Fall and Dior? They are just a match made in heaven. Even though I don't always love the quality of certain Dior products, they are unparelled with the marketing of new collections and being able to get me excited about getting to their counter for the new items. Now what happens when I get there and test drive the new items isn't always the best experience but...
This is the description of the new collection from the Dior company, "Dior makeup takes its inspiration from the unforgettable icons of Hollywood studios and figureheads of the Jazz age. By day and by night, the complexion is luminous, the eyes smoky, and the lips and nails intensely colored in matching shades. A key shade for the Fall 2009 look, purple, in multiple variations, dresses the eyes, lips, and nails in the spirit of an ultra-sophisticated total look. At the heart of the collection, the Dior star product Jazzclub is the season's irresistable collector's item. Its vintage-style patent black clutch carries the essentials for creating the smoky eye through the day and into the night".
Here is the collection...
1 Couleur Ultra Smooth High Impact Eye Shadow - The texture: enhanced by the latest eye shadow innovations, this revolutionary texture is based on "Micro-Fusion" for ideal coverage on the skin and maxiumum color impact. It leaves the eyelid visibly smooth and the color true for hours on end. 1 Couleur comes in several variations: matte, satiny, to pearly and sparkling. The color: color expresses itself with incomparable intensity. The spirit of the collection lends itself to the mixing and layering of colors for effects that rival those of fashion shows.
- Argentic - pale gold
- Trendy Taupe - taupe
5 Couleurs 5-Colour Eye Shadow - Dior's bestselling eye palette offers endless possibilites in a seductive range of rich, versatile colors designed for easy application and long wear. Beauty Tip: use the oval wand to apply the lightest shade to the upper part of the inner eyelid, the blend the darkest shade along the lashline. Shade the outer brow with one of the remaining colors. For more intensity, use a fourth color under the lashes.
- Night Butterfly - fives shades of lavenders and pale pinks
2 Couleurs 2 Colour High-Contrast Eye Shadow - Dior provides the first professional duo combining the two textures for perfectly stylized eyes. The first, matte and intense, and the second, light and iridescent, both textures are combined in a single palette to seamlessly achieve a long-lasting, high-contrast look on the eyes. From soft and innocent to deep and dramatic, the intensity of these shades can be adjusted for a customized look every time!
- Cocktail Look - midtone grey and pale beige
DiorLiner Precision Eye Liner - Dior's automic, total-control pen eyeliner delivers precise contouring and a flawlessly clean line. The click-action applicator and soft, tapered brush deposits just the right amount of fluid on the lids, guaranteeing an even line in just one stroke.
- Plum - plum
Diorshow Brow Styler - Expert precision for a tailor-made result. The Dior Brow Styler refines, reshapes, and fills out the eyebrow, offering high definition makeup with a graphic yet natural result. It's single shade, Universal Brown is adapted to all eyebrows. It features a retractable tip on one side for an ultra-precise line and a brush on the other side for east blending.
- Universal Brown - all skintones
Dior Vernis - The final touch to Dior makeup is a polish that combines lacquered shine with impeccable hold with a vertiable beauty cure. With continued use, Dior Vernis restores vitality and helps nails grow stronger and faster, limiting breakage and striations. A color palette inspired by rich spices is an invitation on a incredible chromatic journey. Intense color combines with incredibel shine to create perfection right down to the fingertips.
- Black Plum - deep plum
Ultra-Gloss Reflect Light Reflecting Lip Gloss - Presenting 100% couture color and shine that just won't quit: Dior's latest high-tech, high-fashion comes with an innovative brush applicator so that color glides on precisely and stays put while it's ultra-light, non-sticky formula instantly pumps ups the volume and softens the lips.
- Draped Burgundy - deep red
- Taffeta Plum - plum
Addict Lip Color High Impact Weightless Lip Color - It's a new sensory experience: the first lipstick with a "bare lips" feel plus ultra-vibrant color and optimal comfort. Innovation: Dior Innovation Center has created Lip NeutralizerTM, inspired from the professional who before putting lipstick on the top models, apply a light base of foundation to neutralize the natural color of the lips and bring out the full radiance and intensity fo the lipstick shade. As fashion would have it, the colors cover a wide spectrum, offering a panoply of personalized effects. Depending on the shade, they can be pure, pearlescent, glittery, metallic, or with shimmering highlights to go perfectly with any mood and any fashion look, from timeless basic to cutting-edge trendy. An extravaganza of 20 inspired by Dior runway shows.
- Decadent Plum - deep plum
- Negligee Pink - midtone cool pink
- Opulent Mauve - midtone cool mauve
- Mauve Royale - cool pale mauve
Creme de Gloss - Dior is on everyone's lips this season with the first ever creamy lipstick in a gloss. Lush, sensuous color plus rich, sexy shine. Deeply moisturizing. Superbly nourishing. So blendable, it seems to melt into your lips to shine, polish, and define for hours. With a refreshing white tea fragrance. In eight colors so chic that you will want them all.
- Sweet Praline - nude
Rouge Contour Lip Liner - A soft, creamy formula that lines and defines lips precisely, easily. Long-wearing and smudge-resistant.
- Thrilling Plum - plum
Jazz Club Eye Palette - All kinds of purple are defined in this new Jazz Club Eye Palette. Includes pinks and greys, berries and plums to create the perfect day-to-evening look. This all-in-one palette features six Dior eye products. From left to right: Dior Liner, Sourcils Eyebrow, Fard Matte Eye Shadow, Fard Iridescent Eye Shadow, and a topcoat.
First of all, it is pretty obvious that my writing involved working with two websites. Most of the products are described from the Dior website then it decided to stop working so I ended it up with the Nordstrom website. Other than that, this collection did create some lemmings for me even though I haven't used purples in quite a long time. The first item that I really need to get is the Jazz Club Eye Palette. That palette should make it quite easy for me to create the needed plum look for the fall. What else do I want? I want to get the both of the new colors of the single eye shadows and the duo eye shadow. The new Creme de Gloss shade looks perfect for me and will be going right up to the top of my Dior counter shopping list. I also want to get the Black Pum nail polish, which is already sold out on the Nordstrom site...of course making it all the more desirable.
Fall and Dior = my love...
photo courtesy of Nordstrom
The last time that I talked about a Too Faced face product, I was raving about how the company finally introduced a matte bronzer into the makeup industry and how much I was in love with the product and the whole concept. For fall, the company has released a face product that is on the complete opposite end of the spectrum. The product that I am talking about is the brand new Candlelight Powder, which is meant to give an illuminated, "lit from within" glow. Sephora considers this product to be a "multi-tasking translucent powder infused with illuminating gold powder".
The second collection that was released this week is called MAC in HD. This collection is more aimed at creating a flawless skin finish that would be appropriate to show on HD television. It seems like every company has been jumping on the HD bandwagon lately with the popularity of the Make Up For Ever products and up until I heard about this collection, I was rather suprised that MAC had not also released some form of product to cater to this growing need. But now they have.