All through the holidays and for a large part of January, I’ve been wearing Marc Jacobs Beauty’s “Lolita” Eye Palette. I have loads of neutral shadows but this one packs that “little something extra.” For $59 (available at Sephora) you get seven highly pigmented shadows including three mattes, one very glittery shade and three shimmers. It’s a well rounded palette and the quality of each shade is good to excellent. See below for swatches and looks.
Shades #1 and #2
Swatches shades #1 and #2
Shades #3 and #4
Swatches Shades #3 and #4
Shades #5, #6 and #7
Swatches of shades #5, #6 and #7
Shades 1, 2 and 3 are lovely, pigmented cream, nude brown and coffee brown matte shades that are the foundation of many of the looks I have created with this palette. Shade #4 is an extremely glittery pinkish shade that exhibits major fall out (see the loose glitter all over the palette? yeah…now you know where it came from!) unless it is applied on a brush misted with one of those “setting sprays” that are so popular (Urban Decay makes several good ones as does Kat Von D, Mac, Skindinavia, NYX and others). I like this one for either a “fun” daytime look or added to the middle lid of a darker eye look for evening. This definitely should not go above the crease! Shade #5 is a light peachy pink shimmer which I like for the inner half of the eye or the tear duct area (to brighten things up). Shades #6 and #7 are a light peachy shimmer and a light bronzy shimmer. I like these as lid colors with mattes in the crease. See below for three different looks from this palette.
This first look is one I’ve worn a lot! It consists of the nude brown from the lash line and into the crease with the dark matte brown in the outer crease and slightly above the crease. Then I took the nude brown and blended above the crease and finished up with the cream under the eyebrow.
This second look was the result of playing around one day with my Hourglass powder (I temporarily lost my favorite NARS setting powder). I used the light peachy shimmer shade on the lid and the nude brown in the crease. On the tear duct area, I used the shimmery light peach (shade #5) and then the cream under the brow.
The third look is a glitter bomb but I actually loved it! First, I wet my brush with my Urban Decay “All Nighter” Setting Spray , dipped the brush into shade #4 (the light pink glitter) and then patted the shadow all over my lid. Then I took the nude brown to the crease and blended up towards the eyebrow. Cream shadow went right under the arch of my brow. Finally, I reapplied some more of the glitter shadow (with a wet brush) just to the middle of the lid. Pretty!!!
There are so many more combinations that one could wear with The Lolita palette. If you’re looking for a special eyeshadow splurge, I can heartily recommend this one as it does have a little bit of everything!
Have you tried The Lolita? Would love to hear what you think of it!!
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