The Deeper Hues Thread (Swatches, Color Matching, etc.)

[ElleElleG]

*new group located here: Deeper Shades

Have a deeper hue and want to know how a product might look on your skin tone?  This is the place for you!

Several ladies expressed interest in having a BIC group dedicated to WOC.  Such a group would serve as a central reference point for swatches, color matching and the like, which can often be difficult to find.  While I have no idea whether such a group will ever be created I figured it would be nice to at least have a thread.

It should go without saying, but  **Ladies (and gents) of all hues are more than welcome **

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[danielledanielle]

Danessa Myricks Lightwork VII

@missjeanie 

Indoor, low daylight 

First palette/left most indoor, low daylight 

 

First palette/left most indoor, bright light 

Second palette, middle indoor, low daylight

 

 

Second palette, middle indoor, bright light

 

 

 

Third palette, right side indoor, low daylight 

Third palette, right side indoor, bright light

 

[missjeanie]

@danielledanielle There are some GORGEOUS shades in here.... Do you have a favourite look yet?

[danielledanielle]

@missjeanie , I'm trying to delve into the Hung Vanngo I just got for this week... So I haven't played with it yet, I'm terrible... But swatching, I thought the palette with the blue would be my fave (it's not not a fave), but the middle one has the audible gasps with the sparkly shades and the duo chrome.  Sparkly goodness ✨✨

[missjeanie]

They're so pretty @danielledanielle !  I'm tempted to get it just to do swatches!

[CynthieLu]

Oooouh those look stunning @danielledanielle *sigh* it's dreamy! 💝

[Shosh85]

@danielledanielle  Thanks for the swatches! You've definitely helped make up my mind on this one! Beautiful! 😍

[danielledanielle]

@Shosh85, 🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽

(I just used this elsewhere, so apologies, but it's fitting)

[curlychiquita]

The swatches look beautiful on you, @danielledanielle!

[danielledanielle]

@curlychiquita , TY.  I'm excited! There were a few audible gasps with these swatches

[danielledanielle]

What's lovelier than fun makeup?  New testers for fun makeup! 

 

 

 

 

 

Outdoors

Some of the lips are also here

Closest to the wrist (that tiny bright red shirt is actually Maed's liquid lip)
Vanngo red (one away from Maed)
Ny red (close to Maed)
Up Call my agent (above Maed, to the left)

In store lips

 

Left of my wrist, top to bottom:

Award winner 
First cover
Limitless Sky

I don't remember what those circles are beneath 🤦🏽‍♀️

 

These got smudged 🫤

I didn't get to swatch the liners because I was on a hurry and ran out of arm space.  Did the blushers and majority of the eye liners. 

Left, two brown lines are keep it effortless, soften the edge (wrist)

Others, top to bottom
Use your judgement, one eye, up to you, personal preference, along the lash line

Kohl liners, taupe not available

Bottom, left to right

Second Language
Single Mother
Full Circle

Top, left to right 

Possibilities 
Legacy 
Born from beauty

Blended out

All the eyeliners are smmmmmooooooottthhh.

And, took a bit of force to remove.

[Ispend2much6]

@danielledanielle Thanks for the swatches!  I need that purple liner.  The purple palette looks particularly lovely on you.

[danielledanielle]

TY!@Ispend2much6 , I'm a little in love with that one, too (the purple eyeliner). 

[danielledanielle]

Danessa sticks 1-8, starting with 1 top left ending with 8, bottom right 

 

[danielledanielle]

Makeup By Mario Eyeshadows 

Top to bottom 

Espresso (smudged)

Sienna 

Blush

Slate 

Black 

Espresso 

[danielledanielle]

Danessa Myricks Beauty Mini Pastel Dream Freedom Palette 

Was trying to get the shift, pic's not doing her justice 😂

[WinglessOne]

Tagging @danielledanielle who wanted to see my comparisons. 

PAT McGRATH LABS MOTHERSHIP XII Eyeshadow Palette: Petalmorphosis vs. Mothership II Sublime 

I wonder how the reformulated Motherships will perform, and how close to the originals their shades will be.

Now that all the pre-Moonlit Seduction Motherships are being reformulated to replace the “special” baked Blitz/Astral/VR shades (😭), I thought it’d be fun to compare the original version of Pat’s only other greenish Mothership to Petalmorphosis, the newest Mothership which has no baked shades. When I first pulled Sublime off my shelf, I thought “Sublime has no purples and Blitz Emerald’s on a black base, so it can’t be all that similar to Petalmorphosis aside from the rose shade in both palettes.” Then I swatched a few shades for comparison and you know what… 

Finishes are obviously different between the palettes, but the overall color story (minus purples) ain’t too far off.

I wasn’t gonna explain each shade’s finish & feel; I figured I’d let those swatches speak for themselves. But I gotta say I’d forgotten how creamy Iconic is. That shade feels like a cream shadow. I’ll also say Astral Sunset Splendor has a very subtle gold flip. Looking at it beside VR Nectar, one shade clearly outdoes the other in shine and shift. But Divine Dawn and Blitz Bronze Supernova are gorgeous in person. 

The shiny greens in both palettes are very different, as expected. In fact, first time I saw the new palette’s green, I immediately thought of Danessa Myricks Beauty Colorfix - Multi-Use Eye, Cheek & Lip Waterproof Liquid Pigment Evergreen. Let’s compare ‘em: 

That Evergreen green > blue > violet shift though.

I didn’t pull any greens from Danessa’s Lightwork palettes because I’m pretty sure those are all very color-shifty, unlike Blitz Radiant Rhapsody. The new blitz green does have a bit of a blue shimmer flip, but it’s kinda subtle. 

I used a $100 Rouge Reward to get Petalmorphosis and have no regrets about that. Those shadows swatch beautifully and really, I’m just happy to see Pat’s brand release a Mothership that’s not 80+% pink/rose for the first time since Midnight Sun. I’ll miss the baked shades going forward, though I do still love Mothership IV Decadence which doesn’t contain any. I said elsewhere that if Pat’s brand wanted to do a super crazy cash grab, they could re-release a very limited (small) batch of Decadence palettes but make all 10 shades the baked Blitz, Astral, and/or VR formulas. I’d buy that. 😅

Anyone who wants more shifty duo/multichrome shades is better off looking at Danessa Myricks’s palettes and Colorfix shades, or smaller indie brands. I love shifty shades, but I’m also happy to have this new Mothership.  

[danielledanielle]

@WinglessOne, thank you for choosing PMG to compare to PMG. This is great.

Logically, I should not get this palette.  But, I'm liking the non green shades even more so now.  Rouge Reward seems to be the way to go, since it's yet to pop up elsewhere.

[WinglessOne]

@danielledanielle  I almost also pulled out III Subversive to compare purples, but that’s probably the only similarity between it and XII. Might still do that next time I’m in the swatch comparison zone. 😂

I can see getting lots of use outta Petalmorphosis. For starters, it’s got perhaps more one-and-done options than any other Mothership. Seems like this palette was the brand’s specific answer to “must be user-friendly, but also contain enough shiny sparkly things to win over Pat’s longtime fans without scaring away the masses.” I’ll withhold final judgment til I’ve spent a week or so using the palette, but I dunno, maybe they’ve succeeded—even without the baked shades. 

BTW, Nordstrom has Petalmorphosis now. Ulta still doesn’t. 

[Titian06]

Thank you for these amazing swatches and your oh-so knowledgeable comments, @WinglessOne ! 💖💖💖

[danielledanielle]

Dropping off empties, was hoping to see the new Patrick Ta shades in store

PATRICK TA Major Headlines Double-Take Crème & Powder Blush Duo 

 

As always, it got messy.  I think I remembered most of them.  Also the brush isn't a revamp, there's a smaller, newer blush brush : PATRICK TA Dual Ended Precision Blush Brush 

Going from top right to left (fist 👊🏽 to wrist 🖐🏽

Left me on red
She's wanted
She knows who she is
She goes to the gym
She's seductive

Mid wrist
Not too much
She's blushing

She's that girl far left

She's Blushing, Not Too much, She goes to the gym look pretty similar on me 🤔

I was mainly interested in She Knows Who She is and Left me on Red

Swatched and blended out

The furthest left is left me on red, the blended search near my fingers is She Knows .  She Knows goes berry pink, but like like a welt or bruise for me

Also we did she's wanted to compare vs She Knows.  She's wanted goes plum, but bruisy still.