Miss Dior Cherie Bow (Review)

I had to get the Miss Dior Cherie Bow palette. The packaging = glorious cuteness, cute gloriousness, whichever way you look at it (on your head or sideways).

In terms of a review, I don't want to be honest.

I want to praise it to the skies.

 I love it and have been using it EVERY DAY since acquisition.

But the truth is that it...no I won't say it! OK I will: only the eyeshadows are good.

Of which there are only three, and pretty dull colours. They work better in conjunction with other shadows, useful to have, but so boring on their own.

The gel liner sucks. It smudges, hard to get on lids, etc.
The lipgloss is moisturizing but also, sucky. I have a Dior travel palette in which EVERY ITEM is a keeper, glosses included, it's puzzling why they would release something so mediocre. Recession chic... Sheikh Recession..

Frankly, most people require each item to dazzle / delight, in a palette, in order for them to fork over their life savings. But me different (loco).
This is the 2nd time in a row Dior has disappointed me. I was still reeling from the bitter letdown, that was their travel brush set (brushes shed, don't work as well as my Ecotools ones...could've spent that cash on two sets of Real Techniques)...

But all's well that ends well. Because I get a genuine thrill of little-girl-joy from it, something I haven't gotten since the days of tea parties with teddy bears, Mrs Bunny, and the whole string of her "friends and relations". I find excuses to use it every single day. This is something Minnie Mouse would keep in her purse along with a string of plastic pearls and a slice of cheddar.



Day look

Estee Lauder Mochachino cream shadow as base, followed by all three eyeshadow shades, lightest to darkest. Nothing on lower lash line.

Same look carried into evening (Arabic smokey eye):

Essence's black gel liner on both upper and lower lash lines, winged out. (Tried to use the gel liner included in the Dior palette, but it was a fail)

 In between the two wings, a flick of the palest pink eyeshadow.

More dark shadow piled onto lid. More mascara.
 Nothing on waterline.
 Quite authentic, as I saw many Saudi women do this exact type of makeup.

Items used:

Omorovicza Queen of Hungary Mist

Guerlain primer

Omorovicza Complexion Enhancer (not in pic)

Diorskin Nude Sculpting Powder

Annabelle Haute Chocolate used to contour

Estee Lauder cream shadow Mochachino

Dior Cherie Bow Palette

MAC Expensive Pink on outer 3rd of lid (to add warmth)

Fyrinnae Evocation on inner corner (sparkle)

Rimmel Paradise lipstick

Alternative to Chanel Notorious

For those of you who missed out on Chanel Notorious (or came, saw, and passed up for a Glossimer instead), have I got a dupe for you!

Try Annabelle Haute Chocolate eyeshadow trio! Yes, an eyeshadow trio, available only in Canada, land of moose cake and beaver pie.

So. Ahem. Completely ignore the darker, glimmery shade.
What you want to use are the two lighter, matte shades, with any angled contour brush.

 It takes just a dab, right where your cheek hollow IS (or would be), and then blend a smidgen--boom! Cheekbones! Egad! C'est ne pas possible!

But if you went heavy-handed by accident because you were busy fuming about how fast you finished that box of Lindt Chocolates which were SUPPOSED to last a month....well, just take a bit of your regular face powder or a bronzer and blend it out!

Jaadoo.

Now, were I a proper, dedicated blogger, this would be accompanied with high quality pictures, a nice before & after.

But because my sister has my camera, you get...nothing.

 Just trust me.

Annabelle trios are like, what, seven dollars? Maybe less? And if it doesn't work on your face (though I bet my dwarf pony it will), it makes for a beautiful look on the eyes.
I just LOVE LOVE LOVE it. It also happens to be praised to the skies on Makeupalley, and you know how discerning those gals are.

In other news, Guerlain Meteorites perles primer is THE SHIZZLE. FO DIZZLE MA GIRLIZZLES..
I used to hate this thing on myself (young, proud, noble bearing). "I get the same result mixing Benefit High Beam with aloe vera!"

Howver, I did love it on my mom, whose makeup I often do under the pretense of giving her a "facial" (yes, skincare is involved. But when she, unsuspecting, has relaxed sufficiently, on goes the makeup...heh). Her skin looked less parched, more fairy princess. (Same thing goes for the Guerlain Ballz...suit her to a T!)

Now that His Royal Plumpness occupies most of my attention, day and night, I can't do without it. With the scarcity of sleep  comes the need for illuminating products. And this is top-notch, because it 1. smells good (brain happy. soul sucking Dementors, not so much), 2. helps makeup last longer, probably, 3. lends the glow that used to be under monopoly of pretty Russian supermodels.

Plus there is something so satisfying about pushing the pump and ruthlessly crushing the tiny little balls into a luscious, sparkly gel  (someone could make a joke out of that, fit for less prissy company than mine and thine, n'est-ce pas?). Kinda like bubble wrap for grownups...I mean PRINCESSES.

 No 7 instant radiance éclat, MAC strobe cream, those are functional, sure, but are they pretty?

Do they blatantly resemble the little round candies that are usually suspended in layers of cupcake frosting? Do they have a swirly logo engraved on them?

My point is that the ostentatious and obnoxiously overpriced stuff is usually, definitely, absolutely worth it.


In other news, lemme share a bit of coolness from my Facebook feed...
A genius named Hubert Duprat supplied these caddisfly larvae with gold and precious stones. They built these blinged-out, protective cocoons!