Dior Cosmetics Discussion

GreenEyedAllie

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Ms. Ruby arrived today. I love love love all of the colors. They are absolutely gorgeous.

Macys sent it in one of their fat bubble envelopes. I was apprehensive as I opened the Dior box hoping it would be ok. I had ordered my husband a pair of cuff links. I had just opened the little box & as I was lifting the jewelry box out it was broken. The cuff links were not damaged but I really didn't care. I was worried about my palette. Thank goodness it was perfectly fine.

I'll clarify why I said it arrived today (Thursday) as it's 3:15AM here, technically Friday. My sister & I have a rule that if you haven't gone to bed yet it's still the same day. More than 15yrs ago we were in Vegas & I called my husband at 5AM to say goodnight just for fun because he is so not a night person. A wee bit shocked he was like it's 7:00 o'clock (central time)---in the morning! I'm on my way to the office & y'all are still up? I said Oh yeah it's tomorrow for you so goodnight/morning.

I know it's silly. She & I meet in Vegas once a year for sister time. I call him like that at least once each time. Not quite the same as the first time. Now he would be surprised if we weren't up all night. We don't go to the bars or such, haven't done that in over 30 years. After shopping & eating we play some slots, people watch, but mainly just sister talk. Usually we are back in our room 2-3 hours before we go to bed. I guess we're getting old.

Anyhow, I think Ruby is one of the best palettes Dior has had in quite some time, at least for me.

Mine arrived this past Tuesday, and I adore it! I would be in big trouble if all the Dior quints were this lovely. I also love the looks I’ve seen using the emerald quint, but so much green would wash out my eyes too much. I can do green accents, blackened teals, or earthy more bronze greens, but this would be too much.

As far as the highlighter, I’m just really intrigued by the slight pink from AWS’s swatch. My Glowing Gardens in nude is not pink at all.
 

Icecaramellatte

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Thanks for the Essential youtube link. I didn't know they had a chanel. I think I will try to get the green palette. An SA asked me what I had on when I went to Nars wearing the Ruby palette.
 

SlugPower

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I have no idea how people manage to get such nice swatch pictures. Every time I try, they don't really... anyway...

Artificial light (white):

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Artificial light (yellowish):

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On my finger, Poison Metal, which I didn't get; then from left to right Galaxie and Apparat.

Flash:

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I tried against a white paper napkin and a white cotton napkin to see if the contrast would show better, but I don't think the difference is all that big.

Ahah that macro of my thumb is so bad! Left thumb and right middle are the worse, always.
 

SlugPower

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I'm very weak against pink, such as I'm with grey and green (and some shades of blue).

As I thought, the two eyeshadows quints are very close to old releases, at least in promotional image. Rose Charmeuse (the bottom one), though that one had two "useless" light colours, but a prettier hot pink. House of Pinks (the upper one) but the middle is a lilac pink instead of a bright pink. I'm looking forward to the swatches for both of them as I've wanted a pink palette for awhile now.

The hot pink lip glow... I may be wrong, but it looks greaaaaat... ~~~ Please be great, please come to my country and pretty please be permanent. The rouge dior hot pink lipstick!! I don't know how I'll deal with it! It's too pretty but I hate solid colours! I already did this with Turn Me Dior or whatever that was called! Hopefully they'll be close enough and I won't buy yet another lipstick I won't use.

The luminizer seems dirty pink, it might be quite different from the ones we already had. I'll have to pass on it, I've only use the Glowing Gardens one a couple of times.

To be fair, I've seen slightly different colourings for the packaging (more satured, more pink). If the colours are off, then the eyeshadows should be about even more the same of those old versions I named. This is positive, as both were excellent quints, Charmeuse was... charming (albeit half of it was "useless") and House of Pinks was balanced and of good quality. The highlighter might be like the ones we have already have too (or close enough to trick, as was the holiday highlighter).

The nails is as I said, pink coral (like... wonderland maybe, but lighter and more peach) and hot pink (like Bonheur). Then (not pictured by that instagram user) there is a pink-mauve (like Cosmopolite, but less dirty) and then the dark purple one with shimmer. From what I was told (and I have no way to confirm it), the shimmer of the dark purple one doesn't really show up much on the nail. However, I was told the same about the dark green shimmer from the fall collection, and it was no such case. I'll be looking for swatches for that one.
 

Haven

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I was in Macy’s today and stopped by the Dior counter. I jokingly asked if the had either of the holiday quints in stock. Much to my surprise they had one ruby quint which I purchased right away. :icon_cheers: Apparently the former Dior manager, who recently left her job, had put several holiday items on hold for herself and hid them in a drawer. The SA said that they had just found the Macy’s bag with the items that were on hold - which included the quints. Someone already purchased the green quint but left the ruby.
 

boschicka

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I was in Macy’s today and stopped by the Dior counter. I jokingly asked if the had either of the holiday quints in stock. Much to my surprise they had one ruby quint which I purchased right away. :icon_cheers: Apparently the former Dior manager, who recently left her job, had put several holiday items on hold for herself and hid them in a drawer. The SA said that they had just found the Macy’s bag with the items that were on hold - which included the quints. Someone already purchased the green quint but left the ruby.

:cowdance: That is wonderful!!!
 
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