Wow, I'm totally in love with these Castledew Diacut Eyes 9 Color palettes! They're absolutely stunning! These came out prior to the Diacut Eyes 6 Colors, so I've had them, or at least first 5 palettes, on hands for a while now but had been shying away from using them for the longest time. Having 9 colors in each palette just add up to too many color combos and that was jut too many decisions for me ^.^ But shy no more as I'm determined to try and wear every single color in each palette at least once. They're just too pretty for me to keep ignoring and now that I've used them, I can't wait to get my hands on that brand new palette #E907 Pure Angelism as well! Want!!!
Castledew Diacut Eyes 9 Colors
***Picture from VOV Korea.
Anyway, as mentioned before this line currently has up to 7 palettes, from 901 to 907, each consists of 3x3 square block powder shadows that are either baked into the same pan (BE901, BE903, BE905, and BE906) or pressed into 9 separate pans (E902, E904, and the newest E907). I am only reviewing 3 palettes today, the E904 Romatic Garnet Dia, BE905 Blackish Smoky, and BE906 Airy Bloom Dia as their overall color schemes seem most appropriate for the spring season with the few greens and blues. I usually avoid greens and blues for eye shadows as it is difficult for me to find the right shades of green and blue that would go well with my skin tone, but for some reason I was curious to try these ^.^
Pictures taken indoor with flash, unless otherwise noted.
In general, each of these 9 Colors palette has a light color row for use as base and highlighter, medium color row for the crease, a dark color row for lining or the crease if you're up for it. And most of the time, each of these row follows some sort of a gradation scheme. Of course, you are free to mix and match whatever pleases you too.
E904 Romatic Garnet Dia and BE905 Blackish Smoky
Upon swatching the pressed E904 Romantic Garnet Dia, right away I was impressed with their super silky, dare I say buttery texture. As buttery as Maquillage Eye Colors? Pretty darn close! And the fact that each Castledew palette retails just a little more than a single pan of Maquillage Eye Color makes it even more incredible! That pressed E907 palette is soooo mine! As for the baked BE905 Blackish Smoky and BE906 Airy Bloom Dia, their texture isn't buttery, but still quite unusually soft, smooth, and somewhat moist even for a baked-type eye shadow.
BE906 Airy Bloom Dia. Picture taken in natural light without flash.
- E904 Romatic Garnet Dia: this is a pressed powder eye shadow pallete with very spring-y colors such as bright blues, greens, pinks, and purple. As mentioned above, they are buttery soft and silky, comparable to Maquillage eye shadows. All have either metallic pearl or metallic finish, though I have to say the minor down side to this palette is that the majority of the colors are light with low intensity pigmentation. Yes, they can be layered and built up to medium intensity, but still for those who prefer more punchy colors this palette may not satisfy. However, for me this is a gorgeous palette that's just perfectly airy for spring!
Picture taken indoor with flash.
Top row, light colors, from left to right:
- Pure White: metallic pearl, low intensity. A metallic pearly white.
- Pure Sky: metallic pearl, low intensity. A metallic pearly baby blue. I have worn this color as base with lighter ashy cloud blue in Maquillage Jewelling Palette 20 Princess Tiara on the crease and the Romantic Gray (bottom right) as liner. It turned out a surprisingly pretty smokey blue look! I think I've found my blue combo!
- Pure Lime: metallic pearl, low intensity. Looks like a pastel green in the pan but swatches more of a pearly yellow with only a slightly green undertone. I've also worn this as base with Romantic Ruby Pink (middle row, see below) and Romantic Violet (bottom row, see below) on the crease, however both of these colors were too light to counter the pearly yellow base adequately so that didn't work out the way I had hoped.
Middle row, supposedly medium colors, from left to right:
- Pure Coral Pink: metallic pearl, low intensity. A pearly princess pink, not coral at all. Supposedly this is a medium crease color but that's just not the case at all. This is definitely a light color and actually makes quite a nice base!
- Romantic Ruby Pink: metallic pearl, low intensity. A brighter pearly bubblegum pink, nowhere dark enough to be called ruby and nowhere dark enough for a crease shade either. This is really another base color.
- Romantic Brown: metallic, medium intensity. A taupey brown that is an excellent crease shade. Love it!
Bottom row, dark colors, from left to right:
- Romantic Silver Jewel: metallic, high shimmer, medium intensity. Not a dark color at all but rather a sparkling top wash that's pigmented enough to be used alone as a crease shade. It's pretty much identical to the Makemania Sparkle Glitter Eye Shadow in SV (Silver).
- Romantic Violet: metallic pearl, medium intensity. Again, not a dark color but a translucent but duo-chromatic shade of bright neon lilac with a blueish purple sheen. The swatch does not do this color any justice, because the moment I swatched it, my jaw dropped. It's gorgeous!
- Romantic Gray: metallic, high intensity. Definitely a dark color, but is no gray at all but instead a silvery denim blue that makes a beautiful sparkling liner. So so pretty!
Picture taken in natural light without flash.
- BE905 Blackish Smoky: this is a baked powder palette that is quite smooth, soft, and much more pigmented than the E904 Romantic Garnet Dia palette above. All the shades have metallic pearl finish with the exception of 3: the Soul Silver and the Brownish colors both are metallic, and the Blackish Khaki is more of a luminous satin. Opposite with the E904 Romatic Garnet Dia palette as well as the BE906 Airy Bloom Dia palette below, the majority of this BE905 are darker colors, a bit too dark for use on the crease even! So I am happy I chose this palette along with the other 2 palettes, because I have more dark colors to work with all the other light colors. In addition, the gradation schemes in this palette is pretty obvious, and though I haven't tried following any of the schemes as I've been having too much fun mixing the colors randomly all over the place ^.^
Picture taken indoor with flash.
Top row, light colors, from left to right:
- Skin Gold: metallic pearl, low intensity. Appears a peachy champagne in the pan but swatched a golden ercu.
- Natural Peach: metallic pearl, low intensity. A pearly peach that is brighter in the pan than when swatched.
- Soul Silver: metallic, very sheer. A silvery white. Despite the swatch, it's actually quite sheer and I had to layer to take a picture.
Middle row, medium colors, from left to right:
- Khakish: metallic pearl, medium intensity. A smokey olive brown that's a tad too dark for a medium crease shade in my opinion. I like it nonetheless as I haven't seen a color like this very often.
- Brownish: metallic, medium intensity. A metallic pinky beige brown that is very pretty on the crease. I wore it with the Skin Gold (top row, see above) as base and Blackish Brown (bottom row, see below) as liner and it was a gorgeous combo!
- Navish: metallic pearl, low intensity. A beautiful but translucent periwinkle with a bluish purple sheen. I layered it for the swatch.
Bottom row, dark colors, from left to right:
- Blackish Khaki: satin, medium intensity. A deep charcoal gray that I thought would be super duper pigmented but it's swatched more of a medium intensity. Of course you can layer it to build up to high intensity, but judging from appearance one would expect it to be a lot more pigmented.
- Blackish Brown: metallic pearl, medium intensity. A deep neutral espresso brown that makes a nice liner color.
- Blackish Black: metallic pearl, medium intensity. A blackish ink blue with a brighter blue sheen. Makes a nice liner color.
The rest of these pictures were taken in natural light without flash.
- BE906 Airy Bloom Dia: this is a pretty but mostly light color palette with only 1 obvious medium crease color, the Airy Brown, and no dark color that can be used for lining at all! There's also the Airy Gray that looks like a light color but is opaque and pigmented enough to be used as a medium crease color, but everything else is light and so is pretty much limited to being a base and highlighter. Again the baked powder shadows are smoother than others, though not as soft as the BE905 Blackish Smokey. This is the least pigmented out of the 3 palettes.
Top row, light colors, from left to right:
- Airy Sugar: metallic pearl, low intensity. Pearly whisper pink.
- Airy Mint: metallic pearl, very sheer. Pearly sea foam green that's rather sheer and had to be layered for the swatch photo.
- Airy Shine: metallic pearl, very sheer. A pearly powder pink that's warmer than the Airy Sugar pink. I also had to layer this color for the swatch photo.
Middle row, supposedly medium colors, from left to right:
- Airy Blue: metallic pearl, low intensity. A pretty aqua blue.
- Airy Yellow: metallic pearl, very sheer. Appears a pale lime green in the pan but swatches a pearly yellowy champagne that's on the sheer side and had to be layered for the swatch.
- Airy Peach: metallic pearl, low intensity. A pearly peach that matches my skin tone almost exactly, which makes it the most perfect eye shadow base ever! At least for me ^.^
Bottom row, supposedly dark colors, from left to right:
- Airy Lavender: metallic pearl, very sheer. A pretty lavender that's not a dark color at all!
- Airy Gray: metallic, medium intensity. A silvery gray that's opaque and pigmented enough to be used as a medium crease shade even though the color is on the light side.
- Airy Brown: metallic pearl, medium intensity. A nice neutral brown with some taupe thrown in. A touch too pigmented for a crease shade but at the same time not opaque or dark enough for a liner, so it stays a crease shade for me.
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