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In last week’s Illamasqua post about the goodies in their forthcoming Body Electrics collection, a wee mention was made of the fact that theres’s gonna be a four-pan Liquid Metal palette in the lineup. Ah, that deserves its own post, doesn’t it?
Liquid Metal in Surge, will bring to four the Liquid Metals in the collection with the Body Electrics release – enrapture (copper), phenomena (silver) and solstice (gold) are already available – that means they’re perfect for inclusion in one of the brand’s quad palettes. These are quite sizeable little bits of kit with four 1.5g shadows inside and a decent mirror. The Liquid Metals kit will be €33, which is a decent price I think given that the single pans are €20 for 2g. Of course, you do get less of each, but you’d be all year getting through one in any case, so for €7 under the price of two singles, you get to try four. Seems like a bit of a no-brainer to me.
But eh, what exactly are they?
These are a bit of a case of ‘it is what it says it is’. Liquid metal by name, liquid metal by nature. Take a gander at the shot below:
This is phenomena, a foiled silver, pigment-packed, cream eye shadow. You can see the texture of it above – it’s smooth, and in the pan is nothing compared to how it looks on skin.
Ta dah! Now, this is PROPER silver. It can be layered, sheered-out for a subtle finish or built-up for a grand auld “I’m channeling a Cylon today EXTERMINATE EXTERMINATE” effect.
But what would you use it for? True, this isn’t something you’re going to be rocking up to the morning finance meeting wearing. But as a base for a silver smokey, it’s great. On its own with a bit of black in the crease for a DRAMZ night-time eye is also very pretty, or you can dab a teeny it into the corner of the eye to lift a black smokey into another dimension.
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I SO SO SO want this!! Any idea when in April these might be on the counter?
Wow this is dramatic indeed – Kirstie, is it easy to blend powder shadows over this, or do you end up pushing the cream shadow around a bit? Or is it altogether better to just go with creams only?
I really want this – WOW!
OMG, totally FAB. I am definitely bagging one of these babies.
I DIE. Bananas
How’s the staying power? I could pull it off as a liner for work – our company is open-minded about how we look (still wouldn’t go full-on drag) … maybe dusted with a bit of metallic eyeshadow on top to set it in place. I’m going to visit BT2 in April, and this baby is coming home with me
And in case I need a bit more persuading – the copper one will make a great pair with my lovely bronze MAC eyeshadow.
What brush would you use for applying these? And are they blendable? I love the look of them, just wonder if its more of a block colour look?
these look amazing.. i dont normally shell out for eyeshadows but woah, ui might just have to. is it only available in BT2? anywhere closer to the west??
i’m definitely queuing, if needs be for one of these! love love love!
I’m in love – was already having beans on toast for all of April – now I have to decide between the beans and the toast.
Hmmm, sparkle, I have a long list to take to BT, so in my case it’s air and water, and whatever weed will sprout in the back garden!! But, as my mum always says, no-one sees that you are eating beans on toast every day, but everyone sees your new _______ (enter whatever you bought). So all worth it, huh?
sweetie – I like your mum!!
now, where do I start, right:
coverage is what you see on the hand, solid, You can thin it out but these are densely pigmented. Creamy but not wet, very very blendable, use a regular brush, they don’t set but are excellent under powder shadow – I have never used this on its own actually, always with other products. I think longevity is good, always seems to stay where put anyway!
BT2 Grafton st is the only stockist.
Oh, pretty, pretty! I’ve been looking for a dense silver and this might just be it! Love it when you have swatches, makes it so much easier to see the actual colour. Temptalia is brilliant at swatches normally but I don’t see this on her site.
bourjois have something like this – really solid metallic liquid eyeshadow thing. i don’t own one but i swatched a few shades and i was very impressed by how ‘liquid metal’ they looked. they completely dried after a minute or so too – couldn’t rub it off except with a bit of spit. i’m always a bit uncomfortable with cream eye shadow – don’t like my eyelids feeling sticky or anything (i’m sure this doesn’t do that, but the idea of cream shadow always makes me think of that).
i dunno, i’m not sure i can pull off the metallic eyes thing, but i’d probably try one of the bourjois ones first to see how i like it because they had a bigger selection of colours too. gold eyes definitely would look crazy on me.
Oh I want this soooo much!