Now at first I'm not gonna lie, the palette itself was a lot smaller than I remembered from when I had been lusting over it in the store, but once I saw the eyeshadows themselves, that was soon forgotten about. As the name suggests the palette is filled with neutral colours with warm undertones, I chose this one over the 'Cool Neutrals Palette'. Firstly, because I preferred the colours in this one, so therefore would get a lot more use out of them, And secondly, with autumn coming up, the deeper browns and berry shades are going to be bang on trend (especially with my green peepers) which will hopefully inspire me to brave a bolder eye more regularly!
So I'm sure, the vast majority of you, (like me) have seen and/or are lusting over this palette, but for those of you who haven't seen the palette, (
Middle Row (L to R): Brule, Vanilla Extract, Honey Lust, Amber Lights and Saddle.
Bottom Row (L to R): Lemon Tart, Creative Copper, Butterfudge, Devine Decadence and Unwind.
Now I know alot of you will be thinking, Kez what makes this palette better than the millions of other neutral, smoky, brown palettes on the market?? And how the jeff did you justify spending £44???
To answer the first question, if I compare this to my Urban Decay Naked 3 palette for example, I know the Naked 3 palette is a lot more on the rose gold side of the spectrum rather than deep brown's. But in term of the eyeshadows' formulation, it is identical to its older sisters the Naked and Naked2 palettes which consist of deeper brown shades. The reasons why I prefer the MAC palette over the Urban Decay palette; are the pigmentation of the shadows, the lack of fallout and the blend ability of the shadows. In terms of pigmentation, you get a lot of bang for your buck! These shadows sure do pack a punch! Now obviously some of the more neutral colours such as the four in the picture below, are a lot less pigmented than most of the other colours. However, these shades are vital in creating a beautiful eye! These colours can be used as transition shades, to highlight under the brow or to dab, (or smother in my case) onto the inner corner of the eye for a more wide awake look. These are also perfect if you're doing a super simple daytime look where you want to make it look as if you're not wearing any makeup at all. Buy just dusting one of these colours over the lid, you can conceal any unwanted redness or even veins on the eyelids with the help of some eye primer or even concealer!
Now these colours (above) on the other hand are P I G M E N T E D. Normally with my Naked3 palette, I have to spray some Fix+ onto my eyeshadow brush to make it damp, so that when I dip my brush into the colour and then dab it onto my lid, it is a lot deeper and more opaque. With these, this is NOT the case.
In my opinion, the biggest downside to the Naked palettes are the amount of fallout!? Even though they are filled with some of the most gorgeous shades, that look like they would be absolutely stunning on the lid, as soon as you go to apply them, half of it ends up under your eye or on your cheekbones! As a result of this, the colour pay off isn't as good as the MAC shadows. Furthermore, I don't find the Urban Decay shadows to be very build able or easy to blend? I use (mainly) my MAC 217 blending brush to blend out my eyeshadows and I've found that the MAC eyeshadows are SO much easier to blend than the Urban Decay ones? They don't move around or transfer elsewhere when you're trying to blend them and they blend out nicely so that you can build on top of them or leave them be!
Obviously, I cracked open this palette, the morning after I got it.. (I mean it would be rude not to right?!) And this was the look I created!
As you may be able to tell by my attire? I did actually wear this look to work! So in my opinion, this is a perfectly wearable everyday look! (If you're brave enough to wear it of course!) First of all I took 'Brule', and patted it under my brow bone as a highlight. Then I took the matte brown shade 'Saddle' and blended this through my crease with my 217 blending brush, I repeated this step twice to get the desired colour payoff I wanted! I then took the GORGEOUS dark, shimmery brown shade 'Divine Decadence' that I believe is exclusive to the palette and packed it onto my lid. Now this is one of the shades that is VERY opaque and one that you literally only need one application of onto the lid (v.pigmented!). I then took another one of my favourites 'Dark Brew' (another palette exclusive I believe), the dark, berry-toned shade, and blended it into the outer corner of my eyelid and slightly into the crease. I then took 'Saddle' again and blended it just above that 'Dark Brew' shade that I had put in the crease, just to add a slightly lighter transition shade between the berry shade and the 'Brule' highlight. Oh and I also added a bit of 'Warm Breeze' into the inner corner of my eyes as an inner corner highlight! (Can't forget that bit!)
Another new thing for me was taking the eyeshadow under my eye slightly! Now I have tried to do this step in the past and it has turned out to be disastrous.. I mean this in the sense that it legitimately looked like I had either been punched in the eye or hadn't slept for a month. However! I've found that if you literally use the tiniest amount and just run it along the underneath of your lower lashes, then just blend it so that it is a lot softer, it can look quite nice! So just in case you were wondering, I took 'Dark Brew' and 'Divine Decadence' under my eye and blended them out.
Obviously you can decide whether you like this look or not, and/or whether this palette is top of your lust list now, thanks to me, (aka Kez the enabler.) Sorry...
However, I'm sure a lot of you will still be wondering whether it is worth the money? Now I know most of you don't have the luxury of the discount I obtained and so £65 is very steep for some jeffin' eyeshadows! However, if you simply can't wait till Christmas when you can whack it onto your Christmas list and you fancy treating yourself, I would say go for it! If you are, (like me) a make-up lover or just enjoy experimenting with makeup and are on the hunt for a new eyeshadow palette, I would recommend this one over the Naked palettes! Although this one is double the price of one Naked palette, there is a good reason for that! If you're still not convinced by my persuasive ways, get yourself down to a MAC store and get one of the makeup artists to try a look out on you! They'll also be able to tell you which palette out of the Warm or Cool Neutrals, they think would suit your eye colour and skin tone best! It may be that you are more of a Cool toned gal?
Hope you have enjoyed this post?
Who knew I could ramble on so long about bloomin' eyeshadows??
Congratulations if you have made it this far, your letter for your knighthood is on its way to you as we speak!
Kez xxx
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