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For Spring 2015 Dior has released a beautiful and limited editon do-it-all palette – the Kingdom of Colors Eye, Lip & Face Palette ($80.00 // Nordstrom).
The packaging is the blue and silver box you always get your Dior in. The compact itself is housed in a a velvet-like pouch with a little brush and slot for easy storage. The pattern is quilted and the plastic feels strong and sturdy. A generous, full-sized mirror is on the top side.
Product wise you’ll get 10 custom colors and four professional applicators inside a graphic palette embossed with the personal crest of Christian Dior on the blush. The palette contains a mattifying skin-perfecting powder; a pearly highlighter and coral blush to enhance the complexion; and a deep purple enhanced with a silver shadow; an illuminating touch of aqua green shadow; and a black eyeliner to define the eyes. An iridescent coral gloss, a sheer iridescent gloss and a powdery pink lipstick adorn your lips. Four mini applicators are included for on-the-go application.
Unfortunately this palette has more cons than pros. The shapes provided to hold the product are an excellent size for the eyes and lips, but my blush brush managed to find itself in the blush as well as the other surrounding products, and I used one on the smaller side. I ended up having to dab in the center carefully and build the cheek color. Luckily the blush is well pigmented so that wasn’t too major.
I feel a lot of people will also be put off by the fact that the cream products are so close to the powder products allowing everything to mix and eventually get on the nasty side. The pigment of the glosses, eye shine and silver eyeshadow are not good and the eyeliner wasn’t easy to apply. While it was creamy it just didn’t want to give a nice/dense layer. I had to go over the line several times to achieve a deep color. The stand out products in this palette are the lipstick (obsessed with this color!), blush and purple eye shadow.
In the look below I’m wearing the blush and lipstick included in the palette. On the eyes I have on UDPP as a base with and the purple shade all over the lid. The mint colored eye shine is blended into and above the crease with the silver shadow at the inner corners. I used the Mattifying Skin Perfecter as a highlight under the brow and then smudged a bit of the purple shadow under the outer third of the lower lash line. The black eyeliner is used at the top and bottom and for mascara I have on Milani Total Lash Cover.
Do you need it? No. I hate to say that about Dior because I love them, but for the price I think you’re better off with a full size 5-Couleur and a lip product. I do have more of the Spring Collection here and it will hopefully be up this week.
The Dior Kingdom of Colors Eye, Lip & Face Palette retails for $80.00 and is available now at Nordstrom.
That is so intriguing, but I just can’t stomach that price tag!
I agree with what you are saying about accessing the blush. Those awkwardly shaped sections make it hard to get a blush brush into. Also I find that the eyeshadows fall out into the lip products and there is a mess. Not a fan of the design and I think that the eyeshadow colours are very easily dupable.
The one where they had a cover over the lip area (I think is was Spring 2012) was genius, I hope they do that again in the future!
I wouldn’t get this palette because of how expensive it is but that purple eyeshadow looks beautiful on you!
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Now I want this!!! It’s so much prettier than I thought it would be and I love how you’re wearing it!!
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Love the eye look you created. This palette is pretty.
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Wow. This palette is perfect for me! Love the look you did!
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Bummed that it’s not that great because the packaging is everything.
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Really stunning!
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Your eyes are sparkly, very pretty!
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oh wooowwwwwwww This looks so different from their usual palettes. U haz all the Dior
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The purple shadow is pretty, but I’m not wowed by it. I have the same concerns about the textures mixing and the lack of pigmentation. Thanks for the honest review!
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I was debating whether I should get this or not. Now I better not!
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I’m so thankful for your honest review! I love Dior, but too many times their special palettes lack pigment and are disappointing. I agree money is better spent on their regular e/shadow palettes.
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I was sad… I can forgive the mixing of the powder and cream products if the formula is stellar.
That palette looks perfect with your skintone.
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Yessss to that shimmer! Can you believe that I’ve never even swatched any of Dior’s eye shadows? Yes, I know. I’m ashamed.
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WANT this in my life!
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So pretty girlie, great post! I will have to check this out for sure!
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That looks like a great palette to put in a clutch or when on the go.
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The shades are gorgeous, but I think I can pass. Great review!
I like the sparkly eye shine.
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Yeah, certainly not for that price 🙁
That purple eyeshadow is amazing on your eyelids. I can’t stand it when powder gets on cream products; they should have some way of separating the two textures.
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Too bad the products aren’t separated to prevent the mess. I hate it when eyeshadow and blush are too close or too small to use. Having a lip product next to a powder is gross! I love the lipstick though. It’s very pretty. I really like the blush and purple eyeshadow as well! xx
I don’t like the dust either =( They did a Spring palette one year with a small metal cover over the lip portion and it was fabulous!
This palette and your eyes are gorgeous!!
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