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Future Icon: Chiara Ferragni’s palette was a complete surprise to me


By Aisling Keenan
17th Jun 2019
Future Icon: Chiara Ferragni’s palette was a complete surprise to me

Chiara Ferragni has fashion clout, there’s no doubt about it. But how would her first beauty palette stack up against my long-time loves and curated ride-or dies? I put it to the test…


With millions of people hanging on her every word (in that beautiful Italian lilt) Chiara Ferragni is a force of nature. She’s unapologetically feminine, and so her first collection with Lancôme reflects that side of her in a big way.

 

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Image beauty writer Holly wrote about the full collection last week – there’s lots of pinkness and lots of glam to be had – but I wanted to take the hero product, the Flirting Palette, and see how it would stack up against some of my must-haves.

Testing, 1, 2, 3

Over ten years as a beauty editor I’ve racked up quite the collection, and truth be told… I’m rather skeptical about the vast majority of celebrity beauty collaborations. And the palette is €70, too, so I wanted to make sure before I recommended it that it was giving good value for money.

I started using it. I was impressed straight away with the colour pay-off from the lighter shades – normally I’d have to lash it on to get a result. I went immediately rogue and used the lightest highlighter shade (Sea Kissed) as my eyeshadow base, and the deepest one (Sun Kissed) as my crease shade.

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They blended seamlessly with very little drop down (I could swipe it away with my powder brush, no correction needed). I used the darkest eyeshadow shade to mimic liner along my lash line. All in, I had an entire eye look done and dusted in less than five minutes.

I was also impressed with the blush/highlight combination colour – similar to a Nars Orgasm sort of blend, but a softer, more finely-milled version.

Permanent home?

I didn’t love any of the lip shades – I was hoping for more opacity, and they’re quite sheer – but other than that I loved it and was pleasantly surprised. The palette really captured Chiara’s personality and approach to beauty too, which I guess is the main point. She’s their muse after all.

It’s definitely a palette I’ll pick up and use again over and over, and yes, I managed to squeeze it in among my other 3,420* palettes.

*I don’t really have that many. It’s actually only 3,419.


Read more: Check out Chiara Ferragni’s makeup collaboration with Lancôme

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Photo from Instagram @chiaraferragni