Happy Monday everyone! Today I am bringing to you one of the most luxurious collection from this holiday season. The Christmas Color Collection 2014 from Guerlain features several festive, gold-lacquered makeup pieces. To see the swatches of a few pieces, click......
Guerlain Petrouchka Palette |
Petrouchka Palette Eye & Blush Palette ($108 CAD):
Packaging:
The palette comes in the most luxurious shiny gold compact with a reusable elastic bow wrapped around it. With two compartments, the palette holds five shadows in the first tier and four blushes in the second. The palette comes equipment with a nice mirror under the lid and it comes with a velvety pouch with two travel-sized brushes.
Guerlain Petrouchka Palette: Storage pouch with brushes. |
The Petrouchka Palette comes with five neutral essentials. The formulation for the shadows are incredibly pigmented and creamy, with the darker shades being extremely opaque. I am not loving the long, thin strip design as it is hard to apply using bigger, fluffier shadow blushes but the colors are too gorgeous for me to dwell on it.
- Champagne: pale champagne shimmer
- Sand: pale gold shimmer
- Gold: rich warm gold metallic
- Copper: brick brown metallic
- Iridescent Brown: dark taupe-y brown metallic
Guerlain Petrouchka Palette |
Guerlain Petrouchka Palette |
- Nude Pink: Pale pink with silvery pink shimmers
- Brown: Brownish rose with warm shimmers
- Rosewood: Matte smokey rose
- Coral: Bright matte coral
Guerlain Petrouchka Palette |
Guerlain Petrouchka Palette |
Packaging:
This beautiful, special edition Meteorite Illuminated Powder comes in a golden metal jar. The lid bears a festive holiday bow and the powder comes with a bright red puff. The powder comes in the form of little pearls, there are six different colors, ranging from pale champagne to soft corals.
Meteorites Perles d'Etoile |
Meteorites Perles d'Etoile |
This Meteorite powder is mostly translucent with soft warm shimmers. The formulation is finely milled and blends beautifully into the skin. The powder works great as a highlighter, either for the face or the body.
Meteorites Perles d'Etoile (click on image to enlarge) |
This is a gorgeous pinkish dark red semi-sheer lip gloss. The formulation is very lightweight and not at all sticky. Although beautiful, this shade is slightly tricky to work. Because it's quite pigmented, I found it hard to apply neatly without uneven pigmentation. It may actually be beneficial to apply this with a lip brush. The gloss lasts nicely, it fades after a couple hours of wear, losing shine but most of the color remains.
Overall:
This is such a gorgeous collection. All three pieces make perfect additions to any makeup routine. My favorite is definitely the palette; the pigmentation and formulation is some of the best I've seen.
Guerlain is available in stores and online at Sephora, Holt Renfrew, and The Bay.
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What's your favorite piece from the collection?
Let me know in the comments below!