Dior Electric Tropics: Rosy Nude & Rosy Tan Quints Review and Swatches

Dior always seems to get me - no matter what season, what launch, I always end up adding to my substantial collection of their 5 Colour Eye Shadow quints.

This summer the theme is Electric Tropics, and while the collection features the aptly named fluorescent nail polishes Aloha and Paradise Pink, the eye shadow quints are decidedly neutral. It does strike me as odd to see such neutral palettes featured in a collection called Electric Tropics - but hey, I love neutrals and so can't help but be pleased. Photos of quints taken in natural light, swatches on NC 40 skin, indoor lighting no flash.

Dior 5 Colours Rosy Nude (left) and Rosy Tan (right).

Dior 5 Colours Rosy Nude (left) and Rosy Tan (right).

Dior 5 Colours Rosy Nude

The lighter of the two quints, Rosy Nude consists of a pale pink satin, milk chocolate satin, warm white frost, golden beige frost and a iridescent peach with tiny gold flecks. Each colour in this quint is pretty, but fairly light. My one criticism of this quint is not having a darker accent colour to anchor the quad and make it wearable on its own without any additions. That being said, you could do a very pretty, sparkly pale eye and kick it up a notch with black eyeliner and loads of black mascara.

Dior 5 Colours Rosy Tan

The darker of the two, Rosy Tan consists of a warm white frost, golden frosted taupe, a pale pink/peach satin, a satin chocolate brown with tiny gold specks and a a satin beigey taupe. This quad is well rounded in terms of including a variety of tones.

General Comments

I will be the first to admit the two palettes are quite similar, so I don't think both of them are must haves. I purchased both because: a) I collect Dior quints and love shimmery neutrals, and thus feel obliged to have them both and b) Shoppers Drug Mart had an amazing promotion where if you spent $100 you received a $40 gift card towards a future purchase! Of the two I think  Rosy Tan is the better purchase because the palette offers more tonal variation, thus allowing you to create both light and darker, smokier looks. Because Rosy Nude is a predominantly light palette, you would have to add a darker shadow to work something more dramatic.

LUSTING: Urban Decay Roller Girl Palette

Ooooh, I don't think I'll be able to resist this Urban Decay palette. Check out the swatches Temptalia's done - hot pink lip gloss, gorgeous shimmery neutrals and one of UD's killer eye pencils. Yeah, this is going to be mine. I have no idea how I'll wear the hot pink Woodstock but that's ok. Everything else is right up my alley.

Urban Decay Roller Girl Eyeshadow Palette:

Eyeshadows: Woodstock, Verve, Suspect and Darkhorse

Eye Pencil: Whiskey

Lipgloss: Crush

Temptalia's done some great looks with this palette too. Click here and here.

LUSTING!

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MAC S/S 2011 Faces - London Fashion Week

"It's reminiscent of an Alan Jones painting...she's got gorgeously glowing waxen skin and a Louboutin red lip that's quite Newton-esque."

An Allen Jones painting.

Beauty close-up

Some of the runway looks from Jonathan Saunders' Spring 2011 collection:

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MAC S/S 2011 Faces - London Fashion Week

On Saturday, September 18th, MAC MUAs James O'Riley, Val Garland and Lucia Pica did the beauty looks for Louise Gray, Daks and House of Holland's London Fashion Week's Spring/Summer 2011 runways!

"This is playful makeup...nothing serious! I took inspiration from Louise's collection and from my own travels, art and memories. It's fun makeup that's become hot and shifted slightly."

Some of Louise Gray's Spring/Summer 2011 runway looks:

"She's an English school girl bunking off school to visit Camber Sands...it's about wind blown summer skin and a just flushed cheek."

Camber Sands in East Sussex, England

Some of Daks Spring/Summer 2011 runway looks:

"The look was inspired by Brooke Shields in Blue Lagoon but pushed further with a strong concentration on the cheeks."

Brooke Shields in the Blue Lagoon

Some of the looks from House of Holland's Spring/Summer 2011 runway:

 

 

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MAC S/S 2011 Faces - London Fashion Week

Here we go with MAC's London Fashion week runway looks! I don't know why but London Fashion Week designs appeal to me far more than New York Fashion Week's.

"It's Nico in the Velvet Underground meets Guy Bourdin's photographs - quite tough but very chic... I wanted it hard but beautiful, not gothic or grungy."

Nico

A Guy Bourdin photograph.

Some of Jean-Pierre Braganza's runway looks for Spring/Summer 2011:

"It's muted modern...a very soft, nineties feel makeup that's gradually and subtly built up in washes of colour that melt into each other."

Some of Hannah Marshall's Spring/Summer 2011 runway looks:

"She's a cool rock girl, who idolises Janis Joplin and studies pagan literature. She's effortless and fresh with an underlying darkness...my key influence was Romy Schneider in L'Enfer."

Movie poster for L'Enfer featuring Romy Schneider

A close-up of Felder Felder's beauty look.

Three of Felder Felder's Spring/Summer 2011 runway looks:

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MAC S/S 2011 Faces

MAC's make up artists were busy bees during New York Fashion Week. Here their looks for Proenza Schouler, Nathan Jenden and Jeremy Scott.

"It's a muted look with tomboyish square brows, a bit of contouring and a little natural discolouration left under the eyes for a bit of a grungy feel."

A close up of the Proenza Schouler make up.

"The look is prep school girl gone to the beach...1940s Judy Garland to Lady Gaga."

Some of the looks from the Nathan Jenden runway show:

"A collage of chaos - Marilyn Monroe meets Debbie Harry at CBGBs"

Some of Jeremy Scott's looks from the Spring 2011 runway:

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