Guerlain Écrin 4 Couleurs #500 Turandot
Guerlain’s Holiday Collection – Liu features the most beautiful products. Turandot, a well-balanced palette, which combines four warm shades and a mix between two matte and two iridescent eyeshadows, is a great palette for both – day and evening looks.
The luxury feeling gold packaging is housed in a velvet black pouch, which makes every Guerlain product appear even more special (I love the small red detail on top). A lot of High End brands have those little pouches nowadays, I still feel Guerlain’s are extra nice.
The case is very reflective and prone to fingerprints (no surprise here, I already expected that).
gold – a deep warm yellow gold with iridescent golden shimmer, very sparse light pink and light green sparkles. It has a good pigmentation to it, can be used as a highlight in the inner corner (I wouldn’t use it on my brow bone). I also mixed the gold with the other shades and got very interesting colours, it warms up and lightens the undertone.
medium reddish brown – I would describe this colour as a vintage rusted pink and red based medium brown (if that makes sense), even though it may appear totally matte first, I would say it is rather satin. It contains very sparse and tiny light green, rusted red sparkles, not very noticeable once applied.
muted plummy brown – there is something murky about this deep berry plum based brown shade (in a positive way), almost with a smoked plummy base. It is the most matte, great as liner as well. This colour was my favourite one, once mixed with the golden shade (the complexity once mixed is phenomenal).
brown - this warm deep antique taupe-ish brown, is the smoothest and most pigmented of all four colours. It contains sparse light green and rusted pink sparkles, it has an almost warm medium brown opalescent base.
All colours are smooth and pigmented (there are slight differences in the pigmentation, I would still call all of them pigmented). The staying power is all day on me, no fading, smudging and budging. The picture above was taken with flash (to show the sparkles), hence the colours are a bit lighter. If you want a more accurate colour of this palette, take a look at my picture which appears on my page before you click on the post (my featured image). I used two layers for my arm swatches (applied with fingers).
If you already have dupes for those colours, you probably don’t need Turandot. I am more than happy with this palette and can see me using it a lot. My personal highlight is the golden shade, a multi purpose colour, great for mixing with other warm colours, to add something special. Even though this palette is warm, it looks great and not off on my skin tone.
I unexpectedly love this palette, but then again I’m a big fan girl of Guerlain and the whole holiday collection. I do agree that it’s probably dupeable but you know what, I don’t own these colours already :p !
I adore Guerlain, not only for their lovely packaging but also good quality products – that work for me. I would buy this palette again, even if I had dupes, it’s the overall look that I really like
The more I read reviews of this palette, the more I want it! This particular Guerlain Holiday collection is making me all sorts of irrational…
I really thought this palette would be too warm for me to pull it off, surprisingly it looks very pretty on my skintone. If you have the chance to swatch it – do so
(very helpful, I know, lol). I think those colours pull different on everyone (like a lot of things actually).
Hi Claire,
lovely palette you have there! Guerlain’s packaging is always tempting and I am trying very hard to resist this collection
I didn’t even bother to resist, I knew I would regret it, such an amazing collection with a very appealing theme
Oh love! My heart melted a little at the sight of this one!
Just wait for the Liu palette, it is even prettier and breathtaking
LOVE this–I definitely need it. So beautiful!
You do! it is way prettier in real life – a palette great for every day, it makes me feel kinda elegant
Wow! It’s even lovelier than I though! Love that packaging too
That’s what I thought as well, I just couldn’t resist!
want! If i haven’t already spend my entire makeup budget this month on Chanel, I would’ve probably went for this. The packaging it gorgeous!
But Chanel is very tempting as well! I still haven’t decided, if I am going to get something from Chanel, hm. I love pretty packaging as much as I love good quality products.
The black packaging with the intertwined CC and velvet pouches – yep, very elegant packaging! The same can be said about Guerlain. PS I love Chanel’s blushes – they smell nice
That’s true. I think I even prefer Guerlain’s packaging a bit more D:
I’m loving Guerlain’s holiday collection this year! This palette is definitely on my wishlist
They are having even nicer themes every year, so tempting! I am still undecided about Wulong powder and meteorites AND the Liu sparkle thing