CHANEL’s LES 4 OMBRES BOUTONS transforms the iconic eyeshadow palette into a couture object of desire.
It begins with a sound. A delicate, deliberate click — the kind that punctuates a gesture. The compact opens like a secret whispered in silk, revealing four rounded pans of pigment nestled in CHANEL’s lacquered black case. This is LES 4 OMBRES BOUTONS: the season’s most coveted limited edition, where beauty and couture meet in perfect symmetry.
But this is no ordinary palette. Its surface is alive with symbols the camellia, a bottle of N°5, even the Milky Way itself embossed into each shade with the precision of the ateliers. The effect is part jewel, part talisman. One could almost imagine Mademoiselle herself, gathering her lucky charms before stepping into the Paris night, each one stitched with significance.
Because at CHANEL, nothing is decoration alone. Buttons, quilting, chains every code tells a story. And here, pressed into satiny pigments, those stories become something you wear close to the eyes, like a thought held just behind the gaze.
The four harmonies read like chapters in a book only CHANEL could write:
- Mademoiselle — a whisper of light pinks, ivory, and taupe, as soft and mischievous as chiffon caught in a breeze. The girl who carries clovers and comets in her pocket, eyes luminous with secrets.
- Baroque — molten magenta, copper red, and orangey gold, unapologetically bold, like costume jewellery piled high in a mirrored dressing room. The woman who presses every button, who will not be told where the line is, who knows glamour is a kind of rebellion.
- Couture — muted purples, deep browns, the quiet luxury of tweed and camellia stitched into the gaze. This is the CHANEL woman at her most enigmatic: elegant, restrained, magnetic.
- Stellaire — silver blue, gold, earthy copper; the palette of a comet slicing through midnight. The woman who arrives and departs in the same breath, who glitters only when she chooses.
To open the compact is to choose a persona. To wear it is to collect them all. Because LES 4 OMBRES BOUTONS is more than makeup; it is CHANEL’s language made visible a wearable lexicon of the House’s codes, a dialogue between couture and beauty, intimacy and spectacle.
And like all the most desirable things, it will not wait. Limited in edition, infinite in possibility, the palette demands instinct over hesitation. A single click. A single look. Four moods, four stories, four ways to fasten the button.
Les 4 Ombres Boutons Multi-effect Quadra eyeshadow
£72
