Chanel Ombre D'Eau Fluid Iridescent Eyeshadow

So the concept goes like this: The eyeshadow is made in a pure liquid form, when you apply it, it will melt into your eyelids, creating a long lasting, budge free, and crease free sparkling eye.

When I was first given a glass tube of Chanel Ombre D'Eau Fluid Iridescent Eyeshadow, I had no idea how this liquid shadow would even be workable on my eyelid. I'm used to blending more than one color on my eyelid to create contours. It seemed that this stuff would just ooze right off of my eye, and run down my face.

The color I got was pretty though, it was a fairy like green color, very light, subtle, and pretty. They called it Beach, but this color is no longer being made. Luckily they have a slew of other colors that work just like this one.

The main reason I was so turned off by Chanel Ombre D'Eau Fluid Iridescent Eyeshadow was that it is in fact a liquid shadow. I have used cream shadows, and never liked them. I've been using Pigment Powders for nearly 2 years and love them to death, switching from my $20 for 12 colors of Pearl EX, Pigment Powders was not going to come easy, and I doubted this $30.00 Chanel liquid eyeshadow would win me over enough to make me switch over.

I twisted the cap off of the small glass vial, inside sat the applicator wand. It has a sponge tip which allows you to swipe it across the eye.

Over a clean eye I took my first stab at Chanel Ombre D'Eau Fluid Iridescent Eyeshadow. It is very watery, and spread across my eye in one quick cold sweep. The shimmer was very silver in some areas, but a little watery and lacking sheen and color in other places. I figured I would maybe need 2 swipes in order to get the color to fully show up on my eyelid.

2 coats later, and my eyelid was happily covered in the beautiful sea green color. I really liked the shimmering effect, and usually I'm a matte kind of person. If you are also a matte eyeshadow lover, you can use this stuff for highlighting the upper brow bone.

However before recommending you do that, you are probably wondering if the color lasted, if it creased up, and all of that stuff.

Well the liquid shadow does not crease up, but it does not last nearly as long as pigment powders. It has a long life, but it will not be as pretty and colorful by mid-day, and re-applying this one is way too difficult and messy if you are on the run. In order for the color to even look somewhat presentable you have to blend it in a little bit with your finger, otherwise you'll have a high beam mirror like shiny on just the area you swiped the wand across.

Reapplying this after applying eyeliner is just about impossible, so that is another huge factor on why I don't like this one very much.

All in all though, the color is nice, the shimmer nice, but for me, it just does not last long enough for me to fully recommend it, especially at the $30.00 price tag attached to this stuff!