Eye of the Storm eyeshadow palette

2 Reviews

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   gloomyPiglet3

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   The Eye of the Storm eyeshadow collection is part of the spring 2018 Weather collection. It contains ten powder eyeshadows in the following shades; Dream Catcher (matte light nude), Sweet Storm (satin light gold), Thunderstruck (matte cool grey), Celestial (metallic rosy champagne), Lightyear (matte neon yellow), Cyclone (metallic forest green with blue glitter), Moon & Back (satin midnight blue with pink glitter), Whirlwind (deepened plum) Electric (metallic multidimensional silver) and Stargaze (satin black with silver glitter).

   The shadows are okay in that they are pretty unique & complementary. This palette can be used for a variety of complete eye looks going from conservative office looks, all the way to night/party time, and I have liked the majority of looks I’ve done to date. There isn’t too much fallout compared to the first few palettes from the brand, and the blendability is good compared to the earlier palettes from the brand. I rarely a primer, and whilst the colours do fade a bit over the day, there hasn’t been much creasing with 9+ hours of wear.

   However I do have a issue with the pigmentation; the several deeper shades on the bottom row don’t apply as dark and/or as vibrant as they appear in the pan – like with the other Kylie palettes I own, the shimmer shades are the worst for this. The yellow shade (Lightyear) is the only shadow in the palette that I outright dislike, as it is dry and crumbly – I’ve only used the shade once and there is a considerable dip in the pan, as it is so powdery that it just flakes into pieces. Annoying as that was the shade that particularly called to me and made me buy the palette.

   Considering the price of the palette, I do think a plastic casing, a mirror and a brush (I think the 5 piece brush set quality is poor, but I’d much rather have something than nothing) should have been used for the palette. Also; the shade names aren’t printed on the palette [just on a sticker on the back of it]. This niggle doesn’t effect the actual products in any way so I don’t mean to make a big deal about it, but it’s something that winds me up because I like to know exactly what I’m wearing – they cut costs by removing the mirror and not bothering with a brush, so surely they could afford to print the shade names underneath the pans?!

   I bought a couple of the brand’s eyeshadow palettes in flash sales and found them pretty decent, so I felt confident enough to order this one full-priced as the colour story is quite unique for a spring palette, but I’m underwhelmed and wish that I hadn’t bothered now. This is nowhere near as bad as the other palette in the Weather collection, but the price you see on screen is already too much for the product quality, and then there is shipping and tax, customs & handling fees to be added = we’re going past the ‘medium to low-high’ palette price point, and are talking a “let’s go to Selfridge’s and hit the makeup counters” higher level price range (in the UK anyway), which is a level of quality that this palette just not does not have. All sales with the brand are final, so you can’t cancel your order or return it later.

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   gloomyCur6

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   Eye of the storm eyshadow palette is so terrible, packaging is cheap, price sucks compared to whats good out there… texture, colors, sucks! everything sucks! i order something from the site and was sent something else! She does not have any customer service nor a phone number to contact if theres a problem, they refunded me partially not all of my order that was not in stock…
   DO YOURSELF A FAVOR, DO NOT ORDER! Buy from Sephora or Ulta where they dont get orders mixed up and you can actually try the product before hand instead of getting the wrong product that sucks!!!!!