Good Girls Wear Peach

I'm sure bad girls wear peach as well but today, I'd like to share with you my peachy-pink blush collection which includes one of my favourite blushes this month and my favourite blush of 2015. Surprisingly, I don't actually have as many blushes as I thought, especially since I use them daily! Blushes are as staple to me as eyeliner is to my eyes. My face can appear quite flat and round if I don't put some colour to it. Peachy pinks are something I pull out whenever I'm not sure what to wear so they tend to be part of my most used items.

The blush that spurred this post would have to be Essence's Good Girls Wear Peach blush. I've always heard good things about Essence blushes so I picked this one up a few months ago. It's part of their Limited Edition Good Girl Bad Girl collection. I don't enjoy posting about Limited Edition stuff but it seems that Essence release their collections over a large span of time so things that were released in Europe over half a year ago may be just released in Canada. I don't quite understand it yet but for reference purposes, I'm going to post my swatch today.

Essence Good Girl Bad Girl (Good Girls Wear Peach) - I believe this is the only blush in this collection. It's one of the most powdery blushes I've ever own. However despite that, it does have a nice colour pay off. It's a true muted peach shade that is hard to find in the drugstore.  I'm pretty pale so it adds a light bit of colour on my cheeks and give them a bit of definition but not enough where I'm screaming blush. I really like this colour but I'm not sure this will show up all that well on deeper skin tones. Essence should really have released another shade as well so that there's options.  GGWP wore beautifully and at the end of 8hr day, I could still see it on my cheeks. In pan there's a bit of shimmer but on swatches, the shimmers don't really show.

Etude House Cookie Blusher (#6 Grapefruit Jelly): This is my favourite blush in 2015 and I love it so much, I'm already contemplating on buying a backup despite not having hit pan yet. I've reviewed it in its own post here. Comparing it to GGWP, it's much brighter and have a lot more pink in it. It's also not powdery at all. 

Tony Moly Crystal Blusher (#3 Pleasure Peach): This is very similar to GGWP but with a bit of pink added in and also brighter. I've reviewed the all the Crystal Blushers I own in this post. The texture is drier and more powdery than Etude House but less definitely less powdery than GGWP. It's also very long lasting. 

I'm wearing GGWP  - it's just a light wash of colour that is hardly detectable. On the lips I have Too Face Melted Lipstick in Melted Peony.

Etude House's Grapefruit Jelly is still my favourite but if you ever come across GGWP, it's not a bad idea to pick it up, especially since it's only $3.50 CDN. 

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[MOTD] Giving More Love to My Unused Stuff

In 2015, I really played it safe as you can in my Best of Beauty 2015 post. I stuck to low maintenance, natural, barely there makeup. In 2016, I'd like to experiment more often. As a beauty enthusiasts, I've accumulated quite a lot of things I admire and never use. Here are some beautiful items I love in my collection but rarely wear outside. 

I'm not really skilled at all with eyeshadow. I have tons of palettes that I never use it. This discontinued quad from Innisfree has a lot of cool toned coloured shadows that I think I will be conformable starting with - like the olive gold and cool tone silver. The shadows are actually really soft and flattering so I think this will be a favourite soon.

I'd love to use glitter and shimmer more often but the eyeshadow trend here is mostly the matte, neutral kind. I'll try to work the Aritaum Shine Fix Eyes into my routine daily and add some dazzle to daily life. The one in the picture is #13 Brown Bunny which I love using on top of my regular liners to get a bit of sparkle. 

Nars Cruella has got to be my favourite red classic red lip. It's deeper red than most reds I own so it doesn't really pop as much as others. I got this as part of my Sephora Birthday gift last year, and I haven't had the chance to wear it yet. I've been trying to work it into a gradient lip. 

 Too Face Melted Lipstick in Melted Peony is my latest flattering almost "nude". It's a soft milky pink that always makes my lips look fuller than they are. 

Falsies - My eyelashes aren't flattering, even with mascara. This year, I'd like to use more individual lashes to amplify my own.  It's still a bit time consuming so I've been using Maybelline's Falsies and I actually really like it.

Using the products above with a bit of light contour with TCFS Artclass by Rodin

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