Not gonna lie, before I bought this little palette, I was living off a cheap little palette from claires (i know, right?) and a couple of MUA eyeshadows. Now don't get me wrong, I love the MUA eyeshadows, they are unbelievable for the price! (A quid each from superdrug) The claires palette on the other hand, I didn't actually like it that much, just had it for this one beauty of a colour, which is a gorgeous plummy browny colour. So basically, that run out, and I was lost.
But when my gorgeous best friend (and writer of KathyBeauPeep) whipped out a new palette she had just bought, I spotted the lovely dark purple and other lovely colours and and fell in love.
Next stop, Superdrug! (£6.49)
So this is packaging, nothing too fancy, but decent enough!
It would be amazing if they designed the palettes to go with the theme of the makeup!
There's a lovely big mirror inside, so handy for touchups.
The applicator isn't too bad, but I don't use these so doesn't bother me either way.
Now don't panic, for the swatches and close up on the colours, I haven't done any editing that effects the colour like in my other photos!
So here they are in their little pans, untouched, still neat and tidy.
Cappuccino is my new favourite base colour. I love Honeycomb, but it's a bit yellow for me, so need to mix it with other colours. Toast is lovely too, a peachy, orangey colour. In the pan, Nubuck looks gorgeous, a lovely matte grey, but unfortunately the pigmentation is pretty poor in this colour so it's difficult to use.
My favourite shimmer shade is Moss, this is really lovely. Its a goldy, browny colour which goes on wonderfully. I like to use this and then shade with bark so I'm not too sparkly! Conker, like Nubuck is lovely in the pan, but difficult to use, It's not the pigmentation, its just so difficult to blend out. nice for creating a very defined cut crease though.
And of course there is the lovely Regal. I beautiful dark purply plummy colour. Not as browny as I would like, but I can use it with the other colours to get my desired look.
As you will notice, there are only four metallic/shimmer shades our of the twelve in the palette. Personally, this was a selling point for me as I'm not usually a fan. However, I do get allot of use out of them, and they have changed my views on the shimmery world.
Here are all twelve shades in all their glory.
I'm pretty pasty so the lighter shades don't show up too well ( I seem to be the exact same colour as Nougat), but to be honest, the lighter shades were not as pigmented as the darker anyway. I find this in allot of palettes, that matte shades aren't as pigmented as shimmer, and this is soo frustrating. They're not that bad though, but I would recommend using a primer underneath help them along a bit!
So this the first look I got out of my new palette.
this is pretty much how I wear my makeup everyday, with some slight variations depending on what I'm wearing, what my hair's doing etc.
I think i used pretty much every colour in the palette, just played around with it for a while. Think the colours we can see here, are most probably Nougat on the inner part, with a mixture of Regal and bark used elsewhere. Might have even stuck a bit of
Noir in there for extra definition.
Overall, this a fantastic palette! I would highly recommend those of you who, like me cannot afford to splurge on Urban decays Naked palette. ( I actually prefer this for having more matte colours)
