Kate Diamond Cut Eyes

While digging out the Makemania Sparkle Glitter Eye Shadows to go with my new love Kiss Kiss My Eyes Glamorize Shadows, I stumbled onto these 2 limited editions of Kate Diamond Cut Eyes that I never got around to use! They are the only Diamond Cut Eyes I own and this line is now discontinued, with very few available on E(vil)bay.

GD-1 Gold Diamond. All pictures taken indoor with flash unless otherwise noted.


BK-2 Dark Diamond

These palettes have 5 powder eye shadows with 3 on the pigmented side and 2 very sparkly top washes. Even between these 2 sparkly top washes, one is more pigmented than the other. In general, the palettes are quite shimmery. That said, the shadows are good quality and blend easily with a brush. They are also very smooth, except for the sparkly top washes of course, but this is to be expected given they have loads of shimmers.

- GD-1 Gold Diamond: warm palette with a potent medium crease shade. In fact, it was this color that scared me into putting both palettes away without trying them first, and I ended up forgetting about them altogether until now.

- Upper left, left half: sparkly top wash, high shimmer, low intensity. A pretty neutral gold that actually has some pigmentation rather than just being sheer and sparkly.
- Upper left, right half: sparkly top wash, high shimmer, very sheer. A translucent off-white with gold shimmers.
- Upper right: base and highlighter, shimmer, medium intensity. An ivory that is quite pigmented for a highlighting shade!
- Lower left: medium crease shade, shimmer, medium intensity. A very potent burnish bronzy brown. Just swatching this color scared me. However, to my surprise it makes a beautiful smoky brown with a touch of bronze on my lids! It's this shade alone that makes this palette loads more fun than the BK-2 Dark Diamond!
- Lower right: liner shade, shimmer, medium intensity. A matte base black with a greenish tint and gold shimmers, giving it a false appearance of a deep olive green. Trust me, it's black, and it's not as pigmented as I expected it to be either. In the swatch picture, it looks a bit translucent even!

Swatch picture taken in natural light without flash.

- BK-2 Dark Diamond: a neutral palette that looks neat at first but turns out to be kind of plain. If I go easy on the sparkly top wash, it makes a nice office friendly palette. I guess the shimmers are for after hours ^.^

- Upper left, left half: sparkly top wash, high shimmer, low intensity. An ashy champagne. Like the gold sparkly top wash in the GD-1 Gold Diamond palette, it has more pigmentation than its other half.
- Upper left, right half: sparkly top wash, high shimmer, very sheer. A translucent ashen off-white with gold shimmers.
- Upper right: base and highlighter, shimmer, medium intensity. A chalk white with some silver. Again, this color is rather pigmented for a highlighter.
- Lower left: medium crease shade, shimmer, medium intensity. Appears a cinnamon brown in the pan but goes on a much darker and cooler bark brown.
- Lower right: liner shade, shimmer, medium intensity. Another matte base black with lots of silver shimmers. This one is not translucent and is more pigmented than the black in GD-1 Gold Diamond.

Swatch picture taken in natural light without flash.