Quick Eyes with NARS Grand Palais Eyeshadow Duo for Fall 2011

I’ve been lemming over the NARS Grand Palais palette ever since I saw promotion photos of the Fall 2011 collection. I love NARS’s eyeshadow duos but I generally cannot seem to find a colour combination where I love both colours instead of just one. I also found that NARS kept releasing smokey eye duos for the past few seasons and I’m not really into the black smokey look, so I passed on all of them. I’m glad that NARS decided to do a more feminine palette for this fall.

The colours in Grand Palais include a shimmery taupe and a matte dusty rose. The taupe is super soft, smooth and swatches and applies like a dream. The rose, though, is powdery and slightly harder to work with, especially when first swatched, but still applies beautifully on the lids. The two shades look gorgeous on their own and when layered on top of each other, which is what I did with my quick eye.

I used the shimmery taupe as an all-over base on my eyelid, and then applied the dusty rose on the outer half of my upper lid. I lined my upper lids with MUFE Aqua liquid Liner in 03, which is a shimmery dark forest green, then I did my usual thing with mascara.

If you think rose is going to make your eyes look puffy, you are wrong. This rose shade is beautiful on eyes, in particular Asian eyes with a more yellow undertone.

I absolutely love this palette. You can see another look on Asian eyes on Messy Wands. You can find swatches on Temptalia here. Sorry I won’t be doing swatches of these because they are already all over the internet, just do a quick Google to find them. I’ll remember to do a proper FOTD later =)

My “haul” from the fall 2011 collection: the palette and a Larger than Life eyeliner in Rue Bonaparte which I will try out then review for ya!