Friday, 12 March 2010

Bourjois Smoky Eye Trios

I've picked up a couple of these little trios from Boots over the past few weeks - they are available in 8 colour ways (if you can actually find them in stock!) and retail at £7.49 for 4.5g of product. They come with a sponge applicator too, but I prefer to use my brushes with them...

On the left we have a warm golden brown trio (#3 Mordore Chic), and on the left a golden green trio (#2 Or Baroque). Both of these trios are wearable for daytime, but can also be vamped up for nocturnal looks too. 

The back of the palette offers a basic template/instructions on how to create a "classic smoky" ie darkest shade at the lash line and a haze of colour fading out from this. Obviously, you can also create a more modern smoky with lots of contouring.

I used the Golden brown trio to create a classic smoky;
And I also used the Green trio to create a contoured smoky;
The eye shadows are basically mini versions of the Little Round Pot shadows that Bourjois usually sell.
On initial swatching they can look a little poorly pigmented;
They do build up well on the skin - I used UDPP as usual for the looks above, and with a couple of layers they give good colour intensity. They also blend very well. I would avoid using fingers with these shadows though - they seem to be a magnet for the natural oils on skin, which can harden them...

Overall I think these are a great product - If I actually manage to find a store with decent stock levels I'll be picking up more - there is a lovely grey set and a pretty violet set I have my eye on - do you own any of these? Any recommendations?

11 comments:

Kelly said...

These look great on you. Hope your ok. Havent spoke in a while :)

HOLLY said...

wow they look good quality (:, are they number 17?,X

HOLLY said...

haha stupid me! i didn't read the title :P,X

tackyblueeyeshadow said...

They look lovely! :) X

Musing on Beauty said...

Silly me, I have one I've never used, that has been sleeping in my drawer for months. When they were released they were so cute all together that I kind of wanted them all :-)) I should really give mine a try.
xx Mariella

The Sparkly Poo said...

I've had my eye on the mauve-y pinky editions for a while now :) x

mizzworthy said...

Thanks everyone!

@Holly - Lol - I did wonder how you managed to miss that!

@Happy1234 - I'm good thanks - how are you?

@TackyblueEyeshadow - they are great for the price... some very pretty colours too...

@Musings on beauty - the golden brown one is a winner for blue eyes!

@Dangerously Beauty - I know the one you mean - very lovely!

Unknown said...

I saw quite a lot of versions of those in superdrug the other day, do you find them overly shimmery, frosty at all once applied? I swatched one and it seemed like it might be too much but you can't always tell from a swatch.

mizzworthy said...

@Replica - they are definitely a shimmery shadow - they remind me of shimmery mineral shadows...

Anonymous said...

I have the green trio and love it. I wore it today with L'Oreal carbon gloss eyeliner and YSL singulier and got complients. Yay!
xoxox

SilhouetteScreams said...

Ooooh they look gorgeous