Review: CHANEL Irreelle Duo Silky Eye Shadow, River-Light

I have always liked handbags and accessories made by Chanel. Unfortunately affording everything I like by Chanel is impossible, so when someone throws you a designer brand for free, you of course take it with a smile...even if you think the product sucks. Not all things Chanel impress me though. I find their line of beauty products to be way the hell over priced, and they work just about as well as a $5.00 brand would. Up on the chopping block today is CHANEL Irreelle Duo- Silky Eye Shadow- River-Light.
 
Packaging:
 
CHANEL Irreelle Duo- Silky Eye Shadow- River-Light is a very small compact which contains 2 colors of eye shadow. The compact is black, and has a miss-shaped rectangular shape to it. Of course the official Chanel logo is etched into the compact. Status baby, its all about status. Hah!

Lifting up the compacts cover, inside lies 2...yep, count em', 2 different colored eye shadows.

When I first opened it I really loved the colors, and how well they would blend and match together. I also adored the cute quilt texture that the color palette had molded on it.

Below the palette of eye shadow lies 2 small sponge head application brushes. One is your standard cheap-o brush, while the other is a much smaller sponge brush which is apparently meant for the outer creases of your eyes for precise blending. Either way, both of these sponge brushes suck, just because they have a Chanel logo on them doesn't mean they work any better than a dollar store sponge brush.

I recommend using your eyelid brushes. Professional ones. The small sponge brushes suck, no matter what name brand you pop on them.

The Colors:
 
River-Light in my opinion should actually be called Swamp-Light- I don't mean that in a bad way, it's just that the 2 colors are green. One color is a darker shimmering light green, while the other is a bit lighter with a more olive tone to it. Together though the colors will match and blend perfectly to create a nice summer or spring finish to your eyelids.

My Use:
 
I first applied the lighter olive green to my entire lid, and then took the darker shimmering green to the corners to shade and contour my eye.

I must say I was a little disappointed in the lack of vibrancy. The colors a beautiful, don;t get me wrong, but once again Chanel fails to impress me when it comes to their eye shadows. The colors are far too light and actually leave my eye looking lackluster and slightly dull.

The eye shadow does blend easily, and is silky soft. On the eye you feel nothing, but at the same time the colors don't really deliver anything. So where they succeed in the aspects of light cover, they fail when it comes to vibrant noticeable colors that pop.

Overall:
 
Not impressed. For my medium light skin tone green colors usually pop and look really fabulous. CHANEL Irreelle Duo- Silky Eye Shadow- River-Light though failed to pop, and failed to impress.

I will say though that those with very light skin tones, CHANEL Irreelle Duo- Silky Eye Shadow- River-Light may work wonders. I also believe that these colors would show up quite well on women of color. Me being somewhere in the middle though, they just don't work as well.

Pricing:
 
CHANEL Irreelle Duo- Silky Eye Shadow- River-Light comes to (gag) $40.00 for the duo. Ladies, your paying mostly for the name brand when it comes to these eye shadows, because there are plenty of shadows out there that will give excellent results for a fraction of this duo.