Beauty Care: Tom Ford Violet Satine Eye Color Creme Quad Review & Swatches

Violet Satine

Tom Ford Beauty Violet Satine Eye Color Crème Eyeshadow Quad ($89.00 for 0.31 oz.) is a new, cooler-toned color story that featured lavender and mauve across two shimmer and two satin shades. The formula is a cream-powder hybrid, though they have a more powder-like feel between the two and performed a lot like a traditional powder eyeshadow with respect to application. The magic was that they “melted” for a better look and feel on the lids due to the extra glide/slip.

Ingredients

Violet Satine

LELimited Edition. $89.00.

A-

Product

9.5

Pigmentation

Texture

8.5

Longevity

Application

91%

Total

Violet Satine #1

Violet Satine #1 is a a very pale, almost silvery, lavender with cool undertones and flecks of iridescent pink sparkle.

Semi-opaque color coverage, somewhat buildable
Lightly emollient to the touch but felt more powder-like once applied
Picked up well with dry brush, blended out easily
Long-wearing (8 hours)

FURTHER READING: Formula Overview for details on general performance and characteristics (like scent).

Possible Dupes

These are likely to be very similar shades based on our duping algorithm.

NARS Pulp Fiction #4 (PiP, $19.00).
Tom Ford Beauty Rose Prisme #3 (PiP, ).
Smashbox Spectacle (PiP, ).
Coloured Raine Chameleon (DC, $6.99).
NARS Pulp Fiction #1 (PiP, $19.00).
ColourPop Brilliant (LE, $4.50).
MAC Triple Impact (LE, $20.00).
Make Up For Ever D914 Crystalline Mauve (DC, $21.00).
Smashbox Techno (P, ).

Formula Overview

The new Creme finish is supposed use "lush emollients" for a "crease and flake-resistant finish" that is "long-wearing" and "one-swipe" in application. It feels like a cream-to-powder formula but with a ratio of more like 35% cream to 65% powder, as there was a more emollient feel by touch but a stiffer brush could produce a little kick up when swirled in the pan.

The magic was when the formula was applied to bare skin, though, as it "melted" in a way that made the finish appear more seamless and skin-like, smooth without emphasizing skin texture or lines. They applied just fine using typical eyeshadow brushes and application methods that I would have used for a traditional powder eyeshadow.

The pigmentation ranged from semi-opaque to opaque, depending on the shade, but most were buildable if they weren't fully opaque in "one swipe." I found the eyeshadow formula very easy to apply and blend out, too. They lasted between eight and nine hours on me before fading a bit.

Browse all of our Tom Ford Beauty Eye Color Crème swatches.

Ingredients

Mica [] Caprylic/Capric Triglyceride [] Dimethicone [] Diisostearyl Malate [] Silica [] Zinc Stearate [] Caprylyl Glycol [] Ethylhexylglycerin [] Alumina [] Tocopheryl Acetate [] Synthetic Fluorphlogopite [] Triethoxycaprylylsilane [] C20-24 Olefin [] [+/- Titanium Dioxide (Ci 77891) [] Iron Oxides (Ci 77491) [] Iron Oxides (Ci 77492) [] Iron Oxides (Ci 77499) [] Carmine (Ci 75470) [] Ferric Ammonium Ferrocyanide (Ci 77510) [] Ferric Ferrocyanide (Ci 77510) [] Ultramarines (Ci 77007) [] Blue 1 Lake (Ci 42090) [] Yellow 5 Lake (Ci 19140) [] Manganese Violet (Ci 77742) [] Copper Powder (Ci 77400) [] Chromium Hydroxide Green (Ci 77289) [] Chromium Oxide Greens (Ci 77288) [] Bronze Powder (Ci 77400) [] Aluminum Powder (Ci 77000) [] Bismuth Oxychloride (Ci 77163)].

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