I've been drooling over (not on, mind you) these Castledew Diacut Eyes palettes for a long time, and only over the holidays did I have a chance to use them. There are a two "lines" of these Diacut Eyes palette, so to speak, and they are the 9 Colors and the 6 Colors. The Diacut Eyes 9 Colors line currently has up to 7 palettes, each consists of 3x3 square block powder shadows that are either baked into the same pan (901, 903, 905, ad 906) or pressed in to 9 separate pans (902, 904, and the newest 907). This line was introduced to the market earlier, sometimes in 2009 I think. The Diacut Eyes 6 Colors line was released about a year later and only has 2 palettes (M601-M602), each consists of 6 powder colors pressed into a cool geometric shape in the same pan.
All pictures taken in natural light without flash.
The Diacut Eyes 9 Colors, from left to right: 901 Planet Diamond, 902 Planet Shine Star, 903 Shine Jewel Dia, 904 Romantic Garnet Dia, 905 Blackish Smoky, 906 Airy Bloom Dia, and the newest 907 Pure Angelism.
The Diacut Eyes 6 Colors: M601 Platina Shinism and M602 Sweet Dia.
***Pictures from VOV Korea.
I have 6 of the 9 Colors palettes, from 901-906, but haven't gotten to these yet. There are simply too many choices with 9 colors and it's going to take me a long time to get a good trial. So I started with the 6 Colors first, since fewer choices mean easier decisions on my part ^.^ So I am reviewing both of the 6 Colors palettes M601 and M602 today.
M601 Platina Shinism and M602 Sweet Dia.
- M601 Platina Shinism: a gorgeous neutral palette that consists of mostly metallics. In addition to having 2 darker colors, it is also much more pigmented than its sister M602 Sweet Dia. I would definitely recommend this palette for just that taupey purple color at top left alone!
Left half, top to bottom:
- Platina purple: metallic, medium intensity. I know the swatch looks really intense, but this silvery taupey purple can actually be worn as a crease color, and it's f*cking gorgeous! I love this color so much! It's such a unique color that the first time I wore it to dinner with a couple of friends whose makeup is always impeccable, they ooh-ed and ahh-ed over it saying they've never seen such a pretty eye shadow color before. Mind you, they complimented the eye shadow color, not my makeup skill :P
- Platina satin: metallic, medium intensity. A very pretty and pigmented metallic beige, but it is neither opaque enough or a dark enough color to be worn on the crease. But it's still a very pretty accent color.
- Platina gold: metallic, low intensity. This champagne gold is definitely a base color, and while it's a tad too metallic to be use to highlight the brow bones, it does work on the inner corners of the eyes.
Right half, top the bottom:
- Platina bronze: metallic, medium intensity. Like the metallic champagne gold above, this beautiful metallic peach is neither opaque enough or a dark enough color to be worn on the crease. But it does make an excellent accent color.
- Platina pink: metallic pearl, low intensity. This pearl pink is great for highlighting the brow bones, inner corners of the eyes, as well as a base color.
- Platina brown: metallic pearl, high intensity. Now this neutral earthy brown makes a kick ass pigmented liner! And there is a lot of it too, making up for the lack of a dark color in the next palette M602 Sweet Dia, and then some.
Left half = top row, right half = bottom row
- M602 Sweet Dia: this palette contains mostly pearls and has unfortunately sheer to low pigmentation. To make things worse, all the colors are light with only one medium crease color (the dark taupe). Basically, it's pretty to look at, but unless you like wearing light colors, you'll hate this palette, because that's all it has, light colors. Even that dark taupe isn't pigmented enough for use as a liner.
Left half, top to bottom:
- Dia Pink: metallic pearl, very sheer. A pearl pink that's great as a base and highlighter.
- Sweet brown: metallic, low intensity. A taupey brown with silver shimmers. This color is all bark but no bite, i.e. it looks darker in the pan than it actually goes on. That said, forget about using it as a liner. It's nowhere dark or pigmented enough for that task, so I go to the brown in the M601 palette instead.
- Sweet lavender: satin, very sheer. A vibrant pearly lavender with bluish purple iridescent sheen, and while it's pretty, it's actually quite frustrating to work with being so sheer. I layered the swatch several times just so it would show up!
Right half, top the bottom:
- Dia mint: metallic pearl, very sheer. A pretty mint green but is another frustratingly sheer color. The swatch was layered several times.
- Dia peach: satin, very sheer. This is a neat pearly peach orange with pink iridescent sheen, but is also very sheer, though it does show up on me better than the other 2 sheer lavender and mint green.
- Sweet yellow: metallic pearl, low intensity. A pretty ivory that makes a nice base and highlighter for the inner corners of the eyes but is too sparkly to use on brow bones.
Left half = top row, right half = bottom row
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