Review: LORAC Alter Ego Dream Girl Eyeshadow Palette!

NEW From LORAC!

Last year I had my eye on the LORAC summer collection but never got to purchasing anything...shocker right?! haha. This year I came, I saw... I hauled! I purchased the LORAC Alter Ego Dream Girl Eyeshadow Palette on the Kohl's website for only $24. For being a higher end brand the price is pretty amazing! This palette is exclusive to Kohl's and the LORAC Website.

The colors are the definition of summer! They definitely caught my eye immediately! Packaging is extremely nice. It feels very similar to Nars packaging...fancy. ;-)

Here are the swatches! Even though the colors are all gorgeous the texture isn't consistent throughout the palette. My favorite shade is the copper/gold in the center. It's pigmented and really smooth. The purple wasn't the best, not much color payoff. Some of the shades were a bit crumbly in texture like the first shade. But for $24...you can work with it in my opinion.

Bottom line: Overall I really like the palette but it's not a favorite. I find that the limited edition LORAC palettes are not comparable to their permanent items like the Pro Palette or the Unzipped Palette. The shadows just don't feel the same and I think that's why my expectations weren't fully met. I also own the Urban Decay Electric palette so some of the brighter colors in this palette are in that one. If you want to play with color for the summer time and you want to do it on a budget this would honestly be a great choice! :-)

Review: LORAC Alter Ego Lipsticks!

Embrace Your Alter Ego!

I was exploring Kohl's beauty section online and came across these brand new lipsticks by LORAC and... I immediately placed an order! haha. I thought the line had an amazing color range to suite every one's taste. They retail for $16 each so I decided to just get two to test them out. I loved the idea behind the line, each lipstick has a cute name, an alter ego, which with each color you can transform into! At first glance I loved the packaging! It's a sleek pewter color with the lipstick color on the bottom. Here's a close up of the packaging:

I love how simple it is, less is more! I love that these lipsticks are formulated with a lot of great things from antioxidants to vitamins. But even with all those good ingredients these don't translate well on the lips. I was a little bummed because for the price I was expecting to love them. The site mentions that these are a creamy matte formula which I agree with but the problem is that they emphasize all the nooks and fine lines on your lips. I don't have extremely dry lips but when I put these on it seems like I do. Here's what one of the colors looked like after I first swatched it:

You can tell from the picture that it's not as creamy as other lipsticks. Just like the product gathers on the top of the lipstick it also gathers on your lips and that does not look cute! haha. I feel like the magenta shade is not as bad as the pink. I wore it to work and it lasted all day. I didn't experience dry lips at all. Seems like the formula isn't consistent within the line. Here are my lip swatches:

I wore a lip balm underneath but that didn't seem to help with the lighter pink color.

*Heiress- a light pink and my least favorite. Because it's a lighter shade you can notice how dry my lips look. It gathered in the inside of my mouth and I just had to take it off immediately.

*Jet Setter- a deep fuchsia, a color I think I can make work regardless of the formula ;-)  I love the color and being that its a darker shade it doesn't look as bad on the lips. It was comfortable on the lips.

 

Bottom line: If you'd like to try any of the shades and enjoy a matte lip I would skip the nudes-pinks and go straight to the deeper colors. Jet Setter looked beautiful on the lips! I wouldn't repurchase any more shades just because out of all the lipsticks I've tried they are not favorite. I would suggest the new Wet n Wild Fergie Limited Edition lipsticks in Swerve and Cray Cray(similar shades to these) for about $4 each as an affordable alternative! Those are amazing and if you're interested in seeing them swatched check out my previous posts. Drugstore won this battle! :-)