I love me some eye shadows, I love them in all shades, colors and textures! That’s not to say I wear them all – of course, but I love them nonetheless.
Today’s shadows at hand are L’Oreal HIP loose pigment eye shadows in 918 Restless and 102 Exciting.
In the store I was like “hmm what is the difference between these two?” So naturally I bought them both and guess what? They’re like night and day! Or rather gold and pink! This photo shows the two plus MAC Vanilla pigment for comparison.
Ok so let’s get started.
Both of the pigments are fairly sheer but ultra shimmery. These make a great shimmery neutral eye or used as highlight for brow bone, inner corner, etc.
102 Exciting reminds me very much of the Body Shop’s pink shimmer single eye shadow but this one, to me, seems more sheer but at the same time more sparkly – just generally gentler I guess. At this time I should mention it is an opalescent color – where sometimes it’s just so subtle until the light hits it just right and it is the most beautiful light pink.
918 Restless is a gold. Not yellow gold but a shimmery sheer white gold and this one has a little trick up its sleeve. If the light hits it just so, there is a hit of opalescent pink. It really really reminds me of MAC Vanilla.
The swatches below are 918 Restless, 102 Exciting and Vanilla. Don’t ask my why I didn’t put Exciting in the middle. I would deffinatly go far enough to put this Vanilla vs. Restless into a Splurge vs. Steal post because they are both sheer-ish with a pretty golden color and pink opalescent. HOWEVER, the MAC pigment has a white base where the HIP is sheer, so if you’re doing this all over the eye, the MAC will make you look like a geisha where the HIP is a totally wearable shimmer. That’s pretty visible in the first photo of the swatch. As always, all images are clickable.
2 comments:
lol at mac will make u look like a geisha.
awesome stuff!!
Becky took the words out of my mouth.... lol.... looking like a geisha!
Great review and fab swatches!!!
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