Chanel palettes
Chanel has brought out these collections several times now, and the colors are so close to each other that I think it took me a couple of years to realize they are actually different each season! Some are quite brown looking, a summer soleil coloring.
I have one like that, and I will show it in a couple of days. It's not my fave. I was looking for a little more color. And some browns do nothing for my eyes. OTOH, Chanel usually has beautiful colors, quite fashion forward.
The palettes are designed with 9 colors. On each side there are two shadows (upper) and one gloss (lower.) The top middle is a blush. The lower two middle are lipsticks that are sheer, like glosses. You can mix and match across the sides, or you can get a complete look by staying to one side or the other and using the blush with either side.
The Plus
The idea that you could possibly travel with one thing only, plus a mascara.
The Negatives
I doubt it's possible.
They need to redesign the lip brush to have a cap. Who wants to put it back into the velvet pouch and mess up the fabric? I thought they would have fixed this a couple of palettes ago. Surely I'm not the only one who thinks like this. What are the designers thinking?
Eyes
After using a base and Girlactik Beauty Star Shadow
from right side of palette (the pinker side)
Pink on lid; silvery grey in crease and outer corners.
I knew I could change the look with blue liner, as I did yesterday, and I thought of green or grey, but I was curious how to wear this without changing or vamping the look, as most of my blacks or browns in liner would have been too harsh.
Pencil lined top and bottom: Avon cosmic brown glimmer stick, thinly on the bottom to ease any harshness. Outlined outside that line on the bottom with Mary Kay Ocean Blue, a sort of soft slate blue.
I had really wanted to stay to one side only, but I felt it was very light, so I drylined top and lower, with the brown from the left side of the palette and used that in outer corners over the silvery. The blue kicked it up just a tad, but not so you would see blue.
Brows: La Prairie pencil
Mascara: BE Buxom, top and lower (or did I forget the lower??)
Face:
Primer: MUFE
Foundation: experimented with a Viviane Woodard white cream stick, no glimmer, with a dot of foundation (Signature A) that is too dark and yellow, mixed in (on the back of my hand, just under the index finger), before I applied it. Hey! it worked. It looked good!
Concealer: Guerlain Rose
Powder: my sparkly mix, then Chanel loose Roselight (it is matte).
Blush: from the palette
Lips from the right side of the palette using Beauté technique (in reverse). Applied the plain apricot pink first, then lightly rimmed it with the sparkly gloss on the right. It was very pretty.
Go here to see the technique in detail.
Just for curiosity
I called 4 Chanel counters in a different time zone (ours were closed) until someone answered the phone (SAKs in Las Vegas). She confirmed that no liners came out to go with the palettes, that usually in the ads they show black, but you could use grey or brown or taupe. For me, black would have been serious over kill. Blue, like yesterday would have been beautiful.
What do you think? I'd have to carry some AL glitter with me, at least, to spark it up some. But the colors are quite lush.
Tomorrow I will try the left side of this palette, take a pix, then vamp it up some. And take another pix.
Karin
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You look great today! Very soft in person the eyeshadow, but definitely the perfect touch!
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