Fall is by far my favourite season. Not only can you get away with wearing layers and layers of clothing, looking plump and hiding that beer belly from the summer’s antics whilst still maintaining your inner panache, it calls for a revamp of your makeup bag. This Autumn/Winter I have splashed out on ‘au courant’ makeup. (I have a habit of od’ing on pinches of French when I’m feeling creative… and can’t find a more upbeat way of saying ‘new’). I was so excited to get my hands on the new collection it was actually ridiculous.
Creative director Lloyd Simmonds at YSL beauty has, and I believe I can vouch for all women, understood a female’s needs above and beyond. There are two eye shadow palettes. The Uptown look caters for a demure daytime style whilst the Downtown palette, inspired by worldwide city lights is in complete antithesis providing an arty and neoteric look. The shocking downtown look creates a harmonious clash of acid green, electric blue, shimmer silver and a foiled charcoal black, the more subtle uptown palette provides softness and wearable deep chocolates, warm brown, slate grey and satin beige. Through application I found that the shadows are best applied wet, for an even more colour popping experience, (if that’s even possible). But the versatile colours can also be applied dry for an equally outstanding look.
If the colour palettes aren’t up to much in your books, (I can’t understand why), then the compacts alone are pretty enough to stare at… for hours. I’m obviously speaking from experience… how sad. The satin coral blush is ah-maz-ing. The brush, the colour, the pigmentation. It’s all spot on. The pepper rose blush also has a beautiful radiance to it. (I didn’t buy it because I’m a student and times are hard).
Beige promenade was my favourite lipstick out of the four provided in this collection. So obviously it was purchased. It’s wonderful, it looks great with the downtown look to neutralise the wacky acid green. As for the mascara, the outside alone is bloody great. The inside is even better. Made up of grey tones it provides a great winter look, brilliant for my fair complexion as black mascara often looks too harsh next to my yellow hair. It’s thick. And I love it.
The beige nail polish is also spot on for this fall. Crazy how one man can understand a woman’s needs so well. Oh, and if the collection didn’t sound great enough Cara Delevingne was the model for the YSL Fall 2013 campaign… even more of a reason to stare in awe. With this collection my makeup bag will look beautiful, I’ll probably have to live off Tesco Price beans for a month or two now though.