*Edited. Kept calling the Dior Star the Dior Snow. Obviously not awake today. Sorry :S
Really rushed FOTD featuring the Diorblush in Dazzling Sun #581, which is a LE blusher that launched to compliment the Rouge Dior Baumes. First of all, you must read the-ever-gorgeous-Sunny's review of Rose Darling #861 and check out her link to her IG where she’s swatched all four of the LE Diorblushes.
Really rushed FOTD featuring the Diorblush in Dazzling Sun #581, which is a LE blusher that launched to compliment the Rouge Dior Baumes. First of all, you must read the-ever-gorgeous-Sunny's review of Rose Darling #861 and check out her link to her IG where she’s swatched all four of the LE Diorblushes.
I had no idea there was 4 new LE blushers, and the SA only showed me Dazzling Sun and Starlight (#421) a beige highligher with soft pink tones, mainly because she thinks I own a million pink blushers and probably have close dupes already (which isn't that far from the truth).
Dazzling Sun is hot burnt orange colour with very fine and subtle gold shimmer hidden within. At first glance, it’s kind of intimidating in the pan, which of course means I gotta try it on ma face!
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Applied, it’s a softer apricot with more pink than I would have anticipated but it could be my redness doing some funky mojo. I do think one can easily build this up to true-to-pan goodness, and even when I use it relatively light handedly, I can see the burnt orange coming through. The subtle gold shimmer really makes this blusher glow on the cheeks, giving me this sun kissed vibe. I’m not overly familiar with the Diorblushes so I can’t state comparisons, but Dazzling Sun is very finely milled, silky soft and applies with a natural translucency.
Also testing out the recently launched Dior Star foundation. I was matched at the counter to Ivory (010) which I think is the lightest shade, but I felt it was much too light, so I was given a quite a few sachets of Ivory and Light Beige (020) to try out.
I've already bought the sponge and really love it. I find it better to use than the Real Technique's one, and it gets equal loving from me as MUFE HD Sponge which launched earlier this year in TW and immediately became my favourite sponge blender (I haven't tried the original Beauty Blender, and don't plan to).
Still haven't made up my mind about the Dior Star. It is incredibly weightless for the mid to almost full coverage you can achieve with it. The finish is beautifully natural with a healthy satine glow. However, I really need to prime and set this with some proper oil controlling voodoo if I don't want to look like an oil slick about 2~3 hours later.
The first time I tried it, I used the Rouge Bunny Rouge Original Skin primer underneath, because I've been using that primer with my current favourite foundy (Mikimoto Essence Liquid Foundation), and the Dior Star really made a bad first impression on me. It wasn't an overly humid day, but I was out and about running errands, so I suffered the head sweats. I haven't had foundation run down my neck and stain my shirt in years, but the Dior Star managed to do just that. Additionally, I found that I needed to blot and powder throughout the day because I was oiling like crazy. It's only because of Sunny's glowing review that I persevered and experimented with other primers, which is a good thing, because as long as I used an oil-controlling primer and setting powder, the Dior Star is wonderful, and deserves all the praises.
In the FOTD I’m wearing Ivory, which is too light for me right now. Light Beige at first matches me perfectly, but my redness makes bases look oxidised, and within a few hours, Light Beige looks too dark on me. Do note that the Dior Star doesn’t actually oxidise on my skin, just my redness wreaking havoc. Ivory is great if I use some bronzer to sculpt, so if I do end up getting this, I’ll be going for Ivory.
Other tidbits:
Am trying out EL’s latest foundations this week (does the Dior Star tester look like a condom packet to you, or is my brain just sewage?)
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Also tiny sneak peak of Shu Uemura’s upcoming Shurette collection for Christmas.
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Christmas collections are starting to pop up, which ones have captured your lust?
xx
Noodles :)