THE SWATCH REQUEST THREAD !

[jemly]

alright, here it is. use this thread to request swatches. the guidelines are up to you and your needs: single swatches, comparison swatches, specific skin tone swatches

when comparisons are requested, feel free to provide whatever you have of that request--i want anyone to participate and contribute if they want to. have fun, hope this is helpful !

[jeveux]

The only one that looks really close is MUG Mars, which is only available in the MannyMUA palette and I'm not buying the palette for just 1 shade 😧  Wondering if anyone knows of any MAC or Inglot dupes?

[samls324]

UD Sheer Revolution lipstick Rapture and Liar

UD Revolution lipstick Lovelight and Naked

[Anonymous]

@samls324, here are some swatches for you (sorry, don't have Lovelight):

From left to right:

- UD Sheer Rapture

- UD Sheer Liar

- UD Sheer Ladyflower

- UD Revolution Naked

[samls324]

Thanks!

[starrysilver]

Can someone please swatch Nars Madly vs Benefit Dallas?  

I feel like I can't find good swatches of Madly, but maybe I'm just not good at finding them!  Anyway, I have Dallas and use it all the time and the swatches I keep seeing look very similar... I don't know if I need both.  thanks!

[sinfully]

Dallas heavy, blended, madly heavy, blended

in person madly is lighter and peachier

[starrysilver]

Thank you so much!  This is really helpful

[samls324]

Several people were curious about the new Becca blushes. Here is Snapdragon compared with Nars Orgasm, Nars Deep Throat, and Too Faced Love Hangover.

[StyleLynn]

Thanks for the swatches! It's a gorgeous color but I feel like I enough similar colors that I can pass. 

[TKLJ]

Thank you! I like that it has more of a sheen compared to Orgasm's straight-up sparkles.

[BaseballMommy]

Does anyone have both NARS impassioned blush and Tarte dollface blush to do a side-by-side comparison? I have dollface but am really eyeing impassioned. I was able to pull up Temptalia's side by side comparison, but it's just photos placed together, not swatches completed together. I can't find any other comparisons. 

Thank you!

[kso1225]

@BaseballMommy I'd say they're quite different. Dollface is a very cool toned blue-based pink while Impassioned is more of a mauve-pink and it isn't nearly as cool toned or bright. I've only worn Impassioned twice so far and found that it leaned a little cool on me, but was still very pretty on even though warm blushes are generally more flattering on me.

I find they swatch pretty true to pan

When someone asks for comparison swatches I try to see if I could apply them to get a close result. For example, if a very light swatch of Dollface was close to Impassioned. 

Top to bottom: very light application of Dollface, normal Dollface swatch (2-3 swipes in pan), and a normal swatch of Impassioned. Just below Impassioned I did a very light swatch of Impassioned as well, but it's nearly imperceptible. 

[BaseballMommy]

Thank you so much, @kso1225!! That's exactly what I needed to see to help me decide. It'll stay on my list! 

[Libellules]

Just in case anyone else was wondering...

Tom Ford Sphinx vs Golden Peach (2015 version)

(The pink flash is really hard to capture)

[Gwenhwyfar]

Holy moly, that gold-pink duochrome! 😮

[meganlisa]

That second photo is stunning!

[TKLJ]

Swatches no one asked for! MAC Pastel Times Nine palette.

And a mini review: This retails for $32 (the new reduced MACx9 price), but I got it for $20 thanks to my friend's incredible discount. $20 is a good price, considering the quality of the shadows and how much use I'll get out of them, but I'm not sure I'd pay $32 unless I really loved this. I bought this mostly for the green (Sweet Green) and the two darker pink-purples (Restless Rose and Free Roaming). As you can see, these swatch the best, along with Spice Bar (third shadow in the first row). I don't wear blues often, so I don't really care about those two. The biggest disappointments are the two frosty white colors (Fresh Innocence and New Nude). Fresh Innocence (the first shadow) is especially patchy and very hard to blend. I really had to build up the color in the swatch to make it show up at all. New Nude isn't as patchy, but it's nothing special.

[ElleElleG]

Love the last two in the middle row and that green as well!  Fresh Innocence may look nice on top of a matte or satin shadow!

Agreed that $20 is reasonable for this!  Thanks for the review & swatches!!

[meganlisa]

Love you!  I was curious about this one!  I'm going to pass (as if I need eyeshadow) but seeing helped me decide!

[kateye7]

If anyone has the new magic charlotte tilberry foundation I would love to see a swatch for coverage. The video about the foundation says its light weight but super full coverage and doesn't look like a mask on.... but that was the brands video so I would like a honest opinion before I purchase.

[Ispend2much6]

It definitely offers more coverage than a lot of these lighter new foundations, but I would consider it medium, not super-full.  I could still see some bumps and redness.

It does feel light on.  I would say you do need to prepare your skin (preferably with a primer with this one.)  I think it would be really easy for the skin to look dull with this.  I would use a type of luminzer with it.

My husband said my skin looked good when I wore it, and he hates me wearing foundation. 

I got samples of this from Nordstrom.  In their Gifts with Purchase section you can choose a set of 3 shades with any $50 purchase.  I chose fair 1, 2, and 3.  1 was way too light for me, 2 and 3 worked depending.

I think the shade choices are different from a lot of other companies.