10 palettes of shadows that really make makeup easier
Text: Moore Sobolev, author of the telegram channel and beauty blog Fierce & Cute
Many rightly dislike big shadow palettes: not all shades come in handy and become loved and it is not always clear how to choose from the millions of combinations of colors offered. Meanwhile, with such sets it is easiest to build a harmonious and diverse makeup. Moore Soboleva chose the top ten beautiful and convenient palettes that you can buy right now.
Urban Decay Full Spectrum
5500 rubles
In 2016, the brand widely celebrated its twentieth anniversary and broke its own impressive record in terms of the number of new cool palettes. The space Moondust, which did not reach Russia Alice Through the Looking Glass, was slaughtered XX Vice LTD Reloaded, combining the main shades of Urban Decay for twenty years of work, matte Naked Basics Ultimate and two luxurious lipstick sets - Vice Junkie and Vice Blackmail (as the brand this year she still managed to launch a line of one hundred and twenty-nine Vice lipsticks - a separate amazing question). Crowning this royal pyramid is the luxurious Full Spectrum - twenty-one shades, uncompromisingly bright, mostly new colors and not a hint of neutrality. If someone dreamed of an enhanced version of Electric, it's time to hurry: limited paletka.
Sleek Makeup i-Divine Goodnight Sweetheart
€10,49
The i-Divine palettes of shadows are a hit part of the range of the British budget brand Sleek Makeup, which diligently produces limited versions almost every season. Dedicated to February 14, the Goodnight Sweetheart collection all looks very pretty, but its star, of course, is the same name palette in red and purple hues. This is ideal for those who want to experiment with these shades of shadows: if you want, you can even draw supervanguard makeup with Goodnight Sweetheart, and it is even easier to make a languid and at the same time relevant evening make-up that emphasizes any shade of eyes.
Maybelline The Blushed Nudes
849 rubles
The L'Oréal corporation is able and fond of using the experience of the "senior" luxury brands: L'Oréal Paris produces cushions and varnish lipstick based on the hits of Lancôme, and the Kérastase technologies adopt the Elseve series. With the accession to the concern Urban Decay, the brand made an affordable version of the famous Naked: The Nudes series (nod and Naked 2), The Blushed Nudes, a tribute to Naked 3, and The Rock Nudes - a version of Naked Smoky. All three are good, but the most atypical of them is The Blushed Nudes: if it is easy to find classic nude palettes on the market, then successful pink-gray-reddish shades are already more difficult. Of course, the grinding of Maybelline is not so small, and the Shimmer is more pronounced, but on the whole is very worthy.
YSL Couture Variation Tuxedo
from 4839 rubles
The brand, which has relied on rejuvenation and rock and roll in recent years, released two 10-color palettes in line with the trend a couple of years ago (later two more were added, but unfortunately they do not exist in Russia). And if everything is clear with Nu, then Tuxedo is a more interesting story. The compact and comfortable for traveling palette includes ten shades for color and classical Smoky: one white and nine dark, including blue and dark purple. More restrained options with a palette are also excellent; there is the whole gradation of gray and silver colors.
L'Oréal Paris Color Riche La Palette Ombrée
1175 rubles
If Maybelline creatively recycles the heritage of Urban Decay, then L'Oréal Paris follows in the footsteps of YSL - and produces two ten-color palettes in indistinguishable long black cases. Inside, however, everything is somewhat different - the L'Oréal Paris smoky palette is much less uncompromising than its older brother, and brighter: it has golden, blue and purple, and almost all shades are dull. The problem with La Palette Ombrée is the same as that of the previously released La Palette Nude, the lack of pigmentation and dryness of the shadows, which does not allow for the creation of deep makeup.
Artdeco Most Wanted Smokey Meets Metallic
1490 rubles
The detailed German brand is stupid in our market, and this is a shame, because it has very interesting products in its assortment, most of them of excellent quality. The Most Wanted series includes palettes for lips and face (exhaustively large, as is customary for the brand), as well as, naturally, shadows in several versions. Smokey Meets Metallic is a twelve-color palette - mostly daring shades with excellent pigmentation and noticeable glitters - whose space names directly refer to the Urban Decay Moondust line.
Lancôme Auda [City] in London
4696 rubles
A year after the successful Nuda-Auda [City] in Paris, creative director of the brand Lisa Eldridge made Auda [City] in London - the same large palette of sixteen shades, this time cold and complex. Sixteen colors are logically combined into four quartets: nude, purple, khaki and gray, with the lower horizontal ruler being glitters that can be worn separately or on top of more modest counterparts. Among the shades there are quite unique ones, the only complaint is that the pigmentation is not high enough: I would like not to layer such beautiful shadows on the primer, but to apply them in one motion.
MAC Pastel Times Nine
3270 rubles
For some reason, small and very useful palettes of shadows for nine shades, which recently appeared in the assortment of the MAS, did not receive due attention on blogs - and this is one of the most interesting lines of the brand. Each palette of Times Nine includes well-chosen, harmonized with each other shadows of the standard for the brand of excellent quality. There is a set of reddish burgundy times nine, purple purple times nine and an unusual pastel times nine. Pale shades are rarely obtained well pigmented and capable of feathering, but the MAC did it all right. The only point is the packaging, and the shadows are quite fragile, so you need to carefully handle the palette.
WYCON Geisha Secret
about 1,300 rubles in a boutique WYCON
Funny Italians, issuing one strong collection after another, released this nude palette as part of the Cosmo Samurai winter collection. The name Geisha Secret, of course, is so-so - especially for the brand, which supposedly stands in the positions of empowerment - but the palette itself is very good: a compact case with a large mirror, a balance of warm and cold shades, different finishes and good pigmentation. Brushes are not attached to the set, but this does not make it less convenient: even the most fastidious lovers of makeup should have enough of this palette on any short trip.
Makeup Revolution Mermaids vs Unicorns
630 rubles
An inexpensive brand has entered our market recently and is rather quiet - and by Western instagram bloggers, it has also been loved for a long time. Makeup Revolution became famous for its liquid matte lipstick and just large palettes of twelve and thirty-two shades. Mermaids vs Unicorns is one of the most fun: bright colors, not a single matte, solid mother of pearl and large sequins in the style of the early two thousandths. It may not be very easy to make a modern beautiful one with this palette, but to add piercing pearl turquoise as an accent - that’s what.
Photo: Urban Decay, Sleek MakeUp, Amazon, YSL, Pudra (1, 2), Lancome, MAC, Tam Beauty, Wycon