What it is: ColourPop Lip and Cheek Balms are multi-use cream products that can be used as blushes or tinted lip balms. 

Price/Quantity: $12 for 4.75 g / 0.17 oz

Availability: ColourPop exclusive

Shade Range: 3 shades, can be purchased as a set for a small discount or individually.

Packaging: Plastic heart shaped compact with a mirror inside and a snap closure. It has a notch at the very bottom of the heart point where I can use both of my thumbs to pry the lid apart from the base to open it. I feel it is easy to open and stays shut securely. I don’t think the pan is removable from the compact.

Smell/Fragrance: It smells like nothing to me. The very bottom of the ingredients lists some different fruit oils, but they don’t seem to add any kind of scent to the product.

Expiration/Shelf Life: I don’t see an indication of expiration on the product itself or the box it came in.

Ingredients:

PENTAERYTHRITYL TETRAISOSTEARATE, DIMER DILINOLEYL DIMER DILINOLEATE, TRIISOSTEARIN, ISOPROPYL MYRISTATE, POLYETHYLENE, MICROCRYSTALLINE WAX, POLYBUTENE, SYNTHETIC BEESWAX, STEARALKONIUM HECTORITE, ZINC STEARATE, PHENOXYETHANOL, PROPYLENE CARBONATE, CAPRYLYL GLYCOL, DIETHYLHEXYL SYRINGYLIDENEMALONATE, THEOBROMA GRANDIFLORUM SEED BUTTER, TOCOPHEROL, ETHYLHEXYLGLYCERIN, HEXYLENE GLYCOL, BUTYROSPERMUM PARKII (SHEA) BUTTER, CAPRYLIC/CAPRIC TRIGLYCERIDE, FRAGARIA VESCA (STRAWBERRY) SEED OIL, PRUNUS ARMENIACA (APRICOT) KERNEL OIL, RUBUS IDAEUS (RASPBERRY) SEED OIL, SAMBUCUS NIGRA SEED OIL, ALUMINA, IRON OXIDES (CI 77491, CI 77499), RED 28 LAKE (CI 45410), TITANIUM DIOXIDE (CI 77891), YELLOW 5 LAKE (CI 19140).

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Performance

I picked up Heart’s Content, which is the lightest shade. It’s a neutral, maybe even leaning warm light-medium pink with no shimmer or sparkle. Color payoff is buildable easily going from sheer to very noticeable on me if I layer it up. It’s not very dewy and doesn’t leave my skin feeling tacky/sticky. Just looks like a natural skin finish. My hair doesn’t really stick to it unless I try hard to make it happen.  I have lighter and cooler pinks and I feel the depth and warmth of this is just right for my skin tone. 

It feels somewhat firm in the pan but is creamy enough to pick up easily with a quick swipe of the finger. I can apply it to the cheeks with my fingers but the firmness of the product requires a bit of effort to blend it out. Using a brush is much faster and easier. The product has a lot of wax in it and as a blush, it doesn’t leave my skin feeling overly balmy, greasy, or sticky. As a lip balm, personally, I think it feels a little too waxy and not necessarily hydrating or protective. It applies easily to the lips, stays on decently well and doesn’t have much of a shine.

I’ve tested it for wear time twice (8-10 hours) and I can tell it fades by the very end of the day but doesn’t disappear completely. For most of the day, I notice no fading at all. It’s only by the very end that I see noticeably less color on my cheeks. As long as I apply it a bit heavily early in the day, it holds on well enough.

Comparisons

Swatched from left to right, I have:

• ColourPop Lip and Cheek Balm in Heart’s Content
• Elf Liquid Blushes in Pinky Promise and Dusty Rosé
• Saie Dew Blushes in Baby and Chilly
• Too Faced Cloud Crush Blurring Blushes in Candy Clouds and Velvet Crush

Elf Liquid Blushes are way more pigmented but leave a similar finish on the skin (not overly dewy and not dry/matte).

Saie Dew Blushes are dewier, stickier and are more geared toward drier skin types. If you have oilier skin, you’d probably like the ColourPop or Elf blushes better.

Too Faced Blushes are just here for color reference!

The ColourPop Lost In Love Palette is a limited edition Valentine’s Day palette for 2024. It mainly consists of various pinks and one true red but also has some peach/orange/coral and berry shades. There are 6 mattes, 4 shimmers, and 2 pressed glitters. As far as I can tell from the outside of the palette and the box, it doesn’t seem that any of the shades are pressed pigments. Some of the deepest mattes left a tiny bit of staining on the skin during swatching, but none of the shades left my eyelids stained after use.

The size of the palette is like the ColourPop Fairy Well Palette, which is slightly larger than some of their older 12-pan palettes (like the So Very Lovely Palette) and has larger 26mm pans. The pans are magnetic and removable but are shallower in depth than regular single shadows from ColourPop and other brands.

Price: $18
Availability: ColourPop exclusive

Swatches

Falling – Pale pink shimmer without much of a base color. Particles are larger than fine shimmer but not super chunky/large.
Ever & Ever – Matte pale peach.
Totally Smitten – Pressed multicolored glitter in a sheer, shimmery pink base.
Dibs – Cooler-toned matte light pink.
All My Heart – Bright tangerine orange shimmer with a mixture of fine shimmer and larger sparkle and a sheer pinky-coral base color.
So In Love – Medium warm pink shimmer with lots of large silver sparkle. Lots of fallout from this shade.
Cupid Called – Very bright medium pink with fine shimmer.
Better With U – Pressed multicolored glitter in a sheer, shimmery peachy-gold base.
Amorous – Vibrant, matte coral-orange.
Fave Texts – Intense tomato red with a matte finish. This is a warmer red that doesn’t turn pink as it is sheered out.
Just Us – Pinky raspberry red with a matte finish. Feels a bit drier and grittier than the previous two mattes.
Yours Truly – Deep berry pink with a matte finish. Same drier/gritter feel as Just Us.

The mattes have good color payoff in general, with Ever & Ever being the sheerest but still pigmented enough. They are slightly drier in feel than other matte shadows I have, especially the two deepest shades, which are also a bit gritty. They apply to the lid with plenty of intensity right off the bat but can be easy to brush away with blending or when placing the shimmers/glitters over them. Using a primer helped them to adhere better and reduced the amount of dusting away that happened. Whatever I wasn’t able to prevent, I just fixed at the end of the look I was doing by layering on a bit more of any shade that got sheered out. I noticed this more with the deeper mattes than with the lighter ones.

The 4 shimmers vary slightly in finish and they also vary in the amount of fallout I get from them. The hot pink Cupid Called is the only one with all fine shimmer and almost no fallout. The one with the worst fallout was So In Love. Compared to other shimmer formulas I have, these aren’t quite as “creamy” or “buttery smooth”, but they apply with reasonable ease. For some, I find it helpful to apply them with a dampened brush or a fingertip to get a bit more color payoff and opacity out of them.

The 2 pressed glitters have a waxy texture that adheres to the skin without the help of any other product. The larger particles in both shades seem like they are basically the same coloring and look like they are duo chrome or multi chrome. The majority of the glitter particles are gold/orange/warm green and fewer of them are indigo/violet. Better With U, the warmer one, also has a tiny bit of green in it. Both have smaller shimmer particles as well. Totally Smitten has light pink shimmer and Better With U has light gold shimmer. When used on the lid, I don’t see a whole lot of the shimmery base unless I apply it very heavily. For the most part, I get a sheer overspray of warm-ish multicolored glitter.

Pros and Cons

Things I like:

• Fills some gaps in my collection. I don’t have much pink eyeshadow in general.
• Good variety of textures and depths to use it as a standalone palette.
• The pinky/orange theme instead of strictly pink and red is a nice change for a Valentine’s collection.
• Color payoff is pretty good overall. The two very lightest shades in the top row are the sheerest but still show up on me.
• The pressed glitters are easy to use. They adhere to the skin well by themselves without needing help from any other product. I also feel that I’m able to move them around if I don’t quite place them where I want at first. Fallout is mostly minimal.
• None of the shades stained my eyelids.

Drawbacks to consider:

• Some of the matte shades feel like they dust away easily during blending or when adding shimmers over top. Using a primer helped them stick to the lid better. After applying shimmer, I also would go and layer on a bit more of any matte shades that seemed to sheer out.
• The only shade with a lot of fallout was So In Love. The rest either had little to no fallout or a small/tolerable amount of fallout.
• The glitters take more effort to remove than the rest of the shades. When doing some of the glitter heavy looks, I felt the need to use an extra makeup remover wipe to make sure I got all the glitter off.

Worth Buying?

I think the price for this palette is actually really good for all that you get. Even if you don’t like the entire palette by itself, if there are enough shades in here you think you would like to have and use with other stuff you already own, it might be a good one to pick up. If you are someone that is very picky about quality and already have lots of stuff from indie brands, this is probably not going to do it for you quality-wise. Everything in here works well enough but you might just not really love it. Personally, I think it’s a fun little palette and worth the $18.

Looks

Look 1:

• ColourPop Party Proof Eyeshadow Primer
• Ever & Ever – Crease, lower lashline
• Falling – All over lid (dry brush/finger)
• Sydney Grace Snow Queen + Makeup Geek Vanilla Bean single shadows – Brow bone, inner corner
• Make Up For Ever Infinite Sand Liner – Waterline
• Winky Lux Detail Oriented Mascara – Upper and lower lashes

The lighter matte turned out lighter / pinker toned than I was expecting based on how it swatched. It has pretty good color payoff but I did build it up a little. Very easy blending, didn’t dust away easily, didn’t look chalky for being a lighter shade. The shimmer photographed nice and has kind of a unique light pink sparkle/reflect. It adhered decently well but I did use my finger to apply it more heavily for better payoff. There was a notable amount of fallout that I had to clean up but I don’t feel it was annoyingly excessive. Particles are larger than fine shimmer but not super chunky/large.

Look 2:

• ColourPop Party Proof Eyeshadow Primer
• Makeup Geek Vanilla Bean single shadow – Brow bone, inner corner
• Dibs – Above crease, center part of lower lashline
• Yours Truly – Liner, outer lower lashline
• Better With U – All over lid, layered over mattes along lower lashline
• Falling – Inner corner, brow bone
• Winky Lux Detail Oriented Mascara – Lower lashes
• Elf Lash Xtndr Mascara – Upper lashes
• Make Up For Ever Boundless Bisque Liner – Waterline

I used one of the pressed glitters here. On the upper lid, I mainly kept it on a bare part of the lid so I could see what kind of base color there was in it (not much really) and on the lower lashline I used it over some of the matte shades. I like the glitter better over something a little deeper to help it pop more. It has a waxy feel and it picks up and transfers easily to the lid with a flat brush. I got a few specks of fallout from it, but it mostly stays well on the lid and is pretty easy to move around if I don’t place it exactly how I want at first. I have no idea how it might lift deeper eyeshadow underneath or how it might affect wear time. Previous pressed glitters I’ve used from ColourPop have caused creasing quickly on me. Short take on the glitter: I like it.

I also used Falling again and I can see by how I used it, it’s one of those shimmers that has a more muted/tamped down reflect. It’s not super shiny but more glowy. I used it with a dry brush only and it adhered perfectly fine with not a ton of fallout. I think this shade has more fallout when I apply it with a finger.

Look 3:

• No primer, used whatever small amount of leftover concealer was still on my brush to pat over the lid
• Ever & Ever – Inner transition, inner lower lashline
• Dibs – Outer transition, outer lower lashline
• Yours Truly – Outer lid
• Amorous – Inner lid
• All My Heart – Center of lid (dry brush)
• Totally Smitten – Inner corner
• Winky Lux Detail Oriented Mascara – Upper and lower lashes
• Makeup Geek Vanilla Bean single shadow – Inner corner, brow bone

I applied the lighter mattes first and then went in with the deeper mattes, finding they didn’t want to adhere very well. I think it may be better to go the opposite way with the mattes in this palette. They were easy to brush away when blending or adding the shimmer over top. They don’t feel dry or thin though. I only used a dry brush to apply the shimmer on the center of the lid but I did spend some time layering it. I was tempted to use a setting spray but decided not to, to see how it would look in photos. It didn’t get much fallout and it ended up looking nice in the photos.

I applied the glitter way too heavily on the inner corner. It was pretty easy to move around but I couldn’t really go back and sheer it out after I applied too much. It has somewhat of a light shimmery pink base color behind the larger sparkles.

Look 4:

• No primer
• Anastasia Beverly Hills Baby Cakes single shadow – Brow bone, inner corner
• Just Us – All over lid/crease
• Amorous – Transition above outer crease
• So In Love – Center of lid (dry brush only)
• All My Heart – Lower lashine
• Winky Lux Detail Oriented Mascara – Upper and lower lashes
• Elf Lash Xtndr Mascara – Layered a bit over previous mascara on upper lashes for more volume

I went darker to lighter this time with the mattes and didn’t have as much of an issue with adherence. The shimmer on the lid has more chunky sparkle than All My Heart and I had much more fallout with it. It also felt a bit crumbly as I picked it up to use it on the lid. Shimmer on the lower lashline applied without any problems. Blending in general was easy but I did see a tiny bit of dusting away as I tried to use the orange above the crease, so I built the pinky-red shade up a bit once again afterward.

Look 5:

• ColourPop Party Proof Eyeshadow Primer
• Makeup Geek Vanilla Bean + Anastasia Beverly Hills Baby Cakes single shadows – Brow bone, inner corner
• Yours Truly – All over lid, crease
• Dibs – Lower lashline
• Better With U – Center of lid
• Totally Smitten – Center of lower lashline
• Winky Lux Detail Oriented Mascara – Lower lashes
• Elf Lash Xtndr Mascara – Upper lashes

Yours Truly did better applied this way without any other shadows preventing from adhering. I still had to pack it on a second time in some areas after using the glitter though. The glitter lifted the color a bit. I used a pencil brush to do all the blending around the edges. I usually use a flat shader but the only one I really like has white bristles and I don’t want to stain them with this color. Generally felt okay about the quality of most of this. I got kind of a lot of fallout from the glitter I used on the lower lashline. The other glitter didn’t have as much.

Look 6:

• ColourPop Party Proof Eyeshadow Primer
• Sydney Grace Snow Queen – Brow bone, inner corner
• Amorous – All over lid/crease
• Ever & Ever – Transition above crease
• All My Heart – Center of lid (wet brush)
• Amorous + Ever & Ever mixed – Base color for lower lashline
• Better With U – Layered over mattes on lower lashline
• Winky Lux Detail Oriented Mascara – Lower lashes
• Elf Lash Xtndr Mascara – Upper lashes

All My Heart went on much better with a wet brush but possibly looked a bit thick. Didn’t have much fallout from the glitter on the lower lashline. This looked more neon in photos than in person.

Look 7:

• ColourPop Party Proof Eyeshadow Primer
• Dibs – All over lid/crease
• Falling – Inner corner/brow bone (dry brush only)
• Totally Smitten – Center of lid
• So In Love – Lower lashline
• Winky Lux Detail Oriented Mascara – Lower lashes
• Elf Lash Xtndr Mascara – Upper lashes

Dibs performed like the darker mattes where it was easy to dust away and lift with the glitter, except that being lighter, it wasn’t as easy to notice this. I packed on some more toward to end to get it looking good again. None of the shimmer/sparkle/glitter shades had much fallout. Adherence was decent all around except for the issue with the matte.

Look 8:

• Don’t remember if I used primer here
• Ever & Ever – Inner lid/crease
• Fave Texts – Outer lid/crease, somewhat winged out
• Cupid Called – Lower lashline
• Make Up For Ever Boundless Bisque Liner – Waterline
• Danessa Myricks Tourmaline velvet pomade (from the Defining Neutrals Palette) – Smudged into upper lashes and winged out slightly

This last look was me trying to use the remaining 2 shades I hadn’t used yet. I wouldn’t have normally chosen to pair them together but that’s what I ended up with.

The ColourPop Enchanted Palette is a purple palette with 12 shades of eyeshadows, pressed pigments and one pressed glitter in various finishes. It came out together with the ColourPop Fairy Well Palette and both of these have larger pan sizes than many other ColourPop palettes. Pans are 26mm in diameter and about 1/2 the depth of most of my other single shadows. The shades are magnetic but they won’t fit into some of their other palettes (like the Bare Necessities, Stone Cold Fox, etc.). This goes for $18 and is currently sold out but still listed on ColourPop‘s website.

I liked most of the mattes except for one. They were pigmented, buildable, and blended easily without patchiness. The one exception was New Realm. The color is nice and it helps to add some depth but it is more dry than some other deep shades I’ve used from this brand and doesn’t adhere as well. The two lightest mattes feel like some of ColourPop’s better mattes and the pressed pigments are surprisingly easy to use for how bold and dark they are.

The pressed pigments look different enough in the pans next to each other but when I actually use them in looks, it is very hard to tell them apart. They are marked with stars next to their names on the back of the palette to denote that they are not meant to be used in the immediate eye area. I personally haven’t noticed any irritation from using them on my eyes but they do leave a light reddish stain on the skin which fades by the next day.

I like some of the shimmers more than others. All of them contain varying amounts of larger sparkle and have some level of fallout. Magic Maker is the most sparkly of them all and is more like a topper. The rest have less sparkle, more fine shimmer and a more visible base color. Toad and Mischievous were harder to pick up on a brush and required more building to get a satisfying level of color payoff. I thought Maze was pretty good and Berry Pickin’ was easy to use.

The only matte with sparkle is Fairycore. ColourPop has some matte with sparkle shades that I actually like but this isn’t one of them because the sparkles are quite large and don’t stick or show up well. I would have preferred if they had left this as just a true matte.

Swatches

Note: All shades are swatched twice. On the left, they are heavily swatched with my finger and on the right I mostly used brushes and sheered the shades out.

Magic Maker – Sheer pale pink shimmer with a strong gold sheen and larger sparkles. Mostly comes off as a sparkly topper shade. Feels silky and picks up easily. Lots of fallout.

Fairycore – Light, matte, brownish pink base with LARGE silver sparkles. I really don’t like this shade. The matte base is not bad but the sparkles are super messy and they don’t really show up well on the lid.

Vine – Light muted purple with a matte finish. This has a soft, velvety feel to the touch. Blends very easily.

Shapeshifter (Pressed Glitter) – Multicolored glitter and pale pink shimmer mixed into a sheer waxy base. Applied over just my skin or a lighter shade, it isn’t as easy to see all the different colors of the glitter. They are more visible when applied over a deeper shade.

Maze – Light pinky bronze shimmer with sparkles. Has a fair amount of fallout. It shows up well though even if I apply it with a dry brush. One of the better shimmers in the palette. 

Berry Pickin’ – Bright bubblegum pink shimmer with a good amount of larger sparkle. Picks up decently well on a brush but some building helps for more intense color payoff. Has sparkle fallout.

Toad – Orchid purple shimmer with a bit of small sparkle. One of the sheerer shades in the palette. Needs layering or using a damp brush.

Mischievous – Dusky plum shimmer with a small amount of tiny sparkle. Feels firmer and doesn’t pick up easily on a brush. Needs building to show up well.

Got Wings – Reddish mauve with a matte finish. Soft, velvety texture. Good, even color payoff, easy to blend. Tiny bit of fallout.

Spellcaster (Pressed Pigment) – Deep berry pink with strong purple tones. Feels drier and slightly grittier but goes on evenly and with plenty of color payoff. Not hard to blend out. This one leaves a light stain on the skin.

Fae (Pressed Pigment) – Another deep pink shade but this one has stronger red tones. Very hard to tell this and the previous one apart in practice. Performs about the same as Spellcaster. Stains the skin lightly.

New Realm – Smoky deep purple with a matte finish. Kind of dry and doesn’t adhere well so it comes off like it isn’t pigmented. I can build it up a little bit, but it dusts away easily. Not the easiest thing to blend.

Looks

I started this out by blending Vine broadly through the crease, and added Got Wings in a smaller area on the outer lid and crease for some depth. Magic Maker is applied over the inner half of the lid and crease, slightly overlapping the matte shades underneath. Using an angled brush, I smudged a bit of New Realm on the outer portion of the lower lashline and added Shapeshifter to the inner half for some sparkle. This was a wear test and it lasted for about 7 hours without primer before I noticed light creasing.

To begin, I applied Vine above the crease with a large fluffy brush. Then I used a smaller fluffy brush to apply Fae to the inner and outer lid, blending upward into the crease, leaving the center of the lid bare. On the center of the lid, I applied a small amount of NYX Glitter Primer and then patted Fairycore over top, trying to get as much of the sparkle in it to adhere and reduce fallout. Using a pencil brush, I applied Mischievous to the inner corner and along the outer edge of the lower lashline, sort of like a wing but from the bottom side of the eye. On the center part of the lower lashline, I used a thick eyeliner brush to apply Berry Pickin’. All of the shimmers were used with dry brushes.

In this look, I’m using the other pressed pigment. If you go between both of these looks, it is hard to tell them apart on the eye. I started by pressing Spellcaster all over the lid and blended it upward into the crease. For some shine, I initially applied Maze with a dry brush on the center of the lid but it didn’t adhere super well over the matte, so I later used a damp brush. Mischievous is applied to the lower lashline with a damp brush and ended up looking so much better applied this way. The warm shimmer you see on the inner corner and above the crease is a bit of Lil Orb from the ColourPop Fairy Well Palette. This was also applied using a damp brush.

I wanted to see how well New Realm would blend by itself and how well I could tell Berry Pickin’ and Toad apart on the eye. I used several brushes to apply New Realm – one to apply the initial layer, two to blend in the crease and around the edges, and one to pack on and build up color. This shade took a while to apply and get this level of color payoff. It is kind of dry and could be better at adhering. It sticks noticeably better over ColourPop Party Proof Primer and goes on more evenly. It blends easily over the primer and tends to dust away over just bare lids. By the time I was done with the entire look, it had already faded in the crease. Berry Pickin’ was applied first with a damp brush and then again with just a dry brush. Toad is applied to the lower lashline using a dry brush.

Out of my frustration with Fairycore up to this point, I wanted to find a combo of shades that would actually compliment it within the palette. I decided to try pairing it with almost all of the warmer shades in the palette. On the outer half of the eye, I used a fluffy brush to apply Got Wings mainly to the crease. Without the help of a sticky primer, I applied Fairycore with a flat shader brush to the inner half of the lid. Fallout was really bad and almost none of the sparkle remained on the lid, but the matte base color looked okay. For some depth and shine, I used New Realm along the outer lower lashline and applied Maze with a dry brush to the inner lower lashline.

The ColourPop Fairy Well Palette is a true neutral palette that contains the types of shades that could be used for daily makeup or to use as a neutral pairing palette with other palettes or single eyeshadows. It has a range of textures and depths that make it versatile enough to use for very natural, barely-there looks or you can go super smoky and glam. There are 4 true mattes, 4 shimmers, 2 pressed glitters, and 2 mattes with sparkle. The selection of mattes in here come in different undertones and there is one pretty deep shade to help “complete” looks with depth or definition. As of the post date, this is currently out of stock but still listed on ColourPop’s website for $18.

This palette came out alongside the ColourPop Enchanted palette. Both of these palettes look like the same format as some of ColourPop’s other 12 pan palettes by the layout and shape, however, the pan sizes are larger than the ones in many of their other palettes (like Bare Necessities, Stone Cold Fox, etc.). So, you can’t take shades from this palette and put them into something like one of their 30 pan palettes. The pans fit right in with other 26mm singles I have from ABH, Sydney Grace, etc., but they look like they are about 1/2 as deep and contain less eyeshadow in them. This size does make these better for creating custom palettes with other brands though.

My general feeling about this palette is that I like it but I don’t love it. I like all of the mattes. No complaints there. The shimmers are not bad but they don’t pack as much of a punch as other shimmers I’ve seen from ColourPop, especially the lighter 3 shades. They require more layering, or even using a dampened brush, if you really want them to pop. If you like a subtle wash of sheen, then you might like them as they are. I don’t mind that there are two pressed glitters. I think it adds the ability to play a little and go more glam when you feel like it.

The biggest downside for me are the two matte with sparkle shades. Cozy Cabin is a great light shade to have in addition to the more midtone and deeper shades but the added sparkle makes it so I don’t even want to touch it. The sparkle fallout is terrible and even under the best of circumstances, barely any of that sparkle remains visible on the lid. Hide & Seek has both sparkle and pigment fallout. It can be used over a sticky base to reduce some of that and the sparkle shows up much better in this shade than with Cozy Cabin. It’s just not something I want to deal with though. I’d rather use one of the pressed glitters over top a matte shade for a similar effect.

Note: Below, each shade is swatched twice. Once, just using my finger (on the left) and then again using a brush (on the right) so you can see how they look applied heavily vs lightly. It isn’t always necessary or helpful to see them swatched this way but with some shades it makes it easier for me to see what all is in them. A heavy swatch doesn’t always show if a shimmery shade has large sparkle in it and also frequently makes eyeshadow appear to have more color payoff than you might actually get on the eye. With mattes, I think it helps to give a better idea how the shade might look when blended and sheered out.

Swatches

Pixi Perf – Warm ivory with a soft sheen. Mostly fine shimmer with very few small sparkles mixed in.

Fairykin – Matte cool taupe. Even color payoff, easy to blend and build up.

Cozy Cabin – Light peachy-nude matte base with LARGE silver sparkle. The sparkle in this doesn’t stay put on the lid whatsoever as I’m applying the shade. Hardly any is actually visible in the final result. It also seems to look darker on the skin once it is applied, so it’s not ideal as a highlight on me.

Lil Orb – Light peachy beige shimmer with a scattering of small sparkle. This is somewhat sheer compared to other ColourPop shimmers I have. 

Wood Nymph – Light warm beige shimmer. 99% fine shimmer with a few flecks of small sparkle here and there. Sheerest shade in the palette, requires building unless you want a “no-makeup makeup” look.

Into The Forest (Pressed Glitter) – Mixture of copper and gold glitter in a sheer base of fine shimmer. The waxy base itself doesn’t have much of a color to it but the fine shimmer looks like a pale neutral gold.

Faun Guy (Pressed Glitter) – A lot like Into The Forest except this has gold and silver glitter mixed into the same type of shimmery base. Resulting look is maybe slightly brighter and less warm looking than the other glitter.

Pond – Medium pinky brown with a matte finish. Nice quality, just like Fairykin. Color payoff and blending are good.

Flower Crown – Medium warm brown. Has a subtle olive tone to it. This took slightly more effort to apply and blend out evenly. I still like it though.

Willow – Deeper cool bronze shimmer with some noticeable medium-size sparkle mixed it. This had a bit better color payoff than all the other shimmers. Moderate fallout.

Folklore – Deep chocolate brown with a matte finish. Not super warm. Has good color payoff. This is capable of being used without a transition shade as it blends well by itself.

Hide & Seek – Matte charcoal base with LARGE gold sparkles. There are enough sparkles in this that they show up well on the eye but I get LOTS of sparkle and pigment fallout if I don’t apply it over a tacky base.

Looks

To start this out, I used the two lighter mattes as transition shades, the cooler toned one on the inner part of the eye and the warmer one on the outer part of the eye. Then I used the deepest matte on the outer lid and blended it into the outer half of the crease. As an experiment, I applied NYX Glitter Primer over the outer portion of the lid, on top of the deep matte, and then applied Hide & Seek on top of the glitter glue. Used this way, I didn’t have too much fallout from this shade. For a pop of shine, I added one of the pressed glitters on the inner half of the lid. Along the lower lashline, I used Lil Orb on the inner half and Pixie Perf on the outer half. Finally, I attempted to use Cozy Cabin as an inner corner and brow bone highlight but it ended up being a bit darker than I wanted.

This look and the next are super simple 2-shadow looks. This has more of a pinky vibe and the next is more neutral. All I did was sweep Pond lightly through the crease with a fluffy brush and then topped the lid heavily with Lil Orb using just a dry brush.

Same technique as the last look. I kept the matte shade only in the crease, adding none to the lid, and then applied Wood Nymph to the lid with a dry brush for a bright look.

I started this out by lightly blending Pond above the crease to make it easier for the next few mattes to blend out smoothly. To build up some color and depth, I then used Flower Crown more heavily and lower in the crease. Then I applied Folklore over most of the lid using a few different brushes. I started with a flat shader, adding color mainly to the lid at first and then slowly worked the color upward toward the crease as there was less color on my brush. To get a smooth blend, I then used a small fluffy brush to blend this into the previous shade. I used a pencil brush to fill in any sheer spots on the lid and outer corner. I layered Willow mostly over the same area and in the same way that I applied Folklore. Along the bottom lashline, I have Fairykin on the outer half and Cozy Cabin on the inner half. It isn’t easy to see but Pixie Perf is applied as an inner corner highlight.

One shadow look using only Fairykin mainly on the outer half of the eye.

For this one I wanted to do something bright and give Cozy Cabin the best chance to shine. I started by using Pond lightly as a transition shade above the crease and along the lower lashline. I used Fairykin in a thin section of the outer crease for a slight added depth. Then I used a white creamy eyeshadow base on the lid, topped it with some NYX Glitter Primer and applied Cozy Cabin over that sticky base. I was able to get some of the sparkle in Cozy Cabin to adhere but I do wish more of it was visible.

This look at the next are almost the same but I wanted to see how different the two pressed glitters looked from each other. They are much more similar on the eye than they look in the pan. I used Flower Crown on a fluffy brush all over the lid and blended into the crease and layered Into the Forest over it using a small flat shader.

I used the same matte eyeshadow for this one and applied the glitter the same way as well. There was very little fallout from the glitter and it was relatively easy to apply evenly and move around on the lid to get it placed just right.

The ColourPop Sage The Day Palette, $14 at Ulta and ColourPop, contains 9 nature-inspired shades of green and brown. There are 4 true mattes, 4 shimmers, and 1 matte with sparkle. None of them are pressed pigments or glitters. The palette and pans are the same size as most of ColourPop’s previous 9-pans, like their monochromatic series. It is made of cardboard and the pans are magnetic and removable.

I like that this doesn’t smack you over the head with green but instead includes a wide variety of highly complimentary shades. For only being 9 shades, you can do a lot with this. A while back I decided I wanted to focus on using all my monochromatic 9-pan palettes from ColourPop and quickly realized that was a bad idea. I don’t know what it is about looking at 9 shades of a single color family that paralyzes me. Shade selections like these are much less intimidating.

The three lightest matte shades are all great quality with good pigmentation and easy blending. They feel soft and smooth and they adhere well to the lids without dusting away too easily. Picking up color on a brush is very easy and I don’t have to spend a lot of time building up color. The deepest one is also pretty good. It can be a little more tricky to get to adhere evenly but I feel this is one of ColourPop’s better deep mattes. It surprisingly blends out well without needing a transition shade to look good.

Manifest is the lone matte with sparkle and it has tinier sparkles than some other matte with sparkle shades I’ve used from ColourPop. There is fallout but it isn’t nearly as messy and some of that sparkle actually stays on the lid. It’s actually a usable shade, in other words.

Three of the shimmers have some sparkle mixed in with them. There is some sparkle fallout with Retreat Me having the most. Nature Bae is the only one that has all fine particles. All of them pick up on a brush and transfer to the skin without having to work hard or use tricks to get them to show up.

If you like this selection of shades, go for it, I don’t think you’ll be disappointed. This has been one of the more enjoyable eyeshadow palettes I’ve used in a while.

Swatches

Lit Vibes – Pale beige shimmer with a strong, vibrant green sheen and a good amount of gold sparkles.

Retreat Me – Nearly metallic greenish gold with lots of silver sparkles.

Sips Tea – Matte, pastel mint green.

Keep Calm – Light matte green. Leans more yellow than blue.

Tree of Life – Medium olive shimmer. This one has a deeper grayish base color with lots of fine yellow gold shimmer and gold sparkles.

Intuition – Medium, matte orangey brown.

Manifest – Deeper warm brown with tiny sparkles.

Nature Bae – Warm reddish-brown base with strong blue-green sheen. All fine shimmer.

Smudge Me – Deep greenish brown with a matte finish.

Looks

For this one I used Intuition as a transition shade over a large area of the crease and lower lashline to add a soft warm glow. I applied Manifest to the outer lid to add some depth and used Smudge Me close to both upper and lower lashes for definition. Finally, I topped the center of the lid with Tree of Life using a dry brush.

To start this out, I blended both of the pale matte greens in the crease and applied Tree of Life all over the lid with just a dry brush. On the lower lashline, I applied Intuition over a somewhat large area and then used Manifest more tightly against the lower lashline. For pops of light, I applied Retreat Me to the inner corner and Lit Vibes to the brow bone, also using dry brushes. All the shimmers had some fallout but nothing super bothersome.

This is a super easy look that doesn’t look too basic. All I did was sweep Intuition lightly but broadly all over the crease and along the lower lashline for soft warmth and definition. Then I topped the lid with Nature Bae.

Very similar concept as the last look, but this one requires more time to do. I applied Smudge Me heavily all over the lid and blended it carefully through the crease without using a transition shade. The quality of this shade is pretty good but because it’s so dark, it takes longer to apply and blend out evenly. Using a few different types of brushes really helps. Then, I layered Nature Bae over the center of the lid.

For this one, I wanted to use one of the matte greens in a more “wearable”, or not-scary way. This is mainly a neutral eye with a subtle pop of matte green on the lid and an echoing of shimmering green on the lower lashline. Intuition is broadly blended through the crease and Manifest is used for depth on the inner and outer portion of the lid. To blend Keep Calm into the brown shades, I went back and forth between all three shades used on the upper lid, building up intensity and sweeping them into each other along their edges till I was happy with the look. Smudge Me is blended along the lower lashline and taken far enough down to make room for Retreat Me to have some space underneath the lower lashes.

These are all of the looks I’ve done using the ColourPop Not A Box of Chocolates Palette. Most of them are done using only this palette but for a couple of them, I used it as a pairing palette to vary up the mattes. So far, I am liking the selection of shimmers most in this palette. The mattes are not bad but they stay very true to the chocolate theme, staying tightly together in depth with very similar orange and red undertones.

I haven’t always been super into neutrals so trying to come up with variety in this area of color is new for me lol.

Look #1

Shades Used:

• Lil’ Nougat – Transition
• Still Bitter – All over lid
• Drizzle Me This – Lower lashline
• Honeycomb Crunch – Inner corner (applied with wet brush)
• Make Up For Ever Artist Color Pencil in 502 Infinite Sand – Waterline

The fallout you see under my eyes is mainly from Drizzle Me This. I didn’t clean it up very much before taking photos.

Look #2

Shades Used:

• ABH Blanc Single Shadow – Brow bone
• On Chip – Crease
• 90% Cacao – Lid, blended up into crease
• Cherry Cordial – Lower lashline
• Champagne Truffle – Inner corner, outer corner, brow bone (dry brush)

Look #3

Shades Used:

• ABH Blanc – Brow bone, inner corner
• Amaretto – Crease, applied lightly, broadly, sheerly
• That’s Rich – Baby wing, applied with small angled brush
• PB Brittle – Lower lashline, applied with thick eyeliner brush
• Vibe Choc – All over lid

Look #4

Shades Used:

• Cherry Cordial – Outer lid/crease
• Lil’ Nougat – Inner lid
• ColourPop Lava You (Rock Candy Palette) – Transition, outer lower lashline
• ColourPop Celeb (Fame Palette) – Brow bone, inner corner

This was my first time using the palette as a pairing palette. I wanted to feature the shade Cherry Cordial along with some non-brown shades to help the burgundy really shine.

Look #5:

Shades Used:

• ABH Fresh and Ulta Coconut Single Eyeshadows – Inner corner and brow bone
• Praline – Transition, lower lash line
• Crazy 4 Cocoa – Crease
• 90% Cacao – Outer corner
• Still Bitter – Inner half of lid (over a bit of NYX Glitter Primer)
• Honeycomb Crunch – Outer lid
• Champagne Truffle – Inner corner (dry brush)

Look #6

Shades Used:

• Drizzle Me This – Outer 3/4 of the lid, blended slightly into the crease (applied over NYX Glitter Primer)
• ColourPop Full Expose (Bare Necessities Palette) – Inner corner, brow bone
• ColourPop In The Buff and On Holiday (Bare Necessities Palette) – Transition, lower lashline
• Liberty from the ABH Nouveau Palette – Crease

This was another pairing palette look. I only really used one shade from Not A Box of Chocolates and pulled several lighter/cooler neutrals from other palettes.

ColourPop Not A Box Of Chocolates is an all brown-toned neutral eyeshadow palette containing 8 mattes, 6 shimmers, 1 matte with sparkle, and 1 pressed glitter. The shades come in a square cardboard palette (no mirror) with magnetic pans that can be removed from the packaging if desired. None of the shades are marked as pressed pigments. The pressed glitter shade looks and feels like a cross between a shimmery eyeshadow and their regular pressed glitters that have a clear base. It retails for $24 and can be purchased from ColourPop and Ulta.

I have done 6 looks with this and thought the quality was nice, very workable. The shades were pigmented, went on the eye evenly, blending was easy. Some (not all) of the shimmers had more fallout than I would’ve liked, but I generally liked how they performed. They mostly adhered well, didn’t require too much building to show up well, had good shine and sparkle. I wear-tested this twice and got between 7-8 hours of solid wear over primer before seeing mild creasing.

The overall range of colors leans dark on me so I tend to get deeper looks in general from this palette. There aren’t too many lighter shades to go to for more of a natural, barely-there neutral look. It’s also all warm toned, though not terribly warm. So far, I have used this twice as a pairing palette and very much enjoyed it that way. It is very functional as a standalone palette but lacks a pale matte and contains several similar midtone and deep brown shades that could have been reduced to fewer shades.

If you’re looking for a good neutral palette but prefer cooler tones or lighter looks, you might want to consider other options first. Quality-wise I think it’s a safe buy for the price.

Champagne Truffle

Champagne Truffle is a sheer golden beige shimmer. This has a mixture of fine shimmer and large sparkle. When applied to the lid, it mostly just looks like a regular fine shimmer and I don’t see a whole lot of sparkle come through in the finish. Reasonable amount of sparkle fallout, nothing crazy. Using a setting spray to dampen your brush after picking up color is helpful to get this to pop more and reduce the sparkle fallout.

Lil’ Nougat

Lil’ Nougat is a light peachy matte. Shows up well against my skin tone and works nicely as a transition shade to add extra warmth when using deeper mattes in the crease.

Honeycomb Crunch

Honeycomb Crunch is a light golden bronze shimmer with a similar mixture of fine shimmer and large sparkle as Champagne Truffle. This one seems to have a little bit more fallout and the sparkle is a little bit more noticeable on the eye (could be the color is just easier to see). Has a silky feel to the touch and easily spreads onto the skin. Not a thick-feeling formula.

Praline

Praline is a matte caramel brown. This shade is very powdery when my brush touches the surface. Good color payoff, blends easily/smoothly. Not patchy.

On Chip

On Chip is slightly darker and less orange than Praline. It has the same amount of kickup in the pan and applies and blends the same as well.

PB Brittle

PB Brittle is a pressed glitter. Most of the pressed glitters I have tried from ColourPop have had clear bases. This one has an orangey-bronze shimmer behind the larger gold and copper glitter. I kind of like that they went this route to at least have something different. I don’t feel this is a super dramatic-looking glitter, it’s not particularly bright and reflective, but it does add some extra sparkly texture to the palette.

Amaretto

Amaretto is the coolest midtone matte in the palette. It is still warm though, and leans more in the direction of a red-brown than an orange-brown. I was able to apply this in a way that was soft and sheered out over a tinted primer and the color went on evenly that way. I helped it out by blending excess color on the back of my hand first.

Still Bitter

Still Bitter is a shimmery copper with all fine particles. Doesn’t feel particularly thick/waxy nor dry. Right in the middle. Picks up easily on a brush. No noticeable fallout. The first time I used this, I used it over bare lids and it didn’t apply that evenly, like it didn’t want to adhere evenly on my lid, though it did have good color payoff where it did adhere. The second time I used it over NYX Glitter Primer and it looked so much better.

Drizzle Me This

Drizzle Me This has a deep brown base color with lots of gold sparkle. I used this once on the lower lashline and once on the upper lid over NYX Glitter Primer. Both times I got sparkle and pigment fallout but it wasn’t bad the way I applied it. The sparkles are on the smaller side, nowhere near as large as glitter.

Tiramisu

Tiramisu is a medium brown with strong red undertones.

Vibe Choc

Vibe Choc has lots of large sparkle fallout. It’s not bad if I’m careful to tap/press the shade into place, but once I attempt to blend at all, it falls down. This is similar to Drizzle Me This but has more of a reddish brown shimmer in the base color.

Crazy 4 Cocoa

Crazy 4 Cocoa is deeper than Tiramisu but with the same kind of reddish tone to it. Not much kickup in the pan when my brush touches the surface. Not as easy to blend as the lighter mattes, but not terrible either.

That’s Rich

That’s Rich is another deep red-brown that almost wants to look purple. I used this to create a small winged liner and thought it was plenty pigmented to that easily.

Cherry Cordial

Cherry Cordial is a brownish burgundy shimmer with larger gold sparkles. I’m impressed with how little sparkle fallout there is from this shade. It has good color payoff and really adheres to the lid well. Even when blending around the edges (carefully), the sparkles tend to stay put. A few fall but only very few.

In Truffle

In Truffle has a deep neutral brown base with gold sparkles.

90% Cacao

90% Cacao is a mostly neutral deep brown. It warms up only slightly as it’s sheered out. Used all over the lid, there was only a tiny bit of fallout. It darkened a little in areas over primer, but it wasn’t very noticeable. It had about as much kickup as Praline… part of me thinks it could be due to the heart-shaped embossing on these shades because not all of the mattes do this.

Product Details

The ColourPop Rock Candy Palette is one of several 30 pan neutral palettes ColourPop offers. Of the ones they currently have, this one seems to be the most well rounded in terms of color and texture selection. There are 13 mattes, 11 shimmers, 3 mattes with sparkle, and 3 pressed glitters. For a neutral palette it has several tones (besides the usual brown). There are purple and rosy tones, oranges, yellow toned browns, greys, blacks, and for the more shiny shades there are silvers, coppers, and golds. This palette is just like their other large ones – same size, magnetic pans, and cardboard packaging. It is available on their website for $34.

Swatches

Here is an overview of all the shades swatched. To see more detailed, closer up swatches, see this post.

• Solid – Metallic bright silver, all small particles. Excellent color payoff.
• Chemistry – Pale pink shimmer with a mixture of small and large particles.
• True North – Light peachy beige, no large sparkles. Sheerest shade in the row.
• Volcanic – Metallic light copper with larger sparkles. Good color payoff.
• Quarry Queen – Smooth light bronze shimmer, all small particles.
• Friction – Pale golden white shimmer with larger sparkles.

• This Ore That – Matte pale grey with silver sparkles.
• Lava You – Dusty lavender.
• Sedimental – Medium orangey brown.
• Nugget – Neutral light beige.
• Crushed – Medium yellow toned brown.
• I Dig You – Medium taupey grey. Has a slight warmth to it.

• Ring of Fire – Bright silver self-adhering pressed glitter. Fairly small particles for a glitter.
• Magma – Matte dusty rose with larger sparkles.
• Erupt – Warm rosy brown.
• Very Gneiss – Medium yellow toned brown.
• Set Shale – Golden self-adhering pressed glitter. Similar particle size as Ring of Fire.
• No Pressure – Light taupe shimmer with larger sparkles.

• 2 Coal 4 U – Deep grey shimmer with larger sparkles.
• Pep Talk – Warm reddish base with a blueish sheen and lots of larger multicolored sparkles.
• Oh My Geode – Reddish copper shimmer with larger sparkles.
• Metamorphic – Silver, gold, and pink self-adhering pressed glitter. Similar particle size as the other two glitters.
• Get The Schist – Cooler toned bronze shimmer with large silver sparkles.
• So Tuff – Deep neutral grey. Doesn’t really lean warm or cool and doesn’t have a blue tinge.

• Hot Spot – Matte black. Swatches evenly but does require some building for full coverage. Has a bit of a drag to it that the other mattes don’t have.
• Dynamic – Deep reddish brown.
• Strictly Tectonic – Ever so slightly lighter than Dynamic and a bit more orange than red.
• In The Rough – Deep neutral brown.
• Concrete Plans – Slightly cooler toned deep neutral brown.
• Stone’s Throw – Matte black base with lots of multicolored sparkles. The matte base feels different in this shade than Hot Spot and has more color payoff more quickly.

What I Think About It

So I’ve used this palette for a couple weeks and I’ve filmed four looks with it. I’ve used every shade, some more than others, and I feel like I know it well enough to share my thoughts.

The quick version: I like it but I don’t love it.

I like it because it has a lot of useful shades and textures all in one place and for a reasonable price.  For someone that doesn’t have many neutrals already, this can fill that need. Lots of textures help make an otherwise (sort of) boring palette more interesting. I also like that the pans are magnetic and I already have other ColourPop palettes with the same size pans that I can use to customize it for myself. 

The things that I don’t love are fallout from some of the shimmers with larger sparkles, some redundant shades, and the quality of the mattes. The mattes feel luxurious to the touch, have good color payoff and blend easily but they do something I don’t have an issue with usually. Some of them sometimes darken on the skin on areas with more moisture (the line of my crease, mostly) or where they are blended/touched too much or layered a lot. This makes them somewhat unpredictable. When I have issues with them, it’s usually not a major or very obvious problem, but if you are a stickler for quality, it might bother you.

The shades that I find most unique or that add value to my collection are Solid and This Ore That. The whole left row in general stands out for me.

Shades that are too similar are:

• Crushed and Very Gneiss
• Dynamic and Strictly Tectonic
• In the Rough and Concrete Plans
• Sedimental and Erupt look more similar in the pan than they do in swatches

Wear time is average for me, meaning it will last most of the day over primer before creasing but I would not count on these shadows if I was really needing something long wearing. Without primer, I see fading in the crease by lunchtime and by my second break at work, the shadows are very noticeably gathered in the crease. With primer, they wear pretty strongly till my second break and by then I can see them starting to crease. The way some of the mattes applied and darkened in the crease almost immediately makes me feel that they aren’t the longest wearing matte formula and are more sensitive to moisture in the skin than others I have.

Looks

Look #1:

• Nugget – Transition
• I Dig You – Outer crease
• So Tuff – Outer lower lashline, outer corner
• Get the Schist – All over lid
• True North – Inner corner
• Hot Spot – Used as eyeliner

The lid shade I have on here is an example of a shimmer with larger sparkles. They do show up and it’s really up to you to decide whether that is something you like and find worth cleaning up the fallout for. I personally don’t find shades like this to be unique enough to warrant the extra work and would prefer that all the particles just be small.

Look #2:

• Sedimental – Transition (both on the upper and lower part of the eye)
• So Tuff – Outer crease
• Stone’s Throw – Most of the lid
• Oh My Geode – Inner lid/crease
• Metamorphic – Center part of crease/transition area
• Hot Spot – Upper and lower lashline
• Dynamic – Lower lashline
• Volcanic – Inner corner

Look #3:

• This Ore That – All over lid
• Lava You – Outer transition area
• Solid – Outer crease-ish area, between two previous shades
• Hot Spot – Used as eyeliner
• 2 Coal 4 U – Outer lower lashline
• Ring of Fire – Below previous shade
• Pep Talk – Inner corner (applied with damp brush)

I used two of the shades that I find more unique and that add more value to my collection here. Solid is the metallic silver I have on the outer crease area. Silver isn’t terribly unique in general but this one performs so beautifully that it stands out as possibly the best silver I have. I applied it this way using nothing but a dry eyeliner brush. The other unique shade in this look is This Ore That. I complain about sparkle fallout (probably to an annoying degree) but this is a case where I find it worth the cleanup, which isn’t all that bad for this shade btw.

Look #4:

• Nugget – Transition (barely shows)
• Lava You – Inner crease
• Sedimental – Outer crease
• I Dig You – Inner lid
• Strictly Tectonic – Outer lid
• Erupt – Inner lower lashline
• Crushed – Outer lower lashline

This look was an attempt to see how well the different tones in the matte shades could show up against one another. The palette as a whole is pretty muted but I think the different tones still show up well enough.

Comparisons

Some people have pointed out a couple of palettes they were curious how this compared to, like the Huda Beauty Rose Quartz Palette (some similar shades), and the Tati Beauty Textured Neutrals Palette (for the wide variety of textures).

I wore this side by with the Huda palette and I was able to get a look that was similar enough to wear without feeling the difference was obvious enough to other people. So there is a little bit of overlap but I think they are pretty different overall. I like the quality of the Huda palette better and the shades seem more thoughtfully chosen. I don’t feel there is anything redundant in that palette. It wears longer too. The ColourPop palette does offer things you can’t get in the Huda palette though, like the glitter, some of the more brown toned neutrals, a different selection of transition shades, and a pretty good black.

Comparing this to the Tati Beauty palette, the glitters in both have smaller particles than other pressed glitters I’ve tried from ColourPop. There is one glitter that looks like a true dupe (Set Shale and Soothe). The color selection is very different though, again, with some overlap but less than with Huda’s palette. The black in Tati’s palette is a VERY good one, I like it better than the ColourPop one, but the ColourPop one is quite good too.

I ended up doing an all matte eye using the ColourPop Rock Candy Palette, trying to see how well I could get all the different tones to show up. It can be easy to look at palettes like this and think that no matter what shades you use, you’re always gonna end up with the same look but I feel like that’s just an assumption. It’s not the most contrasty of looks but I think the different tones show up well enough. I wore this for 7 hours. By the end of the day, the primed eye was barely starting to fade in the crease and the unprimed eye was lightly creased.

Eyes:

• Alter Ego Eyeshadow Primer (left eye only)
• ColourPop Bare Necessities Palettes
  • Full Expose – Brow bone, inner corner
• ColourPop Rock Candy Palette
  • Nugget – Transition (barely shows)
  • Lava You – Inner crease
  • Sedimental – Outer crease
  • I Dig You – Inner lid
  • Strictly Tectonic – Outer lid
  • Erupt – Inner lower lashline
  • Crushed – Outer lower lashline
• Make Up For Ever Artist Color Pencil in 500 Boundless Bisque
• Loreal Voluminous Noir Balm Mascara
• NYX Lift & Snatch Brow Pen (right eye)
• ABH Brow Pen (left eye)

Base:

• Equate Kids Spray Sunscreen
• Elf Power Grip Primer (left side of face)
• Milk Makeup Hydro Grip Primer (right side of face)
• It Cosmetics CC Cream
• Benefit Erase Paste
• Soap and Glory One Heck of a Blot Powder

The combination of sunscreen, primer, and foundation I went with on this day was a BAD idea. These three things do not go well together LOL. I had to spend lots of extra time blending with my sponge and a brush, even trying to remove and thin out the base makeup a bit to get it to look natural on the skin again. 

I used the Milk and Elf primers side by side because it seems like Elf is trying to dupe the Milk primer. They are very similar but the Milk one is the tiniest bit stickier. The foundation went over top both about the same way. They are hydrating and smooth out texture/pores a bit when foundation is applied over them. I don’t think they do much to increase longevity but I’ll have to test that out some more.

Cheeks:

• Fiona Stiles Blush in Sweetwater
• Clinique Cheek Pop Blush in Nude Pop

I mixed these two because I didn’t love Sweetwater by itself with the eye look.

Lips:

• Just some lip balm

This kind of look is more fun for me. I wanted to use the shades that stood out or seemed more unique in the ColourPop Rock Candy Palette. The two main ones I wanted to dig into were This Ore That and Solid. This Ore That had a lot of sparkle fallout, more than the other matte with sparkle shades I tried but I can put up with it because I don’t believe I have anything else like this in my collection. Solid is super nice quality. Very pigmented and shiny with little effort. I did not need to dampen my brush to get it to apply like this. I wore this for 10 hours and by that time both eyes were creased but the one with the Ulta primer was much worse.

Eyes:

• Alter Ego Eyeshadow Primer (left eye)
• Ulta Matte Eye Primer (right eye)
• ColourPop Rock Candy Palette:
  • This Ore That – All over lid
  • Lava You – Outer transition area
  • Solid – Outer crease-ish area, between two previous shades
  • Hot Spot – Used as eyeliner
  • 2 Coal 4 U – Outer lower lashline
  • Ring of Fire – Below previous shade
  • Pep Talk – Inner corner (applied with damp brush)
• Tarte Tartelette Palette
  • Super Mom – Brow bone
• NYX Lift & Snatch Brow Pen
• Loreal Voluminous Noir Balm Mascara

Base:

• Equate Kids Spray Sunscreen
• It Cosmetics CC Cream SPF 50
• Soap and Glory One Heck of a Blot Powder

Cheeks:

• Clinique Cheek Pop Blush in Pansy Pop

Lips:

• ColourPop Glowing Lip in Cockatoo

Here’s a more dramatic black smokey eye with glitter using the ColourPop Rock Candy Palette. Again, I was happy with all the shades I used and how they performed. The shade I most wanted to use in this look was Stone’s Throw which is a matte black with lots of sparkle in it. It had very nice color payoff and surprisingly not much sparkle fallout (I did apply it as carefully as I could, mostly tapping the shade into place). This shade did have a little bit of fallout from the matte black so I ended up using a powder foundation to help clean it up afterward. I wore this look for 8 hours over two different primers. Over Ulta Beauty Matte Eye Primer, I had noticeable but not terrible creasing by the end of the day and much heavier creasing and fading over Urban Decay Anti Aging Primer Potion. The UD primer has consistently not worn very long on me with different eyeshadows. The Ulta one is newer to me but so far doesn’t seem as long wearing as my Alter Ego Eyeshadow Primer. I am also wondering if the glitter may have affected wear time because of its tacky, self adhering base.

Eyes:

• Ulta Beauty Matte Eye Primer (left eye)
• Urban Decay Anti Aging Eyeshadow Primer (right eye)
• ColourPop Bare Necessities Palette
  • Full Expose – Brow bone, inner corner
• ColourPop Rock Candy Palette
  • Sedimental – Transition (both on the upper and lower part of the eye)
  • So Tuff – Outer crease
  • Stone’s Throw – Most of the lid
  • Oh My Geode – Inner lid/crease
  • Metamorphic – Center part of crease/transition area
  • Hot Spot – Upper and lower lashline
  • Dynamic – Lower lashline
  • Volcanic – Inner corner
• ColourPop Creme Gel Liner in Swerve
• Loreal Voluminous Noir Balm Mascara
• NYX Lift & Snatch Brow Pen (right eyebrow)
• ABH Brow Pen (left eyebrow)
• Ulta Brow Powder Duo in Taupe (deeper shade only)

Base:

• Nars Soft Matte Complete Foundation
• Benefit Erase Paste
• Tarte Shape Tape Concealer
• Soap and Glory One Heck of a Blot Powder
• Physicians Formula The Healthy Powder (used to clean up fallout from black eyeshadow)

Cheeks:

• Essence Contour Duo
• Clinique Cheek Pop Blush in Heather Pop

Lips:

• ColourPop Glowing Lip in La Cienega

For my first look with the ColourPop Rock Candy Palette, I went with a cool toned smokey eye. It’s not a super heavy eye makeup look but it is noticeable. All of the matte shades applied with good color payoff and blended easily. The inner corner highlight is the most subtle/sheer of all the shimmers but it still shows up and works well. The lid shade I used had a lot of sparkle fallout during application and continued to have fallout throughout the day. About 4 hours into wear, the unprimed eye started to fade in the crease (but was not creased yet) and the primed eye still looked fine. After 9 hours, the unprimed eye was very noticeably creased and the primed eye was just starting to fade in the crease. By 11 hours, the primed eye finally gave up. This was on a day when I wasn’t doing a whole lot, mostly sitting at a desk all day.

Eyes:

• Alter Ego Eyeshadow Primer (left eye, none on right eye)
• ColourPop Rock Candy Palette:
  • Nugget – Transition
  • I Dig You – Outer crease
  • So Tuff – Outer lower lashline, outer corner
  • Get the Schist – All over lid
  • True North – Inner corner
  • Hot Spot – Used as eyeliner
• MUFE Artist Color Pencil in 500 Boundless Bisque
• NYX Lift & Snatch Brow Pen
• Loreal Voluminous Noir Balm Mascara

Base:

• Equate Kids Spray Sunscreen
• It Cosmetics CC Cream SPF 50
• Becca Peach Corrector
• Tarte Shape Tape Concealer
• Soap and Glory One Heck of a Blot Powder

Cheeks:

• Benefit Gold Rush Blush

Lips:

• ColourPop Glowing Lip in Indulge Me

It has been a while since I’ve purchased new lip products and I haven’t tried a whole lot from ColourPop in general. The ColourPop Glowing Lip range seemed like the kind of lip product I tend to go for though, being sheer and moisturizing. There are 8 shades (currently, at least) and I’ve swatched and demo’d all of them below. None of them have any kind of shimmer or sparkle, just a balmy tint of color. For the individual arm swatches, I swiped each shade a single time so you can see the general opacity and how evenly they apply. For the demo pics and group swatches, some shades have been built up a bit more.

I am able to build up the lighter shades without them looking uneven but I have to be careful with the deeper shades. For those, I used a brush to help get a more even application. So far I’ve worn a few of them over the course of a day. They feel comfortable, fairly thin, and not at all sticky. The moisture in these dries down after a couple of hours but most of the color is left behind. The ones I have worn have faded pretty evenly and weren’t staining, either on my lips or on my skin when swatching.

The scent reminds of Twizzlers candy and is noticeable as soon as I get the lipstick near my face. It is kind of strong but I don’t personally find it to be offensive or bothersome. The taste is barely there compared to the scent.

In case it isn’t obvious, these are slim lipsticks. The caps require some force to remove but they do stay on securely. I have noticed with a few of them, if I look very closely, the plastic lid is cracked just a bit where it snaps together onto the tube. Over time, and with repeated use, this might cause the caps to come off more easily. In one of the photos above, I fully extended one of the lipsticks to show how much product is inside. They twist up and down very smoothly.

On first impression, I’m not disappointed in this purchase. Most of my lip collection is getting quite old so these can take the place of some of the oldest ones that need to be decluttered.

Cockatoo

Cockatoo is a light pink. Looks like it might have some purple tones but it just looks mostly pink on me.

Indulge Me

Indulge Me is a light warm peach.

La Cienega

La Cienega is a light peachy pink. More pink than Indulge Me and lighter than Let’s Jet.

Let’s Jet

Let’s Jet is a light pinky coral.

Museum Date

Museum Date is a medium reddish brown.

Status

Status is a deeper reddish brown. It looks more red on my lips than it does in a swatch. This shade is the trickiest of them all to apply evenly to my lips. I feel like it’s a little easier to go very sheer with this shade. Building it up evenly is a little more difficult. I used a brush for the demo photo. Those with more pigmented lips may not have as much of an issue with it.

Girl, Please

Girl, Please is a medium berry. This shade is also trickier than the lighter ones to apply evenly but not as difficult as Status.

Get Right

Get Right is a pinky red. There isn’t too much pink in this but it is there. A teensy bit harder to apply evenly but not bad at all.

Here are swatches of the ColourPop Rock Candy Palette. I have only played with this a few times and am still getting to know all the shades. The shade descriptions include my initial thoughts on the ones I have tried so far.

This is one of their large 30 pan palettes and it seems to lie somewhere between the Bare Necessities Palette (warmer neutrals overall) and the Stone Cold Fox Palette (mainly cooler neutrals) and have a nice range of textures. I have Bare Necessities and have long been eyeing Stone Cold Fox but have held off because it seems to have too many similar shades in it (a pet peeve for me). This one as well has shades that are too similar but the range of textures and tones kind of makes up for it.

There are true mattes, mattes with sparkle, smoother shimmers (that have only small particles), sparkly shimmers (small + large particles), and pressed glitters. I like that the neutral shades are not just one note. It’s handy to have neutrals in a variety of different tones (browns, greys, oranges, purples) and depths to work with. The 3 pressed glitters are the only shades marked as not safe for the eye area.

Solid

Solid is a bright silver shimmer. It has a highly reflective finish that is just short of being metallic. All of the particles are small in size and it has a very smooth, almost creamy texture. Good color payoff with little effort.

Chemistry

Chemistry is a pale pink shimmer with larger light blue sparkles. The blue sparkles aren’t really all that noticeable unless I look super close up in direct light. Slightly less opaque than Solid but still has good color payoff. Not quite as smooth feeling, likely because of the larger sparkles.

True North

True North is a pale peach with more of a satiny shimmer finish and no large sparkles. It is sheerer than the other shimmers in the top row but does build up to medium opacity fairly easily. Smooth to the touch but drier and less creamy feeling than Solid.

Volcanic

Volcanic is a bright rose gold with a highly reflective, nearly metallic finish and some large silver sparkles. Smooth and creamy texture like Solid. One of the most opaque shades in the top row.

Quarry Queen

Quarry Queen is a neutral light bronze shimmer. All small particles. It is less reflective than Volcanic and Solid, and more opaque than True North. Smooth but not super creamy feeling.

Friction

Friction is a white golden shimmer with large sparkles. ColourPop used the word “pearl” to describe this shade and I think that sounds just right. Feels about the same as Quarry Queen and True North to the touch. Similar level of color payoff as Quarry Queen.

This Ore That

This Ore That is a pale matte grey with larger silver and blue/purple sparkles. The blue sparkles are really hard to notice even in person, much less capture on camera. Good color payoff (more than I was expecting) but lots of sparkle fallout.

Lava You

Lava You is a slightly muted pinkish purple. To me this is visibly purple next to the other rosier shades in the palette and on the eye but it also has quite a bit of pink in it. Good color payoff. Will need to try this again but this one seemed to react strangely to moisture on the lid, darkening in the line of my crease and in areas where it was thinner or blended out more. Heavily layering it made it appear lighter.

Sedimental

Sedimental is more of an orangey/peachy transition shade on me. I have tried this only lightly as a transition shade and found it easy to blend and get even color. Not sure yet how it works when applied more heavily on the lid.

Nugget

Nugget is a neutral pale beige. This is just barely dark enough to be a transition shade on me but I don’t have many shades that are just this depth so I’m glad they included it in here. Good color payoff, didn’t seem to have the same issues that Lava You did.

Crushed

Crushed is more of a yellow toned transition shade on me but have not tried this one a whole lot either.

I Dig You

I Dig You is somewhere between a grey and a taupe. A bit warm to be a true grey but not really warm enough that I want to call it a taupe. Have tried just once and seems to have pretty good color payoff and blends decently well. Will need to try a bit more. Don’t remember it having the same issue as Lava You.

Ring Of Fire

Ring Of Fire is a bright silver self adhering pressed glitter. Pretty small particle size. Fairly easy to control how much I pick up on a brush. I can still move it slightly after placing on the skin if I don’t place it just right but it does stick well by itself.

Magma

Magma has a matte dusty rose base with larger gold and blue/purple sparkles. The sparkles are more visible in the pan than they are on the eye. There is some sparkle fallout but not as much as I was expecting. The color of the sparkle doesn’t stand out a whole lot against the matte base color.

Erupt

Erupt is a light rosy brown. Have not tried this yet.

Very Gneiss

Very Gneiss a light yellow toned brown. Very similar to Crushed. This one may have the slightest hint more pink in it. But really, not much of a noticeable difference. Haven’t tried on the eye yet.

Set Shale

Set Shale is another pressed glitter. This one is a mixture of silver, gold, and copper sparkles. There is some variation in the size of the particles but they are all generally pretty small. Have not tried this one yet.

No Pressure

No Pressure is a warm pale taupe shimmer with larger sparkles. Haven’t tried this much yet.

2 Coal 4 U

2 Coal 4 U is a deep grey shimmer with larger silver sparkles. Haven’t tried yet.

Pep Talk

Pep Talk has a reddish purple base with a blueish sheen. It has a mix of particle sizes and quite a few different colors. Blue and purple sparkles are most noticeable but there are some gold ones in there as well. Have only tried this layered over a matte so far and it needed some help to adhere and build up used that way. A brush alone didn’t work well. Will need to try this a different way.

Oh My Geode

Oh My Geode is a reddish peach shimmer with some larger sparkles. Seems to have the same color/type of sparkles as Pep Talk but just far less of it. The reddish shimmer is by far the most noticeable thing about this. There are some pink/blue/gold sparkles but they are super subtle. Using a flat shader, this applies with pretty good color payoff and builds up easily. The sparkles show up better on the lid if I use more of a tacky primer underneath.

Metamorphic

Metamorphic is the last pressed glitter. It is a mixture of silver, gold, and pink glitter and they are all about the same size as far as I can tell. This worked about the same as nearly every ColourPop glitter I’ve tried. It was easy to control the amount I was picking up on the brush and I had a bit of time to move it around or remove some from areas where I didn’t intend to apply it. I had a tiny bit of fallout from this by the end of applying it but for the most part it stays where I put it.

Get The Schist

Get The Schist is a cooler toned medium bronze shimmer with some chunkier silver sparkles. This one had a lot of fallout both during application and during wear. Will need to try this one with a glitter primer. Pretty good color payoff but was helpful to build up with my finger.

So Tuff

So Tuff is a deep matte grey, almost looks a bit blue toned. Used this once applying it with a pencil brush to the crease area. It was pretty easy to work with. Good color payoff, buildable, blendable, didn’t notice any fallout from it.

Hot Spot

Hot Spot is a matte black. This has a different feel to the touch than the other mattes in the palette. I want to use the words “drier” and “rougher” but those are not quite right. It just drags more and doesn’t swatch with very much opacity. When swatched, it needs several layers to be built up, but does apply pretty evenly over the skin instead of sticking on the very first spot it touches. I have used this a couple times as eyeliner and it has plenty of color payoff, adheres easily, and hasn’t had any fallout used that way. Seems very similar if not identical to the matte black in the Bare Necessities palette.

Dynamic

Dynamic is a reddish deep brown. Have only tried this once on the lower lashline but so far seems to have good color payoff and blend decently well. Will need to try this more on the upper lid to get a better feel for how it blends.

Strictly Tectonic

Strictly Tectonic is an orangey deep brown. Have not tried yet.

In The Rough

In The Rough is a very slightly warm deep brown. Have not tried yet.

Concrete Plans

Concrete Plans is a cooler toned deep brown. Very similar to In The Rough. They look more different in these swatches than they do in person if I swatch them side by side. Have not tried on the eye yet.

Stone’s Throw

Stone’s Throw has a matte black base with lots of gold and blue sparkle. There is more sparkle in this than the other two matte/sparkle shades in the palette but once on the eye, it’s much less prominent. Black base color swatches a little more evenly and with more opacity than Hot Spot. I have tried this once on the eye using a flat shader to apply it carefully in tapping motions. I didn’t blend it but used another shade as a transition instead. Used this way I had very minimal sparkle fallout and a small amount of pigment fallout. The color applied evenly and was quick and easy to build up.

I like reds and oranges together so I thought I’d do a look mostly with those colors. The gold inner corner was kind of an afterthought but I like it. This was even faster to do than the last look I posted. I think the eye makeup took me about 30 mins.

What I Used

Eyes:

• Alter Ego Eyeshadow Primer
• Shades from my Custom Fall Palette
  • Red Bottoms – Most of the lid and slightly in the crease, blended lightly around edges
  • Creamsicle – Transition shade around edges of Red Bottoms, lower lashline
  • Bay Watch – Layered over Creamsicle on lower lashline
  • Queen B – Inner corner
  • Clementine – Center of lid
• Anastasia Beverly Hills Brow Pen
• Viseart Brow Palette
• Anastasia Beverly Hills Lash Brag Mascara
• Covergirl Lash Exact Mascara (lower lashes)
• A gold eyeliner (waterline) – Hardly showed up, skip if you like

The first time I used Red Bottoms, I layered it over another shade and it faded easily when blending. This time I applied it to a larger area and straight over the lid. I didn’t have any issues with it and found it held up well throughout the day. Whenever I use Creamsicle, it comes out more intense than I expect. For some reason, I think it’s going to go on more sheer but this one builds and shows up very easily. Bay Watch isn’t the most impactful shimmer – not super shiny or opaque but I like how it changed the look of the matte orange underneath it. Queen B is a nice gold shimmer, good pigment, creamy, intense. I didn’t dampen the brush and I didn’t have a ton of fallout from it. I’ve used Clementine quite a bit. I adheres well on its own without a sticky base but I do have to spend some time picking up just the right amount on the brush and carefully/lightly placing it on the lid. It’s easier to apply it lightly and build than it is to move it once it sticks to the skin.

Base:

• Ilia Super Serum Skin Tint SPF 40 in 03 Balos
• Urban Decay Stay Naked Concealer in 30NN
• Physicans Formula the Healthy Powder in LC1 (to add coverage)
• Maybelline Fit Me Loose Setting Powder in 05 Fair

I went for a different kind of base makeup. Usually I’ll just use a higher coverage foundation but sometimes I’ll use lighter coverage liquid products and then make up for it with a higher coverage powder on top. This is something worth trying if you don’t like how heavier coverage products sit on the skin. The Physicians Formula The Healthy Powder on its way out but there are tons of others out there.

Cheeks:

• Fenty Beauty Cheeks Out Freestyle Cream Bronzer in Amber
• Loreal Paradise Enchanted Blush in Fantastical

This bronzer is VERY natural looking on me. It might be too light if you really like your bronzer/contour to show up. If I apply it lightly and blend, the grey tone you see in the pan fades into something warmer and it does give my overall complexion a warmer look. If I apply it heavily, it will start to look more grey in the areas where it is layered on more thick and look weird/unnatural. It is a cream product but it has more of a balmy than a greasy/sticky feel to it. It feels about the way a liquid foundation or moisturizer feels once it settles into the skin. 

Lips:

• Roen Liquid Lip Balm in Charlie

Whenever I see a product like this that is described as a liquid lip balm but looks like a lip gloss, I am skeptical. I think this one does function as a balm. It isn’t oily or sticky and does seem to absorb into the lips over time. The color is super sheer and mostly just looks my own lip color. It has a lightly minty smell and feel. 

How I Did It

I wasn’t originally going to do more than one look with this palette but after using it the first time, I wanted to get a few more looks out of it before putting all the shades away. This is a four shade look in the green and yellow family. I took forever to do it because that’s just what I do but it can be applied pretty quickly.

What I Used

Eyes:

• Anastasia Beverly Hills Eye Primer
• Shades from my Custom Fall Palette
  • Buzz Kill – Transition
  • Mo Bamba – Inner/outer lid and crease, outer lower lashline
  • Olive U – Center of lid, inner lower lashline
  • Oh Beehave – Inner corner
• Make Up For Ever Artist Color Pencil in 500 Boundless Bisque
• Anastasia Beverly Hills Lash Brag Mascara
• Covergirl Lash Exact Mascara
• Ulta Brow Powder Duo in Taupe (darker side) 

Mo Bamba had some fallout as is visible in the photos. I built it up quite a bit to get it to look like it does, so that’s probably why. Olive U applied easily and with plenty of color payoff just using a brush and had very minimal shimmer fallout. Buzz Kill had plenty of pigmentation and blended easily but I feel I could have gotten a smoother/cleaner look if I had added one more transition shade to buff around the edges with. Oh Beehave is intense, even applied with a fluffy brush. Sometimes with inner corner shades, I need to use a more dense brush like a pencil brush to get color payoff like that.

Base:

• Equate Kids Broad Spectrum SPF 50 Spray
• Nars Soft Matte Complete Foundation in 3.5 Salzburg
• Urban Decay Stay Naked Concealer in 30NN
• Maybelline Fit Me Loose Finishing Powder in 05 Fair

If I’m using sunscreen seriously then I won’t wear much or any makeup over it at all because reapplying is just going to mess up the makeup. On this day I was more curious to see how it would perform in place of a primer. It has kind of a nice texture to it actually and gives a somewhat smoothing feel to the skin so I was curious to see how foundation would sit over it. It doesn’t quite do the same thing an actual primer does but it paired well with the foundation and didn’t make it break down or get more oily than it normally would throughout the day.

Cheeks:

• Too Faced Sweetie Pie Bronzer

Felt like breaking this out. It’s been sitting unused for a long time. It was once a favorite go-to product that I could wear by itself both as a bronzer and as a blush because of it’s peachy bronze tone.

Lips:

• ColourPop Just A Tint Lip Crayon in Feel Good

A second wear for this shade. Very comfortable and easy to wear but doesn’t last long.

How I Did It

This is a look I did with the Custom Fall Palette I made in my last post. These are all shades taken from ColourPop’s monochromatic palettes. The goal wasn’t really to do a bunch of looks with it like I do with other palettes, it was just to the make the palette itself. So I ended up using all 12 shades in a single look which I realize is maybe more involved than what some would like.

Fall is one of the more colorful times of year and that’s what I wanted to create in the palette. Because I used all the shades in the look, I think I managed to keep the same feel/look/vibe on the eye. But I think there are so many other ways I could use it that would require way fewer shades and be much faster to do.

What I Used

Eyes:

• Alter Ego Eyeshadow Primer
• All 12 shades from my custom fall palette
• ColourPop Creme Gel Liner in Joy Ride
• Anastasia Beverly Hills Lash Brag Mascara
• Covergirl Lash Exact Mascara (lower lashes)
• Ulta Brow Powder Duo in Taupe (darker shade only)

Base:

• Estee Lauder Double Wear Stay In Place Makeup in 1N1
• Urban Decay Stay Naked Concealer in 30NN
• Maybelline Fit Me Loose Finishing Powder in Fair

Cheeks:

• Kat Von D Shade + Light Contour Duo in Lucid and Sombre
• Milani Baked Blush in Red Vino

Lips:

• ColourPop Just A Tint Lip Crayon in Feel Good

How I Did It

For a while I’ve been thinking of depotting all my ColourPop monochromatic palettes and making a custom fall themed palette out of the shades. I really like that ColourPop palettes are magnetic and it’s something that adds value to the palettes for me. One thing to know is that there are no labels on the pans to know what the shade name is once it’s out of the palette. I labeled all of mine last year. It took me a couple days but it was worth it.

To remove the pans, I’ve been using a magnet. In the past, I’ve tried finding something sharp to wedge between the pans and the edges of the plastic to wiggle them out but that often resulted in nicking the shadows or damaging the palette. A magnet can also cause damage if it’s too small. It can pull the shadows out at an angle and dig into them. It helps to find one that is larger than the pan, if possible, so that contact is mostly between the magnet and the metal edges of the pan. The one I have is just about the same size as the shadows.

I removed every single shade from all 9 of my palettes and put them in a huge pile. I didn’t really have to do that but it was nice to have them all available to pull from. The idea for this came while using the individual palettes and coming across shades I thought reminded me of fall. But being grouped together with other similar shades makes it kind of hard to picture outside of the palette. I pulled those shades out of the pile first and then picked others I thought would compliment them. At first I didn’t really have a certain number I was going for but eventually somehow settled on 12 pans… no idea why, that’s just what I ended up doing.

I did one look using all 12 of the shades and haven’t yet put the shades back where they go. Having it sitting out on my desk I kind of want to use it again before I do.

What’s in the palette:

• Creamsicle (Orange You Glad)
• Clementine (Orange You Glad)
• Bay Watch (Main Squeeze)
• Mo Bamba (Just My Luck)
• Sleeper (It’s My Pleasure)
• Red Bottoms (Main Squeeze)
• Oh Beehave (Uh Huh Honey)
• Olive U (Just My Luck)
• Mary Jane (Just My Luck)
• Charmed (Just My Luck)
• Queen B (Uh Huh Honey)
• Buzz Kill (Uh Huh Honey)

I started out this look knowing I wanted to use the deepest shade in the ColourPop Uh Huh Honey Palette to create a graphic shape and use some of the lighter yellow shades around it. I ended up adding a black shadow to add a little more depth because it just wasn’t enough for me.

Eyes: 

• Alter Ego Eyeshadow Primer
• ColourPop Uh Huh Honey Palette
  • Buzz Kill – Graphic shape, lower lashline, inner crease
  • Oh Beehave – Outer lid/crease
  • Totally Buggin’ – Outer corner (“glow” on the outside edge of graphic shape)
  • Dandy – Inner half of lid
  • Palooza – Inner corner
• Ulta Eyeshadow Single in Coconut – used this to clean up around the edges of the graphic shape and brigthen the inner corner before adding the pressed glitter
• Ulta Eyeshadow Single in Late Night – used this to add depth along outer half of lashline
• Viseart Brow Palette
• Anastasia Beverly HIlls Dipbrow Pomade in Taupe
• Anastasia Beverly HIlls Lash Brag Mascara
• Covergirl Lash Exact Mascara (lower lashes)

The one shade I hadn’t used yet recently was Oh Beehave. It worked just as well as the other mattes. Too bad it isn’t easier to tell apart from Totally Buggin’ in this look. When swatched, Oh Beehave is noticeably more yellow.

I wasn’t a huge fan of the ABH Dipbrow in the last look but I don’t mind how my brows came out using it together with the Viseart Brow Palette. The pomade gave the brow powder something to adhere to.

Base:

• Wander Beauty Nude Illusion Liquid Foundation in Fair
• Too Faced Born This Way Ethereal Setting Powder

This is my second time wearing this combination of products. The immediate effect was smoothing but it seems to get pretty shiny on me throughout the day. I ended up adding more powder several times. There’s something about the way the foundation sits on the skin that I’m just not happy about. My skin is still not in the best condition so it’s kind of hard to say if it’s the foundation itself or just me needing to take better care of my skin. I think the shade is a bit light and that doesn’t help things look better. 

Cheeks:

• Milani Silky Matte Bronzer in Sun Light
• Maybelline Master Chrome Highlighter in Molten Gold

I think the bronzer looked better today after taking some more time applying my foundation. It’s easy to build up and apply evenly, and it blends out easily. If I go too heavy handed with it, the color can look a little “off” on me. Maybe a bit on the orange side?

Lips:

• Mixture of Wet n Wild Megalast Matte Lipsticks in Bare It All and Never Nude

These feel like matte lipsticks, meaning I can feel them on my lips more than I can with more of a satin/moisturizing formula. I applied them over a bit of lip balm and I didn’t feel like they caused my lips to become any more dry. Once they are applied, they seem to stay put pretty well. I even ate a sandwhich and a good amount color managed to survive.

Omg. Let me just start with saying I reapplied this makeup like 3 or 4 times in a row. I wanted to try recording on a different camera to hopefully get some better video quality. I figured I was going to run into hickups along the way. So glad this day is over.

This was my first look look using the ColourPop Uh Huh Honey Palette. I just did somewhat of a predictable look with it. When I’m not really sure what to do, sometimes doing the obvious thing and getting that out of the way helps.

Eyes:

• Alter Ego Eyeshadow Primer
• ColourPop Uh Huh Honey Palette
  • Stinger – Transition
  • Totally Buggin’ – Crease, inner lower lashline
  • Buzz Kill – Outer lid
  • Sweet Spot – Inner lid
  • Queen B – Outer lower lashline
  • Sunburst – Inner corner
• Sydney Grace Snow Queen
• Anastasia Beverly HIlls Dipbrow Pomade in Taupe
• Anastasia Beverly HIlls Lash Brag Mascara
• Covergirl Lash Exact Mascara (lower lashes)

Stinger didn’t blend as readily as I would expect for being so light. It blended fine, just not fast. Queen B was very creamy and easy to pick up plenty of color on the brush. Not very much fallout. The shine on this shade looks like I applied it with a wet brush. I didn’t. Sunburst has a little bit more fallout. It has some larger sparkles in it that fly off of the brush during application. Sweet Spot didn’t swatch as easily as the other shades and required more building up but it applied with a brush just fine. Totally Buggin’ had good color payoff but the way I applied it, it doesn’t stand out against the shades next to it. It’s a borderline orange shade.

I switched out my brow product for this look just to get out of that rut. The brow pomade takes me longer to apply and I don’t get as “clean” of a look with it. I think part of that is that the shade is lighter than what I ususally use. It strangely looks better up close than it does from far away.

Base:

• Wander Beauty Nude Illusion Liquid Foundation in Fair
• Too Faced Born This Way Ethereal Setting Powder

Because I reapplied my makeup so many times, my skin got kind of red and I stopped putting so much time into my foundation because I just wanted to figure out my camera problems. So the foundation is somewhat sheer and I didn’t apply all that much of it. I’ll have to use it again and use a different one to test the cheek products better.

I’ve used this one quite a bit in the past but it has been a long time. It has a more emolient and hydrating formula. Needed to repowder several times. Even though it is hydrating, it not my fav for when my skin is dry because it can emphasize texture if I apply too much of it. The coverage and color is what I don’t remember well about it.

Cheeks:

• Milani Silky Matte Bronzer in Sun Light
• Milani Baked Powder Blush in Red Vino

The blush was SO pigmented and just very dark on me. Definitely need to use a light hand with this shade.

I want to use the bronzer again over a different foundation. With my skin being irritated it was hard to tell how this would normally look.

Lips:

• NYX Shout Loud Satin Lipstick in Chic

Seemed to last a decent amount of time. Need to wear again.

I’ve been looking forward to using the ColourPop Uh Huh Honey Palette. I like and use yellow eyeshadow in combination with other colors but I haven’t done many all yellow looks in all the time I’ve been a makeup lover.

Stinger

Stinger is a light “creamy” yellow with a matte finish. It’s a little bit muted and reminds me of the color of butter.

Sunburst

Sunburst has a pale shimmery yellow base with larger light blue sparkles. It’s a unique shade and probably the one I’ve used the most in this palette. This is the shade I get the most fallout from.

Sweet Spot

Sweet Spot is a brighter more “pure” yellow with a matte finish. This one is harder to swatch than the other mattes and can look a bit patchy when I’m first applying it. If I build it up, I can get it to look evenly applied.

Dandy

Dandy is a bright yellow gold shimmer. It has a creamy and smooth texture with uniform-sized particles. Not much fallout from this shade.

Palooza

Palooza is a self-adhering pressed glitter. It will shift shades in the light depending on the angle of the light. I can see colors ranging from green to orange. In one of the looks I did, it even looked a bit pink.

Queen B

Queen B is a light yellow bronze with a sparkling metallic finish. The particles vary in size but none of them are large enough that I get significant fallout from this shade. It’s got a nice creamy texture that picks up easily on a brush.

Totally Buggin’

Totally Buggin’ is a light orange with a matte finish. It swatches more easily and quickly than the other mattes.

Oh Beehave

Oh Beehave a slightly deeper, more intense yellow with a a matte finish. This one swatches about as well as Totally Buggin’.

Buzz Kill

Buzz Kill… What is this shade? Taupe? Brown? Khaki? It’s an orangey medium brown but next to the other shades, it’s hard to immediately see where this falls on the spectrum.

I mostly used the ColourPop Blue Moon Palette for this look except for pulling in a couple neutrals and a black creamy base. So far I have done okay at not veering too far outside of my focus palette but the next look I will post… wow. I am kind of dreading editing it.

Eyes:

• Alter Ego Eyeshadow Primer
• ColourPop Blue Moon Palette
  • Mad About U – Outer crease
  • Tide Pool – Inner crease
  • Starry Eyed – Lid
  • Fine China – Outer corner
  • Billie Jean – Applied over NYX Jumbo Eye Pencil in Black Bean (lower inner lashline)
• ColourPop Bare Necessities Palette
  • Spy Glass – Outer lower lashline
  • Full Expose – Inner corner
• Viseart Brow Palette
• Anastasia Beverly Hills Brow Pen
• Colourpop Creme Gel Liner in Swerve
• Anastasia Beverly Hills Lash Brag Mascara
• Covergirl Lash Exact Mascara (lower lashes)

Not a whole lot of fallout from anything. Just a bit from Billie Jean. Mad About U is more of a satin finish but when I blend it out along the edges, it seems to kick up the shine a notch and bring out the blue sheen more. Starry Eyed is surprisingly opaque. I thought Tide Pool would pop more than it did but it’s probably because of how I used it.

Base:

• Hourglass Veil Mineral Primer
• Nars Soft Matte Complete Foundation
• Benefit Erase Paste
• Laura Mercier Secret Camouflage
• Nars Light Reflecting Powder

Cheeks:

• Make Up For Ever Pro Sculpting Palette (everything except the matte highlight)

Lips:

• Fenty Slip Shine Lipstick in Retro Rose

First look using only the ColourPop Blue Moon Palette. Before now, I’ve only ever used it as a pairing palette.

Eyes:

• Alter Ego Eyeshadow Primer
• ColourPop Blue Moon Palette
  • Moonlite – Transition
  • Da Ba Dee – Crease, faded down onto lid stopping short of lashline
  • Billie Jean – Lashline, faded up toward crease
  • Clued In – Lower lashline, left inner/outer part bare
  • Lumi – Inner/outer corners
• Viseart Brow Palette
• Anastasia Beverly Hills Brow Pen
• Make Up For Ever Artist Color Pencil in Boundless Bisque
• Anastasia Beverly Hills Lash Brag Mascara
• Covergirl Lash Exact Mascara (lower lashes)

Da Ba Dee seemed to fade along my crease both with primer and without but held on a bit better with it. Moonlite stuck to the skin and was harder to blend or move around than I expected. I applied both the shimmers dry. Lumi gave me the most fallout but it wasn’t all that much. Clued In blended beautifully along the edges.

Base:

• Hourglass Veil Mineral Primer
• Nars Soft Matte Complete Foundation
• Benefit Erase Paste
• Laura Mercier Secret Camouflage
• Nars Light Reflecting Powder

Cheeks:

• Make Up For Ever Pro Sculpting Palette (everything except the matte highlight)

Lips:

• Fenty Slip Shine Lipstick in Glazed

I’ve been wanting to spend some more focused time using my monochromatic 9-pan palettes from ColourPop for a very long time. The Blue Moon palette is the one I used most recently so I figured I might as well keep using the same one for a bit. Below, I swatched all the shades both heavily with my finger and more lightly with a brush to make it easier to see what is in each of the shades. It can be hard to see the sizes of particles and undertones when a shade is only seen in a heavy swatch. I’d say I apply shades that heavily on my eyes only about half the time.

So far, I’ve only done 4 looks that incorporate this palette, so any thoughts I wrote about specific shades are based on that.

Lumi

Lumi has a nearly clear base with a mixture of ultra fine light blue shimmer and medium sized sparkles. In the heavier swatch, I can see the “clear” base in the shadow as a slightly darker and more yellow tone than the rest of my skin. I haven’t noticed this effect on the eye.

Da Ba Dee

Da Ba Dee is a matte periwinkle. It is noticeably more purple toned than the rest of the shades in the palette. I had some trouble getting this to adhere to my lid in one of my looks.

Moonlite

Moonlite is a matte sky blue with cooler undertones. It is similar to Starry Eyed but isn’t as “warm” and has less color payoff.

Starry Eyed

Starry Eyed is Moonlite’s more vibrant cousin. I haven’t decided yet, but I think both of these shades were probably not necessary in this palette.

Billie Jean

Billie Jean is a silvery light blue that reminds me of the color of denim. I’m sure the name of this shade influenced the association in my mind. It has both fine shimmer and medium sized sparkles but doesn’t have too much fallout during application. It’s kind of an interesting borderline shade that will look different depending on what other shades it is placed next to. It can range from looking like a true silver to more of a light blue.

Tide Pool

Tide Pool is a nearly metallic warm blue with uniform sized fine shimmer particles.

Mad About U

Mad About U is a satin finish deeper blue shimmer.

Fine China

I guess I would describe Fine China as a matte cobalt blue, maybe a bit lighter than that. It is the most intense shade in the palette and stands out against the two deeper shades in the bottom row when placed on the eye.

Clued In

Clued In is a matte deep blue that fades into a blue-green when sheered out along the edges. It’s very pigmented and works well as eyeliner.

An orange eyeshadow look with the ColourPop So Very Lovely Palette. Most of the looks I’ve done before this have been a mixture of the warmer and cooler shades in the palette but I wanted to do something using only the warm tones. It’s hard to tell in the pic but what I have in the crease and on the lower lashline are two very different colors (at least in the pans). Once on the eye, they aren’t easy to tell apart.

Shades used:

• Dream Catcher – All over lid, crease
• Craft Works – Transition for Dream Catcher
• Eyelet – Lower lashline
• Lace Up – Center of lid
• Tea Time – Inner part of lower lashline
• Braided – Outer part of brow bone

I used Full Expose from the ColourPop Bare Necessities Palette on the inner corner and brow bone.

My fourth look with the ColourPop So Very Lovely Palette. The intent of this look was to try and show both Lace Up and Eyelet a little more prominently. I feel like I didn’t really achieve either as well as I would have liked.

Shades used:

• Lace Up – inner corner, applied with dampened brush
• Eyelet – outer crease
• Craft Works – transition for eyelet, lower inner lashline transition. I initially applied this with a fluffy brush and then kept layering it, eventually using a pencil brush trying to get it to show up more.
• Rose Ave – outer lid/crease
• Dream Catcher – used to deepen Eyelet a bit in the crease
• Topanga Blvd – upper/lower lashline. I layered this several times both with a fluffy brush and a pencil brush.
• Macaroon – inner lid/crease, lower outer lashline transition
• Collective – outer lid, applied first with a dry brush then dampened for more color payoff

On the lower waterline I have ColourPop Creme Gel Pencil in Swerve.

Went for a somewhat strange, experimental look this time using the ColourPop So Very Lovely Palette. I usually don’t have a plan when I do these looks but sometimes I have a starting point in mind and let it go from there. I knew I wanted to use the orange shade in the crease the way I did and use some of the lighter shimmers underneath it on the lid.

Shades used:

• Sydney Grace Snow Queen – brow bone
• Dream Catcher – outer crease-ish, outer lower lashline
• Macaroon – transition for Dream Catcher on both upper and lower part of eye
• Topanga Blvd – inner lid/crease, used as a smudged winged liner
• Eyelet – inner corner
• Craft Works – transition for Eyelet
• Collective – center of lid, center of lower lashline
• Braided – to the right of Collective on lid, inner lower lashline
• Lace Up – outer lid

On the lower waterline I have ColourPop Creme Gel Pencil in Macrame.

Here’s a mostly purple eyeshadow look with the ColourPop So Very Lovely Palette. The matte lavender shade looked sheerer than I wanted in the first look I did so I decided to try using it over a white eyeshadow base and packed it on with a pencil brush to see how much I could get it to pop. I’m happy with how it came out applied like this.

All of the shimmers (except for Organza) were applied with a dampened brush to keep fallout to the minimum. The shimmers are the type with larger particles that tend to fall out easily.

The deep purple in the outer corner took me some time to blend because it’s the type of shadow that doesn’t move easily once applied. I had to use a small fluffy brush to make sure to apply it in the shape and placement where I wanted it rather than move it to the place I wanted it, if that makes sense.

What I used:

• Sydney Grace Snow Queen – brow bone
• Rose Ave – transition
• Topanga Blvd – outer lid/crease
• NYX Eyeshadow Base in White – center of lid
• Macaroon – center of lid, over NYX Eyeshadow Base
• Organza – inner lid/crease
• Collective – outer lower lashline
• Fringed – inner lower lashline
• Braided – inner corner

My first look using the ColourPop So Very Lovely Palette. I put this together in a rush and wasn’t feeling the best when I did it. Used all the colors in the palette and threw caution to the wind with sparkle fallout, even put the shade Lace Up pretty far down on the lower outer lashline which is a place I usually avoid getting too much shimmer.

For the most part, everything worked well. A few things to note are that Macaroon (lavender shade on inner corner) was sheerer than I expected it to be and Topanga Blvd (outer lid shade) is the type of eyeshadow that is hard to move once it’s placed on the skin, so you have to be mindful of how you apply it.

Where all the shades are used:

• Craft Works – high in the transition area, near brow bone
• Eyelet – inner crease
• Dream Catcher – outer crease
• Braided – center part of crease
• Fringed – inner lid
• Collective – center of lid
• Topanga Blvd – outer lid, outer lower lashline
• Rose Ave – inner lower lashline, blended over a larger area
• Tea Time – same place as Rose Ave but closer to the lashline
• Macaroon – inner corner, over a larger area
• Organza – smaller part of inner corner
• Lace Up – outer lower lashline, on edges of Topanga Blvd

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The ColourPop So Very Lovely Palette is the first new palette I have purchased since last year. Sometimes when looking at new releases, I’ll mentally go through what I already have and think of what I have that might be similar. What came to mind first was the original ABH Norvina Palette just because of that one pop of cool toned lavender. The shades in that palette are different but the concept is similar.

For a while I started to get annoyed with ColourPop because they would create palettes with redundant shades or textures I was not the biggest fan of (like mattes with sparkles). And while the quality on some of my older ColourPop palettes was always at least usable, I never knew what to expect from shade to shade. The last one I reviewed was the ColourPop So Jaded Palette, which generally had more consistency across the shades, and that is what I see in this palette. Some of the shades are a little more unique and some are fairly common and you probably already have something similar if you are an eyeshadow lover.

If this one caught your eye and you want to know if it’s a safe buy, yes, I think the quality is good.

Most of the shimmers in this palette have some larger sparkly flecks in them along with the finer shimmer particles. Those that don’t are Braided and Tea Time.

• Lace Up – Pale peachy pink shimmer with cool silver undertones and a few larger specks of white gold sparkle.
• Organza – Metallic icy mauve with silver sparkle. Feels creamier than the other shimmers in the palette.
• Craft Works – Matte light peach. This requires some building up to see against my skin tone but it is plenty pigmented.
• Fringed – Somewhere between a light gold and a true taupe. A shimmer with a good amount of shine and larger sparkles but not quite as metallic as Organza.
• Braided – Somewhat sheer yellow gold shimmer. The particles in this are more uniform than most of the other shimmers.
• Macaroon – Matte lavender. This is a bit sheerer than some of the other mattes in the palette but I still think it’s a good shadow when I consider it in comparison other pastel shades I have like this.
• Eyelet – Light coral with a matte finish.
• Rose Ave – Warm toned mauve with a matte finish.
• Dream Catcher – Reddish/orangey brown with a matte finish. Looks a little bit lighter on the eye than how it looks in the pan.
• Tea Time – Light bronze, *almost* leans pink. A good one for someone with cooler undertones that is intimidated by warm shades like this. The shimmer particles are mostly uniform and small like those in Braided but this has more color payoff than that shade.
• Collective – Orchid purple shimmer with larger golden sparkles. The gold is more noticeable if this shade is sheered out a bit. This is pretty unique for my collection.
• Topanga Blvd – A deep, somewhat warmer purple with subtle red undertones and a matte finish. This was more difficult to blend and apply than the other mattes but I still like it for not being patchy. If applied with patience, it can look smooth and well blended.

Dupes and Comparisons

I went through my collection and looked for shades I had that might be similar to what is in this palette. The first swatch in each photo below is from the ColourPop So Very Lovely Palette and the ones to the right of it are things I already had either in other palettes or as single shadows. I focused on looking for dupes within other ColourPop palettes but pulled in other brands to compare to as well.

• So Sirius (ColourPop She’s Got Solstice Palette)
• Ready or Yacht (ColourPop Baby Got Peach Palette)
• The Talk (ColourPop Bare Necessities Palette)
• Sunstone (ColourPop So Jaded Palette)
• Moonstone (ColourPop So Jaded Palette)
• Dazed (Urban Decay Naked Ultraviolet Palette)
• Dazzling (Anastasia Beverly Hills Norvina Palette)
• Crave (Huda Beauty New Nude Palette)
• Angelic (Huda Beauty Desert Dusk Palette)

Lace Up is more unique than I thought it would be just by looking at it in the pan. Yes, it’s a light neutral beige-y kind of shade and almost every makeup lover has something like that. What I didn’t capture well here is the complexity of this shade. It has a silvery undertone that is more visible at different angles and a peach and gold shift.

• Mauve on Top (ColourPop Making Mauves Palette)
• Daydream (Huda Beauty New Nude Palette)
• V.R. (Urban Decay Naked Ultraviolet Palette)
• Posh (ColourPop Fame Palette)
• Bloomer (ColourPop Super Shock Shadow)
• Third shade in the Elf Rose Water Bite Size Eyeshadow
• First shade, second row (Huda Beauty Purple Haze Palette)
• First shade, second row (Huda Beauty Nude Light Palette)

The closest dupe to Organza that I found on this day was in the Elf Rose Water Bite Size Eyeshadow. Both are very smooth but Organza is just slightly creamier feeling and a tiny bit brighter and shinier. I’d say if you have the Elf one, though, it’s so close I doubt you’d be able to notice the difference visually on the eye.

• Hustler (ColourPop Bare Necessities Palette)
• Darlin’ (ColourPop Baby Got Peach Palette)
• Peaches and Cream (Too Faced Just Peachy Mattes Palette)
• First shade, second row (Huda Beauty Sand Haze Palette)
• Mind Slip (Urban Decay Naked Ultraviolet Palette)
• Play (Huda Beauty New Nude Palette)

Craft Works doesn’t seem terribly unique. Hustler from the Bare Necessities Palette looks and feels identical.

• Silk Teddy (ColourPop Bare Necessities Palette)
• Infinity (ColourPop All Things Equinox Palette)
• Bicoastal (ColourPop Making Mauves Palette)
• Second shade in the Elf Cream and Sugar Bite Size Eyeshadow
• Ironic (Essence Melted Chrome Single)

Fringed is a more common type of shade. I have shadows like this in my older Urban Decay and Lorac palettes and even things from the drugstore. The quality of this is very nice, though.

• Dandy (ColourPop Uh Huh Honey Palette)
• Queen B (ColourPop Uh Huh Honey Palette)
• Genie (ColourPop Bare Necessities Palette)
• Golden (Urban Decay naked Honey Palette)
• First shade in the Elf Hot Jalapeño Bite Size Eyeshadow

Out of all the shades in this palette this is probably my least favorite. It’s not bad, it’s just a little bit sheerer and drier than the rest of the shimmers. I use this in Look #1 below and the way it is applied there is a more accurate representation of how this looks than what you see swatched above. All of the shades I picked to compare this to are less dry. This shade almost seems more like a topper.

• Zoned Out (ColourPop Lilac You A Lot Palette)
• Kittenfish (ColourPop It’s My Pleasure Palette)
• Heiress (ColourPop Single Shadow)
• Howlin’ (ColourPop Single Shadow) ***This was soooo hard to swatch***
• Optimized (Urban Decay Naked Ultraviolet Palette)
• Lace (Huda Beauty New Nude Palette)
• Soul (Anastasia Beverly Hills Norvina Palette)
• First shade in the Elf Acai You Bite Size Eyeshadow
• Jellyfish (Menagerie Cosmetics Violet Ink Palette)
• Iron Grip (Menagerie Cosmetics Violet Ink Palette)
• Belly Slide (Menagerie Cosmetics Pastel Pup Palette)
• Ice Cap (Menagerie Cosmetics Pastel Pup Palette)

I swatched out some shades that are clearly not that similar here because sometimes with these kinds of pastels, if you aren’t that familiar with them, you may not realize how similar or different they are just based on your imagination. Zoned out from the It’s My Pleasure Palette is the closest in terms of color but I think Macaroon has more color payoff. Optimized from the Urban Decay Naked Ultraviolet is another very close comparison both in color and how it feels and applies.

• Centerfold (ColourPop Baby Got Peach Palette, also a single)
• Perky (CP Baby Got Peach Palette)
• Eden (Huda Beauty Desert Dusk Palette)
• You’re A Gem (ColourPop So Jaded Palette)
• Peach Punch (Too Faced Just Peachy Mattes Palette)
• Peach For The Stars (Makeup Geek Single)

I thought for sure I’d have a dupe within one of my ColourPop palettes for this shade but it is slightly different. It’s brighter and less muted than the shades I swatched next to it. I want to use words like true, pure, and clean to describe this shade. It isn’t faded or made to be more brown/neutral like many of the comparisons I picked out.

• Solitaire (ColourPop Making Mauves Palette)
• All 4 U (ColourPop Bare Necessities Palette)
• Secret (Huda Beauty New Nude Palette)
• Stardom (ColourPop Fame Palette)
• First shade in the Elf Berry Bad Bite Size Eyeshadow

I’m happy this shade is in this palette because I think it complements the others nicely but I have several super similar shades already.

• Haute (ColourPop Bare Necessities Palette)
• Amber (Huda Beauty Desert Dusk Palette)
• Third shade in the Elf Carnival Candy Bite Size Eyeshadow
• Brick House (Makeup Geek Single)
• Magma (Natasha Denona Bronze Palette)

I found some close matches to Dream Catcher but most weren’t actually that easy to find. Haute from the Bare Necessities palette has some tiny sparkles in it that aren’t visible here whereas Dream Catcher is a true matte. The shade from the Elf Carnival Candy quad looks closer in real life than it does in this photo. Brick House from Makeup Geek is more red and has a drier, flat matte finish.

• Fuzzy (ColourPop Bare Necessities Palette)
• Second shade in the Elf Pumpkin Pie Bite Size Eyeshadow
• Blood Moon (Huda Beauty Desert Dusk Palette)
• Flame Thrower (Makeup Geek Single)
• High Degree (Natasha Denona Bronze Palette)

I didn’t swatch that many comparisons but I don’t think it is hard to find shades like this. The one in the Elf Pumpkin Pie Bite Size Eyeshadow is a lot like Tea Time.

• Bare Minimum (ColourPop It’s My Pleasure Palette)
• Mystical (Makeup Geek Single)
• Third shade, second row (Huda Beauty Purple Haze Palette)
• Second shade, first row (Huda Beauty Nude Light Palette)
• Cyber Punk (Urban Decay naked Ultraviolet Palette)
• A La Mode (ColourPop Making Mauves Palette) *** This shade has a thicker/waxier texture than your typical powder shadow ***

Collective is probably the most unique shade in this palette. Nothing I picked out is something I would swap out for it. The purple in this is brighter with more pink tones and the gold sheen is strong and noticeable without washing out the purple underneath in direct light.

• Marquee (ColourPop Making Mauves Palette)
• Love Bite (Huda Beauty New Nude Palette)
• Last shade in the Elf Berry Bad Bite Size Eyeshadow
• Sleeper (ColourPop It’s My Pleasure Palette)
• Wine & Dine (Makeup Geek Single)

Sleeper from ColourPop is the closest thing I found to this shade but Topanga Blvd has a smoother texture and is slightly more muted and red toned.