Chanel Ensoleille Baume Essentiel Review & Swatches
Ensoleille
Chanel Ensoleille Baume Essentiel ($45.00 for 0.28 oz.) is a light coral with iridescent pink and gold pearl throughout an emollient, glossy base. The texture was creamy with high slip, which contributed more of a dewy sheen that visible color or pearl (which was quite fine in particle size already).
It had sheer color coverage–as marketed–that applied well to bare skin and over light-coverage foundations but was best patted over a dewier base as matte foundations seemed to move around more with this on top. It lasted for six and a half hours before migrating a bit. It did not function as a eye product for me as it was prone to creasing from the get-go.
Top Dupes
- Anastasia Oyster (P, $25.00) is darker (90% similar).
- Urban Decay Fireball (P, $28.00) is lighter (90% similar).
- Cover FX Blossom (P, $42.00) is more shimmery, lighter (90% similar).
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- Kevyn Aucoin Starlight (P, $52.00) is more shimmery, darker, cooler (90% similar).
- Chanel Dragee (LE, $45.00) is lighter (90% similar).
- Charlotte Tilbury Pillow Talk (P, $38.00) is more shimmery, lighter (85% similar).
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Ensoleille
LELimited Edition. $45.00.
C
C
6.5
Product
10
Pigmentation
7
Texture
5
Longevity
4.5
Application
73%
Total
Definitely NOT for me! It just looks like a bit of Vaseline mixed with a touch of shimmery peach eyeshadow, LOL!
This is a n00b question but when you do swatches, what is the difference between the swatch on the left and the swatch on the right? One applied with a brush, the other applied with a finger?
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It depends on the type of product, but for cheek products, like this one, one is a heavy swatch (like “one swipe”) and the other is deliberately diffused and blended out since it’s more typical to wear cheek products at sheerer, more blended out coverage-levels.
Oh my gosh this is so helpful. Thank you so much for your response!!
No problem, Katie! Glad it helped <3
I purchased this along with the blush in Brun Roussi and quad and am quite pleased with it. I’ve enjoyed it with the new Charlotte Tilbury Beautiful Skin Foundation, which bonds with this emollient balm particularly well, and then applied Brun Roussi over top. In the sunlight, it all looks stunning and rather summery. The Baume give me a hint of colour of when worn on its own and aided by the pink undertones in my complexion. Overall, it gives a wet look to the cheek that few highlighters do.