NEW Maybelline Stylish Smokes Quads - Pics + Swatches.

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If you're a regular reader of The Pink Train Case, you know that I am a huge fan of the newly formulated Maybelline eyeshadow quads (examples here and here). On an emergency run to Wal Mart (that happens often- and I know, it's Wal Mart but it's the biggest store in my small town), I, as usual, made a run through the cosmetics and spotted a display for these new Maybelline quads for a collection called Stylish Smokes. I'm a total sucker for anything smokey, so I picked up the 4 new quads (in the display were4-5 re-packaged quads already in the permanent line).

Enough babble- time for pictures and swatches........

Top left: Natural Smokes
Top right: Emerald Smokes
Bottom left: Charcoal Smokes
Bottom right: Amethyst Smokes


Amethyst Smokes


Lid, Crease, Outer Corner, Brow Bone
The lid and crease shades are my absolute favorites. The lid is a pretty duo chrome bright purple that flashes blue- reminds me of a MAC shade? Anyone care to jar my memory? The outer corner shade is a really dark and pigmented sparkly black, the brow bone shade is a pretty pigmented frosty white. And, I wouldn't put that on my brow bone, yowzers!


Natural Smokes


Lid, Crease, Brow Bone, Outer Corner
Yes, this was the first quad I grabbed. I have to say I'm a little disappointed with the lid shade :( It looks positively beautiful in the pan, but not as pigmented when I swatched it. But, I'm so biased by the pretty sparkle I still say it's a pretty shade. The crease and outer corner shades are really nicely pigmented, these are my favorites. The brow bone/highlight shade is really subtle, the least shimmery of all the brow bone shades from the quads.


Charcoal Smokes


Lid, Crease, Outer Corner, Brow Bone
Looooooooove this quad!! The first two shades are beautiful and not as straight-forward grey as I thought they were going to be. The outer corner shade is the same sparkly black as in the Amethyst Smoke quad. The brow bone shade is a pretty silvery color.


Emerald Smokes


Lid, Crease, Outer Corner, Brow Bone
Okay, THIS is my favorite quad out of the whole collection!!!! If you're only going to buy one, buy this one. Each shade is absolutely beautiful and unique- I don't have any greens like these at all in my collection. The lid shade is an olivey-gold, not as pigmented as the rest but it's still a beautiful shade. The crease is a gorgeous, shimmery emerald- kind of reminds me of MAC Humid. The crease shade is an intense dark black-green, again, totally gorgeous. The brow bone shade looks white in the pan, but swatched is this shimmery yellow-gold. I tried to capture the different flashes as best as I could in the picture. Again, this is the quad to get, if you had to choose one.

Yet again, I am so impressed with these quads. There are a couple of bummers, but the good definitely outweighs the bad. I haven't seen these in drugstores yet, which is funny that I found them at Wal Mart, since they take forever to get the "new" items. I paid about $4.50 for each quad, but I'm sure when they do hit the drugstores, look out for those sales!!