Well, I figured I’d go “old school” and try Clinique makeup again when I was looking for a purple hued quad that I could use to create a lighter, more airy look so I figured I’d go to the departments stores and look at the various brands. I only really picked Clinique because they had all the right colors I was looking for in one quad. It had a shimmery dark grey, a light pinkish purple for the base and lid, a slightly darker purple shade for the lid and shadow area, and then a dark purple for the crease, which was exactly what I needed.
I was struck by how badly their station was set up for users to try on their products though. They only had qtips and some sort of cotton thing that put the makeup on really powdery, so you couldn’t really tell how the finished look would appear. However, in a panic, I bought it. It costs over thirty bucks too, so I figured I’d try it out with my “real” makeup brushes when I got home and see if I liked it.
While I liked the colors themselves, they simply were not vibrant or rich enough, and I felt like the eyeshadow itself was too powdery and loose, and needed to be a bit creamier or more compact to achieve the look I was going for. I think Clinique would benefit greatly by simply improving the richness of their colors and the consistency, then they could compete with some of the newer breed of high end makeup that is coming up with the richer colors more effectively.
Overall, I would say I would have liked the product and kept it if it had a better consistency as well as better color saturation, however, in the end, although the colors looked great in the palette, they just didn’t transfer on to my skin richly enough for what I wanted.
