Sunday, 8 September 2013

Charlotte Tilbury: The Uptown Girl Luxury Palette, Full Fat Lashes & The Classic Liner

The wait is finally over as the highly anticipated makeup range from renowned make-up artist Charlotte Tilbury launched last week. I made my selections after watching the helpful tutorials of the 10 looks, such a great idea to show the makeup in action. I think the entire collection looks very assessable and it comes across as a mistake proof line.
Here is how the packaging looks,


It has a very old time glamour, vintage look about it, I was expecting the compacts to feel heavy but they are actually quite lightweight.
I'll begin with the eyes today and review the rest of the items I bought within the next few weeks.


The Uptown Girl Luxury palette (£38) contains a very shimmery peachy gold champagne, shimmery mauve taupe, satin finish smoky mix of grey/mauve and a pink opalescence glitter shade. The glitter shade has a slightly dryer feel (typical of glitter overlay finishes) but the other shades are very smooth, soft and silky. The glitter shade adheres extremely well and you can really get a high impact look, rather than just a few sparkles here and there. They all blend beautifully, the colours work so well together and they have a good wear time (though I think a primer gets the best from them).

Its just a beautiful palette, I really like that you can wear it for a more daytime friendly look or dial it up for some drama.

There is one mascara in the range, Full Fat lashes (£22). It comes in a glossy black colour. It has a slightly dryer feel/look but not quite along the lines of a typical Lancome or YSL.

It gives a bit of lift and good length and thickness, without any flaking or smudges. Another bonus is that you can apply multiply coats without it clumping. I think this is a great overall dramatic mascara and it is one of the few mascara that I would re-buy.
Below is with one coat of mascara

Lastly I got the classic eye liner in the shade Audrey (£16). Its a deep neutral brown. I'm not typically a fan of pencil eye liners as I find them difficult to apply, however this has a really easy to work with consistency, it doesn't tug yet is not so soft that it smudges all over the place, I can get a even line with it and it has a good level of pigment. A good staple to have in your collection.
Swatches below of Audrey liner and uptown girl palette

I'm extremely pleased with these, given Charlotte's knowledge/experience there was always going to be a high expectation on this range so I am glad that it doesn't disappoint.

The range is currently available from Selfridges (international shipping available), net-a-porter.com and charlottetilbury.com

I bought all these items from charlottetilbury.com
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18 comments:

  1. saw8 September 2013 at 12:23

    Thanks so much for your review. I am trying to resist since I know that this light shade is too shimmery (frosty?) for my taste and if I get it I will end up not wearing it but curiosity is getting the best of me and it gets harder to resist everyday, especially after reviews like yours ;-)

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    1. Unknown8 September 2013 at 12:36

      Hi Sara,
      The lighter shade is very shimmery, I bet you would really rock the golden goddess palette, I think you would really love the texture of these shadows, that's me not helping you to resist :)
      xx

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    2. saw8 September 2013 at 22:37

      Hi Clare, thanks for the idea, Golden Goddess palette really is up my alley, you are right :-) I was wondering, have you seen it in person and how was the base color? Shimmery/metallic or rather satin?

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    3. Unknown9 September 2013 at 13:31

      Hi Sara,
      I've not seen in person unfortunately so was just going by what I have seen online thus far, I do think uptown girl looks like one of the more shimmery out of them all, though apart from sophiticate I thought all the base colours looked like they contain some form of shimmer. I think a lot more reviews will start turning up so perhaps hold fire until then :)

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  2. Kat8 September 2013 at 12:29

    I bought the uptown girl set, too. I'm pretty much in love with everything and can't wait to order more!

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    1. Unknown8 September 2013 at 12:38

      Hi Kat,
      I am writing a big list for my next order as well, think I need at least a few more of the shadow quads, also want to try the brushes :)

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  3. Tina A.9 September 2013 at 03:05

    Oh my god, lucky girl! You got some amazing items, but then again, this whole line is lovely, just like you mentioned! I already have a couple of items on my wishlist - currently trying to be sensible with my spending, otherwise, this line would have made me broke! Xx

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    1. Unknown9 September 2013 at 13:34

      Hi Tina,
      well I think that's my makeup budget blown for this month, I need to be more sensible :) I've got quite a few more things on my wishlist as I've not been disappointed from anything in the range that I have bought so far :)

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  4. Meeta9 September 2013 at 04:29

    These look very lovely, I like the colours you've picked. The eyeliner in particular looks like a really good brown.

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    1. Unknown9 September 2013 at 13:35

      Hi Meeta,
      The liner has a really nice tone to it, deep browns can often pull red on me so this was a nice surprise, I really want to try the gel pencil liners as well, as they looked really intense in the videos
      x

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  5. Sky&Ivana9 September 2013 at 12:51

    Hopefully, they will ship to Singapore soon.
    So want to try this line.

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    1. Unknown9 September 2013 at 13:36

      I would think they would start shipping internationally very soon as there certainly seems to be the demand for the line :)

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  6. MarciaF9 September 2013 at 20:57

    This line is intriguing. I doubt it will come to the US but I do hope they will ship here. I hope you'll have the eyeshadow crayons to review, what I've seen of those makes me want them.

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    1. Unknown10 September 2013 at 13:11

      Hi Marcia,
      I do have the crayons on my list to get :) I think there would be quite a lot from this line that you would really like, the more I am using the products the more I want to buy! :)

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  7. Jacqueline10 September 2013 at 16:48

    Beautiful haul you have there Clare. The eye shadow palette has very wearable shades and certainly looks great on you. I can't wait to see you review the other products.

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    1. Unknown11 September 2013 at 12:05

      Thank you Jacqueline :) I am really loving this line so far x

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  8. Red Lips, Black Hair13 September 2013 at 23:38

    Taupe!

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