Tuesday, December 29, 2009

Review: Sleek eye shadow palette

Last week I was browsing around on the net for beauty products and discovered a cute AND affordable dutch website Alicejohavesentials.
For €6,99 I could have a palette in 12 different colors. Woehoe...right away I wanted to test it out and ordered two palettes. On the page self it stated that those palettes are extremely popular on youtube and a famous dutch beauty guru has reviewed them. So hell yeah: Can I place an order please for a divine sleek eyeshadow palette ;)
I ordered two of them

Chaos: This is a colorful mat pallet. I see a lot of pretty creations coming out of this palett. Well I don't only can play around with the colors but I can mix and match and create a perfect office, cinema, theater, shopping look with this palett.




Here are the swatches first one is the upper row and second one well.. the second row.




Sunset: The name says it all. I instantly had a feeling of putting on a beach dress, loose down my hair, put on my slippers and go drink a cocktail on the beach watching the sunset...ahhhh dreaming sighhhhh.....The shimmery look of this palette creates the perfect eye; for dinner or clubbing or just enjoying the sunset over a cocktail. The good thing is that you can also use the lighter colors during the day for a sweet elegant look.



And here the swatches: sorry if it is a little blurry but still shows the true color on my skin, again same order!



I did a swatch especially to show how it looks on my skin color which is brown and tend to fade in the winter. (would you imagina how the sunset palette would look on me when I'm tanned and really dark?) FAB FAB FAB. I find it important when reading reviews or watching videos on make up to find someone with a skin color similar to mine that way I am sure that it suits my skin. But these palettes are sweet and suitable for everybody. The website offers seven different palettes and all look really fine. I want to order a few more, neutral colors for daily use.

Now some pro's and con's of this order in general

Pro:
- they are mineral. Since my last article I am a big fan of mineral make up and want to have as much as possible in my daily routine.
- Worth money value, for the price I paid I find it extremely pigmented and contains pretty much (1,1 gram per pan).
- In every palette there is black (BIG pro).
- Good customer service. Even if it is the holidays my order came in really fast.

Con's:
- Well I went all out when ordering and have too much bright colors for my like now.

That's it so really no con's for this palette.

P.S: the website is in dutch but they do ship Internationally. You can contact them and I am sure they will help you further with your order.

So as a bonus I added a look for tonights movie date with my boyfried.





I chose baby pink colors. The lightest color from the sunset palett added a grey liner, mascara and some bashful blush from clinique. For lips I used a cheap lipgloss I had in my beauty case.

xoxo Steff

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