See Part I Row I here
See Part II Row II here
See Part IV Row IV here
See Part V Row V here
See Part VI Row VI here
Sunday Riley's Prismasilk Eye Color Eye Shadows come in 32 shades ranging in finishes from mattes to satins to shimmers, and finally to vibrant metallics (click here to see my overview and preliminary review from the November 2011 launch). All of the shades are gorgeously pigmented and ultra-finely milled making them exquisite to the touch. In fact, they are so soft and creamy that you will be tempted to apply them with your fingers! This luxurious formula is long-wearing and highly pigmented which is always a winning combination. These shadows are formulated to be worn wet or dry, alone or blended, and with or without a primer. They also work beautifully as eye liners- which I have found work best when applied wet rather than dry.
Sunday Riley uses advanced Air-Milling technology which is credited for creating this ultra-fine luxurious texture. Air-milling evenly disperses the pigment throughout the entire shadow ensuring absolute consistency in every single application from the first use through the last one at the bottom of the pan. This alone makes a super concentrated single-stroke application- so you won't find a patchy, chalky, or inconsistent shadow anywhere in the Sunday Riley Eye Color range. The additional use of micronized spherical pigments create long wearing color that is always effortless to apply.
In an effort to provide you will the most accurate view of all of the Sunday Riley Prismasilk Eye Color Eye Shadows- I decided to break this into several posts. Each post will consist of a 4-6 eyeshadows following each row in the display case. This is the order selected by Sunday herself- so I thought that there was some wisdom in presenting it as it would be viewed at Barneys. Click on photos to enlarge.
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| Indigo Waves: A beautiful dark teal blue with some grey |
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| Cocoa Bean: A rich deep dark cocoa brown with shimmer |
*Leprechaun: Complex olive bronze shimmer (the display case has many shades duplicated- I accidentally swatched Leprechaun twice- you will see it again in row IV where it rightfully belongs). It is also important to note that the stock image on the Barneys website has labeled the wrong shadow Leprechaun. Thankfully I still had the older correct version which is what you see here.
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| Little Black Dress: Deep rich shimmering black Indoor Lighting Left to right: Indigo Waves, Cocoa Bean, Leprechaun, Little Black Dress  Left to right: Indigo Waves, Cocoa Bean, Leprechaun, Little Black Dress 
Indoor Lighting
Left to right: Indigo Waves, Cocoa Bean, Leprechaun, Little Black Dress
Indoor Lighting
Left to right: Indigo Waves, Cocoa Bean, Leprechaun, Little Black Dress
 Left to right: Indigo Waves, Cocoa Bean, Leprechaun, Little Black Dress 
Outdoor Lighting
Left to right: Indigo Waves, Cocoa Bean, Leprechaun, Little Black Dress
Outdoor Lighting
Left to right: Indigo Waves, Cocoa Bean, Leprechaun, Little Black Dress
Outdoor Lighting: Soft focus to capture the hues effectively
Left to right: Indigo Waves, Cocoa Bean, Leprechaun, Little Black Dress
 Overall assessment: Silky smooth goodness. Amazing quality luxury eye shadows that can be used wet or dry. LOVE!
$26.00 Available at Barneys New York, and now online at Dermstore.
All photos mine except for stock pictures from Barneys.
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That was crazy helpful !!!! Just in time for the discount I got at dermstore too. I purchased a couple of blushes and Lady Godiva eyeshadow based on your swatches. THANKS!!!
ReplyDeleteYou are so very welcome, Adelle!! I'm really happy that this was so helpful to you! You lucky girl for having a discount too! Just wait until I post my swatches of EVERY SINGLE Sunday Riley lipstick!! I am editing the pictures- so that 3 part series will be up in a few days! There will also be some exciting Sunday Riley specials/contests for my blog subscribers in the future-- so stay tuned :-)
DeleteOMG, I just saw your post on the Sunday Riley Skincare. ARGH...it's so tempting !! Note to self - must finish all my skincare before purchasing new things to try ;)
DeleteOh, Adelle- the skincare line is truly amazing!!!!! I really really love the line (as if you couldn't tell that already). I would definitely finish up what you have first-- if it were me anyway. I hate wasting things. I feel too guilty if I don't use skincare products that I spent good money buying in the first place! I would recommend getting samples to see how your skin responds to the line-- not every line works for every person. I started out my Sunday Riley skincare obsession with lots and lots of samples, and after using them for a short while I decided to buy the products that I had tried. I kept adding and adding, and then one day woke up and had the entire line! :-)
DeleteLeprechaun looks so blue? I just swatched mine and I don't see any blue in it.
ReplyDeleteBlue? That's so strange- on my monitor Leprechaun isn't blue at all- it's more of a darkened olive. I'm going to go through all of the pictures of my swatches and see if I can find a few more examples to post. I can't believe that blue is coming through on your end though! I checked it on both of my computers and neither is pulling blue. HMMMMMM.
DeleteHi Marcia,
DeleteI added three more pictures to try to capture additional views and the colors as they shift according to the lighting. None of the proofs that I chose showed any hint of blue in Leprechaun- only in Indigo Waves. I included the last picture which is in soft focus- to try to illustrate the hues in natural outdoor lighting- on my monitor Leprechaun is a darkened Olive/bronze. What does it look like to you now?
I think that blue shows on my computer image, as well. Just not quite as blue as Indigo Waves, which I really like! I don't understand this, either.
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Hi Shelley!
DeleteThat is so strange! Leprechaun definitely isn't at all blue on my monitor-- it's definitely a dirty dark olive bronze on my screen-- as it was in the swatch on my arm, and on the camera. I even checked the proofs on my other computer and there was no trace of blue. You know an oddity like this occurred before when I was chatting with someone on one of the other posts- and she noted that certain colors looked different on her screen than what I described on mine. She later switched from her PC to her MAC and said the colors then were as I was describing. I wonder if it was some weird PC/MAC monitor difference? It's pretty strange though. It also occurs to me that sometimes some of the more complex shades can read quite differently depending on lighting-- which is the main reason that I included so many different swatches in varied lighting in order to capture that shifting complexity. I think that Leprechaun is a pretty complex color that it is a bit difficult to capture in all of its subtlety-- then add to it differently calibrated computer monitors that further distort it, and pretty soon it's not the same color. On my monitor the bottom soft focus swatch really shows the underlying darkened olive-- I wish that you could see that !! I also just noticed that the stock image that Barneys is calling Leprechaun isn't actually Leprechaun, so I am switching it out right now to their older image which was the right one!
Indigo waves is insanely gorgeous!!!