something small to take?’, ‘What if I accidentally step on all my other eyeshadows and this is all I have left?’ Stupid questions I ask myself to justify buying something I won’t get much use out of. But in reality these are very good quality shadows and I should really be using them more often!

 

Back row from left to right: Emerald Diamonds, Charcoal Diamonds, Berry Diamonds,

Front row form left to right: Sapphire Diamonds, Bronze Diamonds.

I have to show you a few swatches from Sapphire and Bronze (my Fave – that peach/copper mix is so gorgeous!), these guys are so buttery and soft they blend like a dream and while I have experienced some creasing from a full days wear it is easily rectified with the use of an eyeshadow primer.

Left to right: Amethyst Smokes, Natural Smokes, Designer Chocolates.

Natural Smokes was one of the first makeup purchases I made from my own money (you can tell its been well loved) and definitely set me down the joyous path to makeup obsession, these palettes are great for beginners as they all come with mini tutorials on the back of each explaining each step.

Left to right(from back): Lilac Mauve, Copper Chic, Taupe Temptress, Give Me Gold.

After looking back at all these and taking a trip down memory road I’ll definitely be using them more often I’m sure it will be a time saver rather than digging through a bunch of palettes for the perfect complimenting shades which is my current routine. Half of these were so old that I had ripped the labels off the back and had to google the names – unfortunately exposing a half price maybelline sale at priceline which is where Im off to now – I know I am weak and pathetic please pray for my bank account.

xx