A friend drew my attention to a blog by The Non-Blonde today, who says that Vincent Longo and Paula Dorf are making a comeback. I can't begin to express how happy that makes me because two of my all-time favorite products come from those brands.
It never occurred to me that I might not be able to get this primer one day. The horror. The HORROR! Paula Dorf's Eye Primer ($24), in the color Light, has been my faithful "go to" for many years, probably at least ten.
The neutral ivory with a whisper of peach ($24) provides the perfect base for all powder shadows and it completely erases redness, blue veins, and that gawdawful teabag stain that is the gift of aging eyelids. Although my lids are still a little bit oily, I find most primers to be too drying and make my eyelid skin look like rumpled old sheets. This primer seems to plump up the skin, and it keeps color true all day. I can even apply the thinnest layer and wear it on its own, without any eye makeup.
No other eye primer on the market today performs as well as this one for me, so I hope it is available for at least another 10 years.
I realize this is not a new product, but I am afraid I must rave about Vincent Longo Water Canvas foundation ($57)—especially since it keeps fading away only to be reborn. I have tried countless foundations over the years, but Vincent Longo Water Canvas remains my ultimate favorite, even though it's crazy expensive for what you get, and it becomes virtually unusable toward the end, when the last third or so turns into rubbery little balls. I put up with it because it is that good. I wear Porcelain, a perfect match for my fair, pink-porcelain skin.
I have been wearing this product for over 10 years, even since a Barneys New York sales associate noticed me hovering indecisively between the Chantecaille and Stila counters. I'd previously been wearing a custom-blended Prescriptives powder, but I needed something new to conceal the pink in my cheeks and chin, which had maddeningly appeared one day and did not fade away. She put Water Canvas in Porcelain on one half of my face and Stila Illuminating Powder Foundation in 10 Watts on the other. What immediately struck me was how cool and light the Water Canvas felt going on, but when I looked in the mirror, I was disappointed that both looked equally good. I wanted to be wowed by one or the other.
So I postponed making a purchase and went shopping. I had somewhere I needed to be so I hurried through the rest of my stops. I got warm, and I might even have perspired a little, thanks to those halogen lights that seem to be in every store nowadays. After an hour or so of hustling around, I caught my reflection in a mirror and did a double take. The Water Canvas side looked fresh and flawless, while the Stila side looked shiny and flushed red. So I ran back to Barneys and bought two of the Water Canvas (nearly fainting from sticker shock--$49 then and up to $57 now).
Over the years I have strayed (I'm fickle), but I always came back to Vincent Longo Water Canvas Creme-To-Powder Foundation because it is the best foundation for covering redness, evening out skin tone, never transferring to clothes or scarves, never creasing or caking or settling in pores--all the while looking like my skin. It feels so cooling to apply and it looks flawless.
For more than a year, Water Canvas was unavailable in my color after Vincent Longo pulled out of Sephora and the stock dwindled at online etailers like Beauty.com. I had accepted that I would never see it again. Then suddenly it was back in stock on vincentlongo.com, but just as I was getting used to having it on hand again, I began receiving ominous sale e-mails from vincentlongo.com and I began hearing rumors that he was selling current inventory and closing his doors again. So I really hope the news reported by The Non-Blonde via WWD is true. If someone has additional information, please leave a comment!
Bottom line: Joy!
Paula Dorf Eye Primer
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| Paula Dorf Eye Primer in Light |
The neutral ivory with a whisper of peach ($24) provides the perfect base for all powder shadows and it completely erases redness, blue veins, and that gawdawful teabag stain that is the gift of aging eyelids. Although my lids are still a little bit oily, I find most primers to be too drying and make my eyelid skin look like rumpled old sheets. This primer seems to plump up the skin, and it keeps color true all day. I can even apply the thinnest layer and wear it on its own, without any eye makeup.
No other eye primer on the market today performs as well as this one for me, so I hope it is available for at least another 10 years.
Vincent Longo Water Canvas Cream-to-Powder Foundation
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| Water Canvas in Porcelain |
I have been wearing this product for over 10 years, even since a Barneys New York sales associate noticed me hovering indecisively between the Chantecaille and Stila counters. I'd previously been wearing a custom-blended Prescriptives powder, but I needed something new to conceal the pink in my cheeks and chin, which had maddeningly appeared one day and did not fade away. She put Water Canvas in Porcelain on one half of my face and Stila Illuminating Powder Foundation in 10 Watts on the other. What immediately struck me was how cool and light the Water Canvas felt going on, but when I looked in the mirror, I was disappointed that both looked equally good. I wanted to be wowed by one or the other.
So I postponed making a purchase and went shopping. I had somewhere I needed to be so I hurried through the rest of my stops. I got warm, and I might even have perspired a little, thanks to those halogen lights that seem to be in every store nowadays. After an hour or so of hustling around, I caught my reflection in a mirror and did a double take. The Water Canvas side looked fresh and flawless, while the Stila side looked shiny and flushed red. So I ran back to Barneys and bought two of the Water Canvas (nearly fainting from sticker shock--$49 then and up to $57 now).
Over the years I have strayed (I'm fickle), but I always came back to Vincent Longo Water Canvas Creme-To-Powder Foundation because it is the best foundation for covering redness, evening out skin tone, never transferring to clothes or scarves, never creasing or caking or settling in pores--all the while looking like my skin. It feels so cooling to apply and it looks flawless.
For more than a year, Water Canvas was unavailable in my color after Vincent Longo pulled out of Sephora and the stock dwindled at online etailers like Beauty.com. I had accepted that I would never see it again. Then suddenly it was back in stock on vincentlongo.com, but just as I was getting used to having it on hand again, I began receiving ominous sale e-mails from vincentlongo.com and I began hearing rumors that he was selling current inventory and closing his doors again. So I really hope the news reported by The Non-Blonde via WWD is true. If someone has additional information, please leave a comment!
Bottom line: Joy!
I need a new e/s primer as I'm not happy with the ones I have. I'll give this a try.
ReplyDeleteI ordered a PD eyeshadow primer at a site that was selling out their PD items but unfortunately it wasn't sent in my order (nor was I charged for it). PD was the first eye primer that I ever liked and I know it's still as good now as it was then.
ReplyDeleteAmmie, one thing you should know in advance is the product is waxy feeling. I gently press my fingertip into it and leave it there for a moment to warm up, and then I pat it (not rub) onto the lid area, mostly the movable lid into the crease, feathering up toward the brow bone.
ReplyDeleteGood to know, thank you.
ReplyDeleteThey have new SS range coming up so i do think the news abt them coming back is true.
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