Chanel - Raffinement!

Need I say more from the title. Well, I suppose I do. I received a belated birthday present from my 3 besties whilst in Paris, I was so shocked to see the Chanel bag and obviously I turned into a 'what is it? what is it?' maniac. To my surprise they had gotten me an eye palette, which I mentioned in passing whilst perusing the Selfridges website, that I loved. I went into a fit of hysterics when I saw what it was, you can ask them, I was literally shaking because it was so unexpected (sad I know).

On to the palette itself; it's the LES 4 OMBRES Quadra Eye Shadow in 'Raffinement'. The colours that this palette has are so unusual, they're quite difficult to describe. The 'dark brown' has a hint of purple running through it. The champagne colour next to it has hints of pink. The taupey purple has hints of gold/silver flecks in it.

The best way I found to apply these shadows is to use a flat shadow brush and pack the colour onto the lid, then use a separate blending brush to smooth out the edges/harsh lines.

On the website it looks like it has more of a golden tone to the shadows than it does in real life, but I think that's because of the flash.

I really love it, I wore a 'look' using just these colours the other evening. I love wearing purpley pinks on my lids and this palette works so well. I don't know if I would necessarily say that you need to go and get it, but it was an absolutely amazing gift and I can't describe how ecstatic I am to have this in my makeup collection. My first ever Chanel makeup. I did need to use a base for the look, I used the Maybeline colour tattoo in 'pomegranate punk'. I tried without one and it didn't look like the payoff was working on my lids (but I always need a primer).

Do you own any Chanel makeup? What would you get from their range if you could?

♥ RP ♥