Hello everyone! Happy Friday! Any interesting plans for the weeken?
As promised I bring you today the three Catrice Limited Edition Big City life palettes swatches. Basically, this palettes come with 6 eyeshadow, 2 blushes, 1 mini Eye pencil an 1 double ended applicator sponge in one end and brush in the other. The package is carton box, with quite pretty images of the cities.
Onto the swatches: Note that all the swatches have been done over clear & clean skin, no primers, no mosturizer, nada!



First is The Paris Collection Eye and Cheek palette:


 




From left to right: La Tour Eiffel, Louvre, Sacré-cœur, Seine,
Champs Elysées, Notre-Dame


La Tour Eiffel is a beautiful colour, dark taupish grey, or greish taupe :) with great pigmentation and opacity. This was my favourite of the palette. Another great, great colour is Notre-Dame.
Champs Elysées is a very very pale milky pink matte, which would have been perfect for highlighting, IF there wouldn't have been the subtle-ever-falling-out-glitter, that actually, in my opinion, ruins all the matte effect and you end up getting micro glitter all over the place. Champs Elysées was also the one with less opacity and payoff, and the glitter (why Catrice?) made it feel a little gritty. For the rest, the Paris eyeshadows were all very soft, smooth application, and good pigmentation and opacity.

The Blushes for left to right: Moulin Rouge, Arc de triomph
The Paris blushes are quite good,in fact I think they're the best of the three palettes. Nevertheless, you could find better blushes in drugstores. Still, they're soft and their pigmentation is quite good, though not the best you'd find out there. The good thing is that they're actually wearable, and not like other combined palettes I own. Moulin Rouge has a little golden shimmer, but is discreet. Arc the Triomph is very soft and has good pigmentation. I haven't worn these very long time, so I couldn't say about fading away soon or not.

Second is San Francisco Collection Eye and Cheek palette:


 


From Left to right: SFMoma, Fisherman's Wharf, Lombard Street, Alcatraz,
Transamerica Pyramid, Coit Tower
The San Francisco eyeshadows are also very soft, and apply nicely. Good payoff, but slightly less pigmented than the Paris palette, though. There was a nice surprise with Transamerica Pyramid, the matte highlighting shade that was opaque in one sweep.

From left to right: Golden Gate Bridge, Cable Car
The San Francisco blushes are very similar to the Paris palette, in terms of quality, softness and pigmentation. They're not matte nor shimmery, but have a subtle sheen, not chalky or anything. If you see some shimmer in the swatch, it must belong to previous blush or eyeshadow swatches.

Thirdly is the Shanghai Collection Eye and Cheek palette:


 



From left to right: Yu Garden, Oriental Pearl Tower, Nanjing Road, Jin Mao Tower, Transrapid, Cloud 9 Bar

This palette has two huge surprises, one is called Transrapid, and the other Cloud 9 Bar, I'm seriously stating the quality in this two shades are comparable to the best  makeup brands, just name it. This two colours are so smooth and pigmented they worth the price of the whole palette EACH! While Yu Garden was also unexpectedly nice matte highlight shade, Oriental Pearl Tower was mostly sheer gold, meaning not very opaque, and Nanjing Road was a total deception in terms of pay-off and pigmentation.


From left to right: Bund, Pudong
The blushes in the Shanghai palette were not as good as the ones in the other two palettes. I found them to lack pigmentation. Besides both colours seem to be too pale for my complexion, but that's another story ;)

These 3 palettes will be available until the end of November, and they retail 9.90 CHF each (around 10 USD). Overall they are quite good value for money, considering you can create several looks with each palette, and the blushes are actually wearable!

So, what do you think of these? Which one is your favourite?
Love,
Nati




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