I’ve never owned a Lancome eye shadow palette before, I’ve always admired them from afar but for some never got around to purchasing one for myself. So when I saw this staring back at me online I knew I had to have it. I’m a bit of a sucker for limited edition pieces, mostly because they usually come in beautiful packaging, another weakness of mine. This is Lancome’s 5 Color Design Palette in Violet Sweetheart, it is a limited Doll Lashes edition.
The palette comes with as the name suggests, five main colours. An all over base colour, lid colour, crease colour, highlighter and a liner. So everything you need for a complete eye look.
These are good quality shadows that apply easily and smooth on the lids, but I wouldn’t consider them highly pigmented shadows. The thing about pigmented shadows is it isn’t always a good thing. The reason is high pigmentation can also mean fall out, especially if you aren’t very confident with your shadow application. This is why a lot of high end brands usually are able to give a good balance between pigmented without the fall out. It does mean you need a few swipes to get the pan-level opacity on the lids.
The only shade I wasn’t keen on was the middle shade, known as the crease. I appreciate that Lancome obviously being experts in their field made their crease shade matte. It’s not a rule I always follow, but generally if you are trying to contour your features, using a matte shade will be more convincing. Unfortunately I could hardly get any colour of the middle shade :/ I really did try digging hard for swatching sake, but even then I couldn’t get a decent swatch.
Apologises for my craptastic photo 🙁 I’ve been moving my “studio” around to make it easier for me to shoot on the fly, and this photo was taken during the in between phase.
Overall, it’s a really nice palette, I’m happy to own it but I don’t think I’d recommend it to my friends. This set me back $48US from Neiman Marcus, and for that amount you’d want all shadows to work equally well, but it is a cute package and I know some collectors would love to own this for it’s limited edition status, so to each their own.
Oh i’ve really wanted this palette! Thanks for sharing!
My pleasure love <3 🙂 I hope it was helpful!
The colors are really pretty but I wish they were more pigmented. Thanks for the review.
Pleasure! I want to get my hands on more to see if the quality and pigmentation is better, hopefully mine is just a weaker palette.