Pocket Candy Eyeshadow Palette – Birthday Cake

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   grumpyCheese6

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   The Pocket Candy compact in combination Birthday Cake came out in October 2018 to celebrate Lime Crime’s 10 year anniversary. The compact contains the following five powder eyeshadow shades; CUPCAKE (rosy brown matte), GLITZ (warm mauve metallic), GLAZE (golden pearl glow), TWINKLE (ballet pink with gold sparkle) and PARTY (seafoam shimmer). The shades Glitz and Twinkle can double up as blushes and Glitz doubles as a cheek highlighter.

   I’m really into this more compact type of palette now, where things are multi-purpose and most of the shades are focused around a theme; a palette that doesn’t waste lots of it’s space (and therefore our money) by including several of the same kind of basic highlight/crease/transition shades that the average makeup lover already has many times over – I’m sure that we all have plenty of neutral shades that we love in other palettes, that we can use in conjunction with this palette to make it go further. I’d say that the shadows in here are similar to the ones in Lime Crime’s smaller Venus palettes; buttery smooth, easy to blend, great to mix together to create new shades and they have next to no fallout. The shimmer shades feel exactly like the matte and Glow shades do formula-wise. All of the shadows are non-fading, and I haven’t experienced any creasing – I apply them in the morning [no primer] and they’ll still look good in the evening, when I remove it. The sparkle and metallic shades have a bit more fallout in comparison to the other shadows which have very little, which isn’t a dealbreaker for me but I still thought I’d mention it. Fallout in shadows doesn’t really bother me as I do my eyes before my base – all pigmented & softer shadows have fallout, so I do think that all good-quality shadows should kick-up a bit.

   Any disappointments? There is an ‘basic’ shade in the palette, which I think is a waste of space as this compact is meant to be themed. I’ll let them get away with the brown shade this time as it has a nice rose undertone to it which adds a touch of interest, but with only five pans to fill, I feel as though they could have picked something else – most makeup wearers already have a dozen different brown shades already. Also there is only one matte shade, which is seen as limiting when it comes to creating looks, by the majority of eyeshadow wearers, which I feel will put off loads of people.

   The shadows are all of a great quality, plus the Polly Pocket inspired packaging is insanely cute – and whilst there are only five shades in the palette and the price isn’t much less than one of Lime Crime’s 8-pan Venus palettes is, the shadow pans here are actually slightly larger in comparison, so I feel as though the price is justifiable. I do really enjoy this product, but stood back from it a bit and clicked ‘no’ on rebuy as Birthday Cake has similar shades to the ones in the earlier Pocket Candy editions [Pink Lemonade, Bubblegum & Sugar Plums]; there are no dupe shades so if your inner collector insists on having the complete Pocket Candy range you’ll be happy with it, but to the casual makeup user who already has some of the Pocket Candy compacts at home, Birthday Cake is skippable. However if you look this kind of shade range and don’t have the earlier Pocket Candy compacts, then I recommend looking into Birthday Cake.