Etude House Trench Coat Showroom Play Color Eye Palette is one of three new 15-pan eyeshadow palettes that launched for the Spring/Summer 2018 season which represent warmer and cooler shades. Each palette is priced at 29,500KRW or roughly $27 USD. Etude house doesn’t do a lot of larger palette launches so I took note of these when they started marketing them across Instagram and purchased them as soon as they became available from online sellers.
Since I don’t like ordering from Etude House’s US portal (things always arrive broke and it’s hard to get a replacement) I got mine from my favorite ebay.com seller, F2Plus1 for $23 plus free shipping.
Out of the three palettes launched the Trench Coat Showroom Play Color Eye Palette is the warmest with assortment of warm browns, creams, taupe, and khaki shades in a range of metallic, satin, matte, and shimmer finishes.
The palette arrives in a light khaki green ox that has a closeup shot of a trench decorating the front. The actual palette is the same light beige khaki shade with a tartan border that gives the look of a trench coat as well. Inside is a generously sized mirror and 15 eyeshadows that are 0.03 oz each. It’s visually presented very nicely and when you open the palette up a sense of rainy Fall days comes to mind for some reason. The colors really do evoke London, fog, rain, and a tall elegant young woman dashing across a street in a trench coat. It’s weird but truly thes...