How to: Get Pantone's Color of the Year; Radiant Orchid, in your beauty routine.

Pantone has named the new color of the year: Radiant Orchid or "18-3224" if you want to get literal. In his December announcement , Pantone Color Institute's Leatrice Eiseman said that the beautiful hue " is an enchanting harmony of fuchsia, purple and pink undertones... It's a captivating purple" and that it "encourages expanded creativity and originality". In honor of this beauty of a color, here are some ways to get it in your vanity and on your face. 

Obsessive Compulsive Cosmetics Matte Lip Tar in Hoochie, $18. 

Benefit Hydra-Smooth Lipcolor in Talk Flirty, $19

Sunna Claore Cosmetics Matte Lipstick in Chaos, $10 Sunnaclaorecosmetics.com

Nars Duo Eyeshadow in Marie-Galante, $34

Stila lip color in Gemma

M.A.C lipstick in Heroine 

Too Faced Exotic Color Eyeshadow in Poison Orchid , $18

  Illamasqua Powder Blusher in Morale. 

Now that you have some ideas on what to use, get those cosmetics & get to work with this year's color of the year, Radiant Orchid!

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