Chanel Urban & Memory Ombre Premiere Longwear Cream Eyeshadows Reviews, Photos, Swatches

Christine — Mon, 28 Aug 2017 17:00:00 +0000

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Chanel Urban Ombre Premiere Longwear Cream Eyeshadow ($36.00 for 0.14 oz.) is a blackened navy with cooler undertones and fine lighter blue and silver pearl. It had semi-opaque pigmentation in a single layer, but the more emollient consistency made it difficult to build up coverage. The problem with such a deep shade having a cream base and being less than full coverage was that it always looked patchy and uneven. This might work as a base under other deeper shades or more shimmery eyeshadows, but on its own, it looked disastrous on the lid. That disaster lasted for a solid 14 hours on me and looked the same across that length of time, but it lacked the blendability necessary to m ake this type of color work as a standalone product.

FURTHER READING: Formula Overview for details on general performance and characteristics (like scent).

Top Dupes

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NARS Ubangi (P, $25.00) is more shimmery, lighter (95% similar).
MAC Shop & Drop (LE, $17.00) is less shimmery (95% similar).
Tarte Starry Night (LE, ) is less shimmery, lighter (90% similar).
Urban Decay Pseudonym (LE, $19.00) is less shimmery, lighter (90% similar).
Urban Decay Goddess (LE, $19.00) is more shimmery, lighter (85% similar).
MAC Imaginary (DC, $23.00) is more shimmery, lighter (85% similar).
Bobbi Brown Blue Onyx (LE, ) is lighter (85% similar).
bareMinerals Shaken Not Stirred (P, ) is more shimmery (95% similar).

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Possible Dupes

These are likely to be very similar shades based on our duping algorithm.

Too Faced De La Mer (PiP, $16.00).

Formula Overview

$36.00/0.14 oz. - $257.14 Per Ounce

Chanel describes the formula as a “smooth-textured cream shadow [that] glides on effortlessly” and is “long-wearing.” Overall, the consistency has moderate slip–emollient but not greasy or overly wet in feel–and feels more like a traditional cream eyeshadow than Chanel’s Illusion d’Ombres. They go on as a thin layer but have fairly good pigmentation. The formula dried down quite quickly leaving little time for blending or diffusing edges, even when working one eye at a time, which was where I struggled. I think some of them tended to work better as lid colors and using something else for a more diffused/blended out crease color. They did, however, wear impeccably for as long as fourteen hours on me–no creasing, fading, or flaking.

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Ingredients

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LELimited Edition. $36.00.

Product

Pigmentation

Texture

Longevity

2.5

Application

74%

Total

Memory

Chanel Memory Ombre Premiere Longwear Cream Eyeshadow ($36.00 for 0.14 oz.) is a golden bronze with warm, brown undertones and a pearly sheen. When diffused and buffed onto the lid, it had more of a satin-to-pearl finish, whereas leaving it as a more opaque layer and only diffusing the edges yielded a more pearl-to-metallic finish. The consistency was smooth, thin, and lightweight on the lid that was easy to apply and achieve full coverage out of. It dried down within 20 seconds and stayed on well for 14 hours (and there were no signs of creasing, just a bit of fading).

FURTHER READING: Formula Overview for details on general performance and characteristics (like scent).