New: Rouge Bunny Rouge When Birds Are Singing...Long-lasting Eye Shadow

I finally received my new Rouge Bunny Rouge When Birds Are Singing...Long-lasting Eye Shadows ($27) in Snowy Egret (shown above) and Eclipse Eagle (shown below). I had waited until they made their way to Beautyhabit in California. It wasn't the earliest source, but it was the easiest.

The firefly festival is eagerly awaited all year in the Enchanted Garden. For then on this very special day, the best voices of the bird world feed on tiny fireworks to embellish their voices and then gather to perform a single concert together. Their jubilant musical notes are inscribed in a syrup of figs and milk and preserved in tiny pots to be enjoyed all year round. Like this golden froth of musical syrup, When Birds Are Singing... eye shadows are a time-defying exotic enigma. This is plumage to adorn you in shades as deliciously mellow as soft silence that flows, or as brilliantly potent as jeweled notes. So addictive are these morsels that you’ll be causing your own kaleidoscopic ripples every time you wear them.

These beautiful eye shadows merit the beautiful, fanciful story. The powder eye shadows have a fabulous lightweight, creamy touch and superior adherence to the skin. This formula creates pure dynamic iridescence while it maintains second skin effect. It offers extended eight-hour wear that will stay perfect and look freshly applied all day. Orange-derived flavonoid in the formula improves blood microcirculation, enhances luminosity, and scavenges free radicals.

I own so many shades of this wonderful eye shadow, I was excited when two new ones were announced. Snowy Egret is described as a smoked, pale gold iridescence. It might be mistaken for silvery white in the compact, but on my skin, I see the ultra-pale yellow hue.

Eclipse Eagle is described as a dark brown-grey plum with platinum iridescence, the richer and darker sister of Delicate Hummingbird. On my skin, it's way more brown-grey than it is plum - unless you look at it in strong light. Then the plum reveals itself. That's my kind of plum: mixed with other shades to keep it from looking too purple.

I took swatch photos in full, morning sun. I swatched both relatively heavily with a sponge-tipped applicator.

These exquisite shades are stunning when worn together - and they are just as fetching when worn alone or with other shadows. I am thrilled with them.

I think you can see the plum fairly well in the photo directly above. As a rule, plums don't excite me. They often make my eyes look red. Eclipse Eagle has so many other hues, it works! Snowy Egret is in a class of its own. I don't think the yellow tone shows up well in my photos. Trust me; it's the palest yellow.

I know some of you have tried them. What did you think? Rouge Bunny Rouge is available at Rouge Bunny Rouge (where shipping costs were just lowered), Zuneta (where there is a 20% off sale with code VALENTINE until February 14), and Beautyhabit.

Photos at top courtesy of Beautyhabit; other photos by Best Things in Beauty