Bought only two products from the Chanel Spring 2010 collection that was launched this week in Bangalore. Having seen the swatches/products on so many blogs, I was not really very impressed with this collection, but it's Chanel, and it's me, so I did land up at the counter to take a peek. I was thankfully unimpressed by the eye shadows, and the lipsticks were just too pink for me, but here's what I did buy.
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| Chanel Spring 2010 (Les Perles De Chanel) - a Tiny Haul |
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| Chanel Levres Scintillantes Glossimer - Nakkar |
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| Chanel Joues Contraste Powder Blush - Espiegle |
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| Chanel Joues Contraste Powder Blush - Espiegle |
And I snagged a few tiny samples of some perfumes...even a bit of Chanel does smell heavenly :) :) So, how was your weekend?
the blush looks good rads.... swatch it na... or better still, do ur cheeks and post that!
ReplyDeleteAnks it is beautiful. Do check it at the Chanel counter some time because I really am not able to get the blush to photograph as good as it looks - will post it some time for sure Anks :) :)
ReplyDeleteWow! Just wow, Rads. LOve the colours!
ReplyDeleterads, i am stuck at home with hubby travelling and no driver... :(
ReplyDeleteso no chanel window shopping for me :( why didnt u put up prices?
Hii Anuya :) :) They are super pretty pretttttyyyy, aren't they? :D :D
ReplyDeleteAnks - Aww..I can just take an auto go..but I am so used to car-hubby traveling, I never get around to the auto option :D No particular reasno for not putting prices..will update now..have to check the covers for prices :D
Blush - Rs. 2350. Glossimer - Rs. 1500
ReplyDeleteHey Rads the blush look awesomely beautiful ... super pretty ... bit expensive but must be a good investment :)
ReplyDeleteIs expensive Shalini - I just hope I stay off any other major purchases for a few months at least :|
ReplyDeleteI am soo greeen right now that I can't even express. :P :P :P :P
ReplyDeleteI am going mad staring at chanel products since yesterday. :D
Just a low slow day ....
I'll wait for your photees of you wearing these. :))
ReplyDeleteSame here :) The low part :| I wanted to wear them and sit since yesterday..:D
ReplyDeleteIs nakkar reddish kinda gloss or pinkish?
ReplyDeleteok, here is a stupid silly question.... i know that when it comes to luxuary brands you pay for the brand as well, but how different is the quality compared to some good drugstore brands? i am looking to build my collection now thanks to you girls and wanna know where to splurge and where not to...
ReplyDeletePinkish..is the exact colour that's seen in the second pic..the close-up..but not a flat/straight whatever pink..me hopeless at descriptions maybe you can help
ReplyDeleteAnks it's the quality and the ingredients that differ. But more than anything else it is pure luxury. It's a feel good factor. Honestly I love it everytme I use chanel or Dior and no matter how much I love my Lakme Lip Love lipstick that "awesomeness" factor is missing.
ReplyDeleteThe products are good as well. you'll not find chanel glosses to be gooey or sticky , which a lot of drugstore brands would have.
Anks - I have not used a lot of makeup to give an accurate comparison, but there is a lot of difference in the quality also. At least with Chanel, their glosses are amazing - so smooth and almost nonsticky. Blushes I cannot say, I have only used these and the tomato blush..two different products, both of which I LOVE. Not all products in all high-end brands are good, though. There are mega-flops in everything, but to a certain extent with more money you do get better quality.
ReplyDeleteI think the best thing to buy from a high-end brand, though, would be foundations. Across brands like YSL, Chanel, and Lancome (the last one only tried at counter), I have seen a world of difference. Colours you can always manage with any brand, especially if you are gifted with talent at makeup, but products like foundations, a better quality does help.
ReplyDeleteErr...sorry that became a lecture :| :D
ReplyDeleteMy suggestion would be that if you are not planning on making a huge makeup collection , invest in brands like estee lauder, mac, chanel etc..pick up just one gloss in a month but over a period of time you'd have a beautiful collection of stuff.
ReplyDeleteanks is going to throw cans at us know. :D :D
ReplyDelete* now
ReplyDeleteHahahaa..you also lectured :D but you shorter lecture :|
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ReplyDeleteno not cans... see, i am super confused.... i pick up one thing and wear it everyday till i am bored of it... then it is dumped in a corner till i remember it again! so i always ended up buying drugstore stuff... and then i have these makeup kits that were gifted to me... they are almost unused coz of the sheer effort to manage them everyday... :) now i feel guilty when i splurge on glosses / shadows / blushes :(
ReplyDeleteUsed to happen with me too Anks :D :D Feel so guilty leaving unused glosses/lipsticks. Now, I buy just a few items and stick to those till I finish them..which would take a long while. I don't have the problem of getting bored with it because these are such amazing quality I would never ever get bored..I thinkkkk :D
ReplyDeleteThat gloss is so beautiful Rads.....and the blush................out of this world.......:)))
ReplyDeleteIs pretty pretty no, Jomol? Is what I went shopping for yesterday :D
ReplyDeleteSo, this was your shopping..............grrrrr........why can't you sleep on a Saturday like me
ReplyDeleteNow for many Saturdays and Sundays I will be working working working only :-((
ReplyDeleteraddssssssssssss....me greeen...why u unimpressed with the eyeshadow...the 5 ones ??? not good???? and you bough nakkar.....love love it !!!!
ReplyDeleteand jomol she is back to shopping today tooooo.... :|
ReplyDeleteI got some swatches - will send you - is 3 darker colours and 2 lighter colours. The quality of the shadows is actually quite good, but I personally don't like finish or the shades. The quad (4 shadows) LOVED the green black, but the rest of the shades are just okay - nice, but I don't want those..so pass again. Plus, these two were so pretty, I just picked them, blew up any money for any purchase again for a long time and ran away :D
ReplyDeleteNo today no shopping..maybe Landmark..that's it.
ReplyDeletedid u check the new foundation??? me wanna go and check...i blew a lot of money yest at Blossom book shop !!!!!! but happy happy...have books to read for couple of mths now
ReplyDeletethe blush is supeerrr pretty......beautiful!!!!!
ReplyDeleteYou don't buy online? My sis gets from Flipkart all the time..says the discounts are good..I tho have bought only once or twice but was happy with their handling and delivery.
ReplyDeleteNo samples available of that..have asked her to order some..no idea if she will get :|
ReplyDeletei do buy from flipkart tooo...blossoms you get all used and old ones also...so very cheap...i mean i will get books for say 100 etc and i can sell it to him for 50% of the buying cost post my read !!!!
ReplyDeleteFlaunt Kweeeeeeeeeeeeeeen!! Is that a tiny haulllllll??? Me greeeeeeeeeeeeeen!! :P :P ..he he..me louuuing both the stuffs!! :D
ReplyDeleteboth luk awesummm...esp d gloss !!
ReplyDeleteGood Morrrrrrrning Rads!! :D
ReplyDeletewhy is my comment disappearing ??? sob sob ..
ReplyDeletehe he he...Naina, I think Rads has reported u as spam here!! :evil laugh: :evil laugh: :evil laugh: :evil laugh: :evil laugh:
ReplyDeleteThe blush looks really pretty! Could you please put up swatches or better you wearing the gloss and blush sometime?
ReplyDeletecali , u monkey :smug: :smug:
ReplyDeletebtw, where is rads,ohh!!she must be busy with her silky underwear :devil: :devil:
"Thankfully unimpressed" - he he he.. Swatches coming up Rads?
ReplyDeleteHii Aarthi..yes I will definitely put up swatches..was just wanted to be in a nonblogging world today :)
ReplyDeletehey rads , i am really sorry if you took the gloss comment personally , i was just kidding. i am sorry :(( :(( :((
ReplyDeleteHuh? What gloss comment? You said something horrids to me somewhere???? Grrrrrrrrrr...me go searching and then pooooooooop poooooooooooooop to you...jussssssssssssssst you wait :D
ReplyDeletehihihi .. i will be mean to everybody .. grr me having most horrid days.. smug smug weep weep
ReplyDeleteMe tooooooooooo...hugs...let's be mean to everyone :D :D :D I likeeeeeeeeeeeeee :D
ReplyDeletei have been trying to open your Chanel post since yesterday but i can see no pictures in anyyy post!!!:X:X:X so me throw pooooo!!!!!! hie Naina monkey!:D
ReplyDeleteHehehehee..no idea..actually..but I think its cos you are a monkey :D :D :D
ReplyDeleteoh i will be mean tooo!!!:D
ReplyDeleteyou called me monkey?!?!!? do you even knoww who i am?!
ReplyDeleteHehehe..yes yes..Ms. Bald Monkey - Yellow one :D
ReplyDeleteNaina said u too old to wear shimmery gloss !!! :D *runs far away from naina*
ReplyDeleteI am nottt the yellow bald monkey! i am the one who calls you Rasssssssss!!!!!!! why would i call Naina monkey otherwise?! why do you confuse me with her all the time?!!?!!?! hhhmppphhhhhhh!!! hie Priya. i dont like Rassssssss!:|
ReplyDeletei am anon from office.:|
omg....rads hw can u confusseeeee jdo with naina....*today my role is for narad munni*
ReplyDeleteI ma NOOTTTTT Jdooo!!! you Priyaaa!!!!!!! i hate you too! i hate eeeeevvveryboddddddyyyyyyyyyy!!!!!!!!!!!!!! hhhhhhhhhmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmppppppppppppppppppppppphhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
ReplyDelete:P :O :| :D I am not here...:P
ReplyDeleteomg.....sorry...me not here too !!!!
ReplyDeletethis is such a funny converstion...guess Anon....IKKY (hopefully thats you)
ReplyDeletehmppppphhhhhhh doesnt work after so many guesses!!!:| me upset!
ReplyDeleterads...help .........me treat when you in bangalore !!!!! loads of chocolates ......
ReplyDelete:|:| okay..... i am liking you now.. go on.. :)
ReplyDeletePopcorn, diet Pepsi, grinning..yup Priyaaa..go on..me finding this very funnny :D
ReplyDeletei dont like diet pepsi:P
ReplyDeleteI tho hate it...is like some kind of a watered something baaaaaaaaah...but it was there..so me drank :|
ReplyDeleteheheheh me like everything full of fat!:P i want double burst pizza!:S:(
ReplyDeleteDon't talk food :(( Me too lazy to cook but want to eat :((
ReplyDeleteme canntttt in office!! me want too!! how has your day been till now??:P
ReplyDeleteYou're so strong, Rads - for resisting. I got the Black Pearl nail polish and the Eyeshadow quint (was a gift from the bf). Are the shadows bad? Darn, now I'm a bit worried now as I haven't swatched them yet. Kept them nice and pretty in the box.
ReplyDeleteNo Fieran - they are not bad at all. I just found them not suitable for my skin tones - I had similar colours in a TBS trio - the two grey-green ones - and I didn't really want the same kinds again. I really really want it - only then I buy it. The shadows seemed to be pretty good quality to me.
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ReplyDeletehey rads, m soo sighing n eyeing the blushh.......getting it asap.. :)
ReplyDeletewhich chanel vials u got..i have chance by chanel n soo madly want chanel no. 5
Phew! Thanks Rads :) Now I don't feel guilty.
ReplyDeleteFieran - Your BF gifted you the quint...he gets all the brownie points in the world :D
ReplyDeleteNupur - I don't like Chanel No. 5. I have the EDT..smells different from the EDP..but I don't like either. I love Chance, Allure, and Coco Mademoiselle. Guess I like most of them except Chanel No. 5 :D
@Rads: Hehe, thanks. We were on the way to get dinner for our anniversary and I stepped into the shop because the Spring stock had come in. I was standing there wondering if I should get the quint, then the bf said "I"ll get it" and next thing I know we were leaving the shop with the quint in a bag. I was really surprised because I didn't feel like buying it - couldn't justify the price. The bf is nice like that :)
ReplyDeleteHeheeee..you must have been one happy grinning cat that day :D :D :D And I liked that it came with a brush instead of the usual sponge applicator..do share swatches some time after you start using it :) :)
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