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Best Makeup Palettes: The Contour-Friendly Choice
If the best makeup palettes provide shades that are as versatile as they are gorgeous, then this Smashbox pick is a clear winner. This palette contains everything you need to sculpt your face into supermodel perfection: nine enhancing, neutral eye shadows, three shades of contour powder, one highlighter, two brow powders plus a wax, a double-ended brush and cards to show you how to apply everything.
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Best Makeup Palettes: Everyday Essential
We have pretty high expectations for the best makeup palettes on the market, especially when they're eye shadows. They must be pigmented, apply smoothly, last all day and have minimal fallout -- just to name a few -- and this makeup palette meets all of those requirements. What's more? The product is basically free from any fear of buyer's regret, as the neutral palette complements any skin tone and age with its velvety matte finish and 12 colors to choose from. In terms of everyday essentials, this makeup palette is a must.
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Best Makeup Palettes: Keeping It Neutral
Who doesn't like going nude? At least in terms of this neutral makeup palette. Master your no-makeup makeup look using a combination of these 10 pigmented eye shadows. The light to dark range offers an array of shades that flatter any skin tone, and the makeup palette comes in a variety of finishes from shimmery satin to creamy matte to glowing sheen, to accommodate any eye makeup look you're trying to achieve.
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Best Makeup Palettes: The Vegan and Cruelty-Free Kit
These 10 shimmery, coconut water-infused shadows come in a variety of neutral and colorful shades to suit your every makeup whim. The fun, patterned packaging (printed with soy ink, nonetheless) and "you are so pretty" type above the palette's mirror are just the icing on the vegan, cruelty-free cake.
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Best Makeup Palettes: Instant Illumination
The best makeup palettes enhance your features, and while contouring had a major moment, the highlighting technique otherwise known as strobing has stepped into the limelight. To give you a radiant glow, this pigmented strobing palette contains seven satin-smooth shades for highlighting areas where light naturally hits, such as brow bones, cheekbones, nose, cupid's bow and chin. The blendable, ultra-fine formula doesn't leave you cakey or feeling like you're drowning in product. With this palette, you don't need good lighting to show off your makeup; your makeup is the good lighting.
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There's something about makeup palettes that turns us into giddy schoolgirls. The pretty packaging, the multiple shades, the travel-ready size ... the list goes on. Here, the best new palettes to add to your summer makeup routine, from Urban Decay's latest smokey eye shadow palette to a bronzer palette that's (almost) too pretty to use.