Color Club Taps Into Tesserae - aka Modern Mosaic Collection Part 1

I found these on Head2Toe Beauty while I was looking for something else. The one thing about Head2Toe is that they have a good selection of Color Club at a great price. Oh, and they take Paypal, which to me is vital. As an aside, I've never (knock wood) had an issue with paypal, which is the big win for me working through their site.

Back to swatches.

So, if you google micro mosaics, you will see some cool 18th and 19th century jewelry, and some artwork as well. It's a nod Ancient Rome's mosaics, and it reemerged in the Renaissance when all things "classical" were not only paving the way for modern man, but redefining culture as a whole.

Spend a bit of time looking at the fine work of micro-mosaic jewelry and art, it's astonishing. 

Here is a search that will boggle your mind.

A few notes before starting:

The formula is a bit thick, so thin coats are a must. 

I'd recommend thinning them after you determine how thick they seem to you, mainly because they can be unwieldy, as I found out.

No top coats

Some texture, but nothing a top coat can't take care of fairly easily.

These are very unique, inasmuch as most of the time people just mix these little glitters in as a background, filler, or mix it up for different sizes. Color Club just said "let's go with little"

In a nutshell the effect is charming, cute, and for spring it's delightful.

This is a "limited edition" collection, made in the USA, I believe most of my CC is made in China.

On to the swatches!

Color Club Subway Station

Soft dove gray and white. This is two coats, I tried three coats to try to achieve coverage. It gets thick, though after two. I redid it and ended up with two coats as a better mix

Two shades of gray that I can see in the bottle. 

One coat over H&M Miss Stone Heart. 

Perfect combination, although I LOVE the H&M, I had to get it in a swap and it's not on their US site, bummer. 

If you love gray, you probably will enjoy Subway Station. I have 1/2 a helmer of gray. Love it!

Color-Club Pixi-Lated

Pale orchid pink glitters, with scant purple glitters along with white. Pretty and soft.

Two coats, although it didn't cover as densely as I would have wished.

One coat of Pixi-Lated over L.A. Colors no name light orchid pink. You can see the white and the purple a bit better. I think this would also be very pretty over a soft pastel yellow.

Color Club Orange Crush

This is perhaps my favorite. A mix of white, yellow and apricot glitters. 

Here it is over American Apparel Palm Springs. I don't think I've blogged Palm springs before, but here it is alone:

Three coats and perhaps one of your better formulas. I really wasn't sure about this color when i first got it - it was part of a job lot on eBay, perhaps those "easy to break bottles" - and put it aside for stamping usage only, but I have VERY few apricot shades so this got pulled out of stamping and put to work for swatching and other things. I kind of love this color. Not sure if it's a win on my skin tone, but I like it a lot.

Part 2  soon!

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Lavender Comps: Part 3

Here is the round up!

First a quick rehash of the contenders:


H and M Temptress, aka, "Make Mine Secret Shimmer"

E.L.F. Lilac, aka, "Gray Down and Die"

Diamond Cosmetic's Pelican Peak Purple, aka, "Purple Mountain Majesty"

Sparitual Thunder Road, aka "Strap Your Hands Across These Engines!"

On to the comps:


Sunshine:

Left to right:
DC Pelican Peak Purple
Sparitual Thunder Road
E.L.F. Lilac
H and M Temptress.
You can see three of these things belong together, one of these things doesn't belong here, can you guess which one? (hee hee!)
In a lot of ways DC PPP and SR TR have a lot in common, though, I feel as though the former is a wee bet glossier and as I look at it, I am kind of feeling like I love it a little more. It could be my "ridge-y ring finger" but I it's hard to say.
Temptress, you shimmer bomb! Love ya!


Shade:

Left to right:

DC Pelican Peak Purple

Sparitual Thunder Road

E.L.F. Lilac

H and M Temptress.

As you can see they really all look pretty decent in the shade, even the E.L.F. Lilac, but in truth, Sparitual holds the intensity a skosh more. H and M washes out, DC PPP turns a bit blue, but not bad really.  Temptress looks good, though a little demure, and I think would go more gray in tungsten light.

Though, to the E.L.F.'s merit, it would be a great base for frankening, or if you wanted to make it go down the jelly path, it would be perfect. I made a jelly out of E.L.F. dark red and it's pretty fabulous. 

Last shot, bottles:

Left to right:

DC Pelican Peak Purple

Sparitual Thunder Road

E.L.F. Lilac

H and M Temptress.

Would I call any of them dupes? I don't know, I think DC and SR are pretty darn close. If I had one and not the other, I'd pass on the other. Whatever that other was. Ha! I don't even think I understand what I just wrote!
:D

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Lavender Comps: Part 1

Perhaps this should be a springtime post, but it is not.

Here is a three-parter on some lavenders that I have a hunch are all related, though not dupes by any stretch of the imagination.

Onward!

H and M Temptress

A beautiful color, leaning into the red pool, pulling out a couple of drops and saying: Don't mistake me for a blue, people!

Three coats. Easy formula, dried beautifully.

Best of all, a pale shimmer that seems invisible in the bottle:

This was given to me by a super generous swapper. Love you to bits, I was honored to do this swap!!

Perfection, except I couldn't get the lid off of the brush handle so it was a bit of a careful moment on my pinkie finger.

I have one other color by this brand, wow, love it!



E.L.F. Lilac

A dusty, soft lavender, that they call Lilac. We have lilacs like crazy out here and I've never seen one look this unhealthy.
It is glossy, three-coater, and has a "jelly implication", that perhaps now is called "sorbet". Reminiscent of Orly Bon Bon, but more of a lavender than an actual gray. Perhaps a reblog and a comp are in order.
I did like the formula, but not really sure if it is a color I can carry well. It doesn't have the pop/intensity of the H&M. So, perhaps a skin tone with more blue undertones could work this baby out?

Ok, more soon! (as in next post! Keep your eyes peeled! :D)

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