Gingerbread Spice Eye Shadow Palette

4 Reviews

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   cheerfulEggs6

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   Smell is overwhelming gingerbread so if you like that go for it. I felt it was more teeny bopper than anything. The colors are similar to the ones in the chocolate bar palettes. A lot of fall out and the lighter mattes don’t show up much at all. Like I said good for teens just starting out with makeup. Very cute though if you collect palettes.

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   fondPonie6

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   The most negative review I have found on this palette is Temptalia so most people love this. I feel her review on quality is spot on and I struggled with the color story and putting shades together. So I’m thinking very strongly of returning it. But I am vastly in the minority so it could be user error.
   The palette itself is their classic tin. I like it because there is no wasted space and it’s reasonably sturdy. And it stays clean. The smell is weird. Vaguely vanilla but not quite. Definitely not gingerbread of any sort. So if you are buying it for the smell, don’t.
   The quality of the shadows are ok. Some are amazing. For mattes, there is a nice deep shade, midtones, pale shades, and the fun pops so it’s a nice color selection at first glance (more on that later). The midtone browns are ok, a little dry. Oh snap is a weird color. It’s very dry and has a little glitter in it. It’s quite pink. The pale shades are quite dry and powdery but you can pack them on. Some of the mattes muddy together however. If I try to blend more than a few, it gets messy. I love gumdrop, figgy pudding, and reindeer paws. But I’m not in love with the rest because of the muddiness.
   The shimmers are mostly good. They have a dryer more glitter formula which require fix plus to work. Spiced rum doesn’t look all that great without fix plus, but is quite pretty with it. But the fix plus makes it dense so you can’t blend the edges well and you can feel it on you lid. Frost bite me is like a top coat so I use it on top of other shadows and it gives it a frosted shiny look. I’m actually more okay with that shadow than most reviewers. You can’t use it as anything other than a topper. A few shimmers are really amazing. Ooo burn is amazing. It’s smooth and pigmented. You don’t need fix plus. It’s really good. Hot toddy is very unique and fun. The rest are solid shades but not unique or amazing.
   So the reason I want to return this (this is to remind future self why I did it do I don’t rewrite history and regret it later): i basically only want gumdrop, ooo burn, and figgy pudding. Mostly I want gumdrop. And I can’t put looks together I like. That may seem crazy but I just can’t. I think it’s a tonal thing for me. All the mattes are very warm and the shimmers are also warm. I need more balance. Everything if too tonally the same. I need some cool tone mattes to break it up and make the warm tone shimmers pop. I love ooh burn, but the only shade I can pair it with is reindeer paws. I love gumdrop in the crease and figgy pudding in the outer v, but I don’t know what to put on the lid with it! If I use one of the light mattes it’s ok looking but not great. I usually go with spiked eggnog which is ok, but I still don’t love it. I really want to do lookie at my cookie with figgy pudding, peach and purple, but lookie at my cookie is so pale and blends weird with figgy pudding so it looks dull and flat. When I try doing a warm brown look, oh snap or gingerbread latte have weird undertones on me and muddy with anything I pair them with. At the end of the day, when I open the palette I’m like “this is eyeshadow soup! What the crap do I do with it!” I’m not inspired. I’m stumped. But I love gumdrop and I hold onto it for gum drop. And then I think, I have way way too many palettes to keep this for one shade. I don’t have the space for that!
   What I wish was that the pale pink and peach had color to them and not chalky white. I wish oh snap was a cool toned crease shade. And I wish there was a lighter lid shade on the taupe side. Now, you may say I can just pull that from other palettes. And yes. I can. But in this case, I feel too uninspired to care because all the shades I would do that for are in other palettes anyway. And my space is too precious for that (re: Hannah Louise Poston on YouTube).
   So for my review, the palette is average in performance with a few amazing shadows. My recommendation is to look at the color story and if you can come up with a bunch of looks you are excited to try, go for it. I think you will love it. But if you are like me and all the shades seem to blur into one and nothing looks distinct, then don’t get it.
   And as for gumdrop, the perfect deep fushia that isn’t too florescent, I mix two shades in Viseart grand pro 1 to make a perfect dupe.

3. 

   lovesickQuiche4

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   I can tell that a lot of thought went into the colour selections for this palette; the shades are all very wearable, can be worn on all skin tones and they actually compliment each other – this is one of the few palettes I own where I can say that I’ll use every single colour regularly. I really enjoy this palette and will continue to use it regularly as the powders are so easy to work with, can be worn all year round and either dressed up or toned down to fit any occasion – I don’t think of Gingerbread Spice as just being a festive palette, as the shade selections make it a great all-rounder. If you enjoy warm shadows, then this will become a go-to cosmetic item.

   The pigmentation of the shadows in this palette are very good – I can’t single out a shade for falling short of the mark. Everything wears well on my drier skin – there is more kick-up then is usual for a Too Faced palette when I dip my brushes into the pans, but that is something that never really bothers me as long as the powders apply and perform well, which these do – the Too Faced tin shadow formulas are so much better when compared against any of Too Faced’s card packaged ones, so I wouldn’t bother looking at their other holiday sets when you can just get Gingerbread Spice instead. The baked cookie fragrance in the shadows is mild and pleasant, so it not something that I’d think could be a downside to the product.

   My only niggle is that several shades are pretty similar to each other once they’ve been applied and blended, so they’ll just muddy together on the eyes – the mid-brown transitions the most obvious on my skintone. As the reviewer below pointed out, the bronzed shimmers Spiced Rum and Bake It ‘Til You Make It are also similar, but for whatever reason their closeness doesn’t bother me as much as the transitional shades Gingerbread and Gingerbread Latte.

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   holisticOwl6

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   It’s a really great palette not just for the holiday theme but if you love warm tones you’ll love this year round. It’s not a must have because there’s tons of palettes with similar color schemes out there right now, but I personally love collecting TF palettes. I wasn’t disappointed at all.

   The pigmentation is great. The spicy oranges, burgundy, golds, plums and browns are so stunning for fall. That pop of color with the shade Gumdrop is gorgeous! The matte colors are also very pretty transition shades -my favorite being ‘Spice Is Nice.’ I also love the shimmery shades. There’s a ton of different looks you can do with this palette. You can go from neutral to full on glam.

   I would say the only con about this palette is the same con I have with other TF palettes which is they always throw in two shades that look very similar to each other (Bake it ‘Till you make it and Spiced Rum). I just never do dark outer V’s with my shadows so I never get any use of dark brown shades- just my preference. I do however applaud that they didn’t add a default black. Reindeer Paws is perfect as is. Has some shimmer but comes off matte on the eyes and works perfect for a liner shadow.

   As far as the scent goes it’s very subtle. I would have liked a stronger scent but if this was any more gingery smelling it might be too much for sensitive people. After all the scent doesn’t really matter for eye shadow it’s just packaging which by the way packaging is super cute too. I know some people complain about TF packaging being too juvenile at times but I’m never too old for cutesy stuff. I’ve always liked it.I recommend this palette to all you warm tone lovers out there.