Tom Ford Beauty

Now your teeny, tiny Tom Ford Lips & Boys Lipsticks (and your Lips & Girls Lipsticks!) have cute li’l clutch-sized eyeshadows to play with.

The new $36 Tom Ford Private Shadow mini eyeshadows introduced in the Eyes of Tom Ford collection are just as cute as buttons! They’re about the same size as them, too.

Well, not really, but they are hella small. The dainty little pans contain 0.04 ounces of product.

There are five different finishes among the 30 shades.

• Ultra Suede — a completely flat matte with no pearl
• Suede — a demi-matte with subtle pearl particles
• Sateen — a lustrous pearl with a glowing sheen
• Vinyl — a high-shine metallic chrome
• Paillette — a sequined, glittery pearl

Each single looks like a mini TF eyeshadow quad, but when you open it up, there’s a tiny little mirror and one pan of eyeshadow inside.

I’ve been playing with four of them, and every time I pull one out I think, wow, why don’t all eyeshadows blend like this?

I wish all eyeshadows blended as well as matte taupe Vertigo (an Ultra Suede shade) and demi-matte Videotape (Suede finish). They’re pigmented, buttery, and they just won’t skip. They’ll blend on top of anything flawlessly.

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If you deep dive into the Tom Ford line, passed the popular, costly quads, luxe lipsticks, lavish nail lacquers and pricey perfumes, all of which get lots of love, there’s a lesser-known collection of pigmented $36 pencils called Eye Kohl Intense, and Mink is my go-to. It’s a shimmery bronzed brown with a hint of purple (I think it looks amazing on the lower water line, BTW, and here’s why).

TF just added two new shades — a matte white called White Smoke and a satiny teal called Tourmaline. Both are part of the new Eyes of Tom Ford collection available now.

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FACT: if you thought this was a new lip gloss…

…you aren’t the only one. I actually put it on my lips at first (whoops) and, FYI, it is a pretty good clear lip gloss (unofficially), but it’s even better on your eyes.

It’s comfy, clear, shiny and non-sticky (yay!). It’s Tom Ford’s new $36 Eye Gloss, and it’s part of the new Eyes of Tom Ford collection available now.

The release also includes the new Private Shadow eyeshadow singles (30 shades, $36 each), three mascaras (Spike, Shutter and Fullscreen, $45 each) and two new shades of Eye Kohl Intense liner (White Smoke and Tourmaline, $36 each).

Tom’s Eye Gloss is a lot like Rouge Bunny Rouge’s awesome Smithereens of Stars, which is really the only other super comfortable clear gloss I’ve found that I can wear for long periods of time.

Like RBR’s Eye Gloss, Tom’s is lightweight and resilient, and it doesn’t scoot around on my lids or creep into my lash lines. So, your tight line and mascara won’t smudge. Also, when you blink your eyes, you won’t feel the gloss sticking to your crease.

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Tom Ford’s gorgeous gunmetal Caviar cream shadow is many things: enduring, easy to blend, and it’s basically everything you ever wanted for the easiest smoky eye ever (just add black liner and mascara), but none of those are why it holds a special place in my heart.

It’s special to me because it’s what I was wearing when Connor said the word “eye” for the first time.

Backstory: she already knows some of the words for body parts, so if I say “Show mommy your ears,” she’ll point to her ears. She just hasn’t said many of the words yet, but last week when I was wearing Caviar on my lids with a Cargo black pencil on my lash lines (my eyes were a little dramatic that day, which is how I roll on a Friday afternoon!), I was changing her diaper and talking to her when Connor pointed up at me and emphatically said, “Eye! Eye! Eye!”

Uh… She was pointing at my makeup! I was almost ready to ask Tom to be her godfather, haha!

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