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7 Worst Eyeshadows
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Look great, but just so-so quality
I tried out the complimentary palette, which has six pearlescent shades: champagne, bronze, brown, blue, green, and pink. The three neutrals go well together, but the three bright colors are a little harder to work with in terms of creating a look. The colors look really cool in the package, with the long thin raised bars of shadow all lined up. However, this makes them fairly difficult to apply. ...read moreI prefer to use makeup brushes, but they were too wide to pick up just one color at a time. Using the included sponge tip applicator worked a little better, and helped apply more color, but it got to be a little too time consuming for me. All of the colors are of medium pigmentation, but it's buildable. The quality is just okay. They are decently smooth, and have okay length of wear, but really do need an eyeshadow primer. The price is low, but the value you're getting is just okay, because there doesn't seem to be much product.This review is: Helpful | Not helpful | Inappropriate | 2 of 3 people said helpful
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I don't know how I feel about this......
The packaging is extremely cute like what all the other reviewers say but it also makes it extremely hard to apply if you want to use brushes. It's too thin to apply with a brush (unless you're using a thin one.) The product was a so-so quality. It had pigmentation but kind of chalky when applied.This review is: Helpful | Not helpful | Inappropriate | 0 of 0 people said helpful
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These shadows are very pretty. I've only ever used it with shadow primer (because I always use primer with shadow) so I will say that with primer, the colors can show up well and the product has decent lasting power. I don't really experience creasing and only slight fading after a full morning till night day of wear. They aren't the easiest to blend (not horrible though). They aren't as pigmented...read more as I would like them to be so I tend to use a lot of product-- I picked out two colorful, bright palettes expecting to create colorful, bright looks but without a generous amount of product I get more a muted wash of color. The look is still pretty but not what I was looking for. What really bothers me though is the packaging. It's pretty and sleek to lay out the shadows in long, thin, domed stripes, but it's very impractical when you are trying to pick up shadow on a brush and that is where this product looses most of it's stars for me. I don't mind that the colors weren't what I expected, but a shadow palette that's not easy to use? Meh. In any case, I'll talk a little bit about the two palettes I do have: Glamourous Gems and Haute Couture. Glamorous Gems is a gold and green palette and is the better of the two in terms of being an actual palette. The colors complement each other and you can actually create some looks with this palette on it's own. Haute Couture is a brights palette-- two purples, a pink, a green, a yellow gold, and a silvery tinged white. The colors are pretty but they don't play well with each other. The colors tend to muddy each other up when blended so you can't really create much of a look with the palette alone; I definitely need to bring in shadows from other palettes if I want more than a nice colorful liner look. If you want some nice washes of color (or don't mind using a lot of product) and aren't looking for an all-in-one palette, these are an inexpensive way to play with trendy colors.This review is: Helpful | Not helpful | Inappropriate | 0 of 0 people said helpful
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