Question:
O/T article on makeup names (also in Beauty)
I know lots of fashion baggers appreciate their make up too, and I just stumbled over this article whilst searching for Shu Uemura stockists online:
http://books.guardian.co.uk/departme...483625,00.html
It got me thinking about product names and how much they draw me, or not - I was thinking about this other day when I was looking at my eyeshadows. I've got Urban Decay Mildew and MAC Humid - and pondered, while looking at them, does connecting them with mould really make these shadows more appealing? I don't know, and I differ from the author because I love Shu Uemura's labelling - it seems so crisply scientific, as opposed to poetic, and matches the precision of their colours (so many!) and the simplicity of the packaging.
Anyway, to give this thread a point, are there any products/lines whose names you love?
I like Amber Lights from MAC, the shadow's so luminous it does remind me of autumnal skies...
I really love some of the names that Stila give to their eye shadows - diamond lil, irma la douce, golightly, jezebel, barefoot contessa. I think they are starting to get a little more prosaic / gloomy (fog, rain, storm), though.
I am more-than-usually-tempted to buy a product if I love the name - would be quite a fun job thinking them up! (Although I agree that 'mildew' is an odd name, not the kind of thing you want to smear on your face! :lol: )
I know lots of fashion baggers appreciate their make up too, and I just stumbled over this article whilst searching for Shu Uemura stockists online:
http://books.guardian.co.uk/departme...483625,00.html
It got me thinking about product names and how much they draw me, or not - I was thinking about this other day when I was looking at my eyeshadows. I've got Urban Decay Mildew and MAC Humid - and pondered, while looking at them, does connecting them with mould really make these shadows more appealing? I don't know, and I differ from the author because I love Shu Uemura's labelling - it seems so crisply scientific, as opposed to poetic, and matches the precision of their colours (so many!) and the simplicity of the packaging.
Anyway, to give this thread a point, are there any products/lines whose names you love?
I like Amber Lights from MAC, the shadow's so luminous it does remind me of autumnal skies...
Answers:
I really love some of the names that Stila give to their eye shadows - diamond lil, irma la douce, golightly, jezebel, barefoot contessa. I think they are starting to get a little more prosaic / gloomy (fog, rain, storm), though.
I am more-than-usually-tempted to buy a product if I love the name - would be quite a fun job thinking them up! (Although I agree that 'mildew' is an odd name, not the kind of thing you want to smear on your face! :lol: )
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