Review (5/5): Great Palette! Great Dupe!
[[VIDEOID:f3800eaac90f72192ba79de85cf049ce]] This comes very well packaged. Protected on a lot of bubble wrap. With how often eyeshadow palettes come with broken shadows, I always appreciate when one comes with extra care taken to protect it! The palette has cardboard packaging. There’s an outer sleeve cover. It has the exact same look on the front and back on the outer sleeve cover as it does on the outer packaging of the palette. The shade names are found on the back of the palette and are also labeled under each shade inside the palette, which I like. A lot of affordable palettes, they don’t have the shade names inside, which is usually fine with me because it’s so affordable and they have to cut costs somewhere. So, when the shade names are included inside the palette on affordable palettes, I always appreciate it. There’s also a big mirror that is just a little smaller than the lid. Again, a lot of affordable palettes don’t have mirrors, which is another way to cut costs for the companies to make the palette a cheaper price. Again, not something I mind since it’s affordable. So, again, when I see mirrors in affordable palettes, I appreciate it. There’s also a removable plastic sheet cover over the shades inside the palette.
The shades are all beautiful. (See photos of swatches).
The mattes have good pigment, feel smooth, not chalky at all. Brushes pick them up well and they apply on the eyes nicely. A few shades need built up a little more, but not too much where I get annoyed 😂
The shimmers/metallics are smooth, pigmented, and pretty shimmery. A brush picks them up easily, and they apply easily and look beautiful using fingers or brushes.
There’s 2 pressed glitters. 1 of them isn’t small circular kind of glitters. It’s small stars. I don’t really love when pressed glitters are in a palette. I have a love hate relationship with glitter. Love the look of it, hate how it gets EVERYWHERE, you’re finding glitter particles everywhere for a while after you use it. Plus, they aren’t safe for the eyes. Get some in the eye and you can scratch your cornea! But, smaller glitter particles aren’t too bad in my opinion. However, with the one in this palette that has stars, those would be waaaaaay more risky than smaller circular like glitter particles. The stars are bigger and have extremely pointy edges. Plus, it’s hard to pick up with your finger. So, I really don’t like that pressed glitter. The other pressed glitter is made up of tiny particles. It picks up easily, sticks pretty good on its own, great with a wet base like concealer or glitter glue. So, I don’t like that 2 shades are pressed glitters, but the palette is so affordable, 2 I don’t like and probably won’t use out of the 18 isn’t so bad to me.
There’s 1 shade that is a concealer shade. It’s a cream kind of concealer. I fear it would dry out, so I’ll be putting a piece of tape over it, with the edge bent over together to leave a little tab to pull it up if I want to use it (I did this with my Huda New Nude palette and the concealer shade hasn’t dried up). The shade is pretty thin and waxy feeling. I don’t feel I’ll ever really use it, but just in case figure I’d keep it from drying out.
This is a dupe for Hudas New Nude palette (see swatch photos comparing the 2).
- They even have the shades named the exact same as the shades in Hudas palette, except one that is named “Spanked” in Huda is named “Spaked” in this palette and one that is named “Love Bite” in Huda is names “EITE” in this palette 🤦‍♀️ 😂 (see photos to see both palettes together).
- All of the shades and their placement in this palette correspond exactly to the shades and their placement in Hudas palette, except the shades “Spanked” and “Love Bite,” and “Concealed” and “Play.” In both palettes, “Spanked” and “Love Bite” are in the first row, the last 2. But, in this palette it’s, “Spaked” and “Love Bite” and in the Huda palette it’s “Love Bite” and “Spanked.” In the Huda palette, “Concealed” is the concealer shade and “Play” is a light peach matte shade. In this palette “Concealed” is a nude type shade, that has a little peachy color to it and “Play” is the concealer shade. So, in the Huda palette there’s a light peach matte shade called “Play” that this palette does not have (this palette has a nude with a slight peach tint to it).
- Other than that, the shades are pretty spot on. In the Huda palette, the metallics feel just a little creamier, but not by much. In this palette they feel really smooth, not chunky at all. As you can see in the swatches, the metallic shades aren’t quite as metallic as they are in the Huda palette, but they are pretty darn close. The colors of all the shades are also pretty darn close. I’d say the shade that’s most off, other than the light peach matte shade not being a full on peach shade and more of a nude shade with a peach tint in this palette, the other shade that’s the most off is “Kinky.” In the Huda palette it’s a deeper, richer red. In this palette it’s more of a burnt orange type red or rust kind of red. You can see in the swatches. Then, the “Concealed” shade in the Huda palette, the corresponding shade in this palette is “Play.” The Huda one is creamier, and has more color. As I said before, the one in this palette is thinner and waxy feeling. The pressed glitters - “Excite” is made of small, red glitter particles in both palettes. The Huda one is smoother feeling, not so rough feeling. “Infatuated” in this palette is totally different than Hudas, it’s silver and stars, not red with small glitter particles.
Overall, I think this is a great palette. Good packaging, a nice mirror inside. The shades perform well. The mattes are smooth and blend easily and have good pigment. The metallic shades are smooth and pigmented and look beautiful. If you were looking for a nude/pink palette, this is a great choice! If you have been wanting the Huda palette but didn’t like the cost of it, this is a great choice instead. The colors are pretty spot on, the differences are slight where once they’re on the eye, it wouldn’t be too noticeable. Other than the star pressed glitter and the nude shade with some peach in it. This palette would definitely give you the same looks. I really do think it’d a great affordable palette!