Friday, January 28

CS pigment comparison: Reds and Pinks

I only took three pink/red pigments from CS: Duochrome Red Orange, Foliage Flutter and Chrome Carmine.

Finish of Chrome Carmine reminded me of the golden sheen TKB's Apricot and Conservatorie's Gold Earth both have but while these have a beige base Chrome Carmine is distinctively pink in comparison. (I think e.l.f's blush in Candid Coral also carries a similar golden sheen.)
Gold Earth (Conservatorie), Apricot (TKB)
Chrome Carmine (CS), Peach Fuzz (Conservatorie)
Am thinking maybe I should have compared this color to the pinks too, like Conservatorie's Shimmering Nude. I'll make a comparison pic during weekend. 

Coastal Scents' Foliage Flutter was picked out because I wished to compare it to TKB's Foliage - the only thing connecting them is a orangeish-toned base, top colors are different, TKB's Foliage being more flesh colored and Foliage Flutter having a strong pink sheen.
Bolero (Conservatorie), Scorpio the Eighth (TKB)
Foliage (TKB), Foliage Flutter (CS)
Coastal Scents' Duochrome Red-Orange is marvelous, the sheen might be too much when used as blush, it's closest to TKB's Garnet. I guess if one loves showy high sheen lips, this would be the perfect golden pink lipstick.
Top to bottom: Garnet (TKB), Duochrome Red-Orange (CS), Strawberry (TKB),
Gemini aka Gemma (TKB)
PS! And here's the pic comparing Chrome Carmine with Shimmering Nude, the latter being much more on the pink side, Chrome Carmine has a strong golden sheen in comparison. It was a bright sunshiny day and swatch failed miserably - overlighting, sry :S.


5 comments:

  1. Gone2RehabBRBJanuary 29, 2011 at 12:02 PM

    Gemini aka Gemma looks delish

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  2. LiisKJanuary 30, 2011 at 5:49 AM

    Yup, it's definitely something one should put in the basket when shopping at TKB :)

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  3. UnknownJanuary 31, 2011 at 10:38 PM

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  4. LiisKFebruary 1, 2011 at 7:58 AM

    Thanks for letting me know :), I'll go and check it out. I'm not particularly proud of these specific swatches - done with my lousy camera, it's my bf who has taken some really marvelous ones with his good cam :)

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  5. UnknownFebruary 5, 2011 at 1:35 PM

    thanks for the swatches

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