Like its predecessors, this palette rivals any luxury eye shadow palette in packaging and quality. The emerald and white fitted box is special. Plus, I love the magnet closure. Here is a photo showing the clear top swung open.
Enhance and invigorate your eyes with this shadow palette that delivers a pearlized, sheer finish for a more natural look. The reflective properties of diamond dust and micro-fine platinum powder diffuse light, creating a luminous soft-focus effect. The neutral tones featured in this palette draw out a new facet of Emerald, highlighting the Color of the Year as a perfect everyday accent. No matter how you wear Emerald - from subtle to dramatic - its universally flattering tone complements and intensifies every iris.
I took swatch photos yesterday in full, morning sunshine. I swatched each shade with a sponge-tipped applicator.
What I am assuming is Camel is muddy on my skin. I can blend it with Appleblossom to give it some life, but I don't like mud on my eyes. If you can wear very warm light browns, you will feel differently about it, I'm sure.
The Emerald Shade is available in different finishes in other palettes. For example, Emerald Glitter is featured in the Shadow Box Eclipsed, and "plain" Emerald lights up the Shadow Box Bionic. There's also a Color Code Prismatic Shadow Block single eye shadow in Emerald. So many choices! I think I may have the best one, but the only way to find out whether I need more is to order them online or go to a Sephora. Hmm...I have a few things to return. I think I have a new mission.
Don't you think this palette is worth every cent of the $26 price, plus more - despite the muddy shade hiding among two beauties? You can find the Sephora + PANTONE UNIVERSE Emerald Collection at Sephora.
Photo at top courtesy of Sephora; other photos by Best Things in Beauty
A little late, but I wondered what your 88-year-old friend bought at Mazza?
ReplyDeleteI wouldn't have thought that this would swatch so pretty! Gorgeous!
ReplyDeleteThis is shockingly pretty. Who knew that Sephora made such lovely products?
ReplyDeleteHi Nemo,
ReplyDeleteI don't feel I should disclose what that elegant woman bought. I've already make her a star. :)
Hi Chris,
ReplyDeleteThe color is magnetic, along with the compact. :)
Hey there, Joey,
ReplyDeleteShockingly pretty! Great way to describe it. Actually, the Sephora + PANTONE UNIVERSE colors have all been extraordinary.
What you call muddy I call perfect! It would have been too circusy if the bright shade were mixed with all metallics. I'm always on the lookout for amazing matte warm browns, I just can't imagine ever wearing the green shade. Does Sephora/Pantone offer any of these colors as singles?
ReplyDeleteThis is a palette that might prove to be a little bit too hard to resist. Love the colours....they scream summer to me!
ReplyDeleteEllen, only the Emerald, which is the Pantone Color of the year. Check out the entire collection. Lots of green.
ReplyDeleteI knew someone would find Camel the cat's meow. :)
The colors do, Lovethescents, and the price is right.
ReplyDeleteWho would've thought the colors would turn out so pretty? Thanks for the swatch and review. Will definitely stop by Sephora sometime and check it out!
ReplyDeleteI am very late to post. I have been admiring this palette everytime I have walked by it in Sephora. It's now on sale, so I can't resist. Thank you for the review and swatches!
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