{"id":11157,"date":"2012-11-14T08:30:41","date_gmt":"2012-11-14T00:30:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mywomenstuff.com\/?p=11157"},"modified":"2012-12-12T17:01:09","modified_gmt":"2012-12-12T09:01:09","slug":"with-night-golds-on-eyes-and-diorific-diva-on-lips-you-will-be-the-belle-of-the-grand-bal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mywomenstuff.com\/2012\/11\/with-night-golds-on-eyes-and-diorific-diva-on-lips-you-will-be-the-belle-of-the-grand-bal\/","title":{"rendered":"With Night Golds on Eyes and Diorific Diva on Lips you will be the belle of the Grand Bal"},"content":{"rendered":"
A week or so back, \u00a0I showed you the Dior Grand Bal palette for Christmas<\/a>. Its a very lovely palette by all accounts, especially if you have parties to attend. But not all of us are the partying sort, right? Some of us will prefer an eye palette that you can use daily and dress up or down as you will.<\/p>\n Ladies, I present you the Dior 5 Couleur Eyeshadow Palette in Night Golds<\/strong>. The minute I laid my eyes on it, I knew this was going to be a winner in my books. There’s actually another reason why I thought so, but I’ll tell you it at the end of the post hehe…<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Dior Night Golds palette #524 and Diorific Diva #520 Lipstick<\/em><\/p>\n The Dior Night Golds palette is the deeper counterpart to the Fairy Golds palette (RougeDeluxe has a picture of both palettes here<\/a>). I just knew when I saw the colours that Night Golds was made for me. The golds are not too warm nor too shiny, with just the right amount of cool tones to suit my skintone very well. The deep blackened brown with gold shimmer is the right intensity to pull the look together or to smoke out your eyes for a lovely sultry look. Night Golds is a beautiful palette, and one that has very good texture too, as the swatches below will show you.<\/p>\n As for the lipstick, lets just say that Dior was quite certainly digging deep, to resurrect a lipstick they saw fit to discontinue. I have to say that I used to own a Diorific lipstick. It was given to me by someone, and it was a deep purple. It was my first introduction to Dior lipsticks and because of it, I stayed far away until I got hold of the Dior Addict and Rouge Dior and fell back in love with Dior lipsticks.<\/p>\n Let’s just talk about the lipstick first because I don’t like it so let’s just get it out of the way LOL!<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Diva (#520)\u00a0is one of the 4 shades available in the Diorific lipsticks, resurrected for the Dior Grand Bal Christmas 2012 collection. It appears not many people remember the original Diorific, but I have to say that I do, and in many ways, it stays very close to the Diorific of old. In fact, I just tossed mine in my last clean up. Should have kept it, just to compare eh? \ud83d\ude1b<\/p>\n The bulbous gold packaging is bulky and sports the name Christian Dior of old. The lipstick itself has a very strong perfume scent which is again, very typical of the Diorific lipstick. I loved it when Dior got rid of the scent in their Addict and Rouge Dior lipsticks, so to have the powdery scent return wasn’t very pleasing. The texture is semi matte, with some golden shine, and it applies opaque.<\/p>\n Diva, as a colour, is a very good colour if I don’t say so myself. In tube, it looks like a muted rose that will suit many. On my lips, it takes on a my lips but better sort of shade. The golden shine isn’t shimmery nor is it tacky, which is a plus. On my lips, it feels fairly weightless despite the opaqueness of the shade and coverage. Whilst, it was interesting to be reminded of my very first Dior lipstick, I don’t see myself going back for another, simply because I think Dior has done a much better job with Rouge Dior (which I believe, replaced Diorific). Time to let the past go, Dior!<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Now, onto what I would have called the star product of the collection – Night Golds #524. We get the usual 5 powder shadow palette now synonymous with Dior, with varying textures. For the most part, I found that all colours swatched beautifully. They were smooth to the feel and when applied on skin and if you see below, 1 swatch is all I needed to produce the colour on skin. I thought initially that the gold in the top right corner might end up being too glittery or chunky, so I was very surprised to find that it wasn’t. It was very smooth and there was no large chunks of glitter at all.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n These are the swatches of Diorific Diva lipsticks and the Night Golds palette. All colours are swatched just one time on unprimed skin so you have an idea of the sort of intensity and shine from the eyeshadow palette.<\/p>\n The eyeshadows were swatched in a clockwise manner starting from the cream white in the top left corner. You can probably tell that on skin, they are creamy and the colours, although looking a tad warm in the palette, don’t look very warm on skin at all.<\/p>\n I have found that the more palettes Dior come out with, the better their quality. The quality of Night Golds made me think of Golden Savannah<\/a> and Aurora<\/a> – the colors are very easy to blend to a smooth finish, and once applied on skin, stay there till the end of the day without fading. If you don’t have a palette of gold eyeshadow, you really do want to grab this before it disappears.<\/p>\n