Kjaer Weis eyeshadow - Divine

I have dithered over Kjaer Weis products for almost two years now (here's my original post: thoughts on Kjaer Weis.) I finally put some on this year's birthday list, and was given this eyeshadow by Mr London a little bit early.

The packaging is beautiful: the products come in sturdy red boxes, and then gorgeous, heavy, metallic containers with the KW logo on lids that swing open. The eyeshadow in the container is €34; refills are €18.

Divine is described on the Kjaer Weis website as: 'a neutral tone, a beautiful gray that doesn’t look overly made-up. Divine will shade the eye and give the illusion of not wearing make-up. When applied to the crease, Divine gives beautiful, subtle depth to the eye. You can do a light smoky-eye with it alone, or use Divine as the stepping-stone for a great smoky-eye with our Onyx Eye Shadow.'  

It's darker than I was expecting from the description and the picture on the Kjaer Weis website (which is below, apologies, I couldn't find a bigger picture on the website.) I did wonder if it was a Divine/Onyx mix up, but the box and the palette both say this is Divine. 

Swatch:

Picture to show Divine applied very simply with a Mac 217 brush from lash to just past crease. It applies and blends beautifully which the brand attributes to the bamboo in the formula. It's also a lovely finish; not quite matte, with a slight satin sheen.

Finished eye, with a little bit of black pencil along the lashes and some mascara. I do like this, even though it wasn't the colour I was expecting from the online swatch. It is more of a made-up than a natural look for me (my eyeshadow 'natural-to-made-up' scale is calibrated very much to the left though). It is still very neutral.

I vacillated between this shade and Wisdom (a taupe) and finally decided try something different and go for Divine. Although it wasn't exactly the colour I was expecting, I do like it a lot and would buy other shades. There are reviews of Wisdom on Modesty Brown, Lipglossiping, Visionary Beauty and The Non Blonde.

Edited to add: I'm wearing this differently today (pictured below), in a Laura Mercier naturalist style. I tightlined my upper lashes with a black pencil, then applied Divine to my upper and lower lashline with a flat liner brush, and to my crease with a Scott Barnes crease brush. I really like it worn like this (it's easier to see the colour of it in the pictures above though!)

In Europe Kjaer Weis is available from www.slowfashionhouse.com.