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The Nyx Cosmetics x ‘Barbie’ Assortment Modified My Thoughts About Pink Lipstick

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Let’s get one factor out of the best way proper now: I’m not a pink lipstick individual. In any respect. Whereas pink is my second favourite shade, I at all times really feel so not like myself in a pink lip. (Purple, nonetheless, is one other story.) Nonetheless, if anybody might get me to alter my thoughts a couple of scorching pink lip shade, it is Barbie. The 2 of us go waaaaay again to the momentous event after I acquired my very first doll age the tender age of two and we have been friends ever since.

To say I am enthusiastic about Greta Gerwig’s Barbie film is an understatement. I principally have a countdown to the premiere operating in my head 24/7. Not solely do I really like the Barbie aesthetic and the doll herself, I additionally personal just a few pairs of classic Chanel sneakers as soon as owned by Barbie’s creator, Ruth Handler. So after I caught wind that Nyx Cosmetics was launching a Barbie-themed assortment, I clearly needed to have it.

In regards to the Assortment

The Nyx Cosmetics Barbie assortment is a limited-edition drop impressed by the intensely vibrant colours of the forthcoming film, from the intense true pink shades of the Dreamhouse to the cool blues favored by Ryan Gosling’s Ken laborious at work on the seaside. 

It consists of two mini eyeshadow palettes in Barbie and Ken-centric colours; a blush and highlighter trio; a two-piece set of pastel pink and blue Jumbo Eye Pencils; a pink-accented set of Jumbo Lashes; two Easy Whip Matte Lip Lotions in shades of pink, OBV; a scorching pink Butter Gloss; and a cute child pink mobile phone compact for touchups en path to the Barbie Occasion, which my toddler promptly swiped for his personal use. 

The lineup provides you tons of room to experiment along with your look; if you happen to sometimes follow earth tones or neutrals, you may discover them. In the event you love tremendous vivid shades, peek on the Ken palette. You may go pink-on-pink-on-pink through lids, cheeks and lips or frost your self in pale blue. Rollerskating Barbie, Cowgirl Barbie, President Barbie … you are able to do all of it, utilizing your face in lieu of a plastic doll’s. The gathering is, predictably, very cute and really pink — with just a few surprises!