Sleek Avoir La Pêche

My Sleek order of the Avoir La Pêche collection finally landed on my doorstep today, brightening up what was otherwise yet another dreary Monday! I was starting to get anxious about it as it had been two weeks since it was despatched from Sleek. (I placed the order on 19 March and it was despatched on the 21st). My previous order last December had taken only one week to reach me.

Fortunately, I was able to split the hefty shipping fee of US$13.50 with a couple of friends. (Thanks, Chantana and Sara!) I ordered the new Paraguaya i-Divine Palette (US$10) and Pan Tao blush (US$6.50).

Avoir La Pêche means "have a peach" in French so naturally there is a preponderance of peach, pink, coral and orange shades. Orange is difficult to pull off but the other shades look fairly user-friendly. I also like the two grey shades in this palette, which is a nice change from the usual black shade that Sleek likes to includes in almost all of its palettes.


Including the postage cost, I paid only S$15.90 for Paraguaya. That's still much cheaper than most eyeshadow palettes sold in drugstores in Singapore.

I don't have many peach blushes in my collection, except for NARS Gilda, as they tend not to show up well on me. Pan Tao is a very bright matte coral peach. I like that the collection artwork is printed on the compact cover, unlike the Paraguaya palette.

However, the compact remains annoyingly difficult to open and a sure-fire way to chip your manicure as the only way to pop it open is to slide your thumbnail into the opening between the clasp and the bottom half of the compact.

With my order, I also received this Mini High Shine Lip Gloss #317 Magic Strawberry. It's chock full of gold glitter though, and I'm quite averse to glitter in lip products so I'll probably gift this to one of my younger cousins.

I'll try to post some looks with Paraguaya and Pan Tao later this week. My earlier reviews of other Sleek i-Divine Palettes can be viewed as follows: Jewels, Sparkle, Curious (also here), Original (and here), Storm, Bad Girl (and here). There are a few others in my collection that I haven't written about like Good Girl, Bohemian and Circus but those are limited edition palettes that are no longer sold.