The I Am Divine Palette is a collaboration inspired by the late drag queen Divine, it embodies her iconic look. This palette includes eight shades, a mix of matte, shimmer and metallic shades. I didn't swatch this palette in store *gasp* I wanted to wait until I got home to play with it!
First Impressions: The colors looked stunning in the palette - unlike anything I own. It doesn't include a transition shade, which isn't that big of a deal because most of my palettes already have a few. I could see soo many complete looks with this palette, from big and bold - to subtle but fierce. From my finger swatches, the shimmers were soo creamy but the mattes were a bit drying. All the shades were true to color, besides Female Trouble (the matte white) didn't come off as pigmented as I would have thought, but I don't own any other matte white shades, so for all I know, white can only get, well, soo white.
The look I decided to do today, was inspired by Manny MUA's Youtube video where he recreates a fan's makeup. He did this rainbow, ombre, eye look with a white cut crease in the middle of his eye. He looked like such a bold bitch, and that's everything this palette represents, so I went in. Let's get started!
I start off with primed eyes and run a transition shade, that I grabbed from another palette, and run that all over my lid. I used translucent powered to bake my under eyes and to help swipe away fallout. I start by taking the shade pink flamingo (pearlescent lime green) on a crease brush and work that above my natural crease staying close to the inner corner.
The next shade I went in with is waters (matte baby blue) followed by the shade baltimore (blue-purple shimmer) and last, the shade filthy (metallic gun metal). I used the same crease brush for all of these colors. I would give my brush a quick wipe down on a washcloth, before dipping into the next shade. I believe this helped naturally create that blended ombre look without having to blend forever. I made sure to concentrate the color above the crease.
I'll admit, I got a little excited by how the look was turning out, and I stopped taking pictures. I'll walk through the rest with you though, it really was quite easy. I cut out my crease with concealer (see my post on cut creases if you need some help creating that) and packed on the shade female trouble (matte white) onto my lid using a pencil brush. If the cut crease looks a bit messy on your eyelid, don't worry about it, we'll get to that later. I swept away the translucent powder, so I could work on the ombre liner and undereye at the same time. I took a clean E36 from Morphe (detail crease brush) starting with the shade pink flamingo really working that into the inner corner lash line, the inner corner undereye, and last, I used that shade to clean up my cut crease, just in the area that had the shade pink flamingo. Similar to how I applied the color above the crease, I wiped off the same brush, and went in with the next shade, following the exact same pattern. I don't have a ton of small detail brushes, so this reduced the number of brushes I had to use, and I also found this to be time efficient. Once that's all done, you can use the same brush you used to pack on female trouble onto the lid, to clean up that ombre liner.
To complete the look, I added a touch of female trouble to the brown line and the shade hairspray (silver foil) as my inner corner highlight. I'm not a huge false lashes wearer normally, but this look deserved to be bumped up an extra notch. I used falsies by Tarte, in the style Flirt.
Final Thoughts: These colors played so well together I am super impressed. I originally thought the mattes would blend out matchy, but I didn't experience that at all. All the shades played nicely together, and the white seemed to pop once I applied it over concealer. I kept this look on for 6 hours, and it did not move, smudge, or disappear what so ever - which is unheard of with my hooded eyes. I do think the white cut crease helps keep things together as well. This palette is $38 for 8 x .06 oz of product, which to me is worth it. This may be the most expensive eight color palette I own, but these colors are hard to come by, and the story behind it is absolutely beautiful. This palette gets 14 Roxy Tries stars out of 11 - it's that good.
If you're interested in any of the other products I used to create this look, just let me know in the comments below. Don't forget to tag #roxytries if you pick up the I Am Divine palette. I'd love to see what looks you create!
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