@lmaster Thank you!

@Sunnysmom Beautiful swatches! Thanks for sharing!

@linneaadam I love this one! Which is your fav colour?

Week 2 (January 6 - 12) - The "Mocha Mousse" Inspired Makeup Capsule Primer: Dr. Jart+ Mini Cicapair Color Correcting Treatment SPF 30 15 mL/ .50 fl oz is good for reducing or just completely masking redness on my cheeks and around my nose. I also have just the little bit of GUERLAIN Parure Gold 24K Radiance Primer 1.2 oz / 35 mL left to use up. Spoiler Foundation: It's going to be a light coverage week, for the most part - I'll rotate between the Live Tinted Hueguard Tint Skin Tint SPF 50 and the Victoria Beckham by Augustinus Bader Priming Moisturizer (Golden)Concealer: DIOR Backstage Concealer 2N Finishing Powder: Hourglass Ambient® Lighting Finishing Powder Dim Light (part of my 2025 pan it! challenge)Setting Products: I'll switch between the Dior Forever Perfect Fix Setting Spray - this has a paired really well with the Guerlain primer and the SEPHORA COLLECTION Translucent Loose Setting Powder (gratis)Eyes: Spoiler Primer: about-face Shadow Fix Eye PrimerEyeshadow: Cle de Peau Quad (discontinued)Eye Liner: Danessa Myricks Beauty Infinite Chrome Waterproof Micropencil Eyeliner Bronzite (upper lashline) and Makeup by Mario Master Mattes Brightening Pencil - Light 1 (discontinued) (waterline)Mascara: Cosnori Perfect Setting Mascara Waterproof Long & Curl Cheeks: SpoilerBlush: Ami Colé Desert Date Cream Blush & Lip Multistick Hibiscus for some color. I love the monochromatic look but it doesn't always translate so well on me; I need a little color somewhere. This week, it'll be courtesy of my blush. This can also serve as a lippie if I tire of the neutral brown lip look.Highlight: Byredo Fluid Highlighter Stick Gilded MemoirBronzer: Pixi On-the-Glow Bronze Stick - Soft Glow SpoilerLip Balm: Sulwhasoo Glowing Lip BalmLipstick: Fenty Beauty by Rihanna Fenty Icon The Fill Semi-Matte Refillable Lipstick She A CEO - on its own it's a deep, dark brown. Paired with the Fenty gloss or Fenty lip oil and it gives off those mocha mousse vibes.Lip Gloss: Fenty Beauty by Rihanna Gloss Bomb Universal Lip Luminizer Champ Stamp Fantasy Lip Oil: Pound Cake Cake Theory Lip Tone Equalizing Oil - this was generously gifted to me by a friend. I'm not sure about the "neutralizing" claims of this product but it feels super comfortable on and looks beautiful paired with the liners and the lipstick in this week's capsule.Lip Liner: It'll be a heavy lip liner + lip oil/gloss week 😍 with my lip liner options consisting of Merit Lip Liner (Bespoke) (this was part of a limited edition holiday set a few years ago, hoping it is made part of the permanent collection at some point - it's one of my favorite neutral brown lip liners - creamy and glides on beautifully). Charlotte Tilbury Lip Cheat Lip Liner Love Trap and Dominique Cosmetics lip liner (I think the shade is Crush; it was part of a holiday set a few years back; a lovely pinky- nude brown shade that is the ideal mix of those two color families for my lips. The Weekend Edition of this week's capsule. The Process: SpoilerI have a few approaches to selecting the makeup products for each week's capsule. The Focused Approach - For last week's capsule (New Year, New To You Makeup), I started by pulling out a couple of the on-theme products I wanted to use (namely, the Saie blush (gratis), the Dior lipstick Dazzle and the Aerin fragrance, which I'm blending with other fragrances at the moment to see what combo I like with it). I focused my other products around those with the idea that I wanted to incorporate at least one 2025 pan it! challenge item (Cle de Peau and YSL eyeshadow quad) and filled out the rest with a mix of products I've used before. I had 11 makeup items (did not count skincare or fragrance) - for this year, I'm aiming for most of my weekly capsules to fall within the 8-12 product range. Some weeks will have more items and some, less. The "Cast My Net Out Wide & Pare Down" Approach - Set aside what I think I'd like to use for the week's theme and then edit from there, trying to be as realistic as possbile with what I'll use as well as what I'll want for options. This is what I tried for this week's Mocha Mousse theme - as you can see, I leaned more into options. 😮🤣 More on how I arrived at all of this in the spoiler below. The "Keep It Simple (& Stunning) Approach - This is when I really want a well-edited capsule, but without sacrificing options. It usually means my capsule consists of 6-10 products, depending on whether or not I'm going for a full face of makeup. Week 2 Process: I made the mistake of filling the bag with whatever I could fit in the bag. 🙄 This is a very spacious bag, so whoops! 😬 I guess "paring it down" is all relative. lol.What I started with ... again, very spacious bag. Ha!I didn't realize just how spacious until I emptied the bag and placed all the products into groups - complexion - eyes - cheeks - lips. As well as skincare, skincare/makeup hybrids, and fragrance.The cheek products were easy to decide on as there were only 3 and in different subcategories - blush, bronzer, highlight. We eventually arrived at this, which, while less than what we started with, looks like a lot ... because it is a lot. Eeeeek!!! I could have done better with paring down the lip and complexion products. Next time. I have a few approaches to selecting the makeup products for each week's capsule. The Focused Approach - For last week's capsule (New Year, New To You Makeup), I started by pulling out a couple of the on-theme products I wanted to use (namely, the Saie blush (gratis), the Dior lipstick Dazzle and the Aerin fragrance, which I'm blending with other fragrances at the moment to see what combo I like with it). I focused my other products around those with the idea that I wanted to incorporate at least one 2025 pan it! challenge item (Cle de Peau and YSL eyeshadow quad) and filled out the rest with a mix of products I've used before. I had 11 makeup items (did not count skincare or fragrance) - for this year, I'm aiming for most of my weekly capsules to fall within the 8-12 product range. Some weeks will have more items and some, less. The "Cast My Net Out Wide & Pare Down" Approach - Set aside what I think I'd like to use for the week's theme and then edit from there, trying to be as realistic as possbile with what I'll use as well as what I'll want for options. This is what I tried for this week's Mocha Mousse theme - as you can see, I leaned more into options. More on how I arrived at all of this in the spoiler below. The "Keep It Simple (& Stunning) Approach - This is when I really want a well-edited capsule, but without sacrificing options. It usually means my capsule consists of 6-10 products, depending on whether or not I'm going for a full face of makeup. Week 2 Process: I made the mistake of filling the bag with whatever I could fit in the bag. This is a very spacious bag, so whoops! I guess "paring it down" is all relative. lol.What I started with ... again, very spacious bag. Ha!I didn't realize just how spacious until I emptied the bag and placed all the products into groups - complexion - eyes - cheeks - lips. As well as skincare, skincare/makeup hybrids, and fragrance.The cheek products were easy to decide on as there were only 3 and in different subcategories - blush, bronzer, highlight. We eventually arrived at this, which, while less than what we started with, looks like a lot ... because it is a lot. Eeeeek!!! I could have done better with paring down the lip and complexion products. Next time. Edited to add: Tags and swatches added to post. Will update post later today to tag products and include swatches.

Thanks for the tag @danielledanielle! I have always enjoyed learning something new 😀