Pressed Powder Eyeshadow Palette – SHE

6 Reviews

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   crushedPie5

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   There are a few hit and miss shades in here and some fab ones. I like the bottom row and largely hate the top row. The pressed glitter sucks.

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   boredSyrup1

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   This is my favorite colourpop palette and it’s a shame it was discontinued. All of the colors blend really well and can work on any skin tone. I like that none of the shades are too dark which is one thing that deters me from buying palettes.

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   goofyIguana9

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   The shades in this palette are so beautiful and swatch very well. However, when it came down to performance, I didn’t like how it was on the eye. Most colors looked the same on me and when it came to blending, I found it difficult to work with my hooded lids. The pigment deposits very concentrated and doesn’t blend smoothly on my eyes without feathering outside of where I wanted it placed. I would pass on this palette.

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   unhappyQuiche8

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   I tried to love this palette so hard, but I just couldn’t. I was so frustrated that I couldn’t make it work no matter what I tried, when everyone else says it’s the best affordable eyeshadows ever. Then I finally realised that ColourPop pressed powder formula just isn’t for me. Now this isn’t me saying this is the worst thing ever, it’s just not working for me. I have difficult skin type and eyelids, and this is exact kind of formula that I should stay far away from. Oh well, lesson learned.
   To get to the nitty gritty. ColourPop shadows have this reputation for being very soft and smooth, and that’s true throughout all of their palettes. You can check the ingredients in every shadow on their website, they’re very consistent. When I was skimming through them, I noticed some extract of coconut of sort, and some variation of glycerol in there, and that struck me as rather strange, as those are more often seen in moisturisers and stuff, since they’re good at keep the moisture in (probably not correct terminology and explanation but you get the idea, or you can just look it up). I pasted the ingredients of a couple shadows on CosDNA and it showed that each shadow has at least 4-7 ingredients that are intended for viscosity control, humectant, moisturising in there. Most other shadows only have up to 4. I guess that’s how they achieved the incredible texture and feel of their shadows.
   Again, it doesn’t mean anything bad, it’s just mean that these eyeshadows are really great for people with normal to even very dry eyelids. But if you have super oily eyelids like me, this is an absolute nightmare. I have oily, hooded monolids, my eyes are also watery. The colours just all blend together into a muddy mess and wash right off my eyelids within minutes after application, no matter how I prime, what base I use, what powder I set that base with. Even the matte shades do that, especially when I put two shades on top of each other. The shimmer shades are even more bizarre. I think that all CP shadows that aren’t matte or satin are just basically shimmer. I don’t think they’re metallic, they’re just packed with really fine shimmer, and the ones they called “metallic” just contain more fine shimmer than the regular shimmer. The way they look in the skin isn’t that amazingly metallic, I find that their metallic look even weaker than Juvia’s Place shimmer. They refuse to stick to my skin and they transfer like crazy, to the hood of my lid and to the lightest touch (I have to blot the tears from my watery eyes during the day). I use a glitter glue underneath all my shimmer shadows, and somehow they still transfer like nobody’s business. The worst shade in this palette is Gal. It’s a mixture of shimmer and glitter, but the glitter is so fine and tiny that the effect they give is meager, not opaque, plus the fallout, I just look like I had an accident while trying to incorporate glitter into my look. This is the only eyeshadow formula that’s ever done this to me. Since their formula is very consistent in all the shadows, I basically cannot use any of the shadow from this palette, or any ColourPop shadow and want them to last, period.
   Other than the abysmal staying power, pigmentation, texture, blendability wise, these shadows are pretty good. I particularly loved the packaging and colour scheme in this palette, I love the rosy tones, there’s nothing like this on the market. It’s kinda difficult to create a complete and diverse variety of looks with this, but I knew it from the get go and I didn’t plan to use this palette on its own. Overall I just couldn’t use or enjoy this palette, so I can’t give it a higher rating for the satisfaction it didn’t give me. But if you have the workable skin type for this palette, go ahead. I still think they’re ok, a bit pricey and repetitive for the amount of product you get, but the quality of the packaging and the steel pans live up to it I guess.
   I depotted all of the shadows and cut away the hole-punched foam board they sat in, so now at least I can use it as a mini magnetic palette. The roses on there are pretty.

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   pacifiedPear7

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   The She palette [in collaboration with stylist-turned-actress Karrueche Tran] is part of Colourpop’s ‘Fem Rosa’ collection. The palette contains 12 shades of eyeshadow, in four different finishes; Ladylike [metallic soft champagne], Babe [satin light peachy pink], Dainty [metallic pinky taupe], Chick [metallic subtle gold], Mademoiselle [metallic rose gold], Gal [metallic red with copper duochrome], Empress [metallic mid-tone pink plum], Filly [metallic rusty orange], Dear [matte warm rose], Missy [matte deep burgundy], Damsel [matte smokey violet] and Duchess [matte dusty coral].

   I use every single shade that is in the She palette – such a pretty, romantic and feminine selection of rose and berry tones. You can make a variety of complete-look-in-one-palette looks with She, that go all the way from desk to party. I also sometimes use one of the metallic shades in the top row as a cheekbone highlight (Ladylike is my fave for this) and the matte shades on the bottom row make good blushes (Dear looks the best on my fair skintone, so the She palette makes a great three-in-one product that is perfect to take whilst traveling.

   I’ve got zero complaints or niggles with my She palette; the colours are beautiful, the formula quality is great. There is some fallout, but that has never been a problem for me so long as the shadows apply and wear well, which these do. The shadow pans are smaller then Colourpop’s single shadows, but that is reflected in the cost ($16 for 12 pans, versus $4 per individual shadow). So yeah, I’m really delighted with the She palette, and it started my Colourpop palette love affair…

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   puzzledToucan7

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   This palatte is a colab with Karrueche Tran and Colourpop. Most of the shades are in rose, pink, and violet. The pigmentation is great, the shadows blend well and last a long while. A great deal for 16 dollars with 12 shadows. A mix of matte, shimmer and duochrome shades. You can achieve many looks with just this one palatte. A good addition to my shadow collection. The packaging is cute too. Magnetic close and not too big so it will travel well.