Chanel Ombres Perlees de Chanel

It was love at first sight.

Inspired by Coco Chanel’s love for pearls.

I first spotted it in the Her World magazine - talk about propaganda - and I knew I had to have it.

It was unfortunate that shortly after reading the article, I left the said magazine in the car and totally forgot about the palette for a week! I got too carried away celebrating my birthday.

The palette was launched 3 days after I read the article. And within 4 days, it was sold out at the counters. You do the math.

A frantic call to the boutiques and one lucky phone call to a kind SA later, revealed that the Chanel boutique at Centrepoint released it later than the rest of the Chanel boutique. So hello to my new palette!

What a pretty mosaic cast onto the palette. Who knew that windows could make such interesting prints.

Ditch the plan on being frugal with my make-up money stash and dish out $91 to bring this baby home.

What I love about this palette is that it is all the colours are so user friendly; unlike the past mixed palettes that I’ve purchased - I am able to use only 75% of the colours as the 25% are either too loud, too pigmented or they do not match my skin tone.

The sheen is an added bonus. It makes application very easy.

A close up of the colours on the palette. The left most colour is more yellow-cream than white-pink.

They were very thoughtful to have added two mini stick applicators.

I’ve yet to break into this palette, so I won’t do a swatch. But you can easily google search for it online. This eye shadow palette has received lots of positive review and is one of the most photographed colour this season.

Centrepoint still carries the stock, but they are running dangerously low. Grab yours before they run out!