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The Sephora Collection Fiery Warm Nude Mega Mix Palette is a warm brown, bronze, and gold eyeshadow palette that contains 3 types of mattes and 5 shimmers with varying degrees of sparkle. There are no true glitters but one of the shimmers has some glitter particles in it.
Compared to the Fearless Cool Nude Palette, I enjoy this one a bit more. There was less fallout overall and for the style of eyeshadow I like to wear, I like the choice of shades better.
Price: $18
Availability: Sephora
Swatches
The shades are not named but are numbered 1-9 starting with 1 at the top left corner of the palette and 9 at the bottom right corner.
1 – Cream-powder hybrid. Pale peachy nude with a mostly matte finish.
2 – Copper shimmer with mostly small shimmer particles and a few larger sparkles.
3 – True powder matte. Deep reddish brown.
4 – Light peachy nude matte with micro fine sparkles.
5 – Medium bronze sparkly shimmer. More fine shimmer than larger sparkle.
6 – Golden white sparkly/flakey/glittery shimmer. Has a thicker and waxier feel to it.
7 – True powder matte. Medium orangey brown.
8 – Pale gold with larger flakey sparkles. Slightly drier, doesn’t grab onto skin as readily as shade 6.
9 – Yellow gold shimmer with larger flakey sparkles and a waxier feel.
There is 1 creamy-powder in here and it applied about the same as the ones in the other palettes. This one is a slightly deeper color which I think helps it to look a little more flattering. It is not deep enough to use as a crease shade but is good for blending and diffusing other shades or (on my complexion) to use as a color corrector and evening shade on the inner corner. I don’t love this formula as a “base” because the heaviness can still be seen even with other eyeshadows on top of it.
Both of the true powder mattes were nice. They gave me rich, even color payoff, blended easily and had little to no fallout.
The 1 matte with sparkle was decent. I did get a small amount of sparkle fallout from it, but the sparkles are very tiny and there’s not that much of it in the shade. I was able to use it heavily as a lid color and more lightly in the crease without much issue.
There are some very sparkly shimmers in this palette but I found these ones less messy than the ones in the Fearless Cool Nude Palette. The only one I didn’t give a good try on the lid was Shade 9. The way I used it probably wasn’t the best to test for fallout, but I remember it stuck well to the skin. Most are different enough to tell them apart on the eye except for Shades 6 and 8. Those two stand out well from each other in the pan but I think they look very similar in color once I put them on the lid.
Looks
Look 1:
- No Primer (but lightly used concealer on the lid)
- 4 – All over lid/crease (brush then tapped extra on with fingertip), lower lashline
- 7 – Add depth to upper outer part of crease
- 9 – Inner corner, upper part of winged liner (wet brush)
- 3 – Winged linger (wet brush, layered over top the previous shimmer)
The shimmer in shade 4 is extremely fine and pretty sparse. I got a little bit of sparkle fallout but it was very minimal for how heavily I applied this shade and it was easy to brush away.
Shade 3 was a nice matte, good color payoff, easy to blend, no noticeable fallout, not too powdery/messy in the pan. The formula is well balanced so it doesn’t feel dry/dusty.
Look 2:
- No Primer (but lightly used concealer on the lid)
- 1 – Inner corner, transition
- 4 – Add depth to outer crease
- 8 – Center of lid (dry brush)
- 2 – Lower lashline (dry brush)
I was hoping to show how shade 1 looks on the skin but it doesn’t translate all that well in the photos. Every shade in this collection that is this creamy formula sits on my lid this way. I find it more unflattering in real life than it comes across in photos. I prefer the true powder mattes in these palettes.
Shade 4 worked fine used this way — applied lightly with a fluffier brush, without regard for possible sparkle fallout. I had no issues. The fallout was very minimal and easy to clean up and the matte portion of the shade worked very well for this purpose.
Shade 8 is mainly sparkle with no noticeable base color (the way I used it). I didn’t apply it very heavily and it didn’t take much layering to get it to this point. It is not a very creamy feeling shade but it still adhered pretty well and surprisingly wasn’t very messy as far as fallout.
Shade 2 is the closest thing to a regular/standard shimmer. Mostly finer particles and a softer sheen. It felt slightly thin on color payoff but didn’t take me much time to build it up to this level.
Look 3:
- 1 – Inner corner, brow bone
- 3 – Inner/outer lid and crease
- 4 – Transition
- 2 – Center of lid
- 8 – Inner corner
- Make Up For Ever Artist Color Pencil in Limitless Brown – Waterline and smudged under lower lashline
Shade 3 was a good matte. I applied a lot of it and I didn’t get any noticeable fallout from it. It blended pretty well by itself but I wanted some warmth so I added shade 4 around the edges.
I also wanted to use Shade 2 again on the lid to get a better idea of the finish. Like I thought from the first time I used it, it has a softer sheen, isn’t sparkly, and had hardly any fallout which was a breath of fresh air compared to many of the other shimmers I’ve used from these palettes.
I didn’t quite use enough of Shade 8. It shows up but I should have used it over a slightly larger area so it would show up better. It’s a chunky shimmer. Looks like a glitter in the pan but it’s mainly sparkle + flakes.
Look 4:
- No Primer (but lightly used concealer on the lid)
- 7 – Crease, lower lashline
- 5 – Inner/outer lid (dry brush)
- 6 – Center of lid (dry brush, fingertip)
- 8 – Center of lower lashline (wet brush)
- 1 – Inner corner, lightly around edges of entire look to blend
- Loreal Voluminous Noir Balm Mascara – Upper and lower lashes
Shade 7 is a really nice matte. Most of the mattes in this collection are decent and there are a few that leave something to be desired, but this one stands out as being a little extra nice quality. Color payoff is great and it applies very smoothly. Easy blending, no noticeable fallout.
Shade 5 has a mixture of fine shimmer and larger sparkle but it’s a good balance between the two. The fine shimmer is dense enough to provide a solid base color so it goes on with a pretty high opacity. I got some fallout but there was less of it than with many of the other shimmers in this collection.
Shade 6 is a sparkly/flakey/glittery shimmer and it also has a thicker and waxier feel to it. I started out applying this with a brush and that did fine. It adhered perfectly well without having to wet my brush or use a sticky base and there was minimal fallout. However it went on a bit sheer and I wanted it to really show up, so I tapped on a bit more with my fingertip at the end. Sparkle annoys me lately but a formula like this one makes it much easier to tolerate.
Shade 8 is a drier type of sparkle and one that produces more fallout so I didn’t even try using a dry brush with it.
Shade 1 is a cream-powder but it almost matches my skin tone and I feel like that helps it look a little more flattering than the lighter shades in this formula in this collection.