Too Faced Boudior Eyes Review

Ugh just what I needed.....another eye makeup palette! I am running out of room to store these things! I had a 20% off coupon from Ulta, one of the two annual ones they send out that counts towards almost anything in the store! Most of their coupons do not count towards the high end makeup. Boudior Eyes is something I have had my eyes on for a while! Interestingly enough this palette contains some repeats from their other palettes. This is part of their spring 2013 line up. Boudoir Eyes comes in a tin box with a magnetic closure. I'm a pretty big fan of tin boxes because they hold up much better than the cardboard ones and are easier to clean. It comes with nine shades like most of their palettes and of course their ever so famous how to guides. I'm glad they started including photographs instead of just illustrations. I don't necessarily use these anyway but they are good for someone who is new to makeup and needs some guidance.

Anywho lets get into the deets here! Like I said this palette contains some repeats from other too faced palettes which I think is good but also a little disappointing to those of us who already own a lot of palettes. They are Lap Dance (Naked Eye kit) Birthday Suit (Naked Eye kit) Satin Sheets (Naked Eye kit which they have as a lid color and here its a highlight) and In the buff (Naked eye kit) It also contains 5 new shades Fuzzy Handcuffs, Voulez-Vous , Garter Belt, Sugar Walls and French Tickler which is very similar to Licorice Latte from the Bon Bons palette.
As always I like that Too Faced always gives a good variety of matte, shimmer (or as they call them Satin) and glittery shades. I'm personally not a huge fan of the glittery shades because of all of the fallout however you can work around that by tapping off your brush. As you can see from the swatches below the colors are all well pigmented. I find In the Buff to be a bit powdery and French Tickler a bit flakey but otherwise these shadows are easy to work with. I think Voulez-Vous is probably my favorite shade in the kit. It's a gorgeous muted purple plum color. I like to pair it up with Sugar walls which is a beautiful taupey pink color.

Here are some swatches:
Top row Day look


Second row Classic Look


Third row Fashion:


Over all I do like this palette but I am sort of disappointed that their are so many repeats from the Naked Eye palette. I would have liked to see some more new colors instead. If you already own the Naked Eye and/or Bon Bons palette then I don't really feel its a necessity to own this palette as well. I feel like you can get the same looks out of either one of these palettes. If I had to choose between the Naked Eye and this one I'd probably go with this one just because I think I personally will get a little more use out off all of these shades than the shades in the naked eye palette but its really a matter of preference .

On a side note as I was squirreling through my drawer looking for my Bon bon palette for comparison when I noticed that I found a pretty good dupe for the Fashion row in this palette and that is the Wet N Wild Color Icon Trio in Silent Treatment see pic below!



Not exact but pretty damn close!


Anyway here's a look I put together with this palette!
If you own it how do you feel about it?



Also wearing....
Too Faced Primed and Poreless
Revlon Color Stay liquid Foundation in Sand Beige
Wet N Wild bronzer in Reserve your Cabana (High light)
E.L.F Blush/Brozer duo (bronzer in Contour)
E.L.F studio Blush in Fushia Fusion
Milani baked Blush in Dolce Pink
Nars Lip Laquer in Chelsea Girls
Harmon Under eye roller with touch of concealer
E.l.f. Cream eyeliner in Black
Rimmel Eyebrow Pencil Dark Brown
Urban Decay Primer Potion
Urban Decay All nighter Setting Spray
E.L.F. HD powder

Favornudes! A quite extensive, obsessive collection of Nude Lipsticks and glosses!

Nude, naked, bare ummm I'm running out of adjectives .....where's my thesaurus ? Geeez haven't seen one of those in years! Do they even make book versions of them anymore? Probably not. Anyway nude is the beauty worlds buzzword of the year. Ever since urban decay dropped their ever so popular Naked palette every Tom, Dick and Harry have been duping it! But alas naked eyes aren't the only coveted nude out there....ahhhh the ever so sort after nude lip! Aside from red it's not only its polar opposite but one of the hardest colors to find. The Pourage of lip color and I am Goldilocks! On my quest to find the perfect one I've come across many that were too pale, to peachy, too pink, too dark, too nude and not nude enough and what I ended up with is a collection of nearly nude lip sticks, glosses and balms that do the job...but I'm still on my quest to find that perfect one!
As if we needed another reason to hate Kim Kardashian, besides her amazing smokey eyes, perfect contouring and flawless complexion her nude lips are always on point ! I do t think anyone else gets it as perfect as her! I tried some of her colors out and they were a bit too pink for me. Her go to nudes are supposedly Mac Angel topped with Nars Turkish delight. They may work for you but they were a bit too pink for me.
Basically nudes show up differently on everyone since we all have our own unique skin tone and our lips carry different levels of pigment. I figured though I can help since I have a very large collection of nude colors because I am addicted to nudes!

To make it a little easier I broke them down into 4 different categories. The word "nude" is a pretty general term to describe pale or natural looking lips. Each nude has its own unique undertone and that's how I broke it down:

PINK NUDES: pretty self explanatory. These nudes tend to have pink colored undertones and go great with cooler colored eyeshadows like pinks, purples, blues, silvery Greys and charcoals.

PEACHY NUDES: these nudes tend to have orangey, tan or Peach colored undertones and go greeat with warmer eye looks like Bronze, gold and warm browns.

NATURAL NUDES: these nudes are not pale and are closer to the actual shade of natural lips...only a little better

BEIGE NUDES: these are the nudes that border on the line of almost being the same color as your skin with beige or brown undertones and are very neutral.

A FEW TIPS FOR DONNING NUDE LIPS:

To make sure you have the perfect canvas for those nude lips there's a few things to do to get the best application. Since nudes that are a shade or so lighter than your actual lip color can get caught up in cracks and dry flakes its always a good idea to exfoliate those lips. You can achieve this by mixing some sugar with a bit of Vaseline, using a toothbrush or a store bought lip exfoliator. I like E.L.F's lip exfoliator. It works better than any I've tried so far and it's only $3!

Also using a lib balm as a base will ensure an even application. I like EOS balm or Baby Lips by Maybelline.

Also another trick to get a nice colorless base is to get a very, very, very light layer of foundation on your lips. Just what's left over from your brush. Your lipstick will show up in a truer to form color because its not contending with your natural lip pigmentation.



From left to right Maybelline Color Whisper in Lust for Blush, Revlon Lip Butter in Sugar Frosting, NYX lipstick in Summer Love**, Revlon Super Lustrious Lipstick in Sky Line Pink, Maybelline Color Sensational in Born with it, Mac Creme Sheen in Hue, and even thought the swatch doesn't look so pink I promise it is but Bare Minerals Pretty Amazing lipstick/lipgloss hybrid in Free Will **

**= favorites

Peachy Nudes



From Left to Right
Milani new lipsticks in Nude Dream, Too Faced in Nude Beach**( I realize after the fact this one is sort of pink looking and could probably fall in the pink or natural tone category too ), Sephora Rouge Shine no name just a number in 2298D **, Revlon Colorburst in Soft Nude (unfortunately Revlon has discontinued this line and this color but it can still be found some places so I included it), Maybelline Color whisper in Bare to be Bold, Revlon Matte in Nude Attitude (not crazy about this formula but it could be used as a base for a good lipgloss)

Natural Nudes



From Left to Right
Maybelline Color sensational in Warm Me Up, NYX Black Label Lipstick in Heiress, Ulta brand lipsticks no name in #225, NYX lipstick in Perfect, NYX lipstick in Thalia **, Rimmel Kate Moss edition no name #08

Beige Nudes


From Left to Right

Elf Jumbo Lip Gloss Stick in In the Nude, NYX lipstick in Frosted Flakes, Revlon Super Lustrous Pearl in Sparkling Cider, NYX lipstick in Circe**, Revlon Lip butter in Creme Brûlée**

Great Nude Glosses to go on top!


From left to right
This is a nude gloss from H&M( and I forgot to swatch it) the color is Innocent**, essence Stay with Me longlasting lipgloss in Deep Rose, Milani Glitzy Glamour Gloss in Center Stage, NYX Xtreme Lip Cream in Natural, Tarte Vitamin Infused Gloss in abra-cad-apricot ( I have to mention the AMAZING scent of this one) **, Flower Beauty by Drew Barrymore shine on Lipgloss in Baby's Breath, Essence XXXL Shine lipgloss in Nude Candy, Revlon super Lustrous Lip Gloss in Peach Petal

Oops a few a left out when I did the original swatches!


Left to right Nars Lip Laquer in Chelsea Girls **, Wet N Wild lipstick in Fergie Daily **, NYX Mega Shine Lip Gloss in Sweet Heart **

A few more in which I don't have at the moment but still love!
Mac Creme sheen in Creme D'nude, NYX mega shine Lip Gloss in Sugar Pie, Natural and Beige,
Lorac Couture Shine liquid lipstick in Vintage, Lorac Breakthrough Performance Lipstick in Nude Scene, Too Faced La Creme Color drenched Lip Cream in Naked Dolly & Naughty Nude, E.L.F studio lipstick in Natural Nymph

I think this may quite possibly be the most extensive Nude lip post EVER! What's your favornude?