Collistar Milano limited edition

For a while now I’ve been checking out Collistar stands. They have cute nail polishes and colorful eyeshadows, lovely blushes … but for long time their focus was more in the shimmery/glitter specter of the make up rainbow. Then came Collistar Capri limited edition and I was excited to see that they released LE with satin like eyeshadows. I was keeping my fingers crossed that they’ll be continuing the trend and my wishes came true the first time I saw Collistar Milano LE.
I admit I’m fickle and wish that they still came out with glittery nail polishes, but kept rest of the make up in light shimmer, satin, matte specter.

Collistar Milano limited edition
Collistar Milano limited edition

Collistar Khaki nail polish

Khaki nail polish is the prettiest and most interesting product for me in Milano LE. It does have fine milled shimmer which is seen on nails under stronger light, but what sold it to me was the unique base color. It’s hard to find these kind of gray-green shades in cooler part of the specter and in tone that works with warmer skin-tones. Unfortunately it does get warm undertone in sunlight, so I’ll be wearing it in fall/winter time when we don’t have that much sunny days. I used 2 coats + top coat.

Collistar Khaki nail polish (Milano LE)
Collistar Khaki nail polish (Milano LE) swatch

Collistar Laguna matte eyeshadow

Laguna eyeshadow is not really matte finish when you look at it in the pan, but on the eyelids all you can see is the satin/matte color. Color is primarily blue with slight greenish undertones so I guess you could say it’s petrol shade. These kind of shades don’t look good if I use them all over the lid, but are lovely as pop shades. I wore this twice with Collistar Turchese Satin from Capri LE and received more compliments that for all other make up looks this year combined. :D I tried photographing make up, but my camera was not picking up difference, then I made video and Laguna looked green so I gave up (you can see how approximate look in the below photo).
I used waxy base for the swatch and 2 layers. You can see the intensity over Collistar Evening Brightening Face Primer in Milano LE video.

Collistar Milano LE - Laguna eyeshadow
Collistar Milano LE – Laguna eyeshadow swatch
Collistar makeup: Laguna, Turchese Satin, Alchemy quad
Collistar makeup: Laguna, Turchese Satin, Alchemy quad

Collistar Evening Brightening Face Primer

As this primer had “evening” and “brightening” in the name, I was afraid that it would be shimmery, but the shimmer is so tiny that you practically don’t even see it and gives you more of a sheen that shimmery look.
It’s OK face primer – not greasy, doesn’t leave the plastic feel on your face, foundations are easier to apply and last on me ~2 hours longer (not so much shine free as that they stick to the skin better).
What I ended up using this primer is mostly as my primary eyeshadow base. I wasn’t sure if I should try it on eyes or not as this is perfumed product, but so far I didn’t notice any kind of reaction. This is one of those primers that cause eyeshadow to fade rather than crease, so I’ve been using it for make up that needed to last 10+ hours and I was satisfied with result.

Collistar Milano LE - Evening Brightening Face Primer
Collistar Milano LE – Evening Brightening Face Primer swatch

Price:
– eyeshadow and nail polish are around 14 EUR
– primer I think is little over 20 EUR

Video review and swatches of Milano LE:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fKBl2H0gm6g
There were quite a few other products I liked from this limited edition: both eyeshadows, blush, highlighter, light nail polish (brown seemed like boring color) …
Thankfully their limited editions are not sold out right away and span over few month time, so I still have time to decide which items will be mine. :D

Did you get any of the Collistar Milano LE products? Maybe something I definitively should have in my life?

*I received eyeshadow and primer for review from Collistar Slovenia

10 thoughts on “Collistar Milano limited edition”

  1. All the Capri products still exist. There where no limited editions.
    The only limited edition in the milano are the Tattoo lipsticks and the hightlighter.
    Thank you for the nice review!

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    • We had sale of Capri LE products and majority is already gone. I have to check out to see if we have anything from it on the stands (not counting leftover eyeshadow and such :biggrin: ) now that they had small assortment change. :think:
      Thx for the info. :rose:

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    • Embalaža ni višek lepote (razen za lake – tista mi je zelo cute), vendar imajo povečini kvalitetne izdelke. Mene najbolj iritirajo znamke, ki imajo visoke cene, oh in sploh embalažo, kvaliteta izdelka je pa ali na zelo nizki ravni ali povprečna … te so pri meni na ignore in ne grem niti do stojal. :silly:

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      • Nobena od prijateljic ne uporablja te kozmetike in nikoli nisem naletela na review in sem nekako mislila da je zanič :rose:

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        • Saj še kako leto nazaj bi ti še jaz svetovala samo lake. :biggrin:
          Je pa itak odvisno od vsake posameznice, če ji znamka ustreza ali ne … tako kot je meni Alessandro (če govorim na splošno) super in OPI pač ne, drugim pa ravno obratno. :yes:

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  2. Uf, 14€? Priznam, sem preveč škrta :biggrin: , čeprav lakec je pa leeeep, vau! A mogoče veš za kakšen nižje-cenovni dupe? :))

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    • Po pravici povedano sem se vanj zapičila predvsem, ker mi je bil prvi lak v tej barvni družini, ki mi je bil res všeč. Vse ostalo je enostavno preveč “rumenkasto”. Če pa najdeš kakšen dupe, pa se priporočam za info. :cute:

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  3. Senčka je čudovita. Res lepa barva in tovrstnega finisha mi itak primanjkuje v stashu. Lak mi je preveč podoben množici kopij Chanel Khaki Vert, ki sem jih pridno nabirala celo leto, tako da jih imam zdaj kar nekaj. Na sploh mi Collistar izdelki zgledajo res dobro, ko pokukam na njihovo stojalo, vendar je cena previsoka za moj žep, tako da moj prvi Collistar izdelek še čaka svoj prostor na polici. :yes:

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    • A veš, da mislim da sploh nikoli nisem šla pogledat Khaki Vert laka, ker mi je na swatchih vlekel preveč na “rumeno”? :biggrin:
      Cena je taka, da premislim, če res želim določeno zadevo, vendar je to razred, ki mi je še sprejemljiv. Konec koncev ni razlike ali dam 15 EUR za Essence kolekcijo ali pa za Collistar lak … tako se vsaj jaz tolažim. :biggrin:

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