My Guerlain Summer Collection Haul Part 2 - Terra Azzurra Bronzing Powder and Blush

Next up in my Guerlain haul post series is the limited edition bronzing powder and blush, Terra Azzurra.It is made up of 4 colours, approximately half of it is a nice warm shimmerless bronzer and the other half is made up of 3 strips: coral, pink and a light pinky beige highlighter. It isn't possible to pick up the smaller strips individually, so it's best to mix the three with your brush, but due to the size of the compact it is perfectly possible to use the blush part individually and also the bronzer. The blush strips are slightly shimmery, but not glittery.

The powder comes in the same kind of compact as last year's Terra Inca bronzer, it's a domed round wooden compact with a lid that's held on by 3 magnets, so it comes off completely. The compact comes in a gorgeous cloth pouch that is the same design as the Meteorites brush's pouch. The inside of the outer cardboard box also has the same design. The powder is slightly heavier than last year's Terra Inca at 16 g, and it retails for £51 (ouch!). I picked mine up in the Duty Free at Gatwick for £44 which is a slightly better price.

The bronzer isn't overly pigmented, so it doesn't require very light handed application for the pale ones amoung us, however it can be built up for a darker colour. The blush is quite pigmented, especially the coral shade, so you need to be more careful with it. You can also mix up all 4 shades for a bronzy coral-pink blush.

It's a nice product, but at this price I'm not sure it's a must have. It was for me because I'm a collector as well as user of Guerlain, but if you think it's too expensive for you, I'm sure you can find other alternatives. I think last year's Blush G is similar to the blush part, but I'm not a bronzer person, so no idea about dupes for the bronzer powder. The packaging is gorgeous though and if you like limited edition products with pretty packaging, then go for it!

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Guerlain Summer 2012 Collection - Ecrin 4 Couleurs 13 Capri Review and Swatches

Summer is coming and so are the new summer collections. The one that interests me most is Guerlain's Terra Azzurra collection and I just can't wait to get my hands on most of the products from the collection. So when I saw the new eyeshadow quad, #13 Capri up on eBay, I had to snap it up. I was lucky as I paid less than half of the retail price, although mine - while brand new - didn't come with the velvet pouch or the outer box.

So this is it. A very summery looking quad with a shimmering white gold shade, a bright matte pink, a shimmery coral and a deep slightly shimmery brown. Bit of an odd combination with the coral and pink, but you can either use just 2 or 3 shades, or work the whole lot into one look (which I did with the pink on my eyelid, coral in the inner third, brown in the crease and the shimmery white gold to highlight - sadly I have no pictures).

The brown would work well as an eyeliner as well as crease colour. It is the most pigmented shade in the quad, it is absolutely gorgeous. The shimmery white gold is stunning, it has lots of small flecks of fine glitter, but it's actually still quite subtle with very minimal fallout. The pink is almost completely matte and is rather chalky, but it is buildable, however I'd advise patting it on rather than swiping. The coral is a big letdown, it looks gorgeous in the pan but sadly it has a very poor colour payoff, the shadow is not at all buttery, it's hard and not much colour comes off it when swiped. I haven't tried it wet yet, that might work, but I tend not to use my eyeshadows wet, so I need them to work well dry too.

The compact is shiny and bronze instead of Guerlain's usual black. As I said mine didn't come with the velvet pouch or the box, so I don't know what those look like.

All in all, this quad has positives and negatives. The price will be a negative to a lot of people, I think it's likely to be £37 as that's how much the other quads cost. You get 7.2 g of eyeshadows, so that's not bad, but at this quality I don't know if I could recommend it. I do love the brown and white gold shades very much, but the other two, especially the coral are not very nice. They're okay, but not that great. So to me this definitely doesn't live up to the normal Guerlain standards.

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Guerlain Summer 2012 Collection Terra Azzurra By Emilio Pucci - More Pictures!

I'm really excited about the upcoming Guerlain Summer 2012 collection and finally I have some more detailed pictures to show you! Firstly the promo image with the ever so gorgeous Natalia Vodianova with a Mediterranean seaside town for background. Aah, wouldn't you just love to be there right now?

I also have images of the new Terra Azzurra blush/bronzer, the new Meteorites, the lipglosses and nail polishes after the jump, so be sure to keep reading!

News Flash! Guerlain Summer 2012 Collection Terra Azzurra By Emilio Pucci

I was Google-ing to see if I can find out about upcoming summer collections and I've come across these images of Guerlain's summer 2012 collection Terra Azzurra. This is alone enough to excite me, but what's extra exciting is that the packaging is designed by Emilio Pucci! This is actually the second time Guerlain teamed up with Emilio Pucci, there was a gorgeous collection in 2007 if I remember correctly. I wasn't into Guerlain back then, but I did manage to get the Meteorites and a few of the glosses. Anyway, here's the details of the collection, unfortunately it's all in Russian, but I've managed to work most of it out.

As you can see from the images, there will be a bronzer/blusher compact named Terra Azzurra, new Meteorites called Perles D'Azur and a new eyeshadow quad in Capri. There's also a Meteorites brush in special Emilio Pucci case, Le 2 Mascara in Blu 2 Pucci, a Khol eyeliner in Blu Acqua, as well as 3 Terracotta lipglosses (yes, a blue one too!) and 2 nail polishes! Isn't the packaging just gorgeous? Let me know what you think! I love it all!

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