Yves Saint Laurent Couture Palette 5 Couleurs #09 Love Swatches, Review & FOTD

For the power of the rabbit, today I would like to show you which palette got me worried at most from YSL's new releases and how the story ended up. Is it love or is it hate? Today I have Yves Saint Laurent Couture Palette 5 Couleurs in #09 Love for you.

Here is the story of me and #09 Love. I ordered it months ago from Feelunique but it got stuck at customs. In between these came to Germany and I ended up swatching it at the counter. My first impression was like, oh no rabbit eyes is on its way to me. Lucky (or not) the package got lost and I got a refund from the store (thanks so much to Feelunique for their uncomplicated and superb customer service). I was first happy to get my money back and not have the eyes of the rabbit. Then I started to hear the voice of a rabbit calling me. Each time I would come closer to a YSL counter, the soul of the rabbit haunt me. Evil rabbit! I got weak and thought, well, what can be so bad about having a blush palette which was originally intended to be worn on the eyes? I brought that rabbit home with me.

Here are the shades #09 Rabbit Love is composed of:

Top left: Light peach with satin to shimmery finish. Top left corner of YSL palettes are meant to be the base shade, this one is very pigmented and smooth with a great color pay off. If you are afraid of pink eyes, you might go with this one all the way and add a slight accent of pink somewhere. Such a flattering lovely shade.

Top right: Light pink with a touch of orchid/lavender. It has frosty finish and it is wonderful for an inner corner highlight. It provides brightness and compliments the other shades in the palette, lovely!

Center: Mid-toned plummy pink with satin finish. This one is not dark nor matte enough for a dramatic crease color, but I found it does compliment the look in a lovely way and there is enough contrast to define the eyes.

Bottom right: A light peachy gold with shimmery finish. The texture is lovely, it would especially make blue eyes pop but can be flaterring on everyone else too, even worn alone or all over the lid, you choose.

Bottom left: This is the main rabbit shade, a mid-toned reddish pink with satin finish. It turns out though that this one is so much fun, like Roger Rabbit (ha ha!). Who else loved that movie? Anyway, I love this shade, it works, it does!

What I like most about #09 Love is that, it is not a ton sur ton palette like some others from the range (and from so many other ranges, *clears throat*). It might have crazy shades but the combination is unique and shades are all lovely, 

Here is me and the rabbit. What do you think? Is it that scary? (say no if you don't want the evil rabbit paying you a visit!)

I combined this look with a peachy pink blush (MAC Cheeky Bugger, reviewed here) and a mini gloss I got from Bobbi Brown as a tester, the gloss unfortunately turned out to be sticky and not long lasting at the same time. Bummer. The eyes wore and wore, still rabbit even after 12 hours when I was back from work. Thumbs up.

It turns out, me and the rabbit, we like each other. Love? Yes please!

One more shot, because it is so gorgeous, very creative and feminine, yet not too much bling nor too muted. I found #09 Love to have the perfect balance of everything.

Final thoughts: I thought I should face my fears. It turns out this is the palette I like most from the new YSL 5 Couleurs Palette range because of its uniqueness, creativity and perfect harmony of lovely different shades. #09 Love is love for me. 

I am going to host a give away and give you one brand new YSL #09 palette. It will be love, looove!

Stay tuned.

I would love to hear your thought, do you like the shade combination in that one?