Yesterday and Monday I was back at Illamasqua for the second of the 2 courses I booked back in February. With a bit of time to spare over lunch I couldn't resist the opportunity to swatch the 18 shades of Illamasqua's newly launched foundation - Skin Base. There'll be more about my own experience with Skin Base later, but here are the pics. Unfortunately lunchtime was when the sky decided to darken and send forth rain so the outside shots are much duller than I'd intended. Hope the shots are useful though.
Illamasqua School lighting - The swatches follow round from 1 - White to Deep Dark Neutral
Outside in the rain
Outside in the rain again better focus but not quite such good colour
Those same dots spread out
I did have to add a little to shade 3 as the dot proved much smaller than the rest.
Outside again
A last quick pic with the colours smudged out a little thinner
time to get back to the course then!
This is really helpful thanks so much :)
ReplyDelete@nicoletta - So pleased they're useful :)x
ReplyDeleteThank you so, so much for this! I just ordered shade 2 without seeing it in the flesh, began freaking out that it wasn't going to work, logged on here, saw your swatches and breathed a sigh of relief!
ReplyDeleteBrilliant post and pictures, merci! x
Very useful. I can see straight away that I would need a combo of 2 and 5 for my pale, pink undertoned skin. Considering I couldn't get this product anywhere other than online these pics take the guess work out of the equation. TY
ReplyDeleteThese look fab, am dying to have a play myself to see how they feel on the skin as have gone from foundation all the way to tinted moisturiser and am much prefering that at the moment. Love that there are masses of pics! x
ReplyDeleteExcellent swatch work!
ReplyDeleteNice post Helen, am looking forward to using my set as well. Can't wait, thanks for the swatches. xx
ReplyDeleteThank you all! So glad to know the pics are helping - makes standing in the street in the rain worthwhile ;) Not to mention the odd looks! x
ReplyDeleteWow, if they don't have my color, haha!
ReplyDeleteThis is *so* helpful! Judging by your swatches I'm a lot lighter than I thought I was :) great work
ReplyDeleteThanks for the great accurate swatches, this is so helpful for those of us ordering online, I have just ordered shade #2 :)
ReplyDeleteNow THIS is how swatches should be done. Thank you, thank you, thank you!!!
ReplyDeleteGreat swatches, thanks so much. For those of us in the states, this is a boon!I just got an email today that Illamasqua is expanding the shade range on these, adding an additional 7 shades, so you may have more work in the future! :)
ReplyDeleteJust retweeted your post about it before seeing this comment - my immediate thought was "I'll have to go in specially to swatch the rest!" :)
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