VICTORIA BECKHAM EYEWEAR: HONEST VIW & GRWM

Hi, hello. It's another beautiful day. Finally feeling my oats here in Aries season. So, today we're gonna be talking about the new Victoria Beckham eyewear. Man, you know, I just reached out, and I was like, can I try some of them? And they sent me a PR package of all of them. Oh my gosh, I'm so excited. They're gorgeous, they are shadow sticks, and I'm gonna show you all the ins and the outs of all of them today, especially the differences in the colors, because I think that that's the main thing I'm getting questions about, is like, swatching against other things to clarify, like, you know, Natalie was asking me, if my skin trust, she was like, how green is Bottle Green, you know, for example, or like, the kind of like, champagne is called oyster, so is it giving oyster, or is it giving champagne, you know? So, I think that's gonna help, and we're also going to do just a full look today, featuring all of my favorite things, because when all I have to work with, or to review, is like, eye shadow sticks, I'm going to take my own liberties as to what else is on my face, and you're gonna get to see everything that I've been using lately. So, it's gonna be really cute, I already tested this look, it was really cute, a lot better than the last one, so let's go ahead and jump in. By the way, y'all, I'm doing some work for Red Vintage Co., which is like, my source, my source, for vintage, now that I don't live in Austin, and it's not, I don't go into the city to shop, especially shop for vintage. Nina, the owner, absolutely immaculate sensibility for the stuff that I like. Yeah, Nina sent me this shirt, the Who shirt, and I'm just kind of making some content for her, you know what I mean? There's no money exchanging hands, she was just like, you know, the content makes itself, and she also sent me five pairs of vintage 501s, every single one of them fits. Three out of five of them are absolutely perfect, and I'm keeping them, but I basically just got a whole new identity in the mail yesterday, so welcome to my new identity. This is it, and you know, the Redditors who like to say that they miss, they miss Austin Kaki when Kaki wore vintage shirts. I was always paying like $70 for my vintage shirts, okay? Austin's not a thrift center, okay? It is a curated vintage destination. I mean, you can go to a thrift store, I guess, but like, Goodwill is not Goodwill as it is everywhere else. Like, Goodwill in Tallahassee, maybe. Goodwill in Austin, it's been picked over before it even got there because of the blue hanger. I am not talking about anything having to do with makeup right now. Let's put some foundation on my face, and I'll just continue going off. So, sublimage le teint, that's what we're going to be putting on today. I just, oh, my brush is dried. It's the best feeling in the world having clean brushes, and also, I went to my esthetician yesterday, and I was like, I don't know what this needs, just do something. And while she and I do what we always do, and we solved all the world's problems in like an hour and a half, she's a cancer son, I freaking love her. She microdermed me, she glycolic'd me, she did a really great mask on my face, and just all sorts of wonderful things, and my skin is already better for it. So, starting with my sublimage le teint. I might just like zoom through this because we have a lot to talk about in terms of the eyeshadows. Girl, I have been, you know, testing a lot of foundations lately. I got a lot of new ones, and I'm still filling up my Sephora cart. You know, it's my responsibility. But nothing beats this, nothing beats this, especially in terms of how much my skin loves wearing it. My skin is just so grateful every time I wear this, because, you know, even, oh, that's nice, Kaki. Even the Serrat foundations, they're lovely, but I don't feel like my skin just drinks them up the way that my skin drinks up this foundation. Look at it, there's no primer or anything. It just feels like cool water going onto your skin. It's so pretty. And like, we're making some steady progress on this. That's how you know. Gonna do a little concealing here. Kosas is coming out with a sunscreen, I saw that. Someone commented, $40, that's a dollar per SPF. That's how you speak my stupid humor language, I love that. All right, I'm just gonna zoom through the rest of my makeup and I'll just kind of like show y'all as I go, but we need to get this show on the road. ♪♪♪ All right, I'm gonna start by swatching off the eyewear before we put them on my face. But we are gonna be using quite a lot of them today because once you get started, it's hard not to get carried away because there's just really good colors and they all kind of make sense together, which is my favorite kind of collection. All right, so here we have pecan, trench, caramel, oyster, bottle green, sunflower, and mackerel. And they're so awesome, they're so pretty. Like if I were to say like, okay, you know, I'm going to buy them, those four, those four all day long. And like, I'd love to make an excuse not to buy one of them, you know, and just narrow it down. That's gonna be difficult. If I had to like choose two, I would probably do pecan and oyster. I think you could kind of fill in with other things, but these are gonna be the most useful for the actual, like if you're trying to get the most out of this application method, you know, if like this excites you. Ow, I just knocked something off of my foot. What was that? Oh, a full bottle of Gucci foundation. Yeah, in glass, that just smacked me in the foot. That was fun. They're interesting because like they do dry down completely but they're very much like the eyeliners in the sense that they stay workable for a while. They give you plenty of time to work with them and then they're down. I mean, they are down, look. But they're not going to dry while you're working with them. Like it doesn't feel like that's happening. Do you know what I mean? Like you're not going to come up against it going, like getting budge proof while you're still trying to figure out what you're doing. I've not had that issue at all, at all, at all. So I'm gonna use them alone. We're not gonna prime or anything. I'm gonna start with trench. ♪ She don't want to be a man or a woman. ♪ I have just been, spring always puts me in the mood to listen to music. I get way too emo in the winter and stuff just kind of gets in my guts and I'll just start listening to really sad stuff and make my life a lot worse. Just listening to nothing but like my right in the feels playlist. Like that's not good. But yeah, I've been listening. It's so funny because every year for spring, I like start to like make myself a playlist and I'm like, oh man, I'm just gonna dig up these old songs that I used to love. And then like I look at my like last year spring playlist and it's like the same bands the same vibes. I'm like, oh, nothing if not consistent. I'm gonna take the Angie hot and flashy 501, the A501 and just use that to kind of blend. And like, truth be told y'all, like pick a brush that you're comfortable with and that's what you're gonna use for these because like they just kind of, they just kind of make it really easy for you, you know? And there's something about this that I do feel like, I mean, I always feel like the star, right? But I feel like the main character in this release because like Victoria Beckham knows how to make brown eyes pop. And like, that's not to say that these can't work in other ways, but there is no super rich copper, for example, that's going to like totally like light up blue eyes. For example, these feel in a way kind of dedicated to brown eyes. That's just been my observation. And it's kind of what I'm gonna lean into today. So the next thing I'm gonna use, this color is so good. It might be my favorite color. Well, yeah, like I said, this one an oyster, but like I just vibe with pecan. Like it's just such a good brown. Now, something I will say about this formula is you're not gonna get lid luster. If you're unfamiliar with Victoria Beckham's line, the lid lusters are the beautiful multi-texture eyeshadows. And I'm still gonna pull one of those out today because you're not going to, I guess you could build any of these to the point that like you're gonna see the glitter texture, but not really. Like it's never going to build to that point. These are much more understated than that. They just are for a different purpose. And that's why they're different. You know what I mean? The lid lusters already exist and these aren't them. So I'm gonna use this to just kind of bibbidi-bob where I like it, but you're not gonna get yourself in trouble here. Like you're not going to end up, especially like I said, if you're working on top of like unset concealer or something, you're not going to get yourself in a situation where you're like, oh no, now what? You know, because you can always clean it up. You use your like complexion brush or something and just wipe it off. But it has a lovely amount of grip to it. It's not super, super slippy. Do you see that? It just blends itself. And you know, a lot of times when things are this easy, you start to think, well, it must be easy to formulate something like this. No, no, it's not. I've definitely encountered some that were incredibly frustrating. And it's the same thing I say about the Lisa Eldridge, Lipton Lurex, the liquid Lurex, is just that, you know, it's again, easy to kind of underestimate how difficult or how much work would go into making something like that when it just does everything for you. And these do everything for you. Look how freaking consistent the color stays as I blend it. Ridiculous. I hate cream eyeshadows, okay? Like as a general rule, I would always go for a powder eyeshadow because I just think that they're so much easier to control. They're so much easier to know what's gonna freaking happen and you can stop at any moment. There's no rush. You know what I mean? And you're just like, okay, I'm gonna take a pause and like reassess. I don't encounter any of the anxiety that I would typically get from a cream shadow with these. Like, look at that. That's just pecan on top of trench. And truth be told, you could probably put it on top of anything, you know, a primer, your skin, whatever. That color is off the charts. It's just a really flipping good brown, okay? It does exactly what I want it to. And like, look at the gradient. Look at the gradient on the way that it's hitting my eyelid. Could just leave it like that. But we're not going to. Of course we're not going to. So the next thing I wanna use is oyster because it's beautiful. And the one thing that I will say I'm a little disappointed by is actually caramel because caramel, even though it looks really awesomely like warm right there, it's still a little cooler on the skin than pecan is. Actually, let's do that one next. Oyster, it's gonna sell the garment no matter what point I use it in my routine, but this is super pretty. But like, do you see that it's just slightly, it's slightly different in undertone? Not in a bad way. It might just be the gold in the shift, but it loses the rosiness that you get from pecan because that pecan is just so neutral. It's so skin native and it does give Gucci bronzer. You know what I mean? That like warm, rosy brown. Yeah, those two things are not the same. Actually, it's more like that. But I guess what I'm saying is like, they're similar undertones. And so when it spreads out on the skin, that's what you end up with. Do you see that? Like how those are very similar colors. So it's like my skin showing through kind of starts to look like the Gucci bronzer. And that rosiness is kind of what gets lost when you're using this one because you see it kind of comes head on with the shift, with the gold shift. So it takes it in the opposite direction, almost towards green by contrast because green and pink on the skin are opposites. So I'm using that on kind of the outer half and then we're gonna go in with oyster. But like, do you see how willy nilly, that would be the technical scientific term. I am being hecking willy nilly with this. I'm just going schmear, schmear, schmear because you can, okay? And y'all watched my last video, okay? Not everything is easy for me. This makes me look like I know what I'm doing. I don't hate that color at all. It's just different than pecan, you know what I mean? It's kind of giving something that's like a little bit deeper than pecan, which is not what I was expecting from like, you know, a bedroom eyeshade. Now, could you use it all by itself? Oh yeah, oh yeah. And they work really well with powder eyeshadows as well. Like you can layer these things. I wouldn't layer them ad nauseam. Like I would definitely be careful. My camera cut off, I don't know what I was talking about. It looks freaking awesome. Let's put on Oyster. So Oyster, again, it has, look, it's like this gorgeous, just neutral champagne, but you can see it has the tiniest bit of green to it that makes it just disappear into the look. It's gorgeous, like in the best way possible. It doesn't overblow anything. It doesn't become shimmer on a lid. It doesn't become, I don't, it doesn't become like a glitter eye look, you know? It's just a very beautiful, subtle, gorgeous, effective highlight. You can't overdo it and it's easy to get carried away, you know, because you're just like, well, I mean, everything's sort of going my way here, isn't it? And you can totally use your fingers. I just prefer a brush. And for the record, I had to, like my other video that just went up today was getting done exporting. And so when my camera cut off, I went ahead and that's why I couldn't remember what I was talking about. So all these have been like sitting here for a while. And they're like totally just like sat down and then I can put more on top, not a big deal at all. So I'll take Oyster up here. See, it's a little bit, you can see now, like now that it's on lighter skin, you can see that it's a little bit green. But y'all know I love a good pink and green moment, even if it's that subtle. That is so far Trench, Pecan, Caramel, and Oyster. Things I would not combine in real life. Don't take Oysters and Caramel and Pecans and put them in a Trench together. I just don't think that that's a good, it's just not a good life move. So anyway, then I'm gonna take Bottle Green. Bottle Green is just a deftly devised shade here that yes, it's giving green by comparison to all of these, but it's not really, I don't think it's a misnomer, but I just, I thought that it was most valuable to swatch it against, I believe this is Madrigal from Lisa Eldridge because like, look at that. Like that's green. And then that's Bottle Green. Bottle Green is like gray charcoal that leans ever so slightly green. Like it has a little tiny green undertone and then it has a gold shift, like a gold glitter on top. So I feel like it's again, just very deftly maneuvered. I love that I like wiped the heck out of Lisa Eldridge's and most of what's there from Victoria Beckham just stays. That's not going anywhere, buddy. I'm going to use this on my outer corner. Like when do I ever do an eye look just layering a bunch of pencils and like not pull out pencils, a bunch of crayons, a bunch of like creams and not pull out a powder eyeshadow like out of some kind of like frustration or like needing to get back, you know, feeling unmoored and needing to get back to my safe place. Like these are just that, they're that easy. So tippy tap that in a little bit. And I'm going to use my Surratt Smoky Eye Baton today because I just think that this is begging for it, you know. But you can see the green, wow. It's kind of green against those things, you know, because it's in contrast to kind of the rosiness of my skin. I kind of, I don't know. It's super, super breathtaking in the swatches, but it is a little unusual, you know. I do love, again, green looks great on brown eyes, but still I'm not sure that I'm achieving kind of what I was going for. So I'm going to take a little bit more of pecan and kind of go over that because it's just, I feel like that kind of loses the moment. So hopefully that little glimpse you got is helpful. So we're getting this like really awesome smoky effect that I'm really, really into. I just kind of like want to keep going. It's so good. But there are things kind of, I feel like missing from this collection. And that's the beauty of Victoria Beckham Beauty. Oh boy, khaki. Is that what they do is they put out really great formulas and then they iterate on them. Like they put out more shades. They'll just be like, okay, here's a couple more shades. And they're usually really well thought out and they're just great ideas. They don't constantly feel the need to be cranking out new formulas. And so when something comes out and it is a new formula like this, everybody just wants to know. They want to know if it's good because like they really do take their time. And I really appreciate that about them. So this is, I mean, you can already tell my feelings on it. I think it's phenomenal. So I'm just going to take my little complexion brush here, whatever's left on it. Just make sure that's, you know, kind of blurred. No biggie. So this is a fantastic, it's just a fantastic eye look. Eyeliner, mascara, call it a day, right? Like this is just something I would wear any day, any occasion, whatever. But once we get the, like, I'm going to do kind of a little bit of a cat eye moment. Once we get that on, I just start to feel very rock and roll. And like, I just felt like it needed a lid luster. And so I pulled out Chiffon, Starlight, and Honey. And I'll swatch those for you if you're new to those. And most of these I did by myself. This was before I was on the PR list. I owned like everything because I bought it. Because I've been in love, like, Victoria Beckham came out, like the Victoria Beckham Beauty came out when I was in Clean Routine 2019. And it was just perfect timing for me to be trying something this exquisite that hit such, all the marks for me while I was living in a world of disappointment from all the other clean beauty brands. And it has truly only continued to build in its excellence and, you know, how impressed I am by it. So that was my like release of the year. That year was Victoria Beckham Beauty, like hands down, so good. And it just continues to be fantastic. So there you have Chiffon. Chiffon on the top, in the middle there is Honey, and then that is Starlight. And so you can see Honey is going to be right in between. And that's why, that's why, that's why, that's what I'm using. That's why I'm using it. I'm not coming up with my words as easily today. So the way that Honey, look at that color against the kind of pewter that's been achieved by layering Oyster over everything else. This is going to just enhance that. And look at that texture, look at that texture. I guess I could have gone Chiffon too. Chiffon would have worked just as well. Maybe I'll put a little Chiffon on top. But, ooh, ooh. Actually, the reason that I went with this too is because the, and I'm not sure you're supposed to use it on your waterline, but I do. Gold LaMay eye pencil in the waterline. Game over. Just absolutely game over. All right, stick that there. Just a nice little messy, worn-in looking moment. Yeah. Ooh, and let's, you know, let's go for it. Let's do Chiffon too. Now, something about these is they don't pick up super well on a brush. So like, just get good at putting it on your finger. Yep, and that just helps to kind of bridge Oyster with Honey. Not absolutely imperative, but pretty cool. All right, let's cat eye. And by that, I mean, I'm gonna, I'm going to go silent and put music over it because y'all know me. I'm not exactly someone who's like so excellent at a cat eye that I'm just gonna sit here and have a jolly conversation with you. ♪♪♪ All right, I'm touching up. My cheeks with a little bit of Nude Venus from Pat McGrath. Yes, I did just order the bronzers and the new Divine Rose 3. Wanted a little more action here on my cheeks, a little more pink. And since there's not really a pink at all, well, I mean, there is, but it's that weird pinky purple that y'all saw in the last video. That's what I want to include in my eye look because I always say like, if it's kind of having trouble coming together, just put your blush in your eye look. Little bit of Nude Venus. And it's just going to give me a little bit of the same depth and vibe as my cheeks. We're not technically in violation of anything because I didn't pull out a powder eyeshadow. This is a blush. Okay, so let's take a look at the website and chat about Victoria Beckham's eyewear real quick. All right, so you can get 15% off for a limited time, I guess, on your first order. $34 each for these. Says, VB's Modern Eye Essential, clean, pigment-rich, ultra creamy. Creamy, ultra creamy. Buildable eyeshadow stick with waterproof wear that lasts up to eight hours. Seven fashion shades, two statement finishes, glides on with easy tongue-free application and blends seamlessly. Buildable color in a supremely creamy formula. Sets for ultra long wear, crease-proof, fade-proof wear for up to eight hours, no base. Brush or touch-ups required. Infused with clean ingredients for eye-calming comfort. Soothing seaweed and collagen-boosting vita-svita. The one thing I wanna do before we chat final-final on this is just swatch it against some other things that are similar shades in my collection. All right, so the three formulas that come to mind here that are this easy to work with, that I love working with this much, are all liquids, actually, and it's the Lisa Eldridge, the Hindash Color Fluid. I pulled Boy Tears. I think that's gonna be the most relevant comparison here. And the Matte Fluid Eye Paints from About Face Beauty. So I'll start with About Face here. There's the pink. It's just quite different, you know? You're gonna end up with something like a lot more ballerina pink, whereas that one from Victoria Beckham has got a lot of purple in it. It does remind me a lot of the Dior Rosy Glow. Then we have the yellow from, it's called It's Blitz. This is just such a good formula. And it's gonna be quite a bit brighter, not as like sunflower, goldenrod kind of colored. And granted, I smeared them, but regardless, like it's just a lot clearer of a color. Now we get into kind of the hazy bits, right? We're not dealing with like primary shades. So this is Titania from Lisa Eldridge in the Liquid Loraxes, and that's gonna be a little bit more golden. It does, even though I talked about how this is a little bit more golden on my eyes than this is, it still gives even more. Like it's a little bronzer, you know? Then we have Anais, which is gonna be like more of a muted green gold. It's right there, not gold, a muted green kind of pewter. It's right there, like very, very similar to Oyster, but a little bit more pigmented. And then I have Cressida, which is quite a bit like pinker. I would say that Anais is like way, way, way more similar to Oyster. And then we have the Hindash Color Fluid in Boy Tears, which is gonna be, you know, this very versatile peachy apricot kind of color. Very, very like muted down. He does love peach. So there's all those messy swatches all up next to each other. None of it is like an exact dupe for anything in my collection. So that's awesome. Let's talk final thoughts here. I think that these absolutely nailed down the claims. You know, we're talking about long-wearing, beautiful budge-proof pigment, super easy to use, really beautiful colors. The main thing I wanted to show y'all today was just the nuances of the colors, because to me, the formula, the execution is a home run. It's almost not worth talking about because it's just so easy. Oh, oh, oh, oh, we forgot. I'm having one of those days, y'all, where my brain is just elsewhere, but gold lame on the lower lash line. I don't know. Someone said that you're not supposed to use the sequin ones in your waterline. So do as I say, not as I do. Worth it. Worth the risk. I just think that the colors and the way that this turns out is so effortless looking and so beautiful and like really, really makes brown eyes pop. So that's why it was easy for me to get carried away. But also I just can't wait to see other shades that she puts out in this because this is like the first shadow stick that I felt like was this easy to work with. The colors made this much sense together and that I don't feel the need to pull out powder shadows to like give me the impact that I want. Like they are super, super user-friendly, like beginner user-friendly, but they give you so much payoff. It doesn't mean that it just blends away. I feel like that's what you end up with a lot of times when something's easy to work with is because it just kind of blends away and I end up like, you know, wanting to pull something else out anyway. Like, no, we got, we got a look today and it was easy and it was fun. Makeup should be easy and fun. That's worth my money all day long. And I did buy some of these and then they sent them to me. So that's the vibe today. I'm super into it. It's a little different than what I usually do because my, the wing is winging. I am like chasing down the Nicolette Panisi fantasy right now with this wing. But I hope you all enjoyed this. If you did, please do give it a thumbs up. If you're new here, please subscribe. That would be cool. I'll put a video up here that I think that y'all will enjoy. If you enjoyed this one, let me know down below what other things y'all want to see from me coming up because I always, I just want it to be a nice constant conversation between us. And I love y'all so much. I love you so much. Y'all are, y'all are my world and I love you. So thank you for being here and I will hopefully see you in the next one. Bye.