Makeup Obsession palette review.

So if you've been to your local boots recently you may have realised that they now have a stand dedicated to customisable palettes by makeup obsession, which I believe is  part of the 'TAM beauty' group best known for Makeup Revolution. 

As well as single shadows for £2  they also sell panned lipsticks, highlighters, face powders, blushes, strobe balms and contour shades in so many different colours, so you really could create any type of palette you needed but for this review I will only be talking about the eyeshadows and blushes.

T H E  C A S E //

When I brought my palette there was actually an offer on which meant if you spent over £12 you would get the black 6 slot palette for free so I decided to do that, but if I brought another one I would defiantly go for the rose gold case as it was by far the prettiest. The cases retail at £4-£6 for the medium palette and £5- £8 for the 12 slot  large palette and to insert the pans you simply pop out of their small case and into the holes in the palette, no magnets or sticky backs are required which yes makes it easier but also means  it is not like the z palette where you can mix it with other brands.

The case has a good sized mirror which is an absolute necessity for an eyeshadow palette and to me feels pretty sturdy.

The case I have can be found HERE  or you can browse the others HERE.

M Y   S H A D E S //

As I worked in Boots over the Christmas period I had plenty of time and chance to play around with the shades and choose which ones I wanted in my palette, I decided to go really warm with reds and oranges as they are really popular colours at the moment and I wanted something like the Morphe 35O palette. I was so impressed with the range of colours and in the end got;

❤ 2 blush shades (£3) 

 'Honey' (HERE) and 'Nude' (HERE).

❤ 3 Matte shades (£2)

 'Pearl'(HERE),  'Bourbon Brown' (HERE)  and 'Burnt' (HERE).

❤ 1 shimmer shade (£2)

 'Cosmo' (HERE)

F O R M U L A S   A N D    S W A T C H E S  //

From top to bottom, Pearl, Nude, Honey, Cosmo, Burnt, Bourbon Brown.

As I had mattes, shimmers and blushes I have 3 different formulas to talk about so I will start with the matte shadows, I find mattes are the hardest to master as 7/10 times they end up being too chalky or have uneven pigmentation but I must say I was pleasantly surprised at how creamy and soft they were and how easily they blended out on my eye.

Next is the shimmer shades, it's very rare for me to not like a shimmer shade formulas as they are the easiest to perfect so what I tend to look for instead of pigmentation is how well they last on the eye and if they transfer or not, I found when I dampened my brush before applying the shadows they do stay out and last a lot longer than they do when applied by my finger tip.

Now the blush formulae, if I'm completely honest I did find them a little dry and quite  hard to use as an eyeshadow, which I mean  is understandable as they are not an eyeshadow but I have used blushes as shadows in the past which have worked great! The blush is a gorgeous colour and looks great on the cheeks but as an eyeshadow is too much work to blend out, again not something I can fault the company on as it's not its intended purpose.

I S   I T   W O R T H   IT ?

(Is it worth it can you work it, can you put it back down and reverse it) I'm literally not even funny I don't know why I try... but absolutely 100% yes this palette is worth every penny, the size of the pans are great and for £2 you really can not go wrong, it's also a good alternative for the z palette if you don't have that much money to spend but are after certain colours. I will defiantly be buying more palettes to try out the other products so if you would like a review on them as well then let me know in the comments!

All Makeup Obsession palettes can be found HERE.

TooFaced Sweet Peach Palette, Honest review.

 

I feel like there was such a big hype over the sweet peach palette that everyone felt they had to give it a good review and rave about it, I managed to get one when they were first released in Debenhams so I thought Its only right I do a completely honest review so when it gets re released people won't just be blind buying it like I did!🐚
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So first let's talk about the palette itself in basic terms, it was £39 like the other palettes this size and contains 18 shades at 0.03OZ each,. I have to say I'm not really a fan off the too faced tin packaging, I absolutely adore the colours and ombré effect don't get me wrong but I feel the noise and the factory feel off the tin makes me feel like my shades will smash easily...anyone else? haha. I think the colour choices are spot on, there's really not one shade in the palette I wouldn't use and the shades that I normally would steer away from, the help booklet shows a way in which I can use them so for shade choices, it has to be a 10/10.

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Now the palettes USP, the peachy smell🍑 The smell is so strong I can promise you that, I was kind of disappointed with the strength of the chocolate sent in the other palettes but I can defiantly confirm this one smells of peaches, to be honest I think it may even be too strong. I myself don't really like fruity smells so I regrettably have this in the back of my draw to block the scent, and I'm sure I'm not the only one out there that don't like the peachy scent, hopefully on the next palette they will find a kind of middle ground with the scent strength, but then again that could just be me, because I'm damm sure I wouldn't be complaining. If the chocolate scent was this strong hahah!
In case you are unsure the palette is inspired by the peach fruit and not just the colour, hence the few purple toned shades...which I'm not mad at.

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Last but most certainly not least, swatches, I've found with the other palettes there's always one or two shades that are patchy, which yeah I guess you get that with every palette but for £40 you shouldn't be, idk just my opinion! I will swatch a row at a time starting top to bottom twice, I always use urban decay (completely having a mind fizzle and forgot what it's called) primer when doing an eye look so it's only right I do a swatch with a primer base as well, plus I find Too faced shadows tend to worth better with the help of a primer.

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My favourite shade out the whole palette has to be 'summer yum' It's such a diverse colour and in my option is has be best formulae in the palette,  Nector and Just Peachy And are also up there with my faves as well as Bless her heart. 

The colours that don't impress me much (shamelessly sang that as  Shania Twain) are  sadly  Georgia, Talk Derby to me And  Charmed I'm sure, this is because I wasn't happy with the formulae, I think the problem with Georgia is that it is too similar to my skin tone but Talk Derby to me and Charmed are a major disappointment, the shadows were chalky and didn't really show up well at all.

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To make sure I fully tested the product I decided to do an eye look, admittedly not the best as I was being rushed out the door, but enough of one to get a real feel for how the shadows worked, before I started I primed my eye with the Urban Decay primer and then set that with white peach. 

To create this look I  used Summer yum in the crease and then blended a mixture of Charmed I'm sure and caramelized into it, I then put Bless her heart all over the lid and Just peachy in my inner corner, to finish off the look I then softly blended a small amount of tempting into my outer V and White peach under my brow bone.  

I found that the shadows blended nicely, especially summer yum and I would say the pigmentation on the eye matches the swatches, which is quite surmising as usually you find it magically disappears!

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V E R D I C T .

If I tried it in store before hand would I still buy it? Ahh honestly I probably would purely for the fact it's a raved about limited edition product and I have no self restraint, but if I wasn't a makeup hoarder than I'd have to say no, it's not that the palette is bad, not at all, I just think (and this is a very personal review) that if I got to smell it before hand, combined with the one or two patchy shades and the tin packaging than I'd rather buy another palette with similar shades. 

Also before I finish I kind of just wanted to ask if anyone else is a bit salty about the fact they're re releasing this as a non limited edition palette? idk, I just think that the amount of time and effort people put into getting this palette as then being so happy as it was limited edition that its kind of rude for them to just bring it back out.. but then would I be saying this if I didn't get the palette? share with me your opinions!

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Let me know what you think in the comments and if you managed to get the palette first time round and what you think of it!