Review and Swatches: Napoleon Perdis Loose Eye Dust in Emerald City

Hello!

Once more, with feeling! In the continuing spirit of St. Patrick's day, today's review is on Napoleon Perdis Loose Eye Dust in Emerald City.

Napoleon Perdis Loose Eye Dust in Emerald City

Lid of the Napoleon Perdis Loose Eye Dust in Emerald City
(pretty, right?)

Swatch of Napoleon Perdis Loose Eye Dust in Emerald City

Swatch of Napoleon Perdis Loose Eye Dust in Emerald City
(slightly out of focus so you can better see the shimmery effects)

 Review:

• Packaging: The packaging is a plastic little pot with a snap shut lid and a plastic cover over the majority of the product, with a hole to dispense the product. It's a big improvement over their old packaging which had no plastic protective cover, although if you aren't careful, you can still spill this without meaning to.
• Colour: Emerald City is a gorgeous, shimmery forest green with light green and silver microglitter.
• Pigmentation: This has good pigmentation- it can easily be worn on its own or patted on more lightly as a sparkly "topcoat" to finish off other looks (patting a bit of this over a matte black shadow like Urban Decay's Blackout from the Smoked Palette looks amazing).
• Application: In one word? Messy. It's a loose shadow/dust, so that's to be expected. You'll just have to deal with a lot of fallout. I use my finger to apply them most of the time and that works just fine.
• Longevity: Without a primer or a loose dust sealer (Napoleon does one called a Cake Eyeliner Sealer, which I have, and which works well), these don't last that long. With a primer, the wear is like any other eyeshadow. With the Cake Eyeliner Sealer, ditto. They're not going to budge.
• Cost: They're AUD$25 for 1.8g of product. Expensive, but not complete extortion and when it's the exactly the product that you wanted (right colour and right amount of glitter/shimmer), more than worth it. These are much better value-for-money than theBalm's Overshadows, which retail at AUD$22.95 for 0.57g of much less pigmented product.

 Final Verdict: A
Beautiful shimmery forest green

xo
Anna