You know you can’t look away!
Chanel Beiges Ombres Tissees Iridescent Effects Eyes Beiges ($75) from the Chanel Les Aquarelles de Chanel collection, available now.
Gimme, Gimme, Glitter
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Gray Days Ahead
Please raise your paw if you’re just as obsessed with gray as I am. 🙂
Chanel Ombre Essentielle Soft Touch Eyeshadow in Gris Exquis ($28), from the Chanel Les Aquarelles de Chanel collection. Available now online.
Come Out and Play, Coco
These nail polishes from past Chanel collections wanted to stop by to say hello…
Fanciful Fall: Wearable Colors Characterize the Chanel Sophisticated Eye Collection
Now that’s what I’m talking about, Coco. 🙂 Your new Sophisticated Eye Collection features some seriously easy-to-wear eye makeup, and it’s making me cuckoo for COCO 
puffs!
The sizable 17-piece release, a mix of limited edition and re-promoted items, is available now at Chanel counters, in stores and also online. With classic presentation and an understated palette of highly wearable blue, taupe, purple, brown, pink and beige, the release exudes class. Coco dresses lids in a simple, clean wash of light pink and beige, then blows a kiss of color along the upper lash line. Thick, defined fringe in black, brown or purple and a strong brow ties the look together nicely. Definition: understated, wearable, and totally up my alley.
The release also features a sleek, sassy eyelash curler, and every time I notice that lovely logo emblazoned on it, I question my loyalty to Shu.
A few of the pieces reached out and grabbed me when I swatched the collection yesterday…
- Les 4 Ombres Quadra Eye Shadow in Lagons ($57) — Déjà vu, mon amie! The blue and beige shades in this quad take me back to the spring of 2008 and Bleu Celestes from the Aurora Blues collection. I
how intense and sparkly the darker shades are. - Les 4 Ombres Quadra Eye Shadow in Vanities ($57) — I went to sleep last night thinking about the purple, taupe and pink shadows in this quad, and if I were forced to spend a week on a deserted island with just one thing from this collection, this would be it. There’s something special about each of these shades — the intense glitter in the dark purple (so glittery!), the extra buttery texture of the light pink, the two flashy duo chromes (one changes from a plummy brown to a pinkish gold, and the other from a pale pink to a purplish gold). Wow.
- Inimitable Intense Mascara in Purple ($30) — I’m a huge Inimitable mascara fan (even if I have trouble saying the word, “Inimitable”), so I was stoked to check out it out in Purple. Sadly, the swatch disappointed me a little. The color looks more like a brownish plum than a true purple to me, and I have a feeling it’s intended for ladies with a lighter fringe than mine.
1. Les 4 Ombres Quadra Eye Shadow in Lagons
2. Les 4 Ombres Quadra Eye Shadow in Vanites
Swatches from the left: Ombres Essentielle Soft Touch Eyeshadow in 3. Magic Night; 4. Lily; 5.Twilight; and 6. Fauve
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Single and Ready to Mingle
I know the quads often get all the attention, but I really love the Chanel Soft Touch Eyeshadow Singles ($28.50 each), too.
Pretty in Pink
Isn’t she?
An Olivia Wilde-Inspired Chanel Face of the Day
I’ve been counting down the days ‘til the release of Cowboys & Aliens, and the invasion is almost here (July 29)! Just gimme a bucket of salty popcorn, a story about angry aliens and 90 uninterrupted minutes with hottie-bo-bottie Daniel Craig, and I’m good to go.
Sure, the movie looks cheesy (potentially very cheesy), but I’m keeping my fingers crossed because, after all, you never know, right? It’s high time someone pitted gunslingers against extra terrestrials, and maybe it’ll work out as well as other unusual pairings like chicken and waffles, salt and caramel, and Brigitte Nielsen and Flavor Flav. 🙂
I’m also looking forward to seeing the lovely Olivia Wilde, whom I’m currently girl crushing on BIG TIME right now.
She looked all sorts of amazing on the red carpet last weekend at the Cowboys & Aliens premiere, sporting this black lace dress with her hair in a loose updo, and for her makeup, which was pure Chanel, she went with a soft smokey eye, pink lips and pinkish nude cheeks.
I liked the look so much that today I thought I’d give something like it a try. Most of the products I used here are from Chanel, with a few bits and bobs from MAC and NARS, but you could surely do something similar with other products you might have around.
I read in a press release that Olivia’s makeup for the evening involved Chanel Illusion D’Ombre Long Wear Eyeshadow in Mirifique ($36), Chanel Inimitable Intense Mascara in Noir ($30) and Chanel Intense Eye Pencil in Noir ($28). I used the same products for my eye look, along with the others mentioned below.
Chanel Illusion D’Ombre Long Wear Eyeshadow in Mirifique, Chanel Inimitable Intense Mascara in Noir and Chanel Intense Eye Pencil in Noir
Swatches from the left with the flash: Chanel Intense Eye Pencil in Noir, Chanel Illusion D’Ombre Long Wear Eyeshadow in Mirifique and Chanel Inimitable Intense Mascara in Noir
Without the flash
Eye see you! 🙂
Smokey Eye ‘Til I Die
Ya with me on this?
Chanel Illusion D’Ombre Long Wear Eyeshadow in Mirifique, $36. Available now at Chanel counters and also online.