NEW Victoria Beckham Orchid Eye Wardrobe: Easy everyday… or too purple for real life?

Today we're going to play with the new Victoria Beckham Orchid palette. When I first saw it online, let me show you, I was going to buy it for review purposes anyway, but when I saw this look right here, I could not click add to cart fast enough. So I'm actually going to try to replicate that look. But also what I'm wondering, and I'm sure you're wondering too, is this lilac right here, how wearable is it? Is it going to be an easy everyday wearable purple or is this going to be more of a too purple reserve for certain special occasions only. You can purchase just the refill for $51 or the compact and the refill for $76. I bought the refill only because I already have a case from when I bought the cocoa palette. But let's take a look at the box. Here are the ingredients if you wanted to take a look at that. Shelf life is 24 months. Made in Italy I have already swatched it but i wanted to show you the box so i'm unboxing it again it comes in this plastic little case here all right let's get into the swatches first we have a shimmering pink beige the hero shade which is the matte lilac plum then this the darkest color this is a deep matte plum and then we have this shade that i think is it's my favorite out of all of them it's a metallic mauve looks kind of like a rose gold let me just look at the finish that this is gonna give us beautiful i'll put up a clip of the swatches in daylight as well the top shade right here this is a metallic one it's the one that looks kind of mauvey rose in the pan it looks cool but then on the arm it's reading a little warmer and more like rosy bronze yep i think this color right here this is going to be my favorite next is the deep matte so this is your plum it's not black it's not straight purple it's more of a deep burgundy plum how does the website describe it a matte deep plum okay this is a shade that's going to decide whether this palette can actually go smoky without looking harsh the third one is the matte lilac the hero shade this is the one that I don't know if it's gonna be everyday wearable or just too purple, too lilac-y. On the arm it's reading like a muted dusty lilac so that's great news. It's not looking neon or candy pink. The fear with lilac is that it can be tricky. Sometimes it can pull gray and make you look tired or it can pull pink and suddenly you are in like baby doll territory. This looks grown up so far so we'll see once it's blended on the eye and the last shade the bottom shade shimmering pink beige it's hard to see on my skin tone so it's soft i'm hoping that it's brightening and that it's not super metallic first we're gonna do the everyday lilac test see how wearable that lilac is i'm gonna start with this shade right here because i think this is what most people will use as the first step all across the lid this is the one i was hoping would not be too metallic and it's not yeah this is soft it's not high shine it's more of a sheen so it's not going to compete with the lilac now i'm applying the lilac shade i already put it in the crease on this eye right here but i didn't show it because i thought i was recording and i wasn't so now i'm going to do the same thing on the other eye just running the lilac along the crease basically i am watching the edges because with purple tones if they start looking muddy when you blend that's when you lose the pretty orchid color and start looking bruised but i'm not seeing that it's retaining the orchid color right now this is still looking clean it's looking like a soft mauve haze not like i've been punched in the eye with a different brush this is a Shodo 02 I'm going to take the smallest amount of this dark shade and place it just kind of tap the outer edge I want to see how deep it is but I don't want to push it this shade can escalate this look very quickly very intense color blended super softly it's still it's giving me structure um while still staying wearable let's pause right here let me know down in the comments would you wear this look out of the house yes or no because if we're thinking no that's too purple then this palette is not going to be for us from talking distance and even up close this is looking more mauve than purple to me totally wearable it doesn't scream color we're checking this in natural light and it still looks it looks soft on me this is it's not pulling pink it's not pulling gray if the lilac color had shifted at this point that's where i would be more worried let's go ahead and finish the look i'm going to take the Victoria Beckham eyeliner in cocoa and tightline we have nothing going on on the lower lid so let's balance it out by putting some of the lilac very lightly we're just trying to make this look look finished and not incomplete there so super light amount of the lilac now we need some more brightness in the inner corner so i'm taking a Merit brush this really tiny pencil pencil tip and we'll tap the tiniest bit right there in the inner corner let's finish it off with mascara i'm gonna use this Dior lash primer first when i first opened it i didn't like it i didn't notice any difference but as as it has aged though the the texture has changed and now it does make a difference i find myself using it every time under my mascara it volumizes the the lashes and i do feel that it makes a difference for mascara i'm going to use a YSL Lash Clash this is a finished everyday look but i want to point out let me show you the website again the shade that we used for the inner corner this one right here look at the amount of light that they're getting in this picture this is not realistic which is another thing that i like to pay attention to the picture sometimes they're they're just so far off from reality and so enhanced that it's impossible to replicate a similar look this is a look that we're gonna that we're gonna do next to see if we can get anything remotely similar to this we're gonna give that a shot that first look was a success now we're gonna try to replicate the look right here the one that i was telling you about this is absolutely gorgeous what i think is gonna make or break this look is the ability to get this shine i just don't think that this palette can give us that shine so i hope it can. Let's get started. I took off all the eyeshadow that I had beforehand and I am going to put on my base again just so we get started with an even canvas. What I'm going to do first is try to replicate the sheen and then build the structure, the dark part of the whole halo eye. I'm going to start with this shade right here, the Shimmering Pink Beige, and I'm going to put it all over the lid. So in case you were wondering what this shade looked like, here it is on both eyes. Now I'm going to take the Metallic Mauve with my finger and I'm going to tap it onto the center of the lid. I am pressing, not sweeping, because I want the reflect concentrated right there i like it it's pretty but it looks very different to the shine that we're seeing right here on her eyelid hers looks more wet like more reflective and smooth whereas mine looks a little bit textured and less reflective now we're gonna frame it so i'm taking the deep plum and slowly I'm going to start building the crease here if you want smoky you can get smoky with this palette it can definitely get very dark excellent quality that's for sure I'm not getting any fallout and they're they're blending beautifully they took it really dark here on the inner part of the eye I don't know that I want to do that maybe just a little bit more but that's looks almost black I don't know that I want that much drama. Do I want to get there? Not really. What I'm most interested in is the overall look and the, well, you know, the shine I've been talking about. So I'm going to stop there with the plum, but now we need the lilac to diffuse the edges and keep that orchid tone. So I'm going to take this lilac over the edges of the plum. I'm going to take the plum on the lower lash line really tight to the lash this is a sigma e21 brush dark eyeliner is essential i'm going to use um the coco liner once again on both the top and bottom tight line and waterline i'm not taking it as dark around the crease i want to revisit the eyelid can we get more shine i am going to wet my brush and with my wet brush i'm going to pick up the shimmer okay i mean metallic okay here we go okay well it doesn't look like that's gonna happen the shine is not intensifying to the degree that i wanted we still have we still have the inner corner right here so let's try to do let's see if that same shade the metallic one can give us something like that but i can tell you right now highly highly doubt it i'm still working with a wet brush so this is what we're getting shine wise definitely not that um that wet glossy pearl reflect i'm not not fully getting that i'm back both eyes match i am not going as dramatic as they did on this image so i think what's happening with this palette is it gives you really pretty refined shimmer but that hyper wet editorial finish in the photo here that has to be lighting or layering photoshopping who knows it's not that this looks bad i do like it it looks sophisticated what i can't get is that glassy almost lacquered lid effect let's talk final thoughts we started off the video with two questions number one is this lilac wearable and number two can i get a look like the one on the website first the lilac is super wearable it's not shouting too purple on the eyes it's more of a soft mauve as for the second question no the palette is not going to give you that super reflective glossy finish it will give you the depth the deep plum does get really dark and smoky editing me here so i went back to her instagram and i saw this post this comment specifically and she's so right you have to let people know that there's a lot of orchid gel liner in these photos nowhere near what's photographed on the website that's just not cool and misleading and it's very true because i was not able to replicate this what's going on here on the lash line underneath the waterline that is the eyeliner and i bet you that it's over here in the halo part as well so just know that if you're going after this look like i was you're gonna need the eyeliner the quality of the formula itself is fantastic there's no fallout it blends flawlessly so if you want a lilac that's actually wearable you'll be very happy with this palette if you're going after that shine that we've been talking about you might need to bring out the big guns like um i'm thinking danessa myrick's light work seven or her color sticks i'm thinking about her foil stick this is duo number two Twilight Gleam i'm just gonna pop it on to see what it looks like but this is still not gonna give us that wet look but it is gonna give us a lot of a lot of shine a lot of impact where's my mirror let me just pop it on see what this does wow okay that's more like it so if this is what you want you're gonna need the help of another product and and that's fine i mean i'm not surprised that we weren't able to get to that glossy look it was just an expectation versus reality mismatch overall am i happy with this palette yes i am i am very happy with this palette i'm just not wowed by it so wearable lilac absolutely glossy lid fantasy no so if your hesitation was am i going to look too purple no you're totally fine i'm sure you will love it so would i recommend it yes would i repurchase it also yes now that i have realistic expectations yes i told you that i would compare it to betty but they are so different i mean these purples they are something completely different to the Victoria Beckham that that lilac so this is that's betty well let me swatch the gold while we're here right sorry more of a ginger tone and here we have the Victoria Beckham so very different if you want more in terms of sparkle this is a fantastic topper if you want more metallic options you have these two then you have sort of like an iridescent purple here so they're different vibes now before we go i would love to know which one would you go for if you could only have one. Which one would you pick and why? Let me know in the comments and I will see you in the next one. Bye!