GERARD COSMETICS ♥ Swatches!

Gerard cosmetics is a beauty brand that produces high quality and professional products. Their stock ranges from lip products to an amazing illuminating creme, and of course Jaclyn Hill's amazing lippie products. If you haven't heard of them or seen them featured in some Youtube video then you've been living under a rock! Today I received my order from them and wanted to share some swatches of the products I got. I placed an order earlier in the week for a Brow Bar to go palette (not swatched) and 3 of their newest lipsticks. I am so excited to share some swatches with you and if you're interested in ordering these products, leave a comment below of which color you're interested in trying! :)

Side Note: HOW GORGEOUS IS THIS PACKAGING?!!!?!@?!?#@!?$@!?# Seriously amazing.

Some facts to know:

• As of today, there are a total of 5 lipsticks available for purchase
• They retail for $19 (but most of the time, they have awesome bundle deals as well!)
• The color '1995 was created by professional makeup artist Jaclyn Hill.
• The formulas are creamy and range from a matte finish to a slight sheen.
• Highly pigmented! 

For any other additional information or to order yours, visit their website! Now on with some swatches. Something to mention -- I hate photographing lips and these are by no mean perfect, applying lipstick is still a difficult task for myself so please excuse the gross lip close up! 

The colors I picked up are Fire Engine, Tequila Sunrise, and 1995 (of course!).

Here are my bare lips with little to no product for a 'before' reference.

Here is Fire Engine -- a beautiful staple red color for anyone's collection. This Red lipstick is a blue based formula and in my opinion will look beautiful on most skin tones. I'm a fair complexion and I loved the contrast with my skin.

Next color is Tequila Sunrise -- an orange based coral lipstick. This color is absolutely beautiful and creamy. You can pair it with different toned coral glosses to get different color results! This will be a great shade for spring and summer.

and Lastly, the highly awaited for 1995 lipstick created by Jaclyn Hill -- fun fact, when this lip color was announced and could be pre-ordered, the website to purchase actually crashed and due to high traffic amounts, they actually had a system reboot! This was inspired by the Kylie Jenner lip color everyone has been going crazy over. All though this shade hasn't been trending for too long and might come and go, it is a timeless color. You can pair it with different lip liners to get a different color effect. Use a brown or more natural lip color to get a deeper color payoff, or use a pink liner to create a nude-y pink lip color. There are endless options! 

There are my swatches! I absolutely love them :D I can't wait to start creating different lip combo's with the companies amazing lip glosses. If you are interested in checking them out, which you obviously should, I've included links above to where you can find these products and others from the brand. Be sure to leave me comments of questions you may have or if you're going to try this brand out, let me know! 

Disclaimer: I am not sponsored or paid for anything mentioned in this post, all products and mentions were my own and purchased with my own money.

xoxo~
Emelia Annette