EOTD: Dior Smoky Crystal

Today's EOTD is a soft semi smokey eye using Dior's 5 Couleurs Iridescent eye shadow palette 089 Smoky Crystal, which is part of their fabulous holiday collection.

Products used:

MAC Select Cover Concealer NW 20

MAC Greasepaint Stick in Black (if you missed out on this, substitute a black waterproof eyeliner as a base)

Dior 5 Couleurs Iridescent palette in 089 Smoky Crystal

MAC Brow Shader in Walnut

Maybelline Great Lash Waterproof mascara in Very Black

 

Begin by applying concealer and setting with loose powder. Apply MAC's Greasepaint Stick to the eyelid up to the crease. Blend the edges well using your fingertip or a q-tip. Using a flat brush, apply shade #1 in the Dior palette to the outermost 1/3 of your eyelid, blend up to the crease. Apply shade #2 to the centre of your lid using the same brush, up to the crease, making sure to butt the colour right up to shade #1. Using a pencil brush, smudge shade #2 along your lower lash line to the center of your eye.

Using a pencil brush apply shade #3 to the inside 1/3 of the eyelid, working it half way onto shade #2 as well as lining the bottom lid from the inside corner to the center of the eye. Next using a fluffy crease brush, work shade #3 in the crease, blending both upwards towards the browbone and downwards into the darker shadows.  Use this brush to also blend out the whole eye using a windshield wiper motion.

Line upper lash line with MAC Graphblack Technakohl liner, curl lashes and apply mascara.  Voila! J

 

Dior Holiday 2009: Cristal Boreale Collection

I have one word for Dior's 2009 holiday collection - smoking!  All puns aside, Dior's holiday offerings truly are gorgeous this year.  The two items I have for review are the 5 Colour Iridescent Eye Shadow palette in Smoky Crystal #089 ($60.00 CA), and Dior Vernis Nail Lacquer in Silver Purple #782 ($25.00 CA).  Both items are limited edition.

Dior Vernis Silver Purple (left), 5 Colour Iridescent Eye Shadow palette in Smoky Crystal (right)

The Smoky Crystal palette is a silver and grey lovers paradise!  The quint shades are (clockwise from top left): a silvery beige, a pewter, a bright silver, a dark gunmetal grey and a very cool purple-ish pink.  These shades are quite pigmented, creamy and very metallic. This is a cool toned palette, but very wearable - in fact all the colours save for the pink could and the bright silver could be paired with slightly warmer colours. 

Dior 5 Colour Iridescent Eye Shadow palette in Smoky Crystal #089

Dior 5 Colour Iridescent palettes have a cult following due to their gorgeous pigmented and glistening finish.  This palette is no exception.  I predict this one will sell out very fast, so if you are interested, run down to your local counter post haste! I give this two thumbs up.

Dior Vernis in Silver Purple #782

Dior's latest limited edition polish, Silver Purple has coveted written all over it.  It is a deep purple crossed with gunmetal grey.  Like all Dior polish it flows smoothly on the nail and does not leave brush marks.  I am in love with this colour - it is both modern and slightly vampy and has a tendency to look either more purple or more grey in different lighting.  Again, this will sell out fast, so if you are even remotely interested get thee to a counter now!

You won't be sorry for long.

J