Matte Eye [DISCONTINUED]

3 Reviews

1. 

   ashamedOcelot5

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   This palette was a huge disappointment for me because of the quality of the eyeshadows. I can only describe them as thin and dry in texture. I use Stila, MAC, Urban Decay, and some drugstore eyeshadows (ie Wet and Wild) and they are all ten times more creamy and pigmented. These shadows in this all matte palette blend into nothing when you put them on the eye. I do use the Urban Decay Primer Potion which I know that is not the problem. I cannot get any good looks from this palette. I cannot see this working well for most people.

2. 

   murkyWildfowl9

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   I’ll make this review short, since others have already reviewed the colors in details. I bought this for my wedding makeup, and it suited for that purpose just fine. Here are highlights of my love/hates —

   Love
   +Great for daytime looks
   +Love the variety of colors and that they are all matte

   Hate
   +I’ve found the darker shades are not pigmented enough to use as a liner or for a nighttime look The highlighter shades are too chalky to show up at all on my really pale skin
   +Hate the bulky packaging. They could have made something a lot slimmer. For something this bulky, they could have included a mirror and a brush.
   +While matte, some of the colors fall a little flat

3. 

   mellowSausage7

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   I THOUGHT I loved this palette. I found them to be pigmented if you’re packing on the colours, WITHOUT blending. In fact, they created a very sexy look if you gently pack on colours on your lid.

   The 3 big pans of colours (leftmost, lightest colour of its row) are quite ugly. Starting at top: the blonde coffee brown, its pigment is disappointing. Second: matte white?? It’s rare to find an easy-to-blend matte white, and this one didn’t make the good list. Matte pink -omgosh, it’s like a ballerina pink that’s too immature for me.

   However I LOVED the other colours! As I said, they are amazing if you’re packing on the eyeshadow. Once you start blending, HOLY F**** they do NOT blend well! They become patchy, chalky, light, and adding more colours to your blending brush doesn’t help as much as you’d like.

   So you can imagine how much I hated my look when I chose to use this palette on a last-minute date.

   This was actually one of my first palettes when I started buying makeup two years ago. (I am Sephora VIB for a year now mwahaha) And although it’s been two years, I haven’t been able to love this palette: hard to blend (even harder with primer), the 3 biggest pans are disappointing (I hardly use them! But they’re the biggest!!), the other shadows are “just OK” but chalky, NO MIRROR, love the colours but limited looks, and it’s $50CAD (tax) for this!

   I have returned it. ALSO: I did have instances where my eyes looked very sexy with this palette. As days gone by, I no longer wanted to wear double eyelid tape to bed (and wake up with beautiful, double eyelids) and accepted the beauty of my natural eyes (no matter how they look). I couldn’t work this palette on my monolids/small eyelids!

   I prefer the Stila – In the Know (all matte), Urban Decay Naked’s (very little mattes but amazing quality), the Lorac Pro, and of course NARS single/duos.