Tartiest Contour Palette Volume 3

4 Reviews

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   goofyGnu9

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   I have mixed feelings about this palette. I bought it on sale for a great price. I probably would not pay full retail. The first time I opened it the mirror fell out. Womp womp. I super glued it back in. Then within 2 hours the top of the compact was dented. I don’t even know how,  as it was just sitting on a table but there you go. I will never understand why brands use soft outer packaging.

   This isn’t exactly a contour palette. The shades inside have a lot of similarity both in formula and in color to the Clay Play 2 palette. The dark matte “contour” is pretty similar to the dark matte in Clay Play 1. Great for deepening an outer crease but too warm, dark and red toned for fair skin tones to contour. It is smaller and more travel friendly than the Clay Plays so, it is nice when you are pressed for time as an “everything palette”. For that function, I really love it. The quality is pretty good. Comparable to other Tarte shadows. If you look at this palette more as eyeshadows and bronzer, I think you will be much happier with it.

   ETA: Ok, so this is advertised on the Tarte website as being magnetic. It sort of is… the are glued in magnets under each LARGE pan. Some of the adhesive stuck to my pans so I had to pry them out of the palette anyway… damaging the palette ugh. ALSO, for whatever reason that was not explained at all – the center glow shade is GLUED IN WITH NO MAGNET. I just found this out by prying mine out (thinking it was just more glue from a magnetic.) It damaged the pan. I just felt others would probably like to know because I wish I did before removing the pans /damaging the palette. I have uploaded a photo to show the palette post-pan removal.

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   guiltyThrush7

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   First off, let me say that THIS IS NOT A CONTOUR PALETTE!!! If you buy this with the intention of contouring, you will be very sad… very colorful and sad. I bought this strictly for use as a BLUSH palette. The colors are wayyy too warm/red for a contouring palette! This is at the most, a bronzing palette. I read that this was intended for darker women, but I have a hard time making blush show up on me as a medium/tan/white girl, so this is great for me! But NOT for contouring. The darkest shade can somewhat be used for shadows, but even on black or spanish girls it would be too warm. Contouring requires more of a deep grayer/cool.neutral tone. The highlight colors, both the pink and gold are suuuuuper finely milled and just give a glow, and no perceptible glitter chunks. I do also wish this had a matte highlight. The pink blush is great! very pigmented. I cannot use the two bronze colors as all-over bronzer because of the shimmer and warmness, so I use my Smashbox contouring kit for bronzing and shadowing because of the matteness and for not orangey-bronzing. So for color, warmth, and shimmer highlights, this is great, but for contouring and face sculpting, this is all wrong.

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   relievedFerret9

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   I bought this too along with the Kat Von D palette because the packaging is sooooooooooooooo cute. So why 3 lippies? Because the actual powder is horrible. No staying power on my oily, large pored cheeks, plus it’s chalky and sure, it’s easy to de-pot, which is a plus, but so what? The formula itself actually sucks. It seams like ever since Tarte was bought out by Kose Corp. they’ve gone down hill quick. Spammy products that don’t perform. Maybe I’m just being a hater right now.

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   truthfulMandrill9

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   So a little about me: I have olive skin tone, brown eyes, and brown hair. I usually buy shades in medium-to-dark, including palettes.
   About the product: The packaging is so cute! It has a huge mirror and the colors are adorable. However, I don’t care about the package that much. Let’s talk colors. I bought this palette because I watched many makeup gurus, mostly women of color (WoC) like myself, rave about this palette. It’s supposed to be one of those palettes that WoC should own and the colors are supposed to compliment our dark, olivy skin tone. So I bought it, it was around $45 at Sephora and I didn’t think it was that bad. The bronzers were literally the only one I used. The blush barely even showed on my tan skin, and the highlighters were awful, barely showed. Like I said, the two bronze shimmery powders were the best, and they went on the skin smoothly and lasted for awhile ( with primer and setting spray OF COURSE!). It also had a matte contour powder and I barely ever used that one because it just looked unnatural and just didn’t work out. If you used the matte powder (labeled 3 on the palette), you would have to apply so lightly and at that point, I might as well just use the other two bronzers( labeled 4 & 5) that it is in the palette. I have drug store blushes and highlighters that worked better than this blush and highlighter. So basically, I had a huge cute mirror and two colors our of 6 powders that I was using. Not worth it to me! I returned it and got a highlighter, blush and bronzer from the sephora brand for $47! Much worth it in my opinion. I never really liked palettes anyway because you ended up using only 1-2 colors out of a 6 color pallette. So i returned and got everything separately. Anyways, not a very good palette and it’s just …. alright.