X Carmi Make Magic Eyeshadow Palette

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   truthfulDoves3

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   Revolution’s Make Magic eyeshadow palette made in collaboration with MUA-turned-Youtuber Carmi MUA contains 20 eyeshadows: Coz Of U (peach foil), Bite Me (magenta pink foil), Money Maker (yellow gold foil), Under My Spell (icy blue foil), Make Magic (light cyan foil), You Got This (violet duochrome foil), Flames (orange matte) , Confidence (biscuit matte) , Desire (fuchsia pink shimmer), Self Made (mermaid blue shimmer), Bless (pale cool pink matte), U Do U (chocolate brown matte), Dark Side (dark grey matte), Overcome (terracotta matte), Integrity (olive green shimmer), Love Yourself (coral shimmer), Free Hugs (dusty rose matte), Honesty (chartreuse yellow shimmer), Addicted mustard matte) and Camo (khaki green matte).

   The Make Magic palette has the same style of the Christmas 2018 eyeshadow palettes of fourteen shadows in a mix of matte and shimmer finishes spread over two rows and they are crowned with a top row of six larger pans of foil finish shadows. The six cream-to-powder foil shades are a new formula for the brand, which was introduced in the Christmas palettes, but until now hasn’t been in any ‘regular’ palettes. Carmi recommends finger application for the foils, so your body heat can soften the formula for the smoothest application; I tried using a brush to compare the application and yeah, the formula clings to the bristles and applies to skin somewhat clumpy, so finger application is best. A special shout-out for the shimmer finishes; they have the best dazzling formula out of all the palettes that I’ve tried from this brand and work just as well with a brush as they do wit a finger/sponge, which is something that has been an issue in the past. The mattes shadows in every post Soph x1 and Tropical Paradise era palette have had really nice formulas, and the ones in Make Magic are the same.

   Money Maker and You Got This are softer than the other four foil shades and the formula is somewhat flaky; they both still look and wear very well, but it’s worth being aware that a bit more care is needed when working with these shades – I jabbed a deep dip in my pans on my first try, as I wasn’t expecting them to be so soft, based on the foil shades that I had worn first. Other than that, I’ve not found anything to niggle over with the formulas used in Make Magic – Coz Of U and Love Yourself are similar shades, as are Desire and Bite Me, but peaches and pinks are very ‘me’, so no huge trauma there.

   My final thoughts are almost the same as they were for the Tropical Carnival palette; as I mentioned above, I think that the formulas in this palette are great for this price-range – if I’d paid double or triple the price for this palette, I’d still be delighted with Make Magic. However I can’t say that Make Magic is necessarily a must-have, as Revolution have released over half a dozen bright eyeshadow palettes within the last few months alone [and that’s not counting the many new releases from I ❤️ Revolution and Revolution Pro]. So if you’re into collecting the brand’s newer palettes then you’ll already own very similar shades to the ones in Make Magic, but even then you won’t have the shades in the fantastic foil formula… So I guess you’d still be getting something sorta new, although the brand’s shimmer formulas have really improved this past year and almost match the foils, so I’ll leave that up to your own preference on formulas and in application techniques. If, like me, you don’t tend to buy every palette from the brand, then yes, Make Magic is a fantastic addition to your collection.