isadora swatches Archives

Nail Polish Of The Day: IsaDora Wonder Nail 540 Purple Paisley

10/03/16

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A while back IsaDora launched their new Fall collection and with it they launched three new nail polish shades. One of them was shade 540 Purple Paisley which caught my eye as soon as I saw a preview of the colours. Once I noticed the collection in stores – this nail polish was mine!

I know there are so many similar shades on the market already and it’s really hard to come up with a new colour, but I simply love IsaDora’s nail polishes and I always get at least one shade from each new collection. :)

Long story short…

flawless and easy application
wide brush (all their nail polishes have a wide brush – took me a bit to get used to it, but now I love it!)
fairly fast drying
looking smooth without any top coat
2 coats for even and opaque colour
5 ml / 79 SEK / €8.25

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What’s on your nails right now? :)

Vesna ♥

Mulberry On My Lips ♥

09/19/16

Here’s a funny thing: when I was a kid, my grandparents had this huge, old mulberry tree near their house and I loved to climb on it and pick mulberries (well, and eat them, obviously!). That’s actually my favourite fruit so when I saw that IsaDora launched a new collection which includes 10 lipsticks with matching lip liners (7 shades are totally new) and that one of them was called ‘mulberry’, I just knew it would be a great shade and that I had no choice but to purchase it! Fast forward a few days – here are my (lip)swatches and first impressions!

IsaDora Sculpting Lipliner Waterproof 66 Mulberry (0.3 g / 89 SEK / €9.30) is a matte red wine-ish shade with a slight brown undertone. It goes on easily but it is definitely drying and I would recommend exfoliation before applying it since it does emphasize any imperfection. Another thing is that it can’t be worn alone – way too dry for that (and I like drier lipsticks and lip liners, LOL).

IsaDora Lip Desire Sculpting Lipstick 66 Mulberry (3.3 g / 139 SEK / €14.50) is a darker creamy wine colour with purple undertone. Goes on easily and looks great with matching lip liner (though not really matching since these shades are slightly different, but that’s not really an issue once the products are applied). Once it’s applied on top of the lip liner, I definitely have no issues with dryness.

Here are my photos and swatches!

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natural daylight (shade)

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natural daylight (it looks a bit brownish, but it definitely has a more purple undertone on my lips; it is a bit hard to capture it)

Do you like mulberry (fruit / lip products)? :)

Vesna ♥

IsaDora Face Sculptor Strobing Review, Photos, Swatches

07/04/16

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Recently IsaDora launched a new collection which contains some strobing products and after seeing some photos I decided to get the Face Sculptor Strobing highlighter. The main reason I purchased it is the fact that it comes in two combination of shades: Cool Glow and Warm Cool. I ended up getting the shade Cool Glow since I have cool undertones and I liked how this product contains three different shades for each undertone.

The packaging is really good, doesn’t take up much space and I like how all shades come in separate pans which means you could easily depot them. The pans itself contain quite a decent amount of product – 6 grams/each which means you get 18 grams of product for 200 SEK (22$). Unfortunately, that’s everything I like about this product.

I purchased it without trying it first (it just arrived to the store so they didn’t have some testers), but since I like IsaDora’s products I figured I would like this one, too. Well, I was wrong. The formula is kinda rough, if that would be the right word to use. I mean, compared to their eye shadows, which have an amazing buttery formula, this one is nowhere near it which is a real shame because this product had so much potential. And since the formula isn’t smooth and nice, it doesn’t look nice and smooth on skin either. It looks like I applied it by mistake or haven’t blended it out nicely and it emphasizes EVERYTHING, even something that isn’t there, LOL! I tried using different brushes and my fingers, but no help there. I guess I’ll simply use it around my eye area which is fine, but that wasn’t what I planned (and I wouldn’t get it only to use around my eye area since I have enough eye shadows which I use for that purpose).

I think I might try out the liquid strobing products instead. Those might work better for me. Hopefully. :)

Anyway, here are a few more photos and swatches!

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Have you seen this product in stores? Tried it maybe? :)

Vesna ♥

IsaDora Golden Eyes Holiday Palette, Photos & Swatches

12/03/15

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This year IsaDora launched a gorgeous holiday makeup collection but I managed to pick only Golden Eyes Palette since I’m trying to resist all these pretty and shiny things, but it doesn’t work always. :D I actually don’t have many products from IsaDora since it’s not really popular in Croatia nor do they have a nice selection of products. But, here in Sweden, since it is a Swedish brand, it’s a completely another thing. The selection of products is great and not to mention all collections they launch every month or so. I’m actually happy to discover such a nice brand with affordable prices (compared to Swedish prices, that is).

This won’t be a review post since I got this palette only two days ago and besides swatching it, I haven’t tested it yet. I’ll just describe my first impressions shortly and show you my swatches and photos of the palette. :)

The palette comes in a smooth golden packaging (heaven for fingerprints, ha ha!). It contains five eyeshadows with net weight 7.5 grams which makes it 1.5 gram / each. Palette costs 179 SEK (€19.50) making it 35,80 SEK (€3.90)/eyeshadow. I’d say it’s a nice deal. Eyeshadows have an interesting formula. Except for the first one, they all have some sorts of buttery feeling under fingers. Not really sure how to describe it. So soft and smooth. The first one is only glitter but not that common fall-out glitter. It’s somehow smooth and you can’t even feel that it’s glitter. I recommend applying it on top other eyeshadows and with something sticky underneath.

So, that would be all for now. Not sure if I will review it since this is limited edition and probably won’t be out for a long time, but I will create a look with it this weekend. :)

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swatches without any base, taken in natural daylight (shade)

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swatches without any base, taken in natural daylight (sunlight)

Vesna ♥

NOTD: IsaDora Skyline

10/20/15

I’ve been posting to many NOTD posts lately, which is so not typical me, so this will be my first and last NOTD post this week. :D As of tomorrow, I’ll be writing more reviews, posting swatches and posting about some nice sale items I managed to purchase in the last week or two (still “hunting” some stuff so maybe I’ll wait just a bit with this post. :)

IsaDora Skyline is a nice pastel blue nail polish, but I’m not sure it suits my nail that good as I thought it would. I really do like pastel shades, but this one isn’t really it. MAybe if it was just slightly lighter? I don’t know…

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