Chantecaille’s holiday offering this year was the Bengali Collection, a charitable follow-up to their Protected Paradise palettes. 5% of the palette’s $117 pricetag goes to an organization called TRAFFIC, whose mission is “to ensure that trade in wild plants and animals is not a threat to the conservation of nature.”
The Bengali palette contains four shadows, a blush, and a highlighter. Though the eyeshadow color combinations are not the most original (hunter green and peach, silvered beige and plum-brown), the powders are all exquisitely soft — a nice reminder of how luxurious Chantecaille is. The collection also includes a bronzer and a pressed powder, each $85 and embossed with a tiger’s head.
It annoys me just a bit that they called everything “Bengali” instead of “Bengal” — it feels needlessly exoticized. Bengal (accent on the second syllable) is a state in India, known for its tigers.