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Home » New on shelves » Ride the Orient Express with Chanel Orient Extreme – Summer 2010

Ride the Orient Express with Chanel Orient Extreme – Summer 2010

March 29, 2010 Paris B 18 Comments

A romantic dream of mine is to ride the Orient Express train – a luxury train that takes you across Europe. Perhaps along the way, there might be a train murder mystery to solve. Or maybe not 😛

But this train was what came to mind when I saw that Chanel has a little collection out for Summer 2010 called Orient Extreme – nothing to do with the trains. I just had to tell you my little dream 😛

Now, why am I telling you about Chanel’s summer collection? Its because I have a little rant to go with it. This is a small collection – just an eye shadow duo and nail colours. That’s not my rant.

What’s my rant is the look that goes with it.

I know the name of the collection is “Orient Extreme” but this whole poofy geisha-esque hair and thick eyebrows with flicked out eyeliner is so typical of the orient that its boring and trite. There must be a new interpretation of the “Orient” without having to channel stark white skin and dark black poofy hair.

Also, what’s with the scary thick eyebrows and the scary looks especially the lady in the top left? I actually had the image of Cruella de Ville flash through my mind and the Asian lady forgot her lipstick 😛

I’m just sayin…

All that said, I love the look of the nails – gold with a black tip. I shall find a way to dupe this with any existing colours I have.  But first, I’ll have to grow my nails to look even semi decent for painting 😛

As for the eyes, I know for a fact that that gold shadow is way too warm for me (pretty as it looks in the duo) but I could quite easily dupe this look with existing colours I have that work. We’ll see. Maybe I’ll do a scary thick black browed poofy hair look ala Chanel – whatcha think? 😛

Wanna share your first thoughts on Chanel Orient Extreme from seeing the pictures?

Paris B

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Paris B is a 40-something beauty and skincare enthusiast with a practical and very critical view of beauty products and the world of beauty. Her mission on My Women Stuff is to deliver clear, honest reviews and facilitate discussions about beauty trends and life, tempered with a healthy dose of humour. When not blogging about beauty or life beyond 40 find her talking about feeding dogs real, wholesome food. Connect with us on social media at Instagram.

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  1. jess says

    March 29, 2010 at 12:27 pm

    this collection might works pretty well for western but not on yellow skin asian ..

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    • ParisB says

      March 29, 2010 at 4:55 pm

      Definitely! That gold on the eyes would be a bit scary LOL

      Reply
  2. aiyu says

    March 29, 2010 at 1:35 pm

    none of the 3 looks are nice. bleh

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    • ParisB says

      March 29, 2010 at 4:55 pm

      Sadly so 🙁

      Reply
  3. Hanny says

    March 29, 2010 at 1:57 pm

    Chanel makeup was never really striking to me. >.< However, that cannot be said for the bags and the clothes, though! ^.^

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    • ParisB says

      March 29, 2010 at 4:55 pm

      Oh but wait till you check out their blushes and lipsticks! Amazing stuff. The rest is meh for me thus far

      Reply
  4. Lilian says

    March 29, 2010 at 4:38 pm

    Not the look for me either. I’m much more attracted to Asian makeup ads like Maquillage Spring for instance – very lovely and make me want to buy everything in the range!

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    • ParisB says

      March 29, 2010 at 4:56 pm

      Yep! The Asian styles do make the girls look so alluring. I don’t know what Chanel was thinking of 😛

      Reply
  5. Lilian says

    March 29, 2010 at 4:42 pm

    Riding the Orient Express is a dream of mine too! I love travelling by train.

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    • ParisB says

      March 29, 2010 at 4:57 pm

      I do too! But the romance is now lost with all these high speed trains rushing us to and fro. Still its fun – maybe I’ll go ride the E&O here 🙂

      Reply
  6. Jyoan says

    March 29, 2010 at 5:20 pm

    MUFE is having the exact same latest range. haha. Gold, metallic eyeshadows, more gold. Gold just reminds me of Christmas somehow… … I don’t know… Golden bells?

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    • ParisB says

      March 30, 2010 at 10:47 am

      Actually gold reminds me of Chinese New Year LOL This would have been perfect then 😉

      Reply
  7. Liesl says

    March 29, 2010 at 10:54 pm

    Thanks, Chanel! Great collection. Money saved coz none of it is calling out to me. Looks quite easy to find dupes. There are many good golds & peach out there.

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    • ParisB says

      March 30, 2010 at 10:47 am

      Haha I think most of us will agree. This collection will likely call out to the fans of their nail polish rather than makeup

      Reply
  8. Shay says

    March 29, 2010 at 11:15 pm

    Eeeeeeee…..looks like the 7th lunar month collection to me.

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    • ParisB says

      March 30, 2010 at 10:48 am

      *giggles* all that’s missing is the red cheeks? 😀

      Reply
  9. Liesl says

    March 30, 2010 at 2:24 pm

    The Asian model with the very thick defined black eyebrow is just so not funny. Makes me cringe.

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  10. Lori says

    March 31, 2010 at 3:18 am

    don’t like. it looks like all the silly stereotypes have about what asian women are “supposed to look like” packed onto one not very appealing model

    Reply

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