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The Sephora Collection Wild Khaki Nude Mega Mix Palette is a warm brown neutral palette with a touch of green. It contains 2 cream-powder matte hybrids, 3 true powder mattes, 3 shimmers with sparkle, and 1 smooth shimmer with all fine particles.
This selection of shades is one I’d describe as “everyday glam”. I thought this palette was better than the Fearless Cool Nude and Rebellious Rosey Nude for overall quality. All the mattes in here ranged from very decent to great. The ease of use and fallout from the shimmers was about on par with the Fiery Warm Nude palette. I liked this one.
Price: $18
Availability: Sephora
Swatches
The shades are not named but are numbered 1-9 starting with 1 at the top left corner and 9 at the bottom right corner.
1 – Cream-powder hybrid. Pale warm nude with subtle golden tones and a mostly matte finish.
2 – Olive-toned bronze shimmer with a little bit of sparkle.
3 – True powder matte. Medium olive-toned brown.
4 – Pale nude shimmer with lots of larger sparkle, a small amount of glitter and not much of a base color. Feels waxier, adheres well.
5 – Medium green shimmer with larger sparkle. Mostly cooler toned because of what looks like a deep greyish green base color but has a golden sparkly sheen.
6 – Cream-powder hybrid. Black with a satin-matte finish. This gives off a “dewier” look than a true powder matte would.
7 – True powder matte. Deep warm brown.
8 – Deep bronze shimmer. All small shimmer particles.
9 – True powder matte. Light warm golden nude.
Looks
Look 1:
- 1 – Inner corner, brow bone, inner lid
- 2 – Inner lower lashline (dry brush)
- 3 – Crease
- 4 – Inner corner, brow bone (dry brush)
- 5 – Outer lower lashline (dry brush)
- 6 – Liner, smudged into upper lashline
- 7– Inner crease, outer lid
- 8– Center of lid
- 9 – Transition above crease
- Make Up For Ever Artist Color Pencil in Boundless Bisque – Waterline
- Loreal Voluminous Noir Balm Mascara – Upper lashes
- Winky Lux Detail Oriented Mascara – Lower lashes
I used every shade here. Didn’t use any primer but I did put a little bit of foundation on the lid and I used a powder foundation to set the lid before applying any of the shadows. I didn’t notice anything annoying or unpleasant about any of the shades. I thought they all worked well. I can see a tiny bit of fallout in the photos from the deepest matte. Even the sparkly shimmers didn’t have much fallout. The inner corner shimmer looks like it might have some glitter particles in it. From an angle, they look darker than the rest of the color in this shade and it looks like dirt or fallout from a deeper shade, but it’s not. It adhered nicely without the help of a setting spray and applied over another powder. The mattes were slightly powdery and gave me a little bit of kickup when I picked some up with a brush. It was most noticeable with shade 9. I don’t think it was excessive though.
Look 2:
- 7 – Outer crease, outer lower lashline
- 9 – Transition for outer crease
- 6 – Outer lid
- 5 – Center of lid (dry brush)
- 8 – Inner lid, inner crease (dry brush)
- 1 – Inner corner
Shade 7 had a lot of pigmentation and blended okay by itself but being so dark, I found it helpful to use Shade 9 around the edges to diffuse the blend some more. Shade 9 was also nicely pigmented. Both of these seemed better than the mattes in the Rebellious Rosey Nude Palette.
Shade 6 is a cream-powder hybrid. It wasn’t hard to build up to the color payoff you see here, it adhered well, and blended easily. I didn’t use it over a large enough area to get a good feel for if it made my lid look more textured or dry compared to the lighter shades in this formula, but I feel like it may look slightly better in this deeper shade.
Shade 8 was a really nice shimmer. It is mostly, if not completely, made up of fine shimmer had great color payoff, adhered easily to the lid, didn’t require much building.
Shade 5 has sparkles and fine shimmer and wasn’t quite as easy to build up as the previous shimmer, but was still pretty good. It had a very little fallout.
Look 3:
- 3 – Crease, lower lashline
- 2 – All over lid (dry brush, fingertip)
- 1 – Inner corner, brow bone, used to blend around edges of matte brown
Shade 3 was a pretty good matte. I didn’t feel it was too sheer or too pigmented, color payoff was just right. I used Shade 1 to help smooth out the edges of the blend but I feel I could have skipped that and it would’ve looked fine.
Shade 2 was also decent. It seems to have mostly fine shimmer in it but I can see some tiny sparkles in it too. There was a very small amount of fallout but I had no issue brushing it off my skin. I was able to get a nice level of coverage with a dry brush, which, in real life, I felt looked perfectly fine. In photos I noticed it was ever so slightly uneven, so went back and applied a bit more with my fingertip to even it out.
Look 4:
- 9 – Crease, lower lashline
- 7 – Outer lid
- 8 – Center of lid (dry brush)
- 4 – Inner corner (dry brush)
Shade 9 worked well for the crease. Not much work to build it up to be easily visible. Blended out smoothly. I didn’t use any other shades to help it look smoother around the edges. Went on evenly. Decent quality.
Shade 7 was also a good matte. Good level of pigment, even color payoff. As far as I could tell it seemed to blend well, though I did sheer it into the lighter brown, which makes it more difficult to see. No fallout. In any case, it was not frustrating at all.
Shade 8 is the type of shimmer I prefer recently. No sparkle at all, all fine shimmer, high level of color payoff with minimal effort required to apply it. Almost no fallout.
Shade 4 was pretty nice too. This was is a sparkly “topper” type of shade. It is made of white flecks of sparkle without a base color. I was careful in how I applied it but I didn’t have too much fallout from it. I think if I was in a rush, being impatient, not being careful, I could easily get more fallout from it though.