Spring is fast approaching and this year Chanel delivered one of the prettiest drops for the season.
The collection includes some new and interesting products in a gorgeous colour palette!
I was most excited to see the Ombre Premiere Laque liquid eyeshadows. I love a good easy eyeshadow when i’m rushing off to meetings or running errands; these have been my go-to most days.
Here’s what I have for todays review :
Les 4 Ombre 354 Warm Memories
Ombre Premiere Laque 24 Rising Sun, 26 Quartz Rose, 28 Desert Wind
Stylo Ombre Et Contour Contour Brun
Les Vernis Day Dream, Mirage
Warm Memories is a striking mix of reddened mauvy plums and a muted peachy orange that brings a little light to an otherwise subdued palette.
Overall the payoff of these are on the sheerer side, with quite a bit of powder kick up in some shades (especially) deepest plum (shade 3).
I’ve tried various looks but somehow the three mauvy shades tend to blend together into one. The last plummy shade on the bottom row especially seemed to blend away every time I attempt to add some depth; it applies on the lid much lighter than expected. Other than that I think the palette will work better paired with the liquid shadows to help them adhere better. Overall I feel it’s one of the less impressive Chanel launches in recent times.
For todays look I chose eyeshadow placements that would clearly separate the colours so they don’t blend together too much.
I discovered the orange in the palette works better paired with Rising Sun, adding a little more colour and shimmer. It looks so warm and beautiful on the lid. I’d wear this on it’s own paired with the matte brown for a elegant spring or summer look.
The Ombre Premiere Laque are soft shimmery liquid eyeshadows with a transluscent quality to them. The pigmentation on these are good but sheer out when blended; however you can build them up for more impact. The formula is fairly thin and wont feel heavy on the eyes. Once set, they wear all day, (with some creasing around the 6 hour mark on me) but completely budge proof.
Overall I think these are awesome. The colours are all so good! You really can’t go wrong here.
I reach for Desert Wind for a subtle eye look when I want something neutral. It’s a great everyday shade. In comparison to the others, this contained more pronounced shimmers that catch the light making it livelier. It’s the most elegant sparkle possible and I love it.
Quartz Rose is my favourite and most worn. A must have in my opinion if you are keen to try these eyeshadows. It’s a sparkling metallic pink which on me tends to pull almost sandy and not outright a noticeable pink. I find this adds a little something extra to the makeup look while keeping things polished.
Rising Sun is a medium copper. You can see why it fits so well into this collection. It’s a perfect compliment to the Warm Memories Eyeshadow palette.
I like to use these as a base to extend the wear of powder eyeshadows on days I skip a primer. But on their own they look stunning too just a lot more sheerer than i’d hoped. I find the more you blend, the more pronounced the shimmers look as the base colour sheers out. I’d suggest a patting motion for application to retain as much colour on to the lid.
Here’s a look at the Chanel eyeshadows along with one of my favourite liquid shadow formulas, the Armani Eye Tints.
If you already own these you probably LOVE them as well. The deeper shades are far more pigmented than the Chanel counterpart, and less sparkly. The lighter Armani Eye Tints can be blended out on the lids to look like what can be best described as a ‘glow’. I’m already halfway through my Armani 46 Halo.
Stylo Et Contour are some of my favourite eye products from Chanel, I have a few from previous launches and Contour Clair is one of my most worn and great for a little crease definition when I do soft eye looks. I was excited to see a deep brown in this years Spring lineup and it’s perfect for a smudgy smokey look. The product is a twist up style jumbo eyeshadow stick and perfect to scribble on and blend with fingers (or a brush). They are quite emollient and lend themselves to be topped with powder shadows if need be.
The nail polish from the collection are gorgeous! There’s two shades, Day Dream and Mirage. Day Dream is a light mauvy nude, and Mirage a creamy grape.
For both colours I did two coats for a fully opaque finish; without a top coat it lasted beautifully for 4+ days with minimal tip wear.
I feel between the two Mirage was something I didn’t expect to love as much as I did, once applied I really appreciated the contrast Mirage provides and the somewhat unexpected colour choice for spring.
Lastly, a look created with Warm Memories and Rising Sun. I also added Contour Brun on the lower lash line.
Bottom Line
I think the must have’s from the collection are the nail polishes & the liquid shadows. I wouldn’t mind adding more shades of those tbh. Rayon looks like a great highlight to compliment the lineup. The truth is i’m a sucker for easy wearable makeup!
The Warm Memories palette wasn’t a must-have for me; I feel the quality could be much better and the colours lacked enough contrast. Overall it looked dull on the eyes. I feel the colours look better worn as singles rather than together.
The products I skipped were the highlighter palette and the other eye quad Elemental. I felt the highlighter too subtle for my skin tone and the eyeshadow palette barely showed up on my light medium skin tone. I usually prefer well pigmented deeper colours for decent contrast on my eyes. Taupes and shimmery bronze is usually my jam.
Have you picked anything from this collection? I know i’m terribly late to post up the review but currently in the process of warming up to blogging more consistently again and clearing up the backlog.
I hope you enjoyed todays post and found it useful. x