Revlon Passion Fusion Collection

If you flip through magazines like in Style, Glamor or Vogue you might notice that deep purple is quite popular color in clothing...I do love purple as it's quite flattering and easy to work with (every year there are 2 months in which my skin is literally that color).

That's why I was pretty happy to see a drugstore line full of purple: Revlon Passion Fusion collection for fall. I have dissed Revlon far too many times in the blog but I have to admit, I do love several lip products and a nail color from them very much (Now I wonder why I haven't include them in my 10 favorite lip gloss post...Maybe it's time for a revision.)

Anyway, Passion Fusion is a collection of new lipsticks, some nail color and other thing...since they are not all limited edition , so you can sure wait a while for a sale.

First there is a Color Stay eyeshadow quad called Sunrise Sunset (it does remind me of the color of sky around 7pm when the sun is just hanging there, making the surround area looks like airy version of ametrine)I don't know how to work the colors as the yellow just seems too yellow for me and the plum will bound to look like bruise. I still like how the purple is though.

Four nail polishes, the last shimmer free creamy plum is (supposedly) worn by Jessica Alba in the picture...It could look fairly interesting but I personally don't like to wear nail colors that are too dark.

There are also 6 new lipsticks. The soft pink and fuchsia both have pearly (aka shimmery) finish, which is a little bummer because I always found anything shimmery fuchsia a bit tacky and drugstore shimmery lipsticks can be very dry-draggy sometimes (shimmer makes my lips look huge too).

Luckily, the red, berry, violet and chocolate are all in cream finish. I think the violet and chocolate can look very stunning/vampy on pale girls with cool/pale skin tone (not saying it looks bad on Jessica Alba, I just like her wearing warm colors better.) the berry should be a safe color if I were to try it (as it usually turn into a shade of hot pink).

Then here is something that's really interesting, an Illuminance creme quad (wait, didn't I just bashed the Illuminance cream quad a while ago?)

Well, this is a little different. Revlon give it an edgier nickel like packaging (I sense a bit of a Shiseido Maquillage vibe in here) and it's not just a shadow quad.

The first two pans can be used as eyes and cheek color while the last two are lip stain! Ok, my lips are red enough without staining (actually Benefit Benetint makes me look like I just ate some animal alive) but the idea of the palette is just very cool and you all know that I love pretty packaging.

Since the palette is actually limited edition, I picked it up with no hesitation while hoping they would have some 3 dollars off coupon around (my grocery store uses in store coupon instead of mark a discount price to separate them from some drugstore, CVS, tend to advertise a price then ring in another when people check out...and many people don't bother to check...) guess what, it just so happen that Revlon is the discounted brand of the week so this palette only ended up costing 2.6 dollars!

I wanted to pick up those Stila Barbie (or the pearl palette 50% off at Sephora) but isn't it just so much more fun having 5-6 drugstore products to play with?