Update--Visee Blooming Eyes PU-2

In my previous post, "Anonymous" commented and asked me to describe the two darker shades in this eyeshadow palette. I happened to describe the two colors as being brown although the color coding on it is PU-2, which means it is a purple palette. Honestly, I also wondered about it as I wrote my original post. "Anonymous" also said that she saw the colors as dark, dusky purples and not browns as I had said. I promised that I would go back and look at the palette carefully and do swatches, etc.

I'm keeping most of the pictures in this post at the original size but I don't want to overload this post with its size so please click on the image to enlarge it. Here is a close up of the palette. I took a picture with no flash and a picture with flash.

No flash

With flash

The picture with no flash, is more true to color in regular lighting. It seems to me that the colors appear more in the brown tone. The medium-toned eyeshadow looks kind of like a malt brown.  In the picture with the flash, the liner does look like it's a very deep (and pretty) purple. The medium-toned eyeshadow does look like a dusty purple, although I still think that it has a malt color to it.

I did swatches of the shadows on a white cardstock, and I also took pictures with flash and without flash.

The swatch with no flash, the two colors that we are discussing, looks brown to me. The swatch with flash, you can see the purple tones in it.

I also took a picture of the q-tips that I used to swatch the eyeshadows.

The q-tips look brown to me, although with the lighter shade, I can detect a hint of purple. Sorry, I can't remember if this was with flash or without.

Mai came over this afternoon to keep me company since I can't really go out and walk around the mall because of my injury. We examined the palette in different lighting and after much discussion, this is what we came up with...in bright, natural lighting (sunlight) if you tilt the palette a certain way, you can definitely see it is purple. However, when it is in indoor lighting and/or darker lighting, the colors show up as brown. It was truly interesting to examine this palette.

I also ended up taking off my makeup and redo-ing it using only this palette (except I primed with MAC Painterly). I'm finding that as I work with it more and more, I'm really loving this palette.

It is perfect for an everyday look. I'm thinking of getting a backup of it since it is a limited edition item.

To "Anonymous", I hope that this was helpful to you. Thank you for asking me to examine this further. It was fun for me and I found it very interesting.

*Kat*