Euphrate Single Eye Shadow, Fashion Rebel Eye Shadow Duo
Tender Night Velvet Matte Lip Pencil
(Media sample)
I was able to try a tiny amount of products from the NARS Summer Color Collection of 2013, but so far, I am liking most of them, particularly the eye shadows. Since these are the ones I like the best, let's dive into the review right away.
Euphrate is a beautiful greyish silver. It's not a garish, out-of-this-world intergalactic silver, but it's a deeper shadow of silver that I very much prefer over whitish silvers. Since this is not too bright or over-the-top I can definitely wear this during the day or even at a conservative office setting. In the look below, I used it as an all-over lid color, and I like the soft greyish silver shade. It has a sheen that is nice to pair with the matte brights below.
NARS Fashion Rebel Eye Shadow Duo is a beautiful matte duo composed of a bright canary yellow and a red-based grape-purple. I don't have a really bright matte yellow with that is as saturated with color as it is easy to apply, so this is a welcome addition to my eye shadow collection.
The purple is a nice mid-tone purple matte that is great to apply on the crease to blend darker outer lid colors like dark plums or black.
As I said in my NARS Satin Lip Pencil Swatches and Review, like the latter, these Velvet Matte Lip Pencils come in chubby pencils that have these rubbery-feeling tubes and caps. I also like that they double as a liner, so you don't need to scrounge around for a lipliner after applying this; the pointed tip gives a neat outline to your lip look.
Let's see how these look like on the skin!
Swatches:
As you can see, both the single and duo eye shadows have very saturated color, very pigmented, and applied smoothly on the skin. I was particularly impressed with the matte yellow in the NARS Fashion Rebel duo, as it was quite pigmented. I don't own a lot of very pigmented yellow eye shadows, so this is a nice surprise.
Unfortunately, the Tender Night Velvet Matte Lip Pencil was too light for my medium skintone, as you can see in the swatches. It was way too light on my pigmented lips. If only it were a bit darker, I would have pulled this color off.
However, I do love the eye look I used using NARS Euphrate Single and Fashion Rebel Eye Shadow Duo:
Euphrate's light but wearable silver contrasted well with the purple of Fashion Rebel. The purple appeared bright and quite noticeable on my lids. All eye shadows applied smoothly and glided like butter on the lids without compromising texture and finish.
All in all, I am loving the eye shadows I was able to try in this collection. Stay tuned for a Video Review of the NARS Summer Color Collection 2013 and NARS Pierre Hardy collection which will be up very soon!
(Media sample sent for consideration. All opinions are mine.)
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Gorgeous colors!
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