Lunasol Shinjuku Isetan Exclusive Feathery Smoky Eyes and Full Glamour Lips Swatches

So I happened to be in Shinjuku yesterday and decided to stop by Isetan to see if they have store samples of the Lunasol 2016 fall collection. To my luck (or misfortune, depends how you look at it), they did.

Of course the first thing I asked to see was the exclusive Feathery Smoky Eyes EX01 and Full Glamour Lips EX08. I nearly drooled when I saw them--they're gorgeous, though be forewarned, they both are also very warm-toned, reminiscent of autumn's orange-red. Seasonally appropriate, I suppose, but not for everyone.

Feathery Smoky Eyes EX01 and Full Glamour Lips EX08. All pictures taken in indoor lighting without flash. Click to zoom.

I'll just cut to the chase: yes, I ordered both the LE eye palette and lipstick. In fact, they made me glad I passed on the Summer Kit. Count me impressed.

I'll start with the lipstick. When I was at the Ginza Mitsukoshi Lunasol counter picking up my Clear Colorful Eyes order, I was very tempted to try another Full Glamour Lips. However, aside from the color 02 Cherry Red which I already have, everything else was my-lips-but-better or meh. I ended up settling for a Stain Color Lips in 07 Fresh Orange (will review later after a good trial) but kept wishing they'd give me some color in the Full Glamour range.

Well, my wish was granted. Full Glamour Lips EX08 is a warm orange-red in a cream-jelly formula and good lord it's pigmented! Want. Now. I'm a sucker for warm reds, and I was so absorbed into admiring the color I totally forgot to look for its name. I figured I could search online later but nope, couldn't find the name anywhere. 

Lunasol pretty much won me over with the lipstick but they didn't stop there. They went on to hit it out of the park with this Feathery Smoky Eyes EX01. Here are close-ups of swatches. I absolutely love the yellow gold sparkly top wash (top left pan). And it's not that I dislike the pearly beige base/highlighter (top right pan), I do like it, but I already have many similar shades.

The whole bottom two pans wowed me. Buttery, and very pigmented as you can see. The medium colors (bottom right pan) are semi-metallic, with shades ranging from bronze at left, copper middle, to coppery golden peach at right. The deep colors are more satiny with scattered sparkles. They're shades of chocolate with the deepest bitter chocolate at left. Honestly, this palette reminds me so much of Vivid Clear Eyes EX01 Bronze Brown. Seems to me they took the bottom two pans in that palette and made gradations for both in this Feather Smoky EX01, turning up the warmth while at it.

Yes, they did have store samples of the main Feathery Smoky Eyes line-up also. And no, I couldn't swatch them. Why? Because they're so terribly sheer I couldn't even pick up any color with my fingertips. I tried layering, but 3-4 layers later and still nothing showed up on the back of my hand. Even worse was the hard, chalky texture, with the nail in the coffin being the medium color pan--they're matte and yet still managed to be painfully sheer. What?! What happened here? I was so confused! O.o

Counter clockwise from top left: 01 Smokey Beige, 02 Smokey Monotone, 03 Smokey Charcoal, and 04 Smokey Violet.

I might have to wait for a week or two for the shock to subside before going back to swatch them again, probably at Ginza. I'm hoping the sample palettes I played with at Shinjuku Isetan were flukes. That, and I do want to see the 4 new Full Glamour Lips colors.