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It's a well-known fact that Victoria's Secret has the cutest small shopping bags ever. They're two delicious shades of pink, and they're just big enough for a garter belt or maybe a thong. But I'm not the customer VS has in mind. Me? In a Wonderbra? Me? In a thong? I haven't really seen the point of walking into a VS store. Until now.
Christian Sariano, winner of Season 4 of Project Runway teamed up with Heidi Klum to produce a limited-edition makeup collection for Victoria's Secret. It looked lovely and was generating a lot of excitement--enough to get me into the store.
Unfortunately, by the time I got there--three weeks into the promotion--the line was pretty much sold out. Of the buzz-generating products, nothing was left but a chocolate brown eyeshadow and a black Kajal eyeliner. I came away with only an Embrace lip gloss.
It's pretty, and has a nice vanilla/cookie fragrance, but I was disappointed. I wanted to see more, like the bronzer I'd heard so much about.
(I have since discovered that the entire Christian Siriano line is available on line.)
Anyway, I checked out the rest of the VS makeup, and was pleasantly surprised. Their new (in some cases, newly repackaged) line of VS and Pro makeup included some real winners.
The Soft Focus Liquid Foundation SPF20 was a dead ringer for Armani's amazing--and amazingly expensive--Lasting Silk Foundation, and comes in a similar pump bottle.
It comes in 14 shades, from very fair to deep brown. Fair 40 was a perfect match for me. But at $16 a bottle instead of $58. I'm thrilled.
The blush trio ($14) produced a lovely not-too-pink, not-too-coral just-right flush.
The eyeshadow quads were gorgeous, with good pigment, and were priced well at $16.
The single eyeshadows were also beautiful and well-pigmented (but huge! In some shades, it's great--but who really needs that much peacock blue eyeshadow?)
So I came away from my trip to VS with a wonderful foundation and blush combination, both perfectly match to my skin by a helpful SA. And I have my one little piece from the Christian Siriano collection.
Most of all, I had the pleasure of walking through the mall carrying a sexy little pink Victoria's Secret bag. And I just know what everyone was thinking when they saw me.
"Please tell me she didn't buy a THONG."
