Tom Ford Updates

[mrsbaine]

Tom Ford Updates 

updated 10/16

New 40 Lipsticks for sale (US): 

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Sephora
https://www.sephora.com/product/lip-color-P416057?skuId=1986942&icid2=products%20grid:p416057-
- Beautylish

- Nordstrom

New 50 Lips and Girls for sale (US): 

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Sephora 
https://www.sephora.com/product/boys-girls-lip-color-P423486?skuId=1875897&icid2=products%20grid:p42...

- Saks 

- Neiman Marcus

- Nordstrom

Holiday Soliel Collection, 2017 

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Available Now at Neiman Marcus: 

Holiday Soliel Palette: Violet Argente

 Orchid Soliel Collection:

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Available on Tom Ford Direct: 
1 lipstick: Orchid Soleil
1 Highlighter: Nightbloom- Soliel

[BeansCat]

I know this is probably a crazy question because they are different but if you had a choice between daydream, pretty baby, or virgin orchid which would you choose? I love all the colors but can’t get all three. Or could you perhaps order them by favorite?

[Mochapj]

@BeansCat my fave would be Daydream, then PB, then VO

Quality is very good, which one probably depends on your makeup preferences and how conservative you need your makeup to be

[BeansCat]

Thanks for such a quick response! Not conservative with eyeshadow just lipstick. I bought the limited edition quad last minute of the sale bc Mel Thompsons review... thanks for the suggestion.

[Mochapj]

Tried out Frostfire today. 

I tried my scratchiest goat brush and still had issues with the lavender. Perhaps my skin tone cancels out what little pigment it has, but I attempted to use it to blend out my crease and in the close up photo you can't tell it's there at all. IMO I could've gotten similar results diffusing that edge with a clean brush.

I placed the darkened plum all over my lid. It applied easily, is more beautiful than my photos capture and is much more twinkly than the Night Sky powder that I love so much. I did get a little fallout during application (even with a patting rather that swiping motion) but it was easily cleaned up. This shade alone makes this quad worth it (for me). I then applied the silvery blue onto the inner third of my lid and lower lashline, blending it into the plum in both areas. Despite looking mostly silver when I swatched it, I could see the blue much more on the eye. The white I placed in my tearduct and the pink reflect it has is much more apparent in person. 

[blackkitty2014]

Thx you for posting @Mochapj.  You created a beautiful look there.  I whole hearted agree with you.  That darkest shade is special.  It helps the lightest shade to shine imo.  I need to try the 2 bottom shades together.

[Mochapj]

Thanks @blackkitty2014 !

[blackkitty2014]

Winter Soleil Eye and Cheek palette is up on Beautylish.  They have the giftcard event going on.  Edit: Forgot to say Pretty Baby is also up over there.

[Mochapj]

Temptalia finally has swatches of the 30 new Boys and Girls

[Mochapj]

Some comparisons for shades in the Frostfire quad. The white in FF is by far the chunkiest of those 3 white shift shades. The base of TFX16 seems to be the same shade of lavender as the one in FF. The blackened plum in FF when compared side by side with Night Sky is much more sparkly. L to R: FF1, Ripe Plum 1, PMG Astral Ghost Orchid, FF2, TFX16, FF4, Night Sky Powder

[Mochapj]

Swatches of some new quads and some initial (haven't worn yet) thoughts.

The texture of Frostfire is unlike the previous Extreme singles, IMO. White feels very dry and scratchy, almost like the pigment shades in Pat McGrath palettes. In colour it resembles both Astral Ghost Orchid from PMG and the iridescent white from the TF Ripe Plum wet/dry duo. The lavender is abysmally dry and looks practically matte to me, I see next to no shimmer or glitter transferring to my skin at all. The 'blue' seems to be a silver once on the skin, and is the closest thing in the palette to the Extreme singles; it feels almost like the foil finish. The blackened purple reminds me of the powder component in the Night Sky cream duo, as it seems to have a fairly matte base but is packed with multicoloured microshimmer.

Both Photosynthesex and Pretty Baby contain duochrome shades. In Photosynthesex, it is a reddish brown shifting to green (ala MAC Club) and in Pretty Baby, it is a pink shifting to pale blue. Both seem like nice quads, although the brown in Photosynthesex did not swatch easily and felt very sheer and dry.

Leopard Sun was very pigmented and smooth. No complaints on it.

African Violet seemed like an odd colour combo and 2 shades (purple and brown) are dead ringers for Violet Vinyl and Iris Bronze singles. The orange is very similar to the Infrared single too, but is a little more matte and definitely more vibrant.

Frostfire (Extreme)

Pretty Baby

Photosynthesex

Leopard Sun

 Also swatches from my SA on a lighter skintone. And comparisons of African Violet to a few Private Shadow singles (Violet Vinyl, Infrared, Iris Bronze

Pretty Baby, African Violet

Top African Violet, bottom Violet Vinyl, Infrared, Iris Bronze Private Shadow singles

[njattana]

I was so excited about African Violet, Frost fire and Leopard Sun but now that I've seen a few swatches they dont feel...as unique ...as I first thought. Well in the case of FF the quality seems questionable?

[Nuwc1998]

The brown in African Violet is actually identical to the brown in Cognac Sable - which is about half a shade deeper than Iris Bronze. The copper shimmer isn't quite as orange, though, but it's very close.

[Seymore3]

@MochapjThanks for swatches and review ,I wanted the extreme quad when I saw it but glad now I waited.I think it's a pass for me but Pretty Baby and Photosynthesex are on my list to get.

[blackkitty2014]

Thx @Mochapj. I will skip African Violet. I had all those shades in private shadows. Edit: can you give me a tip how to apply the top right shadow of FrostFire. That shade is impossible. I can’t make it show up on my poor lids

[Nuwc1998]

The lilac shade works best really only as a way to blend out the bottom two shades into the crease. It doesn't have much pigmentation on its own, but it does help the gradient of the bottom two shades blend out.

Surprisingly, the darkest bottom right shade actually blends out decently, despite the amount of sparkle in it. The top left shade is almost spongy in texture and is best applied with a finger.

All of that said, there are limited looks this palette can achieve. It does work well for the standard TF eye (deep color all over lid, blended upward with a lighter tone, topped with a medium tone on the lid, and highlighted with the lightest or celestial shade on the inner corner), but not for an eye look breaking the lid into thirds (inner highlight, lid color, outer V, transition into crease).

[Mochapj]

@blackkitty2014 I just received my Frostfire this afternoon (our postal service is on strike, so shipping has been verrrrry slow) so I haven't tried it on my face yet.

That said, as I was saying to FiercePoodle below, these don't feel or resemble any of the Extreme singles I have. When I was swatching this quad today I was struck by how different the formulas felt compared to the singles. Given that the singles weren't terribly well received, I wouldn't be surprised if they used a different formula.

The top right shade feels soooooo dry. It actually feels and looks like the base of one of the glitter singles (TFX16) but without any visible (that I can see) glitter, which had made the singles feel sort of scratchy/chunky.  I'm planning to try it with the scratchiest brush my eyes can handle, but beyond that perhaps wetting it might help?

IMO the only shade that seems true to the Extreme singles is the bottom left but even that still seems like it's a different foil formula than the foil singles.

[blackkitty2014]

Thx @Mochapj, I’m okay with all shades except for that darn top right. It’s garbage lol 😂. It’s so dry. I will try it again this weekend with diff brushes to see if that make any differences. Tom oh Tom sigh 😔 

[Winthrop44]

Thanks for the swatches. How do you like Pretty Baby?

[Mochapj]

@Winthrop44 I think it's really pretty. It doesn't come across in still photos but the bottom left shade in the quad has a duochrome shift from pink to blue.

I just picked it up today though, so I haven't tried it on my lids yet.

[fiercestpoodle]

Found these swatches of Frostfire. I'm on the fence on picking up this quad. I don't have any extreme singles, and the reviews are so mixed. Decisions, decisions! (This is my first post on these forums, so if formatting/sizing is awful - forgive me, I'll get the hang of it!)

[fiercestpoodle]

Well, the Mel Thompson review swayed me - I ordered Frostfire. It should be here today - looking forward to trying it out. Thanks for your swatches & mini-review @Mochapj, that's what piqued my interest in the first place!  😃

And yes, I picked up several of the new quads. Sigh - so much pretty.