The oh so special or not so special pallet, huh?
When I received this pallet I was pleased from first look. Starting with
nice sleek packaging and continuing with first glance at the shadow colours. It
seemed that this pallet has great selection of colours which would give beautiful
eye looks. Well it was a disappointment...
Pallet consists of 12 eye shadow colours, 5 shimmer and 7 matte.
Colours from top to bottom in the left column (according to the top picture):
PAMPER. Matte light pink, powdery, not pigmented, comes off chalky and
uneven after building it up to maximum
GATEAU. Light purple with golden shimmer,
looks very beautiful in the pan, feels almost creamy but is poorly
pigmented, comes off chalky and uneven)
THE MAIL. Biggest disappointment of all the shadows I have EVER bought. I
would say it is light tannish colour but I cannot be sure because it is
completely not pigmented, it doesn't show the colour even when swatching on the
hand. I have no idea how any self-respecting make up company take even a penny
for such product :(
BOXED. Matte neutral brown. And again poor pigmentation but as it is dark
at least it is visible on the skin.
WRAPPED UP. Matte brown which is more on the taupe side, a little bit
better pigmentation.
NOIR. Matte black colour. It is the most pigmented colour of this pallet, a
pleasant surprise after trying to swatch THE MAIL.
Colours from top to bottom in the right column:
BOW. Off-white matte colour. Has some pigmentation. OK for blending under
the eyebrow.
ORGANZA. Looks beautiful in the pan. Pinky, peachy shimmering colour. It
has some pigmentations and feels creamy but comes off very uneven and patchy.
RIBBON. Matte pink. Feel soft when touching but has poor pigmentation,
comes off chalky and uneven.
GIFT BASKET. Bronze shimmering colour. It is pretty bronze shade which has
some pigmentation compared to other shadows in this pallet but is difficult to
put even on the skin.
GLITZ. Silvery gun metal colour. Pigmented and creamy. Looks very metallic.
CELEBRATE. Gorgeous colour. It is even hard to describe. Think of the aubergine
mixed with some plum and burgundy wine... and it has berry metallic shimmer.
Did I mention it is gorgeous? It's a pity it has average
pigmentation and doesn't come off very even.
I feel bad after *trashing* this pallet which has some really beautiful
shades, but the pigmentation in most of them is really poor.
Would I recommend this pallet to the friend? NO.
Would I purchase it again knowing the result? NO (well actually yes,
because I cannot believe that pigmentation is so poor in some of the colours
and all the colours look very beautiful in the pan)
Here are the swatches on my hand. Please note that swatches were made building
colour to the maximum and applied with finger tips. These colours look nowhere
to this on the eyes.
There are twelve eye shadows swatched, how many can you count? ;)
And some pictures of how beautiful these shadows look in the pallet:
