Finally, I had the chance to see the new range from Tom Ford today. It is a fully comprehensive line with foundations, a primer, concealers, eye quads, liners, glosses, blush, mascara and some skin care. Later down the line there will be nail polish. I’ve got to say that I loved it..it’s beautifully edited with wearable shades, gorgeous formulas and something for everyone.
I totally fell for the Eye Color Quad in Burnished Amber that has a reddish quality to it – very exciting to wear. It is looking a little bit too pink in this picture but it’s the only one I have so you’ll have to imagine it a tone or two down and little bit more burnished.
Other things that really caught my eye are the Brow Sculptor; a cleverly designed gadget-make up hybrid, and the Shade & Illuminate palette for contouring. Shade & Illuminate textures are ultra-creamy and with the right brush, easy to use. Tom Ford makes a focus of symmetry and the Shade & Illuminate is designed to illustrate that – although I love the product, that’s the one thing I didn’t really get. Nobody has a symmetrical face, so let’s not pretend that some contouring shades will make one eye the same size as another, or turn eyebrows into twins, not sisters. In fact, the fantasy of perfection is something that’s just always difficult to turn into a reality. Great to aspire, but let’s keep it real.
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| Brow Sculptor with angled edge |
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| Unscrew the bottom end and there is a blade to sharpen the edge |
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| AND, a brow brush for the grand finale! |
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| Shade & Illuminate |
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| Shade & Illuminate swatched |
There are some new lipsticks coming into the existing lipstick line-up – and as you’d expect, full on pigmented colour-shocks! There is, however, to balance, a really good selection of nudes.
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| From the furthest away: Black Orchid, Violet Fatale (new), Cherry Lush, not sure what the pink one is!, Pink Adobe (new). And forgive the quality of the photo.. it does look like I’ve swatched on an uncooked sausage. |
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| The gorgeous blush that everyone fell in love with! |
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| And a quick swatch. |
Prices are steep – this is a luxurious brand that makes no bones about it. The Quads are £62, Shade & Illuminate £55, Lipsticks £36, Brow Pencil, £30. All in all, it is a stunner of a range – and really there will be something to make everyone happy. It launches into Selfridges, Harrods and Harvey Nichols on 3rd September and then to all other Tom Ford Private Blend counters on 3rd of October.
There are so many facets to the collection and I will review in more detail as time goes on.
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14 comments
Looks absolutely stunning. All of it. Thats the blush I spotted and fancied the most!
Are you teasing us just showing the one palette 🙂
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Thumbs down from me, way too expensive and the colours of the products look clownish.
Just beautiful! maybe a tad expensive though, i have only tried the lipsticks and they are totally worth the price. so im going to see if i can give these a try out first!
Joselin
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I’m totally sold. Looks bloody amazing to me. I love the colours!
love it!
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It looks like he changed the package from what I saw earlier this summer.
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I loved that eyeshadow quad too – beautiful for Autumn/Winter. It’s a lovely collection.
Clapping at the sight of that coral blush. Just wondering BB are there many shades in the foundation or will darker skin tones feel left out??
Christina, I *think* they said nine shades. Will do a post on them at some point though and the skin care x
The products look good,and for that price they should be, but really, you’re just paying for the packaging and the name. There is nothing there that you couldn’t find on the Armani, Nars or Chanel counters, for cheaper. When Armani and Chanel are the cheaper alternatives, you know something is too expensive!
Did they say at all when the line is launching Stateside?
what is the name of that gorgeous blush everyone fell in love with?
So exciting!!! What is the name of the blush????