Kiko Luxurious Eyeshadow Palette Moscow Chic Peach

Kiko Luxurious Eyeshadow Palette was one of the prizes from Birkie's Chinese New Year giveaway (back in February). The Italian mid-range with a pretty good reputation is hard to come by in the US so I was pretty happy to try it out.

Moscow Chic Peach was part of a fall 2010 release called Siberian Flower- all with weighty-enough, mirrored compacts adored with Swarovski Crystal. This particular palette features cool neutral with some peachy accents. An usable sponge-smudge end applicator is included but I prefer to use my own brush anyway. 

A closer look at the five Kiko shadow shades:  I didn't expect to like it but the Satin Matte Brownish Charcoal (with a touch of purple undertone and some small shimmer flecks poking around )  really surprised me with its smooth, silky texture. It's not only smooth enough to be blended around, the high pigmentation also allows it to be used as a fine liner. It's harder to make matte shadow (the mica in shimmery shadows doubles up as a smoothing agent/filler) and Kiko certainly did a great job. 

Gray Taupe with Silver Shimmer was another shade I like, it's quite smooth and pigmented as expected. The Shimmery Brownish Plum  looks just like bruise on my lids so I will just leave it alone before I find a way to wear it. The Soft Matte Yellowish Peach (with silver micro-glitter) is another surprisingly wearable shade, when allover the lid, it cancels out the darkness/purple around my eyes and leaves just a hit of warmth. The Peachy Off-White is a little bland but I guess we all need a light shimmery highlighter in a palette?

Overall: Beside the texture, colors and pigmentation. I really like that they give a little variety on the finishes (instead of just throwing you a glitter bomb like most palettes out there).