Thank goodness for Instagram, because without it I might never have known Armani was doing another runway palette this spring! As with the previous runway palettes it features a fabric print taken directly from the latest ready-to-wear collection packaged in a lovely tulle pouch. While last spring's didn't really catch my fancy, I deemed this season's palette (along with fall 2016's) Museum-worthy.
I feel this palette was better equipped than previous ones to help you recreate the runway makeup look, which was simply gorgeous – a pop of bright blue messily smudged along the top lashline paired with peachy-beige cheeks and glossy peach lips. It sounds like it's been done before, but this look was a new iteration of the sexy disheveled eye in that it used bold color rather than the usual black, and there didn't seem to be any eyeshadow at all. While I can't use this palette since it's a collectible, I bet I could swap Pat McGrath's magnificent Ultraviolet Dark Star kit.
I also think the makeup paired really well with the clothes.
As with the previous runway palettes, my hunch is that there are a handful of different fabric swatches that appear on the palettes. The one in the stock photo, for example, shows a slightly different section of the pattern than the one I have.
Now let's play the matching game. I found the exact portion of the fabric in this look.
(images from vogue.com and giorgioarmanibeauty-usa.com)
However, I had to flip it both vertically and horizontally to get it to match the one on the palette case.
I'm enjoying these runway-inspired pieces from Armani. Arguably they're not earth-shattering from a design standpoint in that they're literal reproductions of the patterns on the clothing, and sometimes I wish Armani would return to bedazzled and/or embossed powders for their seasonal releases, but the joy in these lies in the fact that you never know what you're going to get in terms of the exact part of the pattern that appears on the palette. It's like a blind box toy of sorts (I'd dearly love to have blind box makeup!) and it's also a fun little game to go through the runway photos and find the particular fabric swatch you have. Or at least it is to me since I'm a dork that way. 😀
What do you think?