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| I really love this shot. |
This is a hard review for me to write, because I really feel like my swatches and attempts to showcase this trio are inadequate. When I first swatched this, I was indifferent; yes, the texture was smooth and easy to pick up, easy to distribute, and overall quite lovely, but it just looked so-so on my arm. The true beauty of this palette is evident when it's actually used properly; on eyes, it is beautiful. I have not been this pleased with a palette in a long time.
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| Shiseido Lumining Satin Eye Color Trio in YE406, Tropicalia. They retail for $33; I bought mine from Shiseido.com last December. Obviously, I don't use the brush... |
The colors are
vibrant. On eyes, they all possess a slight dual-color shift that makes them really beautiful to wear, and easy as a single wash of color - the color shift adds dimension. I wear these over Becca Eye Tint in
Vicuna right now, and they last most of the day with a little bit of fading toward the end. I don't have a proper primer to test them over (like NARS, MUFE, etc.) at the moment.
I tried to do a few looks using them, to show how bright they can actually be. Shockingly, the pink may be my favorite - it is a fuchsia with a slight blue tinge, and it is so, so gorgeous.
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| Swatched over bare skin. They seem really sheer, but the colors seem to pop more when worn properly on eyes. |
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| Wearing the pink shade on eyes (theBalm Sophisticated in the crease). For the makeup breakdown, see this post (Jan. 27 look). |
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| Just the yellow shade on the eyes, and black liner (Clinique). Can't remember what the rest of the makeup was, sorry! |
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| Close-up shot of just the green shade on lids. You can see that it's sort of a green-yellow with a sheen to it. So, so pretty. Prettier in person and hard to capture in photos. |
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| And the full face shot of the green on lids. See how bright it is? Full makeup breakdown here (Jan. 26). |
If you are alarmed by the brightness of the shades, don't be. They can be worn sheer (the first wash of color with a flat brush is on the sheer side; to reach the vibrancy shown in these photos, I usually do several layers. They layer just fine - no fall out, no clumping).
If you're curious, you need to get to a counter and have it applied to your eyes. They come in a multitude of shades, and I have to say, the next time I have a hankering for another palette, I may pick up the navy-orange-gray trio (
OR302, Fire). The quality is really stunning, and the color pay-off is satisfying. Even the yellow. To get an idea of ways to use it, see
this post - I featured it in a Beauty Week at a Glance post, and used it for about a week, straight.
I tried to do a few looks using them, to show how bright they can actually be. Shockingly, the pink may be my favorite - it is a fuchsia with a slight blue tinge, and it is so, so gorgeous.
