Suqqu Blend Color Eyeshadow EX-20 Natsubotan for Summer 2014, Swatch, Review & FOTD

Slowly, I am recovering from last weeks marathon. Luckily we have a long weekend so I am hoping to fully get beck on track by Tuesday. I prepared this post a week ago but couldn't post it due to time constraints. It is about this very hard to get Summer Quad of Suqqu. I am posting the review so that you might check your stash to put something together which is close and recreate the look. If you do that please write a comment to help others too.

You know my affords of learning a few Japanese words by trying to translate Suqqu Quads (and sometimes terribly failing), so to me this one means Summer (Natsu) Peony (Botan), which makes sense because of the pink shades in that one. Hope I am not totally off with my interpretation.

I have to admit I was a little nervous with that pink shade. You know rabbit eye concept? This happens to me with some bright pinks and I am no fan. The other two shade also looked very close to each other so I was pondering to get the quad or not. I was basically caught by the darkest shade, knowing it is right up my alley.

The texture of pink shade is close to the vivid shades which were a part of divided pan from Fall 2013 releases, like the one in Ex-16 (reviewed here) which is a little redder. Those vivid shades were designed to be worn over a liner or darker color to modify the color. I believe there is a similar concept with this pink too. Once worn alone it provides just a wash of color and can't be build up even with a dense brush but once applied over the plummy brown in the quad, it does give it a nice cooler/purple hue, which I really like.

Here is one attempt to wear Natsuban. I think the liner I chose here was not really optimal (Chanel Grenat) but you get to see how pink layers over plum and ends up looking wearable.

Here is the whole look. Please excuse me but I don't know anymore which lipstick I was wearing for this one since last week my mind was a little overload. It must have needed some hard disc space badly and deleted all "irrelevant" information from my brain. By the way yesterday after paying at the car lot, I couldn't find the card to drive out anymore. I had to call customer service and make them track my credit card to open me the gate. You see in which level of deleting information my brain reached. 

All in all Natsuban is really a nice quad which may also be versatile if different base colors are used. I believe if you have Ex-16 though, it might be a little bit of a repeat for you. The semi-transparent pink shade is unique so I don't know if something like that can be found outside Suqqu range. If you have any ideas, please leave a comment below.

Now rant time. I found the accessibility of Suqqu even worse after Selfridges started shipping worldwide. It is almost not possible to catch 2-3 products from my wish list all at once since they are almost always sold out and occasionally become available for a few hours each one to two months. This quad was only available for half an hour before selling out. I really wished Suqqu experience would be possible to more of us, since the textures and color pay-off is phenomenal as well as the longevity. I will always stay a fan of the brand but if at some point I may start feeling that it is too much work and I might quit hunting them down. Just saying...

All in all, don't worry if you missed it. It is pretty but we can all live without this one.