** You'll have to excuse my camera, when I use HD mode, it sometimes picks up light strangely, hence the lightest colour in the palette looks a bit odd in this picture **
So yesterday I blogged about my September wishlist, which featured a Chanel creme blush, Bioderma and an Estee Lauder Gelee blusher. Well, a couple of hours after this went live I'd had a couple of tweets that the Gelee blushers were limited edition and pretty much sold out everywhere. With that thought I scarpered out at lunchtime to Boots in search of the Gelee blush, and as you might imagine, since it launched in May, they were completely sold out and had been for some time.
With that thought, my mind wandered to the Chanel autumn creme blush that was also on my wishlist and how that was also limited edition. Not wanting to miss out on both I headed to the Chanel counter to peruse their autumn line up. Oh, my, god, it's beautiful! Deep deep greens that are almost black, deep dark greys and sparkling neutrals. Then there's the creme blushers, the shade I wanted was 'Fantastic', but when I swatched the tiniest amount, I was actually put off it by how crazily pigmented it was, too dark for me. So I turned my attention to the lighter shades and finally found one I thought would be really wareable and pretty, 'Revelation'. It actually reminds me of my favourite Chanel powder blush 'Orchid Rose', but in a creme formula, this I'm excited about! What's more, by the time you're reading this, I'll already be wearing it for the first time, whoop!
After seeing Sophie Meloa's Chanel haul the single eye shadow in Gri Gri also caught my eye. In her photo I had thought it was similar to Fauve, but when you see it in real life, its not like it at all. Fauve has, surprise surprise, mauve in it, whereas Gri Gri is more like a soft sparkling neutral that will look so pretty in the autumn, especially when teamed up with the autumn quad I purchased! Yep, I also picked up the Mystere quad! To look at in the palette, it doesn't look overly amazing, apart from the top left shade (deepest greeny black with gold glitter), but when you swatch them they transform to the prettiest eye shadows. I only intended on picking up the creme blush, but when I saw Gri Gri too, I had to have it, then the quad... well, I couldn't decide, so I thought, I'm having it all! And, even though I was spending £88 there, the cheeky mare on the till tried to sell me a nail polish and eyeliner from the collection, doesn't she think I spent enough!
So there you have it, one little innocent blog post yesterday, turned into me spending £88 at Chanel, and you know what? I don't regret it for one second. Chanel is by far my favourite makeup brand and has been for the last 10 years, the quality is outstanding of both the product and the packaging, you really do get what you pay for.
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Written by Georgina Kent