Swatches: Too Faced Lockdown Ultimate Creaseless Cream Eyeshadow

Too Faced Lockdown Ultimate Creaseless Cream Eyeshadow

6 Shades Available:

1. Bedroom Eyes: shimmery reddish brown although Sephora calls it shimmery taupe
2. Bondage : shimmery ivory champagne
3. Dramarama: shimmery chocolate brown
4. I’m Guilty: shimmery teal blue
5. Jailbait: shimmery pale pink – looks a bit frosty if application is heavy handed.
6. Prisoner Of Love: shimmery pink although Sephora calls it shimmery soft pink

For review of product, please see Beauty Review: Too Faced Lockdown Ultimate Creaseless Cream Eyeshadow

Hope this helps!

~nutty

Beauty Review: Too Faced Lockdown Ultimate Creaseless Cream Eyeshadow

Too Faced Lockdown Ultimate Creaseless Cream Shadow. Image from http://www.boots.com

Product description from Sephora:

Too Faced LOCKDOWN Ultimate Creaseless Cream Eye Shadow combines deep metallic pigments with Shadow Insurance’s anti-crease base to create a staying power that is unmatched. This beautiful, long-wearing formula is easy to apply and your peepers are protected from creasing, fading, and smudging.  Size: 0.28 oz, 8grams

MY REVIEW:

These are Too Faced version of shimmery cream eyeshadows. The various shades are  infused with Too Faced’s famous shadow insurance.

PRICE:

• £12.72 for 8grams

PACKAGING:

• Comes in a box with very colourful design of the word “Lockdown”.
• The actual tube is just a plastic tube in  a similar shade to the actual product.
• Twist cap in a squeeze tube.
• Small tip where the product comes from.

SHADES:

• 6 Shades Available:

1. Bedroom Eyes:  shimmery reddish brown although Sephora calls it shimmery taupe
2. Bondage : shimmery ivory champagne
3. Dramarama: shimmery chocolate brown
4. I’m Guilty: shimmery teal blue
5. Jailbait: shimmery pale pink – looks a bit frosty if application is heavy handed.
6. Prisoner Of Love: shimmery  pink although Sephora calls it shimmery soft pink

FORMULAE:

• Texture: Cream to powder formulae.
• Blendability: Not bad.
  
• Lasting Power: Lasts only 4 hours…creasing present on one eye. The other eye has no eyeshadow left (I wonder where it went?). If I top off with powder, it lasts about 6 hours.

EFFECT:

Well…the Lockdowns are pretty shimmery…some of the lighter shades have very sparse mini microglitter  but the glitter disappears if u spread out the product. It dries pretty fast so you have to spread it out fast. I use my fingers for application.  Gives a nice wash of shimmery colour.

VERDICT

Well…depending on how much $$ you have…if you want to save on $$, just get the plain Too Faced Shadow Insurance to use as a base.  If you want a shimmery eyeshadow that doesnt crease and has quick application for those busy morning use…these arent that bad.

Hope these help!

~nutty

p.s: Please comment!

1) Have you tried this before? What’s your verdict?

2) What is your favourite cream eyeshadow? Why it is your favourite cream eyeshadow?

3) What do you think constitutes a great  cream eye shadow?

Beauty Review: Too Faced Borderline – Anti Feathering Lip Pencil in Clear

Too Faced Borderline Lip Pencil.Picture from Sephora

Product Description from Too Faced:

A one-color-fits-all anti-feathering pencil that will revolutionize the way you wear lip product.

What it does:
Keep your lipstick and lip gloss from traveling beyond your lip’s borders with Borderline, a matte, colorless lip pencil designed to fill in and plump up vertical lip lines while it locks down your favorite lip products. Apply to the area just outside the natural lip line to forego feathering and to pamper your pucker with skin soothing, moisturizing, and firming ingredients. Our one-color-fits-all wonder pencil will revolutionize the way you wear lip gloss. No more sloppy fading creeping color.

How to wear:

Smoothly sketch or draw Borderline on or around lip area.

Create a natural lip shape by staying slightly inside the lip.

To plump up lip shape apply around your lip area slightly outside your natural lip line.

Fill lips in entirely for super control.

My Review:

PRICE: GBP 11 or 14 (cant quite recall)

PACKAGING: Comes in a box containing the lip pencil and a sharpener. The sharpener has the words “Too Faced” inscribed on it – soo cute!

SHADES: One shade – clear.

FORMULAE:

Texture-wise: Creamy pencil that goes on easily, no tugging of lips. Easy to shade the lips as well.

Moisturising: Would say there are moisturising properties.

Scent/taste: No smell or taste.

EFFECT:

I am not too sure about the firming claim but I can definitely say that this helps moisturise lips. With other lip liners, I always end up with badly chapped lips regardless of the type and brand of lipsticks or lipglosses. With this product, I can safely say that I have not experienced any chapped lips.

The best thing about this product is the lack of shade from the liner. I can use this with all my lip products and not worry about the colour changes when I pair my lipsticks/glosses with a coloured lip liner.Your lipstick/gloss shade is what you see from the tube when paired with this liner. This  helps save $$$ especially given our current economy! Imagine all the $$$ you can save from having to purchase matching lipliners…now you only need one lip liner.

Another aspect of saving $$$, you actually get much more wear out of your lipstick/glosses… I am telling you…with this on…I dont need to touch up my lipstick!!! (dammit!! cos that means my lipsticks will take longer to use them up = no buying in the near future of new lippies!) Have not experienced the pesky feathering or bleeding…your lipstick/gloss stays where you put them now…and really stays on…long!

Verdict

Highly recommended for a one shade fits all requirement.  Helps save $$$ too.

Hope this helps!

~nutty

Perhaps you might be interested in reading:
Best of 2008

Best of 2008

It is almost the end of the year and by this time, every newspaper , TV program or magazine will have an article or program on the either the best of something for that year or a run-down on the memorable / unforgettable events of the year. There have been several unforgettable events for 2008 but in keeping with the theme of this blog (i.e beauty related), this post will be about the best beauty/skincare items I have found this year.

Presenting my best of 2008…

#1 -  Diorshow Iconic Mascara

Best for: Actually making my wimpy non existent lashes stay curled and defined!

#2 – Chanel  Les Tissages de Chanel Blush Duo Tweed Effect

Best for: Being chick babe men magnet!!

#3 – La Mer Hydrating Infusion

Best for: Solving my dehydrated flaking skin problem!

#4 – La Mer Lip Balm

Best for: Giving me soft kissable lips!

#5 – Too Faced Borderline Anti-feathering Lip Pencil in Clear

Best for: Keeping my lipstick and lipgloss where they should be, lasting longer than they should be and at an affordable price!

#6 – Becca Beach Tint

Best for: Its numerous multi-purpose uses!

#7 – Norwegian Formula Foot Cream for damaged and cracked skin (intensive repair)

Best for: Repairing my horrible cracked heels and at an affordable price!!

#8 – Kanebo Mascara 38°C Silk Performance

Best for: No longer giving me panda eyes and having the easiest removal method – just warm water and its gone!

#9 – YSL Rouge Volupte Lipstick

Best for: Creamy texture and intense pigment.

#10 – the Sanctuary Spa Hot Sugar Scrub

Best for:  Non abrasive scrub that gives off a slight heat – good for deep cleansing and warming up muscles! All at affordable prices!

Please do share your best finds of 2008 as well! I will be posting the individual reviews of the products  in the future, so please stay tune for them!

Happy reading!

~nutty