By Chrissy Iley
I have always had a watchful eye over Laura Mercier, I liked it long before it reinvented itself because of the Laura Mercier perfect eye for color. No surprise that Mercier herself went to art school in Paris. She decided to paint the face instead of the canvas and went from painting to beauty school but you can tell that artist’s eye is still present in the detail of the color and the textures.
My mother is a big fan of the flawless foundation since she was accosted in Bloomingdales on a trip to New York a few years ago. She spent literally half the day at the counter discovering the rose face oil and other skin transformations. Since then it went more millennial but also kept its classic roots.
I have always been a fan of the eye color for its texture and staying power. The new Clay Palette comes with six highly pigmented clay eye colors; three matte and three metallic finishes.
The metallic clay’s are just perfection in eye color; metallic pewter and metallic rust are just gorgeous. The pewter is a greeny pewter and the rust a burnished ancient copper, think 18th century chateau. The colors are so soft and they go on beautifully wet or dry, they melt into the skin.
This comes with the light setting powder which is like fairy dust, it prolongs wear for up to eight hours and prevents creasing. I am all in favor you apply in the morning and it lasts all day literally from dawn to midnight and beyond. The setting powder looks as if it has a hint of glitter but when it goes on it is almost colorless, it just does what it says it’s going to do. Maybe it adds texture but the clay palette colors themselves are so multi-dimensional it is hard to tell except that this is a breathtaking palette.