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h and angle of the flick but the placement of the coloured pigments is more or less the same full coverage foundation would have been better for this look to more closely match hd perfection but lazy as i was on a saturday i opted for the minimal coverage afforded by koh gen do aqua foundation with some concealing around the nose mouth and under the eyes brows were filled in with my current favourite brow product cle de peau eyebrow pencil in 101 a mechanical pencil with built in brush and shaped in as much of a rounded arch as i could achieve my own brows are very straight nearly perpendicular to the line down the centre of my nose to get the same angle in the brows as the model in the photo would have taken more plucking and masking than i was prepared to deal with compromises compromises to match the eyeshadow i blended two vivid metallics from shu uemura their names long lost to me as they were depotted into a palette years ago for a warm shimmery orange that stands out just enough from my skin tone toward the inner third of the eyelid i faded the orange slightly with nars silk road a very glittery pink nude and the outer corner was deepened with kevyn aucoin copper which is more brown and less metallic the white under the eyes would have been best achieved with a pencil but with none in my stash i made do with a layer of shu uemura p42 matte white with pink undertone followed by addiction cigarette to better catch the light a hint of cigarette also went under the brow as a highlight the main attraction the liner was drawn in with a liquid liner pen lancome liner definition in 01 black its soft flexible felt tip is not as fine as i would like but it is very easy to work with even for someone as unused to drawing flicks as i am it delivers very crisp edges and dark velvety pigment nars zen beneath cheekbones and a light dusting of shiseido rd103 petal on the cheeks finished off the face i am less than happy with the lips not the lipstick which is a mix of shiseido day lily and chantecaille canna but with the mauve undertone that peeked through despite the foundation and concealer i used to mask the natural colour of my lips a seam between face and lips destroys the illusion of skin melding invisibly into the sides of the mouth and draws attention to the unnaturalness of the painted pout a peach corrector might have been more effective here to counteract the dark purple l r click to enlarge shu uemura p42 blush as a white eyeshadow base shu uemura metallic orange eyeshadow discontinued shu uemura metallic bronze eyeshadow discontinued kevyn aucoin copper contour nars silk road addiction cigarette highlight shiseido or418 day lily chantecaille canna image source shokay labels addiction beauty notes chantecaille cle de peau kevyn aucoin lancome nars shiseido shokay shu uemura 8 10 2012 9 fashion notes modern sculpture by li wen mia wasikowska and michael fassbender w magazine april 2011 as expounded before in my ole lynggaard sweet drops post my taste in jewellery leans toward the clean minimalist and versatile organic shapes with a modern sensibility all of those notes with the possible exception of versatility are hit upon by shaun leane s hook earrings and the smaller less dramatic talon earrings i first saw them on mia wasikowska in her w magazine photoshoot with jane eyre co star michael fassbender where i was captivated by how like the gleaming rapier in wasikowska s hand with its lush curvaceous hand guard set against the deadly steel blade the earrings brought into balance the opposites of sharp and delicate masculine and feminine warning and invitation these are earrings with serious attitude as declarative as a tattoo but requiring a great deal less in long term commitment available in either yellow gold rose gold or silver the hook earrings and talon earrings are weighty and substantial in the hand gently framing the face they are striking decidedly sculptural in their multidimensionality i have worn mine in all seasons but find that they cohere most effortlessly with simple outfits that are not too riotous in colour or heavily ornamented shaun leane silver talon earrings from little15 jewellery shiseido shimmering cream eye colour in sv810 tin and bl711 angel shu uemura rd198 and cle de peau r1 black baccara photo justjared labels fashion notes shaun leane 7 11 2012 11 beauty notes biting the hand that feeds you by li wen urban decay has decided to make its products available in china with just one press statement which attempts to reconcile this business decision and its brand image urban decay has managed to both anger its existing customer base those opposed to animal testing and insult the chinese market that it is trying to court you can read the full statement at temptalia but here are some choice bits emphases mine w e believe that change cannot and will not happen by outside pressure alone in a closed market change can only happen from within when we enter the chinese market we will do our part to help make those changes when we were considering expanding into china a group of marketing consultants told us to remove the section of our company history that describes our crusade against animal testing it doesn t mean anything to the chinese beauty customer they said of course we refused our no animal testing policy is part of who we are and has been since day one the news that animal issues don t even register with the average chinese consumer was one of the biggest factors in our decision to go there during urban decay s infancy we worked hard to inform consumers about animal rights in the united states and europe the battleground for animal rights is now in china and we want to be there to encourage dialogue and provoke change we also hope to shed some light on women s rights issues in china as a company that caters to a female customer this is extremely important to us for one thing going into china is a way for us to advance women into important professional positions we will help grow the cosmetics industry which primarily employs and creates career paths for women although workers employment rights are a relatively new concept there progress has been made partially because of pressure from businesses consumers and advocacy groups from other countries based on this our belief is that both an outside force and inside pressure for change can result in helping transform both the importance of women and animal testing policies in china and more importantly we hope to influence the perspective of the citizens on both of these issues if we don t go to china other companies without our beliefs will and the culture will never change when you strip it down their argument basically is this 1 chinese consumers are living in a moral vacuum and need to be educated re enlightened values like animal women s workers insert your own cause rights by a socially responsible company which we are really operating within the country s own boundaries so actually we re doing this for the chinese people s own good 2 of course we re also in it to make money we hope to convince you of the rightness of our decision but if you don t like it then you can take your business elsewhere when china goes to africa to make money it doesn t try to dress it up as being for africa s own good like they re in it for humanitarian purposes and it s worth noting that most cosmetic brands do not normally feel compelled to make a press statement like this one from urban decay china s market in cosmetics is huge and growing according to the li fung research centre in 2011 it was valued at more than 17 3 billion in retail sales a 18 7 increase on the previous year s i think i prefer a company that is honest about its profit motivations rather than one that tries to have its cake shiny youthful nontraditional brand image and eat it too update june 8 since that press release was made urban decay has lost its leaping bunny certification and been removed from peta s list of cruelty free companies labels animal testing beauty notes china corporate social responsibility urban decay 6 06 2012 13 consumer diaries february 2012 li wen by li wen as i make ready to return to shanghai at the end of february a more semi permanent move this time for the purposes of a new job i have been sifting through the stacks of worldly belongs that have accumulated in my family home in sydney trying to decide what i need to take with me this is obviously not the time to be buying still more stuff that will not fit into my 30kg luggage allowance and yet i persist what gives sniffing china and even the glittering fount of cosmopolitanism that is shanghai is a bit of a desert wasteland when it comes to perfumes another cause for distress glass bottles full of alcohol are not the easiest or most light weight things to take onto a plane i shall have to hope that a few full sized bottles of perennial favourites fille en aiguilles vetiver oriental bandit timbuktu and a hefty cosmetics bag full of decants many of them courtesy of dain and travalos will serve until i can next spare the time for a trip back in sydney in the meantime i am spraying myself with clouds of scents that didn t make the full bottle cut and rediscovering in the process perfumes that i haven t worn in ages like this by etat libre d orange not to mention new purchases that i have not spent nearly enough time with juliette has a gun vengeance extreme listening alberto iglesias incredibly atmospheric score for tinker tailor soldier spy which i really hope will win the oscar for best score come february 26th this is the second le carre adaptation that iglesias has written the music for the other was the constant gardener a very differently flavoured soundtrack for which he also garnered an oscar nomination and he captures the paranoia and the elegiac tone of both book and film to perfection reading i have no self control when i step into a bookstore my backlog of new books i have yet to read is so long it could probably make for a small library in itself yet a book i tell myself is something that will never truly go to waste what s more i like to know that i m doing my part in keeping the commercial publishing industry alive the printed word too because goodness knows i spend a lot more on paper books than i do on new airplane reading material for my kindle of the latest additions to my shelves image below i think the two volumes of camus notebooks a gift from melissa will come with me to china the new newish daniel mendelsohn translation of constantine p cavafy s collected poetry the streets in which you pace will be the same you ll haunt the same familiar places and inside those same houses you ll grow old is proving to be a delight possibly even surpassing my abiding affection for the rae dalven translations every effort of mine is a condemnation of fate and my heart is like a corpse buried but it will probably stay behind purely on account of its size the rest well i guess i d better get cracking reading wearing whether i m pairing it with a cream kitten bow blouse at work or a casual white tee and a statement necklace in chunky rough hewn amber over the weekend my navy brother skirt from les prairies de paris is all class in a relaxed sort of way with its two side pockets strip of black suede running down the front and hem just skimming the knees i have been wearing wool pencil skirts a lot lately and blazers and knits the funny thing is that the weather has been so peculiar this summer in sydney that it will hardly be much of a shock to the system to fly across the equator and suddenly find myself in a northern winter rather than the chilliest southern summer in my own personal memory i wouldn t have to do anything more than throw on a coat an even more satisfying acquisition than my les prairies skirt is my new ole lynggaard sweet drops bracelet not three weeks after i wrote this post about the sweet drops i added one to my small extremely select collection of every day jewellery after near half an hour looking through the selection at jordan s jewellers market street sydney i eventually picked out an olive wrap around leather bracelet and a white gold moonstone dew drop and silver black onyx sweet drop to wear on it it was a tough decision to make seeing them in person one cannot fail to appreciate how carefully and meticulously they have been crafted each of the dew drops and sweet drops have a clasp that allows them to hold tightly to the band without scratching the soft leather each is further designed to hang only at a certain angle the charms have room for movement but not so much that they can rotate 360 degrees around the band and irritate the wearer my bracelet is easy understated and a joy to wear eating all the things that i will miss in china fresh and affordable mangoes figs papaya avocados australian yogurt whisk pin gluten free muesli an italian strength espresso newly shucked oysters that don t cost an arm and a leg and won t lead to food poisoning really good lebanese food i could go on and on labels albert camus alberto iglesias cavafy consumer diaries etat libre d orange juliette has a gun les prairies de paris ole lynggaard shanghai 2 14 2012 2 beauty notes shiseido shimmering rouge in rs619 venus by li wen shiseido debuted their shimmering rouge lip colour with 13 shades last year following the trend of lipstick gloss hybrids which also multi task as lip conditioners chanel rouge coco shine dior addict guerlain rouge automatique etc the shades released in 2011 were mostly warm peachy pinky nudes and while they were nothing so demure as the rouge coco shines can you tell that those are not my favourites none really caught my eye in particular until rs619 venus guerlain gigolo cle de peau r1 black baccara shiseido venus chantecaille heirloom shu uemura wn270 guerlain 124 samsara giorgio armani armanisilk 30 described accurately by shiseido as a profound reddish violet venus 3rd from left is a newly released shimmering rouge from the ss12 collection bold and bright it is fully as pigmented as most lipsticks a single swipe delivering even opaque colour yet has a soft balmy texture and slightly glossy finish on me the wear time before reapplication is roughly 4 hours with drinks and smoking breaks which is also similar to a lipstick when the colour fades it does so evenly and leaves a hint of a stain comparison with the chantecaille lip chics my favourite lipstick gloss hybrid formula i m pleased to say is favourable both are extremely moisturising and comfortable to wear although the shiseido shimmering rouge is considerably more pigmented and requires greater precision to apply than the lip chics my go to lipsticks to put on whilst driving or without a mirror i appreciate its flexibility you can easily sheer it out to create the effect of a stain or layer it on to achieve an intense dimensional look and like the lip chics the packaging of the shimmering rouge lipsticks is light ...