Dior just released six permanent eyeshadow trios, and they are both practical and fabulous. Each compact slides open (and a mirror folds out) to reveal a large base color (the third swatch in each trio) and two accent colors — one more demure, the other a little flashier. The first shade (the first swatch/the top left color of each trio) sometimes had to be built up a little, but these shadows really deliver in terms of texture and pigmentation, and I think the color combinations are ones almost everyone would use and like.
091 Smoky Black includes a dark, sooty grey satin, a matte black with silver sparkles, and a shimmery, pearly, light elephant grey satin. I don’t normally go for smoky black eyeshadow palettes, but I like this one.
781 Smoky Brown offers a satin cool walnut brown, a shimmering chestnut, and a pearly, oystery beige satin.
571 Smoky Nude gives you a warm leather brown satin, a shimmering copper-bronze, and a pearly warm golden-white.
291 Smoky Navy was the most difficult to swatch — I don’t know if this was just an abused tester. Its shades are a blackened blue satin, a low-shimmer denim blue with blue, green, and silver sparkles, and an ice blue satin.
I think of 481 Smoky Khaki as the safari trio. It includes a deep olive green satin, a complex olive-brown shimmer, and a muted gold shimmer.
051 Smoky Pink includes a slightly purpled-grey matte, a purple-grey silver shimmer, and an opalescent whisper-pink satin.
These eyeshadow trios are $48 each
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Dangit! Smokey Khaki!!!
The lightest shade in the Smokey Khaki Trio looks gorgeous. It’s definitely my type of lid color. =)
Smokey Pink trio is to die for! That taupe!
Smokey Pink looks nice. Thanks for the swatches.
These are gorgeous. Khaki and Pink both caught my eye. Good thing they’re permanent since I’m on a no-buy right now!
I am really looking forward to buying some of these trios. I’m a huge fan of Dior’s quintet shadows - terrific texture, pigmentation and staying powder - just the best shadows on the market, in my opinion.