 Happy Monday, you guys. I hope you are ready for a great week. Over the weekend, I received my order from Dior, so I'm really excited to try out this new formula. As you can tell by the title, I did pick up one of the new Velvet Eyeshadow Palettes from Dior. I always recommend if you're gonna order anything from Dior, don't even bother with Sephora unless there's a discount, because when you order from Dior, you get it really beautifully packaged. It's really quite luxurious. One of my favorite parts of Dior and why I keep coming back to the brand. But, this past week, Dior launched their limited edition Velvet Formula in their Quint Styles. And apparently, according to the website, in 1993 is when Dior first launched their Velvet Edition of the iconic five-pan eyeshadow palette, and so they are doing it again. I mean, I've never tried a Velvet Formula from Dior, so I'm really excited. They came out with five different color waves here. Honestly, the majority of them looked boring. They looked like what I already had in my collection, and a lot of them I felt like looked very similar. I saw all feisty post a couple pictures of some of the palettes. I think the website just doesn't do the colors justice. They looked more pretty in person, but there was one color and one color only that caught my eye, and that was the blue Velvet. It was by far the most unique color in the launch, and a color that I definitely did not have in my Dior collection already. So, I wanted to pick that one up just to test the formula for you guys, especially since the Dior Quints are $62 each. That's quite a hefty price. So, I gave myself the opportunity to pick up one shade and one shade only, so I had to go with the fun blue Velvet shade. These are limited edition according to the website, so if you do want to get them, now is your opportunity. Most of the time when Dior says limited edition, they really do mean limited edition. Sometimes some things will sit longer than others on the site, but once they're gone, typically they're gone. So, just keep that in mind. Like I said, everything came beautifully packaged, very fast shipping, love ordering from Dior. And right here, we have the box that it's gonna come in. It is more of a matte style. So, they did use different packaging, at least the finish. There's a six month shelf life, which is definitely a shorter lifespan compared to those standard eyeshadows, which is 12 months. So, that is something to take into the consideration. And the palette itself is going to be made in France. Here is what the eyeshadow palette is going to come in. So, it's the same typical kind of cheap feeling Dior packaging. However, as you can see, it does have this matte finish, which I think looks quite sleek. If you have any oil on your fingers, it might show on the packaging. But if you aren't familiar with the traditional Dior style packaging, it has more of this lacquered finish. So, even though it still feels cheap, you know, like the Dior packaging, I think it looks quite sleek like this. So, I'm gonna show you blue velvet. It does come with the standard applicators that I don't really use. I will use the sponge tip applicators from time to time, but the ones with the hair, mm-mm. And here is the palette. I just think it is so beautiful, so unique. Is it a palette I'm gonna use often? Probably not, if I'm being honest with myself. But I had to have it. I don't have anything like this in my collection. Now, I don't own all of the Dior quints, but I did pull out a couple of my more blue-green ones that I have, and they are not similar at all. So, the first one that I have is blue beads. So, you can tell these are very, very different from one another. And then the other one that I had is Nightbird, which again, complete different formulations, and this one is more green. But those are the only really colorful palettes that I have from Dior that are in the same-ish kind of color family. Needless to say, I don't have anything like this. Let's have a feel of this velvet formula, you guys. You have three true blue shades, a lighter blue, a mid-tone blue, and then kind of a navy, a silver, which is gonna be very complimentary. And then this kind of Toby shade, I don't know how I would describe this. It's very interesting. They say that this is a blue-tinged and lavender-shaded palette. This doesn't really catch me as lavender, but... All right, let's feel. Does it feel velvety? It does. At least these two shades feel more velvety. This kind of feels like a traditional Dior formulation. It do have a softer touch to them. So that, so for honestly, it was kind of disappointing. This looks a little not shimmery. Oh no. This is lackluster. This does not look like how I should look at the fan. Try the matte here. Swatches up here, we're not promising, but I'm not gonna judge until we get to the eyes. Let's see how the mattes are. They feel quite soft. I wouldn't say creamy though, but they feel soft. For a matte, I'm not mad at that. The mattes seem pretty good. It's the shimmers that I'm like a little unsure about. What do you guys think? Okay, okay, we gotta put them on the eyes. So if you're unfamiliar with my past experience with Dior, it's either you love them or you hate them. They had some of the most disappointing eyeshadow palettes for me in 2021, but they also had some of my favorites. So why do I continue to essentially kind of waste my money? It's because I review things for you. That's the only reason why. I'm the one that takes the hit for you guys to tell you which ones are worth it or not because they're either really, really good or really, really bad. Otherwise, if I was not a YouTuber, I would definitely be waiting for the reviews until I ordered. Okay, I'm gonna do one eye. Did get asked why do I do one eye before I do the other? It just gives me time to, one, create a look that is not terribly ugly so I can think about it. And two, it allows me to put my thoughts together so that I'm able to articulate better the formula. So it really helps my reviews be better and just deliver the message to you better. I'm gonna do one eye and I'll be right back. This is the look that we're going for. One thing I was excited about this palette is I knew we could get a mean navy smokey eye. Not my use, but I'm still excited about it. I do have the Kaleidos tone activator eye primer as my base. It's one that I typically use. So the first thing I'm gonna do, I'm gonna take this Morphe Y17 brush and we're gonna go into this shimmery baby blue. So this is one that, it's actually more of a satin. It's not really a shimmer shade and it works really beautifully in the crease. So I wasn't too sure by swatch if I would like this but I actually really like this shade. It blends out really buttery smooth as you can see with so much ease. So I can see this being a gorgeous one and done eye shadow if you just want that pop of blue or if you use this all over the lid with just a touch of the dark navy in the crease that would be gorgeous. But as you know, I had to do a look today that used all five of the shades so I didn't get to be super creative here. Taking my refer number one brush we're going into this dusty kind of medium toned blue shade. This shade I was a little disappointed in. I feel like, I don't know. Let's see, let me show you. So I'm going to place it down first. I think this might be the better route to go. On this side, I buffed it out just right away without setting it down and I didn't really like it in that way but now that I'm placing it down I like it a little bit better. See, this is also why I do the first side because it kind of gives me a chance to test out different techniques to make the shadow work best. So if you're going to put this over a large surface area of the eye definitely place it down first and then buff out the edges. On this eye, I don't know if you can see it's a little bit patchier because like right here there's some skin showing through. I just couldn't get it to look really seamless but I found the trick. So I feel a little better now. I was ready to talk trash about this shade. You could argue for a $62 palette does that make it worth it? We're getting a little patchy actually. You see that? I don't know. Blues are typically harder to formulate. They really, really are. I don't know. If you're really over blending it and buffing it out you might have difficulties with this shade. I think you'll be okay if you just use a touch of it just for something more subtle but for me really trying to work it out and get it to go I'm struggling a little bit with it. I'm gonna leave it there but again it's doing that thing where it's just like patchy up in this area. Just it doesn't have that nice smooth blend that I know Dior is able to do. I'm going in with a Morphe M507 and we're going into the navy shade. I think this is a really beautiful navy formula. It's not the deepest navy that I've worked with honestly just with my experience with Dior shades I thought this was gonna be a little bit deeper but it blends out beautifully. It doesn't get patchy. So I think that this is a very solid navy. What would be beautiful with this palette is if you do a halo eye put the navy in the inner and outer corner and then have the lighter shades in the center of the eye. I wish I could have done that but it was this lilac that threw me off that I had to put this in. Okay, the blend is decent. We were able to cover up that one shade. So next we're going into this shade right here which I thought was kind of an oddball. I wasn't sure that I'd like it in this palette but honestly I really like how this looks with the navy. Now if it were up to me and I created my dream look with this palette today it would not include this lavender shade. Is it even lavender? I don't really know. Like I can kind of say it's like a cooler, deeper lavender but anyways, this is how it looks. It is quite pretty. There is no really strong shimmer in this palette and that is where my brain got messed up because sometime with yours does create really shimmery shadows. For the most part, this is a pretty flat palette in terms of finish. It's more satin, not really shimmery but I think that this shade is very pretty. It works out great. It doesn't have as much shimmer as I feel like you would think when you look in the pants but it's a nice addition to the palette. It's a nice satin shade. And then I'm going in with this old Trish McAvoy Precision Smudge and then we're going into this silvery shade which is more gray than actual silver because again, it's a satin finish which I think a lot of you will appreciate because satin finishes traditionally are more flattering on mature eyelids than shimmer shades would be and this is just like what they teach you in makeup school, I'm not saying that it's wrong or right. You wear whatever you feel comfortable with but this is pretty. I mean, it doesn't have as much pow as I was expecting. I think having at least one pow shade, I would want it to be the silver. I think that would make the look pop but that's not the look that Dior is going for. I can definitely tell they're going for something more sophisticated despite the color. I'm going to put down my concealer. I'm using the Dior Backstage Concealer. I got this during the Sephora sale. I like it. It's a solid, solid concealer. And then the lower lash line, I kept it pretty simple. I wanted to give this shade another chance and again, when you apply it in a smaller capacity to where you don't need to blend it out so much, it works just fine. Like out here, the pigmentation is decent and then a little bit of the navy which I do really like this shade. I think it's a beautiful formulation and to finish off, we're taking the grayish satin using that to brighten up down here. Here's the look I was able to pull together using all of the shades. I think it's really, really pretty. I'm going to finish the rest of my face makeup and I'll be back and I'll show you it with everything and you'll be like, dang, that look is so pretty. Here is the final look with lashes. Honestly, it's not my cup of tea for a look. It's not the way that I probably will be wearing this. For me, I'm definitely going to focus more on the lighter blues here and stick with the blues and not use all five at once, but overall it's a solid, solid palette. It occurred to me, like duh, when I was doing the rest of my makeup, of course, none of these are shimmer. They're supposed to be like a velvet finish. It's not just about the feel or the formula, but the finish of the palette itself is velvet, which honestly, I think is quite sophisticated. So if you are not into the shimmery, reflective shades, I think you will really like this. I think your stayed true to themselves in terms of keeping it sophisticated even though this is a blue palette. It's not like a bam-wam in your face blue. And even though I do feel like my look is a bit dramatic, it doesn't have to be that way. I just had to test it today to see its full capabilities. But I do like this palette. Is it worth $62? I'm gonna say probably not. Only because it's $62 for a five-pen shadow and this shade right here was kind of patchy. It's definitely a workable palette and I don't want to discourage you from purchasing it. If you like the color story, you enjoy the finishes, you were feeling what I was giving you here in this video, then you know what? It's not gonna be a dead palette like Dior has many of. This is a decent Dior palette, but it is not perfect. Keep it in mind, but I don't just like this palette and I am looking forward to continue using this and just seeing how I can wear this more so in an everyday capacity and what kind of looks I can create with that. Anyways, I hope this review was helpful for you if you were considering picking up any of this new formula. Let me know your thoughts down below. If you did pick up any of the new formula, let me know. Anyways, thank you guys so much for watching my channel and liking this video, subscribing to me and I will catch you guys in the next one. 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