Chanel Blazing Gold & Beige Lamé Soft Touch Eyeshadows are the singles for the holiday collection. They are listed as limited edition. This will be a brief review. I played with these over the weekend and both have a stiff harder texture, almost like a matte base loaded with micro sparkles. Blazing Gold is a bright warm sunny gold with gold shimmers. Beige Lamé is a neutral tan beige loaded with multi-colored flecks of glitter. These seem to be best when applied over a very creamy emollient eyeshadow base and are best when patted and softly blended, rather than just blending like a normal lighter shadow. Patting on helps the color and shimmer show up better and helps it to adhere to the eyes. These aren’t quite as bad as the paler NARS Night Series shadows in terms of fall out or sheerness, but almost. I would say these are slightly better in texture and finish than MAC Honesty (which I did not think to compare earlier but will do so later). Initial testing proves that Beige Lame is definitely a must have because of the complexity of the sparkles although the texture requires a different application than I’m used to for most Chanel shadows (which are buttery soft, finely milled shimmer and easy to just brush on flawlessly). I could have lived without Blazing Gold. Swatches and comparisons below.
Sorry to be so brief but I’m short on time today. I will try to answer your questions later this evening. FYI Chanel holiday is now up on Chanel.com 🙂 Happy Shopping!
wunderschöne farben! danke für`s zeigen 🙂
lg yvonne
Lovely swatches! The colors are just so pretty!
Pretty colors.
Oh wow..LOVE… Beige Lame! <3
I´m in Love with Chanel Stuff! <3
Blazing Gold is exactly the kind of gold I was searching for. Thank you so much!
Mmm nice shades 🙂
I purchased Beige Lamé and find that patting it on with a brush like MAC's 239 over a creamy base of some kind makes application a breeze. The multi-colored sparkles make this a standout color; more complex than "just beige". The gold is also beautiful, but not unique. Anyone who has a lot of golds in their stash (like me!) probably doesn't need this one.
Eileen! What creamy base would u recommend ? Thank you!
Hi Lena,
I use Kanebo Sensai Eyelid Base ($26) which is moisturizing, nurturing, and luminizing. In short, it is intended for people with normal to dry lids. The tiniest bit smoothed on the lid works beautifully to hold shadows in place without drying my skin the way primers like UD and Nars do. Chanel suggests using their Corrector as a primer, but I don't use that particular product so I can't speak to it's effectiveness.
Eileen, thank you so much for sharing! I will try Chanel Corrector first and see if it works. I can't wait until my beauties arrive tomorrow!
I have several highlighters myself that I wear but don't notice much of a difference. I am still trying to figure out what is the main purpose of highlighters because I have them, but don't notice too much.
as stupid as that might sound, its true. I just use highlighters on my eyes.
Thanks for the in depth review of this holiday collection. Is the gold single shadow the same as the one in the topkahi quad also by Chanel? If you have both could you swatch the two golds to compare them?