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THE RUNDOWN
- Stila Precious Pearl Palette @ Sephora.com
- Sale Price: $20
- Original Price: $40
- Value: $130
- Comes with 6 shimmery eyeshadows infused with genuine crushed pearl
- Has mirror on inside cover
- 10 g of product total; 1.67 g each
- Packaged in a metal case with 12 tiles of Mother-of-Pearl; not inlaid as I thought, but raised
Top view with flash
Top view in natural light (the prettiest palette I own)
Back label and box with
ingredients(Click to enlarge)
PROS
- Good value; you get six shadows of 1.67 g each (bigger than a MAC shadow)
- Gorgeous Mother-of-Pearl packaging; every palette is unique since the shells would be different on each
- Easy to open push-button closure
- Good quality shadows that are soft, silky and smooth in texture
- Hardly any fallout when using, if not any
- Shadows blend easily
- Shadows have an opalescent/iridescent shimmer
- Good pigmentation
- Has mirror
- Small, compact, travel-friendly size (11.8 cm x 3.4 cm)
CONS
- There's no dark brown shadow =( The blue will always have to be used to darken the outer corner
- May be too shimmery for some, but if you use a light hand, then it may work out for you
- No matte colors
- The edges of the raised Mother-of-Pearl may chip if you don't take care of the palette
- The light pink could have been replaced with another color
- If you wear mostly neutrals, these colors may not appeal to you
- To bring out the colors more, you must use an extra sticky base (i.e. shadestick, cream shadow, or paint pot) and not just TFSI or UDPP
Closeup of the shadows (Click to enlarge)
COLOR DESCRIPTIONS
- Pale creamy gold (a white-looking shadow that's misleading; it's really gold)- use a light hand when using as a highlight or you'll overdo it; just touch your brush to it
- Pale light pink- not as pigmented as the others, but it's meant to be light; this is the only color that could have been switched out with another, like a brown or gray
- Mid-tone pink- a nice lid color
- Deep navy blue- the outer-V color of the palette; turns purple over the pinks; looks black over the antique gold
- Bright grass green- the second least pigmented of the palette; goes on a little sheer
- Antique gold- a lovely mid-tone gold
(Click to enlarge)
(NOTE: The
7th swatch - the
purple - is the
mid-tone pink and blue mixed together)
One of the many looks. Here's a very wearable one.
SHADOWS USED
- Highlight & Inner-V: Pale gold (see how it's creamy yellow-gold and not white?)
- Lid (inner half): Pale light pink
- Lid (outer half) & Outer Lower Lashline: Mid-tone pink
- Crease: Antique gold
- Outer corner & Outer Lower Lashline: Deep navy blue (turned purple over the pink)
Another simple look
(click to enlarge to see the different colors of iridescent shimmer)
SHADOWS USED
- Lid & Lower Lashline: Antique gold
- Highlight & Inner Corner: Pale Gold
- Outer Corner: Deep navy blue
FINAL THOUGHTS
I paid half price for this palette but would have paid full price for it because of it's
well-made packaging and
high quality eyeshadows. You can't go wrong with
Stila, anyway.
I received my
Sephora order and I'm very happy since it was only $25 plus tax. I needed to add $5 more to my cart to get free shipping, so this is how I ended up with CARGO's PlantLove palette. Yes, it was only $5.
THE RUNDOWN- CARGO PlantLove, an eco-friendly line for the "green" girl
- Contains natural and organic ingredients; free of parabens, phthalates, synthetic dyes, or fragrances
- Packaged in a cardboard book-type palette with hidden magnetic closure
- Measures about 3 1/4" x 3 1/4"
- Comes with 4 eyeshadows, 2.5 g each (total 10 g)
- Price: $5
PROS- Very inexpensive
- Made with all natural and organic ingredients for those with a "green" conscience
- Large amount of product
- Two colors, Iris (purple) and Ginger (orange bronze) have a better texture than the other two and have pretty good color pay-off when used over a good base (see swatches below)
- For $5, the purple color by itself is worth it
- Good to add in your cart if you need $5 more to get free shipping at Sephora.com
CONS- If you sniff the shadows, they smell like cooking oil, but I don't notice that odor when wearing it
- Other two shadows, Zinnea (golden orange) and Thyme (light sage) have a gritty, flaky, rough texture (kind of like a MAC lustre) and aren't as pigmented as the other two
- Zinnea and Thyme are a little hard to blend
- Must use a good base - like a shadestick, paintpot, or cream eyeshadow - to get good color payoff
- No practical highlight color
Note: a MAC depotted shadow would fit into the first inner circle
Ingredients (click to ENLARGE)They include: Karanja Oil, Argan Oil, Grape Seed Oil & Sunflower Seed Oil
COLOR DESCRIPTIONS- IRIS: deep violet shimmer (frost finish)
- THYME: light sage shimmer (lustre finish)
- GINGER: warm orange bronze shimmer (frost finish)
- ZINNEA: golden orange shimmer (lustre finish)
Swatched over
Scandalous Eyeshadow Magnet
IRL, the purple looks better than in this eye pic; it looks quite sheer here even if it wasn't. I can't seem to take a good eye pic...go figure. Plus I didn't use a dark base but IRL, the purple is really pretty. (Excuse the unfilled brow)
Base: TFSI & Physicians Formula ColorEyes shadestick in Champagne (discontinued)
Lid & lower lashline: Iris
Crease: Ginger
Inner corner: Zinnea
Hightlight: None
Base: Same as above
Lid & lower lashline: Ginger
Crease & inner corner: Zinnea
Outer corner: Iris
Highlight: None
Playing with my swatch
FINAL THOUGHTSIt was only $5 and I'm not complaining.***********************************
SEPHORA SAMPLES
- Ole Henriksen Sheer Transformation (haven't tried yet)
- Bare Minerals Foundation Primer (haven't tried yet)
- Urban Decay Lipstick in Sellout (Love!)
The full-size
Urban Decay lipstick in Sellout goes for
$22 but it's
so worth it! It's
well-pigmented, creamy, dreamy, moist and glossy: perfection. I would definitely blow $22 on one lipstick plus the packaging is gorgeous. Sellout is not really my color - a
medium/dark raspberry creme - but the texture blows me away. I have to say it's better than a MAC Cremesheen and the Sally Hansen Natural Beauty lipsticks are coming to mind right now. (I'm tellin' ya, those Sally Hansen lippies are good.) I was on the verge of buying UD's lipstick in
Naked, but I promised myself I wouldn't buy any lip products until I used something up. Be aware of the
color descriptions because some are labeled as sheer or semi-sheer coverage. Sellout is a full-coverage lipstick so it comes out opaque.
See how glossy it is? Skip the lipgloss when wearing these!
UPCOMING POSTI got my
Stila palette (@ 50% off, $20!) and, ay Dios mio, it's so pretty in person. A
review with swatches coming soon cuz I'm still playing with it.... Thanks for stopping by! =) You'll be seeing more eyeshadow review posts and some mineral foundation reviews this month.
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