Blood Sugar Eyeshadow Palette

10 Reviews

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   solidWidgeon7

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   Honestly this is the easiest palette to work with. The shades blend themselves. Color payoff it legit the best I’ve ever stuck a brush in. I never want to be without this palette EVER! 🤤❤❤❤

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   outlyingChowder2

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   The formula is smooth as butter. Pigmentation is not playing around. Last fairly long, packaging is super quirky and cute, have not seen anything else like it. haven’t used it a lot it was a christmas gift but i love it so much as far as i can tell! Will def be buing more eyeshadows from the brand later on!

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   holisticBoars2

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   Fun palette for pink-red looks and you can get a neutral eye. These are “pressed pigment” shadows, looser and more pigmented. I have trouble with reds and blues generally, but this “vegan” formula doesn’t use cochineal and I can wear the reds with no irritation.

   However, these colors fade quickly. You can get some dramatic and even wearable looks: I like a burgundy or orange in my crease as I have green eyes and they look really emerald green with any color in the red family. And you can figure out a neutral eye with the golds, white and neutrals in the palette, because the top row of his palettes are often arranged so that the neutrals are across the top and you can just dip into those and not be doing a shock look. As to duration, even by the time I leave the house after applying makeup, some of the shades have started to wane. As to dust-up, yes, a lot of the matte shades really do dust on your brush, so you have to tap off the excess or use moisture spray on the brush.

   For the record, I always use a shadow primer; usually it’s MAC Painterly but sometimes I use Too Faced primer.

   The package is a heavy coffer rather like a first aid ,kit or mini suitcase. For me, it’s kind of a stunt and I’d never carry it on trip and it takes up a lot of space in the makeup drawer.

   The main reason I tried another set of shadows was that Star’s shadows don’t irritate my eyes. I have sensitive eyes and skin and these are quite reasonable even with the bold colors. But unless you wear a lot of reds and pinks, this palette will sit idle.

   But if you love pinks and reds and a sunset eye look, this is for you. I was slightly disappointed in it and really unless it’s on deep sale, it’s pretty much an expensive experiment.

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   wearyDingo3

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   EDIT: As much as I love the color story and I love the packaging, getting the shadows to stay on without a serious primer just doesn’t work: especially when you use the shadow as a liner.

   Clearly each type of shadow has a different formula – I expect that – but those mattes just won’t stay put.

   If you’re doing a very dramatic look, this could be lots of fun. But just to go to work, not so fun.

   And as everyone says, those vibrant colors stain the skin.

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   So I want to start by saying, “to each his own” when I read the reviews.

   I’m 64, I’ve been a make-up enthusiast since I was a teen and I have spared no expense when it comes to purchasing make-up and I’ve got to say that I. love. this. eyeshadow.

   The colors are wearable, he included plenty of neutral mattes, they blend beautifully and I can create a day look quickly on “textured” eyelids.

   I don’t find the colors chalky, they stay true to the color in the pan when on and if I want some color, I can easily dip into one of the bright shades.

   And I think the color story is fantastic. And the price, for what you get, is reasonable.

   Of course, we all have a different experience and different desires. But you won’t be bored with this, that’s for sure.

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   annoyedGranola3

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   The packaging is probably the best when it comes to this palette. The colours are okay, and if you only want to create instagram looks it’s probably fine. However, if you really want to wear it the whole day and create outgoing looks they are extremely bad. Seems to be pretty bad quality. Very sad really wanted to love this, but it’s crap. They aren’t performing any better than drugstore products.

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   sadDinosaur4

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   I wanted to like this palette but in all honesty I find the shadows a bit chalky and not as original as I had hoped. One can achieve a neutral eye with the colors in this grouping but other than the rose gold color I don’t find any of the shades (neutral, pink or red) to be that unique to my collection. I have other reds that I think flatter my brown eyes more and personally I personally don’t care for the bulky packaging. They do last on the lids as well as any of my high end shadows – but the spark of originality I had expected isn’t there.

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   contentSalt2

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   I really like this palette. I was hesitant to buy it at first because of it being an all red palette and I was not sure it was thus worth the investment. I was wrong. Its a GREAT palette simply due to the absolutely fantastic formula of these eyeshadows. They blend extremely well and even the stronger colours look smooth and well done on the eye lid without having to work the shadows for ages – something I dont have the patience for, I’d rather buy top quality and get it done quickly. In short, this palette is excellent, the only reason I am not giving it 5 stars is that its all reds. But the formula, one of the best I have ever found. The closest lookalike is Lime Crimes Venus xl palette, I was attracted to it because of the packaging but I am sooo glad I got this instead; I got the Venus mini with pinks and neutrals and the formula is nowhere near Jeffree Star’s. Fantastic palette – eye make up with this one always turns out good.

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   mercifulDingo3

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   The Blood Sugar pigment palette contains 18 powder eye shades: Glucose (bright white matte), Sugarcane (powder pink matte), Cake Mix (soft orange brown matte), Ouch (camel yellow brown matte), Donor (golden bronze metallic), Intravenous (dark red brown matte), Candy Floss (pinky lilac glitter), Tongue Pop (salmon pink matte), Sweetener (peachy pink gold glitter), Cavity (neon pink matte), O Positive (mauve matte), Root Canal (bright purple red matte), Prick (bright red orange matte), Cherry Soda (true red matte), Fresh Meat (berry red matte), Blood Sugar (copper red glitter), Extraction (deep berry purple matte) and Coma (deep eggplant matte). The brighter shades are classed as pressed pigments not as eyeshadow, due to the dyes used in the formulas not being approved by the FDA for use on the eyes – this doesn’t mean anything for most people, but there may be irritation and/or staining for those with very sensitive skin.

   I don’t totally regret buying Blood Sugar since there are nice pops of all of my favourite shades here in nice enough formulas, but in all honesty, this palette doesn’t live up to the huge amount of online hype and I don’t feel/see anything to make me consider this a must-have item; the formulas are decent and are fairly easy to use, but there’s nothing about them that stands out and makes me want to try something else from the brand, since I have better formulas that feel smoother and blend easier [Sugarcane, Cake Mix, Tongue Pop, Fresh Meat & Extraction are all prone to skipping, so I had to keep on going back for extra blending – not a huge trauma, but not a good way to stand out]. The bright shades aren’t the best when it comes to layering shadows, so once applied they’ll lose definition, spread out and begin to bleed together – and if I use anything on my lower lashes, they’re prone to ‘melting’ into concealer/foundation too. Brands like Juvia’s Place make much better pressed pigments/brighter eyeshadows.

   The colour story is great visually, but when I look at everything more critically I have to admit that only around five of the shades included in Blood Sugar are truly anything pretty unique to me – most of the shadows are either bog standard neutrals or the kind of blushed neutrals that have become more commonly used in a lot of palettes recently, so most of us already own shades like the majority of the ones on offer here. The packaging looks fantastic and is sturdy & secure, but it is bulkier then I thought it’d be, so I’ve found that it isn’t very practical when it comes to handling and storage – I’d have much preferred a sleeker palette in the style of the brand’s Beauty Killer or Androgyny palettes [I think that the brand should consider releasing a smaller ‘special’ edition of the Blood Sugar palette in sleeker packaging, that is more focused around the brighter shades].

   The overall product quality and amount you get is fair for the price and altogether it is a nice product to own, however the reality is that once you get past the “wow!” first impressions, you’ll find that the palette isn’t that unique & is just another standard neutral-with-a-couple-of-pops-thrown-in- to-trick-the-eyes number, with no outstanding points to the formula that would make me miss the palette if I misplaced it; once we get to the £40+ price-point for palettes, one or maybe two problematic shades is a passable niggle, but anything more kills most of my enjoyment of using the product. I won’t say that I wouldn’t buy anything that the brand releases in the future as the creative direction of the product is great and their formula isn’t outright ‘bad’. However my experiences with Blood Sugar haven’t left me in awe of their formulas.

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   panickyToucan9

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   I love everything about this palette! The packaging is unique and awesome, the colors are beautiful and the looks that can be created from this palette are endless. The shadows blend easily, they are very pigmented and the colors compliment each other very well. There is some fallout but not more than ABH Modern Renaissance and I don’t find it to be bothersome.

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    needyBuck2

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    The only reason I’d buy this again if I lost it is because the packaging is 10/10! The palette is enclosed in such a cute little suitcase like box with latches. I like the shadow colors as well, however I found that I didn’t like the way they blended, they just didn’t blend as well on my lid as the shadows in his/her previous palettes.