Today I'll be talking about the newest addition to the Catrice Family (okay it came out a month or two ago, that's when I got mine). It's the Prime and Fine Professional Contouring Palette.
I'm not too big on contouring, or at least I wasn't before I got this palette. Why? Because I didn't have a right toned (gray, or ash) contour shade. I do however have many brilliant highlighters.
I picked the palette in Ashy Radiance which is meant for light toned girls (pale as death, practically). The price is set quite low, compared to other contour palettes out there - it's less than 6€.
There's another palette for darker and / or yellower complexions which contains a more appealing highlighter. One which I'd actually use.
Read more after the jump,...
Official description:
The Prime And Fine Professional Contouring Palette offers a professional set for contouring every shape of face. Two easy-to-blend nuances are the ideal helpers: apply darker shade below the cheekbones, along the hairline, the sides of the nose and beneath the jawline. Apply the lighter shade on the brow bones, inner corner of the eyes, center, of the nose and above the cheekbones. With a practical how-to-use guide on the reverse.
Packaging:
The palette contains two pans. A smaller one which is the highlighter (because you probably don't need as much highlighter as you need the contour shade) and a bigger one which is the contouring shade. It looks quite sturdy, but it probably won't survive many falls. Thinking about how clumsy I can get, I think it would survive about 2 falls. Depending on where it gets hit. Whoops. However the design looks nice and classy, but not overly expensive.
Pigmentation:
Contour - I think the darker shade comes off with the right amount, not too much and not too little. For a lesser opaque effect, I like to apply it with a wet sponge.
Highlight - this one is more pigmented on a first swipe than it was when I transferred it to my skin my with my finger. But because of it, it gives the nice not too much in your face effect.
Okay, now here's my before the contour & highlight pictures:
I applied both the highlight and contour with a wet makeup sponge. The smaller I used for the highlights (cheekbones, cupid's bow, a bit of nose) - it's from Ebelin. The bigger is from Ebay and I used it to define my cheekbones, hide my double chin and "shorten" my very long forehead.
Why use a wet sponge? I feel that it's easier to blend, but then again I'm a contour newbie so I did overdo (otherwise it wouldn't show up in pictures). But now I've learned that having a dry sponge may be a bit easier for beginners to blend in the contour. However, it's still great for highlights!
The contour. It's not perfect, but you get the idea of what I did.
So, I need to blend more. YES.
I noticed that contouring and highlighting makes a huge difference in pictures. Also in real life, but you have to have a very light hand with the darker shades or it is just too weird.
+ the price (compared to similar products) ~6€
+ staying power (stayed on the whole day)
+ easy to work with
+ cold toned contour shade (instead of those orange things)
- I wish the highlighters were switched, but that's just a personal preference
I think that this little contouring palette is perfect for the price point and actually even better than some of the similar products out there. Way too many palettes have warm toned (orange?) darker shades that don't suit lighter girls, except if they want to look like Oompa Loompa.
Luckily this palette doesn't do that (yay!), however, I do wish the highlighter was less cool-toned, and more, you know, interesting (like the one in the darker set). I do have other highlighters that work better for me, but for traveling purposes it's kind of pointless to bring more products with you than needed. Now I can finally ditch my bronzers and concentrate the art of creating shades where they would normally appear (but they don't have a chance, haha - double chin, y'all).
I also don't normally give 5 stars to a product, since none does impress me that much. But Catrice deserves them for actually listening to customers which wanted ash toned contour shades.
Here are some girls that reviewed the same palette:
Taya wrote about it, here,
Mateja did a review, too.
Adjusting beauty took the time to review it too.
Pa sem že skoraj hotel amimo tele paletke, ampak ker je takle za svetlo polt, pa mislim, da bi blo fajn, da bi jo imela. Ker bi bila perfect za zimo. Sama se vsake tolko poslužujem te tehnike, vsaj na ličkih, če že ostalo izpustim. Čeprav v tisti lepi kolekciji Caviar G., paletki ki je vsebovala senčila in kompletek za osvetljevanje in definirinje in mi v osnovi paleta ni dosegla pričakovanj, pa redno iz nje uporabljam sencko za countouring, ker mi je perfekt za svetlo polt, ne moreš je nanest preveč, ker ni pretirano pigmentirana in mi je res super. Tako, da mislim da bi mi tudi tale ustrezala. Super review:)*
ReplyDeleteOhhh, tista kolekcija s kaviarjem je bila božanska. Ampak premalo pigmentirana, se mi zdi. Drugače, če že imaš senčko, ki ti služi si lahko še vedno samo z njo pomagaš ;). Te contour paletke bodo verjetno še nekaj časa prodajali. Tako, da kar brez skrbi ;).
Deletesuper objavica <3 jo mam že nekaj časa namen kupit pa je skos razprodana, če pa je mogoče kak kos ostal je bil skos ta drug odtenek. Drugače ti pa ful paše sploh pa šminkica <3
ReplyDeleteAja, jaz sem potem imela res srečo. Sem jo našla v Kamniku, takoj ko so prišle vem. Sedaj ne vem, če niso ravno skozi izropane, se pa sicer strinjam da je must have. Sploh po taki ceni in hladnem odtenku. :)
DeleteIts look great to try , this brand have many affordable and good products comparing to the price ...
ReplyDeleteLove your blog XOXO
Yes, most definitely it's awesome! I like a lot of their products!
DeleteIzgleda krasno na tebi :) Jaz si pa ne upam z vlažnimi gobicami nanašat takih izdelkov, ker se bojim, da se bodo uničili - lahko da čisto narobe mislim :D Hvala za link :)
ReplyDeleteOh, mene pa ne sekira preveč. Zaenkrat se mi še nobeden tak izdelek (suh) ni zaradi tega uničil, ampak ok :D Če se bo, bom vedela za naprej ;).
DeleteSe strinjam s tabo, highlighter je bolj njeh. Jaz ga vedno nanašam in nanašam in nanašam v upanju, da se bo kaj več opazilo, pa nič :). Vidim pa da je z gobico veliko bolj intenziven, čeprav jaz si tudi ne upala zmočit izdelka kot Mateja. Včasih že to da dam čopič s setting sprejem v kakšno paleto vse zafiksiria izdelek in potem ga včasih več ne morem dol spravit :/.
ReplyDeleteDrugače pa ti oba odtenka pašeta ;) Hvala za link :)
Oh ja, poznam to. Ampak meni se je tako zgodilo samo z nekim eyelinerjem, ki sem ga nanesla s čopičem. Ampak je vse šlo dol po eni konkretni cleaning seansi :D. Me pa, kot sem Mateji odgovorila, ne sekira preveč, da bi kaj uničila. :P Je potem samo en izgovor več za nakup česa novega ;D.
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