The Vault Collection – Bling Boss Eyeshadow Palette

3 Reviews

1. 

   solidRelish1

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   I’ll keep this short. I think it’s pretty and nice. Love the colors Gem, Sparks, Berry Treasure and Pizzazz especially.

   Two thoughts-

   packaging would be better if it had a slot for a brush in it, even with a crappy brush, but I can live with that because there is a mirror.

   Secondly, the nude colored highlighters would be more versatile if they were more diverse in undertone-they’re all pretty similar, but oh, well. For the price, I can’t complain. If you need a purple, red, blingly palette, this could do the trick.

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   mereWasp7

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   I would give this palette a 3.5 is I could. The metallic shades really made it worth keeping in my opinion.

   Firstly, the real stars of the palette are the foiled metallic shades: “Bling Bling”, “Pizzazz”, “Glitz & Glam”, and “Ballsy”. I have no complaints with these shades. They are absolutely stunning dry, but when used wet they are next level. My favourite way to apply them, as usual for me, is with my fingers. They are buildable, so it’s easy to have a daytime-appropriate level of shimmer versus night-out glittery goodness. I had almost no fallout with these four shades.

   Next, the more traditional shimmers, “Gem” and “Berry Treasure”. Gem definitely needs some building to get maximum impact, unlike the other metallic shades. Again, “Gem” applies nicely with fingers but is best used with a wet synthetic flat brush. “Berry Treasure” is soft and blends out pretty well. In fact, it blends out so well that it needs a bit of layering to keep the darkness of the black base translating on the eyes. These shades are okay. “Gem” has zero fallout, “Berry Treasure” has the most fallout of all the shades.

   Now, the mattes are literally 50/50 in terms of their performance. “Hush Hush” and “Sparks” are pretty soft and blend nicely enough. “Hush Hush” has this beautiful taupe/lavender quality, but unfortunately it doesn’t show up prominently on my skintone very well. “Sparks” is red, and this is what I use as a transition shade with his palette since “Hush Hush” is too pale for me. Neither shade has much fallout at all.

   However, the two mattes I was most excited about, “Rockstar” and “Mystic”, are disappointing. As matte purples, these are the shades that should have helped me frame those beautiful shimmer and metallic shades. Instead, they are stiff, hard to blend, and I swear that “Rockstar” somehow got darker when blended out. I did indeed try swatching off the top layer with a finger and that helped a bit, but not enough. Particularly with “Rockstar”, some days it blended out alright, some days it would just stay stuck on one place in my crease when I tried to blend it. I think the best way to apply these is to pack them on and then blend them, but it is a pain trying to diffuse these two shades. “Rockstar” and “Mystic” also produce more fallout than the other two mattes.

   Btw, I used TFSI underneath on most of the occasions I used this palette and it worked well. The shadows were all long-lasting, but “Mystic” and “Rockstar” were still a bit hard to blend. I powdered over primer and “Mystic” was a bit easier but “Rockstar” was still annoying.

   Overall, my rating on the Bling Boss palette reflects how many of the shades performed adequately for me. Unfortunately, when two matte shades that are integral to the colour story don’t work, that negatively impacts my opinion of the palette from a 4 to a 3.5. Every shade swatched beautifully in store, so I am wondering if I just need to dig further in my pan to get to some smoother shadow.

3. 

   innocentBass2

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   In Bling Boss you get the following ten powder eyeshadows; Bling Bling (silvery pink glitz), Hush Hush (matte lilac mauve), Gem (vibrant violet sheen), Pizzazz (glistening magenta), Mystic (matte blackberry), Sparks (matte ruby red), Glitz & Glam (shimmering rose gold), Rockstar (matte mulberry), Ballsy (glistening mauve pink) and Berry Treasure (glittering charcoal black). Three of the matte shades [Mystic, Sparks & Rockstar] feel a bit dry, but still are very easy to blend out evenly – a major plus with red, lilac and berry shades, so no complaints from me. The shimmer shades are soft and creamy, except for Gem which is pretty dry like the berry mattes, but as that shade is a intense blue-based purple I expected that – but as I said above, all brands struggle with purple, berry and red shadows, so I don’t count the dry formulas as a negative point, just as something that goes with the territory.

   For me the big miss in the Bling Boss palette is the microglitter-n-matte shade Berry Treasure as it is very loose and soft, so has a ton of fall-out. Then once applied and cleaned up okay it fades, creases & transfers – even with a primer that performs well with the other shadows in Bling Boss. The matte shade Mystic can also be a bit of a diva; sometimes it applies and blends fine, but on other times it can cling to skin and patch up quite a bit too, so patience is needed.

   The Bling Boss palette is the one in The Vault collection that I was the most keen on owning, but once I got it I was almost scared of trying it in case I didn’t like it, after the backlash against the collection began. Fast forward two months of wearing every shade I can say that I really enjoy eight out of ten shadows and one is meh-but-usable [Mystic], so there is only one that I don’t like in this palette and probably won’t use again [Berry Treasure], so I’m happy with Bling Boss – it’s not perfect, but for the price it is really nice. Some of the formulas don’t feel creamy, but that’s a common issue with berry toned shadows, it’s not a Morphe/Jaclyn Hill/The Vault only issue.