Mini-Me: 13 small makeup palettes
Text: Moore Sobolev, authoring the telegram-channel Fierce & Cute
If in everyday makeup Since many of us love to tinker with a bunch of monotenas and blush taken separately, the best option for a trip is a small compact palette with which you can draw a make-up for all occasions. Moore Sobolev gathered thirteen options that will come in handy during the journey.
Smoky Smashbox Cover Shot
2350 rub.
The Cover Shot palette line, launched last year, is one of the best inventions of the good Smashbox brand. The palettes are beautifully and reasonably decorated - they are thin and narrow, but not fragile, tightly closed on a magnet - and perfectly assembled: each includes eight shades of shadows that can be used to draw make-up of any complexity. Smoky is convenient to do with not only classic or colorful Smoky Aiz (and even for a beginner - the shadows are so soft and dense that they are practically extinguished themselves), but also a basic beige nude make-up.
Dior 5 Couleurs Electrify Shade
4285 rub.
Working as Chanel's art director for makeup, Peter Philips rarely released his inner color man outside: the brand required dark and neutral shades that Philips diluted with bright nail polishes and lipsticks. After leaving for Dior, Phillips, who is not only talented, but also sensitive to the conjuncture and the market, began to experiment with color as widely as possible. The Electrify palette is one of the results of this experiment: here, blue and turquoise are combined with peach and translucent mother of pearl, and the result is a beach make-up appropriate in the summer city.
Kiko Milano Smart Eyes & Face Palette in Shade 02 Fashionables Shades
1190 rub.
With all the richness of its range, the Italian brand prefers to work within the conventional shades, entering the territory of unusual colors and textures except in limited collections. The line of Smart palettes is combined to be useful everywhere: on vacation, at work, in the afternoon, and in the evening. Fashionable Shades may well be the only palette in the beautician if you need a universal cosmetic soldier: there is a bronzer, a rouge, four dark matte colors and four beautiful dense metallic.
MAC Girls in Classic Cutie
4700 rub.
Uninterruptedly supplying the market with new MAC products this year released a collection of Girls palettes, included in the regular range. In the palettes with catchy charming names (in addition to Classic Cutie, the assortment includes, for example, Basic Bitch and Qween Supreme) includes eight new shades of shadows plus a highlighter. Classic Cutie is a harmonious set of lilac and nude cold colors, where the fun sparkles and moderate satin shades are correctly mixed.
Catrice The Nude Blossom
402 rub.
The German brand Catrice in the framework of the Collection Eyeshadow Palette series makes intuitive palettes that are most conveniently painted according to the classical pattern: here is the tone, here is the color on the moving eyelid, here is the darkening of the fold, here is the transitional shade. But with them, as with other decent shadows, you can achieve much more: for example, The Nude Blossom includes fashionable pink and coral colors with which you can make beautiful monomes.
Ciaté London Fearless Palette
2649 rub.
Pretty, Fearless and Fun triplets of palettes are a long-time best-selling playful British brand best known for its nail polishes (and great lipsticks, which for some reason lack enough attention from the beauty press). These are small and thin, but quite exhaustive palettes: each includes nine shades of shadows in different textures that mix well with each other within the framework of classic make-up and are also suitable for experiments. Fearless is good not only for obvious Smokey, but also for beautiful metal make-ups.
J. Cat Beauty Fab Five in shade Secret Haze
489 rub.
The low-cost American brand J. Cat Beauty has recently appeared on our market as part of a landing of bright, cheerful brands that the network L'Etoile exclusively brought to Russia. J. Cat makes a lot of unusual shades and fun textures, but they do quite well and quite traditional means - for example, you can start experimenting with cold gray smocks with a small Secret Haze palette.
Urban Decay Petite Heat
2290 rub.
Fearless kings of the color Urban Decay at one time were able to curb the nude - and, releasing the Naked palette, turn neutral shades into an exciting make-up adventure. Since then, the line has grown to frightening volumes, but Wende Somnir never stops gushing ideas - and recently released a palette based on last year's heavyweight Heat. The mini-palette Petite Heat includes six warm colors that are comfortable for any appearance: five matte and one shiny, from vanilla to dark burgundy.
L'Oréal Paris La Petite Palette in Optimist Shade
740 rub.
The line of palettes-babies initially includes six options, but the most interesting, the cold colored Feminist and the red-sand Maximalist, have not yet been brought to us. From those available in Russia, it makes sense to pay attention to Nudist (neutral colors are diluted with central maroon ones) and cold Optimist, where the brilliant azure color assumes the main role. Keep in mind that shades are not the most pigmented in the world: it is better to use a base.
Lime Crime Venus III
3690 rub.
Before Deer, Koko Chanel may very well consider himself to be our day: she does not follow the trends, but creates them. Launching the first palette from the Venus line, it boosted the boom on the grunge red shadows, and if not the Venus III, it supported the passion for pink, which turned from a despised “girlish” shade to the color of empowerment. As usual with Lime Crime, the palette turned out to be not only pretty, but also useful: it does not require perfect dexterous hands and make-up artist skills and it is very easy to make really beautiful fashionable makeup with it.
Maybelline x Gigi Hadid Eye Contour Palette in cool shade
899 rub.
The sisters Hadid are experiencing successful years of career: from the participants of the coolest fashion shows, girls have grown into full-fledged beauty-influenza. While Bella models for NARS and Dior, Gigi is releasing her own large collection with the American giant Maybelline. Best of all, this collaboration was done with lipstick in the classic (successful) Meibelin formula and palettes, clearly inspired by the same Urban Decay brand belonging to the same L'Oréal concern. Cool Eye Contour Palette in shade - almost Urban Decay Basics 2, only two and a half times cheaper: not ordinary neutral shades of excellent quality.
theBalm Nude Beach
3099 rub.
TheBalm lovers of pin-ups and old-fashioned cardboard boxes made the third palette in their line of shadows: Nude 'Tude and Nude Dude were followed by Nude Beach, which looks like a cosmetic embodiment of the Rammstein music video "Mein Land". theBalm follow the fashion, so Nude Beach came out with the right mix of classic nude, dark shades for smoky and grunge brick tones. The only failure of the palette is a stupid tassel: take yours.
Essence Holo Wow! Eye & Face Palette
365 rub.
Essence last spring surpassed itself a little and released a truly outstanding holographic collection Holo Wow! - with very beautiful sparkles and shadows in sticks. The main feature of the collection is a palette for face and eyes: this includes two basic colors and six prismatic, which can be used separately, and can be mixed. It is recommended to apply white and black shadows as a base, and paint a whole rainbow over the whole unicorn. If you are going to have fun all the trip, this stick is your best companion.
Photo: Smashbox, Ile de Bote, Kiko, MAC, Girlfriend, L'Etoile (1, 2, 3), Urban Decay, I Love Makeup, Rive Gauche, Ozon, Pudra