Disneyland or bust, March 2022! I’m going to say it over and over again so I can manifest the sh*t out of that plan, LOL! For her next birthday, we’re going to take Connor to Disneyland and she’s going to have a super-mega-ultra princess blowout.
We’re going to eat HELLA churros while I’m there, but not so many that we spoil our lunch at Blue Bayou (I’ve always wanted to eat there!), and we’re going to meet ALL THE PRINCESSES. Oh, and we’ll have to meet Mickey and Minnie, of course. What’s Disneyland without visiting the ultimate power mouse duo?
Over the last few years, Disney has done quite a few makeup collabs, and one of the newest ones on the high end is a collection that just launched with House of Sillage.
A trip down memory lane with these Disney makeup collections…
- The MAC Maleficent Collection Conjures Crimson Kisses and Chiseled Cheeks
- The MAC Cinderella Collection: Light, Airy Formulas Combine With Glossy Finishes to Create Beauty Bibbidi-Bobbidi-Boo
- MAC Venomous Villains: 101 Things You Didn’t Know
- MAC Aladdin Collection Swatches
- Paul and Joe for Disney: American Debut Coming Soon!
- Pixi Turned Target Into a Magic Kingdom With the New Disney Pixi PixiGlow Collection
- Urban Decay Followed the Yellow Brick Road All the Way to Two New Limited Edition Palettes Inspired by Disney’s Oz the Great and Powerful
They’re a luxury beauty brand out of Newport Beach in Southern California known for their perfumes, and now they’re venturing into color cosmetics. The limited edition Disney X House of Sillage is their first makeup collection.
For a launch based on cartoon characters, it feels surprisingly elegant. The black, silver and red packaging on the outside look like collector’s items you’d find in a Disney fanatic’s vault of precious items, and the wearable plums, bronzes, pinks, beiges and red shades inside look like something you’d find at Chantecaille or Cle de Peau.
I remember years ago chatting with someone in the makeup industry about how all the best powders are produced in Italy, and that’s where this collection’s made. There’s an eyeshadow palette ($68), a highlighter and blush duo ($58), two lipsticks ($58 each) and a Lipgloss ($36). There’s also a chic boxed set with all the items and a makeup bag for $240.
Super pricey, but that’s in line with the House of Sillage vibe. A typical bottle of their perfume is $360, so ya know, it’s #fancylady stuff.
A few quick thoughts on the items I’ve worn:
- Eyeshadow Quint: The shades lean warm, and the finishes are shimmery like fine (Disney) fairy dust. Powder texture is on the softer, fluffier side and borderline delicate; I loaded a wet angled eye liner brush with the shimmery mid-toned bronze and gasped when I saw the big dent I left behind. They range from medium to full pigment. My lids are dry, and after a day’s wear on bare skin, I saw minimal creasing. I think they’re even prettier as the day goes on; the shimmer settles in nicely, and my eyes had a luminescent glow. So expensive at $68, but perhaps worth it if warm pinks and bronzes are your thing and your heart beats for the high-end schtuff.
- Diamond Powder Lipstick in Playful Nude: Feels like a Chanel Rouge Coco lipstick (smooth, silky and comfortable) and tastes and smells like a MAC lipstick (vanilla). Impressively high pigment load. I think this would be a very generous gift for the Disney lover in your life who has everything. She (or he) would FREAK OUT. If there were one thing I’d get from the launch, it would either be this lippie or the eyeshadow quint.
- Complexion Duo Blush & Highlighter: Cute mouse ears on the peach blush! The blush blends out beautifully, and the highlighter has a fine shimmer (always a plus); however, I wanted a little more pigment for the price. I like this, but I think you could find something similar for less.
- Lip Gloss Luminizer in Something Sweet: Lightweight, not sticky, smells and tastes like vanilla. Sheer. I feel like I really need to dig in deep to get enough product on the wand?! Cute, but more like nice extra if you’ve got some extra lunch money.
I just might wear this collection with my Minnie Mouse ears when I finally make it back to Disneyland! ?
Your friendly neighborhood beauty addict,
Karen
That blush/highlighter duo might work on my fair skin, but I think for $58 I’ll pass. The one thing that calls out to me is that nude lipstick. But again, $58 for one lipstick? Ouch! Even a Chanel Rouge Coco Bloom or Flash lipstick is only $40. I guess there are some folks out there that didn’t take a financial hit during this pandemic.
Disneyland! Yes! Haven’t been in a while, but if this pandemic ever goes away, I’d love to go again. We have so many photos of a smiling Dear Daughter as a child in “The Happiest Place on Earth”. I think we still have a tiara from back then, too!
It’s very fancy lady, for sure. 🙂
BTW I just wore a blush that’s kinda like this one the other day. It’s the powder blush by Laura Mercier in the shade Ginger. You might like it!
I cannot wait to take Connor to Disney although me being the worrywart that I am, I wonder if she’ll be able to still have fun going there as an only child. Sometimes I wish she had lots of cousins near her age that lived close by that we could do things with like go on a trip to Disneyland together. Our family is very small and she’s the only kid her age (she has one cousin, a girl who is older in middle school, who’s very shy, and isn’t very interested in her).
I’ve been trying so hard to make mom friends in town with girls around her age but so far it’s been a challenge for me (the pandemic hasn’t helped, either), and because El Hub works so much that it all falls on me to make her/our social connections. Anywho. Thank you for listening. One day it will all sort itself out. I just have to keep telling myself that!
I was going to pick up one of the LM blushes during the Sephora sale, but it’s so hard to pick colors on-line.
Disneyland is so much fun you just need the immediate family to go. Dear Daughter is an “only” and she loved Disneyland. There were times it was just Dear Daughter and Dear Husband and I stayed home for “me time.” If it’s warm enough, definitely take swimsuits, because you might want to spend some time in the hotel pools for a change of scenery from the park. And Downtown Disney is fun too. Restaurants and shops where you can buy T & T and CPS and tees and most importantly TIARAS!
When the pandemic is over and she is going to school full time she will make friends. Dear Daughter had a “carpool” friend in preschool, so that we wouldn’t have to drive every day. But I can’t say they were like best buds because they were so very different. Once she was in kindergarten she started to make more friends that we socialized more with. Just remember you may not be friends with the moms of all her friends. There were one or two moms I wanted to be friends with and the rest I just didn’t force the relationship. And there were moms of kids in her classes that I absolutely loved, but Dear Daughter just didn’t like the kids. Unless there are huge red flags, (meanness, hitting, rude behavior you don’t want Connor to pick up, obvious differences in core values) you sorta have to trust your kid to pick her own friends.
Connor will definitely have fun at Disneyland as an only! I’m an only child. I went to Walt Disney World (because Dayton-my metro area-to Orlando is something like half the time and distance of Dayton to Anaheim, and I also have an aunt who lives near-ish to Orlando) as a kid, and I loved it! The only downside was that *TMI* I puked directly onto my dinner one evening because Space Mountain had done a number on my stomach-I love roller coasters now, so I think it was just a matter of me being a little too small to handle the intense ride.
Awesome Disney trip story: I went in 1997, so the parade (afternoon, which Google says is the daily Festival of Fantasy Parade at 3:00 PM) had a Hercules float to celebrate the movie’s then-recent release. Hercules and Megara pulled several kids onto the float with them for a portion of the route (I don’t know if this is still done), and I was one of the kids Meg picked! There’s a photo somewhere in this house that my mom took of me on the float-I just can’t find it.
Oh wow, that is way more high end than I would have thought when I heard Disney collab. Somehow the elegant packaging and colors don’t work with the mouse ears for me, but the shimmer indeed looks beautiful on your eyes.
Love the swatches of the quint! So pigmented. I used to follow your blog almost ten years ago but I stopped looking at makeup blogs and hadn’t seen yours since. I must say that you look exactly the same! I literally thought…”She looks exactly the same – only prettier!” <3
OMG, I just read your comment to Tatiana and now I want to put the boys on a plane and go to Disney with you. They would carry Connor around on their shoulders and have a grand old time!! Disney isn’t my thing, though it’s beautifully done. We’re more of a Universal, rollercoaster kind of family. That said, we’ve been to Disney World a couple of times and have always had fun. I think you guys will love it, especially since Connor is into princesses. It can be nice to have a group of similar aged kids but it can also be challenging (some want to do this, others want to do that and a lot of time is wasted trying to be fair to everyone). With it just being you guys, Connor will be the star, and I think she’ll have a fabulous time. It’s been many years (probably decades) since I’ve been to Disneyland and I’m sure it’s changed but, if you’re able, I’d choose Disney World. I realize it’s a hike for you and FL is always too hot and humid for me but all the extra space and other parks make it worth the trip. 🙂