FOTD feat. Cle de Peau Ombre Couleurs Quadri in Stardust 302

Quickie FOTD look at the last of the three Cle de Peau eye quads I picked up last week, Ombre Couleurs Quadri in Stardust 302 (swatched here).

Other stuff on Da Face post sunscreen:

The Body Shop Instablur

Innisfree No Sebum Mineral Powder

Chanel Perfection Lumiere Velvet in a 50:50 mix of 10 and 20

Chanel Crayon Sourcils brow pencil in 20

Pupa Cover Cream Concealer in 006 for undereye

MUFE Full Cover concealer in 6 for scars

MUFE HD Blush in 310 Rosewood

Guerlain Les Voilettes loose powder in 02 Clair

CdP Rouge a Levres #111 under #312 (testers)

Again, I kept application light, using the Smashbox #7 brush to apply the shimmery mauve nude (3rd colour from the left) all over the lids up to a little over the socket line. Applied the darker forest green shade as a blended liner with Bobbi Brown Angle Eye Shadow Brush, then applied the lighter olive green on top, blended upward above the crease line with the Smashbox #15, and brought it down to the lower outer third lashline with the BB angle brush. The lightest apricot nude shade was used in inner ⅔ of lower lashline as well as tapped onto the area under the brow arch.

When I first swatch this quad at the counter, my mind immediately scolded me for wanting it since I own and love Love LOVE Chanel’s Tisse Venitien (detailed review and comparison to come). It definitely came down to the mix of the mauve nude and the olive green that cemented my desire for this quad. The mauve nude is beautifully shimmery, and straight on its own it’s very complementary to my skintone. As a first try, I also loved how the olive green softened and brightened the forest green, the latter which actually contains more grey tones than I thought, making it a grey toned quad I find easier to use than a more classic grey palette.

Even though that darker forrest green colour is gorgeously sparkly and complex in the pan and finger swatched, I have to admit on application, at least with the BB brush, the glitter didn’t turn up as much, so I’ll have to play around with it some more to see how to make it work better.

In terms of wear time, CdP shadows lasts on my lids very well without primer. No fallout issues that I can think of, but I don’t own any of their previously proper sparkly palettes. My lids have definitely gotten drier lately, though it does oil enough throughout the day that actually compliments the shadows, enhancing it’s pigmentation, but not hindering wear. I suppose I might be able to achieve better pigmentation on application if I bothered with a primer, but I like what I’m getting with my CdPs as is.

I think if you’re looking for a very bling-ful, very statement-y green palette, then Chanel Venetien is absolutely worth it, but if you are looking for a softer, more luminescent type of green (almost grey) palette, then the CdP 302 might be up your alley.

What greens have been added to your salad bowl lately?

xx

Noodles :)

NEW Cle de Peau Ombre Couleurs Quadri Eyeshadows!

There’s (and will continue to be it looks like) definitely been an eyeshadow new release/reformulation overload this year. So far, I’ve particularly loved Armani’s new singles and Chanel’s Tisse quads. The new YSL palettes are nice, but I personally like the Chanels better. As for singles, the new Nars' are also nice, but price wise, it’s only slightly lower (at least in Taiwan) than the Armanis so, I would much prefer to save my money for the latter which is for me superior in quality and pigmentation. The currently-being-released Dior palette reformulations is a huge 11 palette launch, and I’m terribly overwhelmed and slightly not as excited about, because fatigued.

However, Cle de Peau to me is like dessert. I have multiple separate stomachs for more dessert. I am a cow for it, and I moo with enthusiasm. This curveball totally came out of no where. I received the flyer below in the mail about CdP’s newest launch only yesterday morning, didn’t even have time to really look at it and had assumed it was for their fall 2014 Celestial Radiance collection. Instead, when by happenstance I walked by a CdP counter during lunch break, I was met with a whole lineup of 8 newly reformulated eyeshadow quads, 2 reformulated mascaras and 3 new lipstick colours.

The world stopped ya’ll.

The very second my finger touched the tester, I knew I NEED! It was so buttery soft and silky to the touch. Swatching it, every colour was at least duochrome complex, and wonderfully velvety smooth pigmentation. They are definitely more buttery and shimmer-themed than a lot of the older CdP palettes, which tended to be more matte or sparkles than shimmer, that’s not to say there is a lack of gorgeously sparkly colours in the new lineup.

I was able discern 3 major textures; Radiance that has visible (but still micro fine) glitter, Shimmer, and Matte. By matte, it’s really not actually a powdery matte, there is still a soft, almost hidden shimmer to it, and as far as I could remember all had duochrome qualities. I ended up making a seriously messy swatch of everything including the lipsticks, so I don’t have any swatch pictures. I know I’ll be revisiting the counter again for these, so I’ll attempt a better swatch then.

Not surprisingly, I went into Pokemon mode and chanted in my mind ‘Gotta collect them all!’ Alas, I did the grown-up thing and walked away with merely three (I feel the weight of judgement…).

302 (Stardust) is a green themed quad with one radiance shade, and 3 shimmer shades.

L-R: A shimmery pale apricot nude that leans pink in certain angles, a shimmery olive green with gold tones, a shimmery mauve nude, and a radiance forest green with gold undertones and silver micro glitter (it's complexity didn't show up in this particular pic)

303 (Baby Universe) is a earthy pink nude themed quad with 2 mattes, and 2 shimmers.

L-R: A matte tan with a subtle purple undertone, a shimmery pink nude, a matte purple mauve with subtle gold tones, and a shimmery deep copper that leans purple. The beauty of this quad was quite hard to capture in the swatch pictures, but I can tell it will be one I reach for often.

308 (Cosmic Aura) is a purple themed quad with 3 shimmers and 1 matte shade.

L-R: A brighter purple with blue shimmer, a silvery lilac shimmer with pink iridescence, a more plummy purple shimmer with rose gold tones, and a navy matte with grey tones.

Even though the new quads can fit into their old palette cases, there is a new one that came out in the launch. I like to do without packaging as much as possible so I have only picked up the refills.

Some quickie first try looks with two of my three palettes. I don’t really wear strong eye looks for work, so I’ve basically used my Smashbox #7 (that has a tendency to dilute pigmentation) brush to lightly apply and blend. I’ll follow up with a more detail comparison after I’ve recovered from my multiple orgasms at the counter.

Using 303

Using 308 (camera couldn't capture fully the pink iridescence)

For now, all I can say is…LOVE!

What recent eyeshadow releases have been breaking your resolve?

xx

Noodles :)