The Purple Palette Kyshadow

2 Reviews

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   humorousBobolink1

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   I love this palette. The mattes are very pigmented and blend easily, and the shimmers are beautiful. The shade Trophy is stunning, it almost gives you that wet effect. Purple smoke looked more like a brown on the pictures but is actually a beautiful slightly warmer purple. I also love the color scheme of this palette, I think the colors go very well together. I do sometimes need to reach for a dark brown in other palette, so that’s something I’m missing, but since it’s only 9 shadows… I also have the Burgundy palette and I think those 2 go great together.
   I’m very yellow undertone, so extremely cool eyeshadows don’t look good on me, but somehow with this palette I don’t have that problem. Maybe because it has a few warmer shades or the purples aren’t actually that cool.
   The package is nice, it’s simple but I like the design of the eyes, it has a good size mirror, and it’s very sleek, so I find it to be good for traveling.

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   wrathfulWildfowl2

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   The Purple palette contains nine powder eyeshadows in a mix of matte, metallic and metallic-with-microglitter finishes. The palette also contains a mirror, which the earlier nine-pan palettes do not have [or at least the first couple of batch releases didn’t]; Periwinkle (metallic/microglitter icy pink), Trophy (metallic/microglitter bronze), Stone (matte cool-tone taupe), Lilac (matte soft lilac), Wine ‘N Dine (matte deepened plum), Turning Violet (matte deepened violet), Amethyst (metallic purple), Purple Smoke (metallic purple slate) and Blueberry (matte cool gray).

   The biggest plus for this palette is the rich pigmentation in the matte purple and lilac shades – fantastic for matte purple shades to be so what-you-see-is-what-you-get shade-wise, and have non-powdery formulas. The other two matte shades aren’t as richly pigmented, but the pigmentation is still nice and I really appreciate that they put in cool tones for their practical neutrals, rather than the more common neutral or warm tones. Purple Smoke is another shade that I love, as it’s totally unique to my eyeshadow collection – but I don’t think that it’s a straightforward metallic like the site says, I’d say that it is more like a pearl/duochrome, as it flashes purple. This is the first Kyshadow palette I’ve tried where every shade blends out well and there is nowhere near as fall out as much as the other Kylie Cosmetic shadows that I’ve tried – and I haven’t noticed any creasing or colour fading with any of the shades over the day, which have been issues before.

   However, I’ve still found a few downsides; the shades Trophy and Amethyst don’t apply as vivid on the lids, compared to how they look in their pans – I don’t always mind shades that apply slightly different in comparison to their first appearance, but at the price-point that the brand has chosen to put themselves at I can’t overlook the issue the way I can with cheaper palettes. My biggest hangup with The Purple Palette is that the microglitter that is in some of the metallic shades is loose in the base, so things get messy with it migrating over the day – the Kylie Cosmetic site doesn’t mention any of the shades containing glitter [they go as far as to call Periwinkle a satin!], so I kinda feel cheated by the company, as I wouldn’t have bought The Purple Palette and would have picked The Burgundy Palette instead, if I’d have known that this one contains glitter.

   I don’t feel that this palette has been as overpriced like I think the other eyeshadow palettes I’ve tried from the brand have been, as the quality has much improved over the earlier eyeshadow releases and I’ll continue to get use out of it, so if the flash-sale price I paid was the usual price I’d give this a higher rating and click ‘yes’ for re-buy. however; the regular RRP ultimately still is overpriced in my opinion, as I’m only totally happy with four shades & find another two ‘nice’ , so I find the price tag just too much, when I will barely touch a third of the palette going forward. I’ll be a bit fair to KC and say that if you want to own a palette/buy a palette as a gift specifically from this brand, then The Purple Palette is nice enough quality-wise, the shades are very wearable and easy to work with. But if you just want some nice quality shades of purple to wear, then check out the Unicorn’s Dream palette by indie brand Karity – great quality, more shades [15 pans], less money, cheaper & faster shipping and I didn’t get any custom tax charges.