Ken Downing has a gift for forecasting what women will want before we know it. Then he creates demand! In 2011, Downing chose "Koral," also known as tangerine, Pantone's selection for the 2012 Color of the Year, for Le Métier de Beauté's spring/summer collection. For Spring 2012, Ken Downing is thinking pink - "haute pink," for his Tickled Pinks Collection for Le Métier de Beauté. One of the Lip Crèmes is definitely pink - hot pink. The other? Pastel orange. Maybe nude peach as Sabrina dubbed it at The Beauty Look Book. There is no way I'd describe it as petal pink (see my original feature with information from PR here), although it looks that way in the tube.
Downing said, "My pink inspiration was a melding of the beautiful shades and chiffon floral prints that made a strong showing on the spring runways of [fashion designers] Christoper Kane, Erdem (stunning sun dress shown above), and Jonathan Saunders. London really was a spectacular fashion moment with the most gorgeous prints of the season curated in the eclectic and often eccentric way that only an English garden is curated."
Lip Crèmes are like liquid lipsticks or saturated lip glosses. They are not extremely shiny, but they aren't matte or satin either. They do reflect light nicely as you can see in my photos. More pretty lip color from Le Métier de Beauté to tickle your fancy!
This limited-edition collection is available at Neiman Marcus, neimanmarcus.com, and Bergdorf Goodman. Some stores have received it and are selling out. I got the last one available at the Neiman Marcus store where I purchased it. Other stores haven't seen it yet.
Photos by Best Things in Beauty
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Such a pretty duo! I wish this duo would be made available internationally or US merchants which ship internationally! The packaging is so pretty too!
I swooped down on this set the moment it arrived at Neiman's. I don't care what the names are, how they're classified, or how their color is decribed. All that matters to me is that they are spring time gorgeousness in one of my favorite formulas. They will also work as softer versions of summer's hot color trends. Ken really created a lovely set.
Hi Shelnmum!
These are pretty. Does NM not ship internationally? I thought they did.
Hi Eileen,
I'm chucking. I like it too. I just found the descriptions totally mystifying. It's not often I get totally sideswiped (expectations vs. the real thing), so I was surprised.
The colors really are lovely, and I think the pastel orange one is unique among my lip glosses (the word "glosses" used loosely, of course). :)
I can't wear lip gloss, but these are gorgeous. Perfect spring/summer colours. Thanks for sharing.
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Hi BooBooNinja!
Thank you for the hug. I needed one today.
Why can't you wear lip glosses?
The copper leaf sounds so pretty, I have four lip cremes and they are like velvet on your lips. Thanks for tempting me with another new color.
BooBooNinja you should try, they are not really glossy or sticky. Love your cat pic!
Hi Mary Ann,
You make a great point. They are never sticky or nasty when they come from LMdB!
I can't wear them because I find them sticky-icky, I don't like having to reapply things, and the SO doesn't like the taste/transfer when we smooch. I suppose I should say "I don't wear them" rather than "I can't wear them", but it's one and the same for me. :)
Thanks, Mary Ann and CG.
I might try them the next time I make it to the States.
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