Affordable drugstore nude Palettes: Maybelline as well as makeup transformation
Today I’m taking a look at two cost effective drugstore eye shadow palettes that I’ve been trying out for the past couple of months:
• Maybelline The Nudes Eyeshadow combination – C$17.99
• makeup transformation Redemption combination in renowned 2 – C$14.99
I got both of these from Rachael of Helpless Whist drying blog who included both of these in her legendary giveaway. I suspect that she’s a combination pusher as well as wants me to find over to the dark side…
As many of you understand by now, I am not a large fan of pre-made eye shadow palettes. I just choose smaller eye shadow styles – singles, duos, trios, quads, as well as quints are my comfort level. In fact, up up until 2016, I may have had just 4 “bigger” palettes (Shiseido Eye color Bar with 9 shades as well as Kat Von D Ladybird combination with 8 shades were daunting to me). Now, all of a sudden my stock has exploded with all these huge palettes, I’m not even sure where to begin! I’ve had these 2 palettes in my stock for months – they include whopping 12 eye shadows each! That’s 24 shades to offer with.
Also, a baseline: I do not own any type of of the metropolitan Decay naked palettes so I do not have a point of reference. Clearly, both of these palettes are implied to take advantage of the success of all the “nakeds” as well as “nudes” at a less expensive cost point. This publish will be just taking a look at these 2 palettes in isolation – I won’t be comparing them against the UD palettes.
Maybelline The Nudes Eyeshadow Palette
At very first glance, I couldn’t comprehend the design of this palette. I’m utilized to seeing all the lighter shades on the left hand side, as well as the shades ought to gradate to the deepest shade to the best hand side.
Turns out the Maybelline eye shadow combination advancement team had a few techniques up their sleeves – this combination really can be damaged down to be utilized as quads, trios, as well as duos (well the combination doesn’t physically snap apart into those – that would be a neat technique though). Here’s exactly how they visualized the combination to be used:
I like their method of thinking, as well as it assisted ease a few of the stress and anxiety about exactly how I was going to integrate the colours. I didn’t adhere strictly to their “rules” however it did offer a great assistance for a starting point. I chose to utilize the palettes as quads:
I have used each of the “quad” looks – I named them: Neutral quad (left), warm quad (middle), as well as great quad (right). My preferred look is the left section, the Neutral quad.
Neutral quad (left side)
The formula is decent. The shadows feel smooth as well as plush, as well as apply with medium pigmentation as well as blend out nicely. As is the situation with many eye shadow formulas, the shimmers / metallics outperform the mattes. There are 5 mattes, 4 shimmers as well as 3 metallics in the palette.
Warm quad (middle)
My preferred shades are #1, #4, #7, #10, as well as #9 in that order. Although there are a couple of mattes that might pass for shift shades, I discovered one as well muddy looking (#5), as well as the other to be as well dark (#8). The primary difficulty I discovered with these eye shadows is that they tend to fade as well as crease on me – by the 6 hour mark I see visible breakdown. I do wear my typical eye primer as well as base daily.
Cool quad (right side)
The combination does include a extremely lame double ended sponge-tipped applicator:
It’s so short family member to the area provided. Why didn’t you offer two of them Maybelline? There’s sufficient space.
The Maybelline The Nudes Eyeshadow combination includes 9.6g of product in overall (0.8g each shade). as well as this combination is made in Italy!
Makeup transformation Redemption combination in renowned 2
This combination is much more certainly “inspired by” the metropolitan Decay ones (I’m presuming naked 2 or #200 or whatever version they’ve released now).
The long skinny pans had me concerned about whether my brushes would fit, however it turned out not to be an problem at all.
Shown with the Shu Uemura #10 brush
Unlike the Maybelline palette, there was absolutely no indicator on exactly how to produce looks out of this palette. I just had to wing it!
There are only 3 matte shades in this combination which implied I typically have to supplement other single shadows from my stock to produce an eye look.
Most of the shadows are metallic so a light application was needed – in some cases metallics cross over to frost area on my lids. The mattes in this combination are rather patchy, as well as a huge miss for me was the lack of a matte shift shade.
The formula of these were “thinner” in the sense that they had to be developed up, however when they are, the colours were true to pan as well as lasted well on my lids. a few of the colours look extremely similarto every other when they were mixed out on the lids. I did like that a few of these shades are what I’d phone call one shade wonders: I might sweep just one colour across my lid, blend out the edges as well as be done.
My preferred shades are #4, #6, #10, #2, #7, as well as #11.
This combination likewise came with a double ended sponge-tipped applicator however makeup transformation was clever, it made the deal with very long so it looks much more impressive. XD
The makeup transformation Redemption combination in renowned 2 includes 14g of product which implies each shade is 1.17g – this is close to a common full size private pan. It is made in China (PRC = People’s Republic of China).
While they’re both excellent palettes, I ended up preferring the makeup transformation combination somewhat much more than the Maybelline. The eye shadow formula of the makeup transformation just lasted much better on my lids. I likewise discovered much more shades that I would utilize on a regular basis out of that palette. The plastic packaging on the Maybelline does feel a bit much more sturdy, as well as its smaller size would be much more appropriate for taking for travelling.
One weakness in both palettes was the lack of a great mid-tone matte shift shade. To all the eye shadow combination designers available – the shift shade ought to be the very first colour you put into a palette, it is the anchor. After that, add in your highlight colour, deep tones, pops of colours, whatever.
Here are a few comparison swatches between similar colours from the 2 palettes:
Highlighter shades (Maybelline #1, transformation #3), metallic golds (M9, R2), as well as shimmery taupes (M9, R10)
Golden bronzes (M4, R6), dark browns (M10, R11), matte blacks (M12, R12) [It’s funny – I barely ever utilize black eye shadows, as well as now I have added 2 much more to my collection. :P]For me, neither of these palettes are “go-to” total palettes however they do include some “de-pot-worthy” shades: that is to state I’d think about taking the effort (and risk!) to de-pot some shades to put into a customized palette. Those colours are: #1 and #4 from the Maybelline The Nudes palette, as well as #4, #6, #2, as well as #10 from the makeup Revolution Redemption renowned 2 palette.
What are a few of your preferred cost effective drugstore “naked” type palettes?
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