Shiseido Shimmering cream Eye colors in YE216 Lemoncello and BL620 Esmaralda, $25 each
Creative trick.

To start this post, I gazed at Shiseido’s $25 Shimmering cream Eye colors and asked myself, “Self, what are the first two words you think of when you look at these?”

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And I answered…myself. I said, “fresh and luminous!”

See, the trick is to ask yourself questions when you can’t think of something to say.

Anywho!

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These potted cream eyeshadows come in a bunch of colors that, gloriously, do not clear up into my fine lines, and considering that they aren’t fully opaque, some of my natural skin color peeks through when I wear ’em, which sort of gives them a casual effect like, “Yes, I did spend the day kicking back and reading on a sunny park bench.”

I like to wear Esmaralda (the teal one) or Lemoncello (the golden yellow) on top of NARS Pro-Prime Smudge proof Eyeshadow Base. With Pro-Prime, I get 8-9 hours of wear.

You can find both of these shades, along with about a zillion others, now at Shiseido counters and online.

BL620 Esmaralda
YE216 Lemoncello

YE216 Lemoncello (left) and BL620 Esmaralda (right)