The Ensley Reign Cold Moon Palette is a colorful cool toned palette with a mixture of sparkling multichromes, a couple of metallics and a wide selection of mattes to pair them with. There are 21 shades in total with a good 50/50 matte to shimmer split. It is available to preorder for $72 plus shipping.

There are 10 mattes and 11 shimmers. The mattes are all very similar in consistency across all the colors but the shimmers come in a few different finishes. 7 of them are flakier duochrome/multichrome shimmers with large sparkles and sheerer, topper-like opacity, 2 are metallic with silver reflects, 1 is a metallic multichrome with holographic sparkles, and one is just a regular metallic (but still beautiful). Something this palette has that I have nowhere else in my collection are shades with holographic sparkles. I’m not really sure if this has been done before (probably it has ). 5 of the shades have them and they really show up well on the eye.

This is my first purchase from this brand and from what I understand most (if not all) items purchased from them have a longer processing time than what you might be used to. I preordered this in late December and received it close to 4 weeks later. It came packaged well with plenty of padding to protect the palette and the shipping company I went with (UPS) did a good job. As of the publish date, I see that there is currently an 8-10 week wait if you were to buy it now. Personally, I had a good experience ordering from them but I’d recommend really familiarizing yourself with how they ship, their wait times, and their return policy. They explain it throughout their website.

Snow Drop

Snow Drop is a flaky/sparkly shimmer with holographic sparkles. Pale warm pink to gold to green shift.

Winter Rose

Winter Rose is a light warm pink with a matte finish.

Aurora

Aurora is a flaky/sparkly shimmer with holographic sparkles. Berry to orange to green shift.

Orithyia

Orithyia is a light warm violet with a matte finish.

Snow Faeries

Snow Faeries is a flaky/sparkly shimmer, no holographic sparkles in this one. Light green to light blue to purple shift. I don’t think it has much of a base color but if I layer it heavily and look from an extreme angle, the entire swatch has a light purple hue that resembles a base color.

Garnet

Garnet is a deep brown with strong red tones when it is sheered out along the edges, making it look a little like a burgundy. It’s not showing up here but I could see this more in a look when I tried it (looks are coming soon).

Forbidding

Forbidding is a different type of shimmer that has more opacity than the flakier ones. It has a strong pink base color with lots of silver sparkle as well as some fine shimmer. I can very easily get this to look like an opaque metallic but I am also able to sheer it out to see more of the base color. It has a firmer/denser feel to the touch than the flaky shimmers as well. It’s not a shifty shade, though it may look like it because the light I have at the bottom of the swatch is slightly warmer.

Mauja

Mauja is a pale greenish nude with a matte finish. I can’t really see the green tone once I place this on the skin, it just kind of blends out to look like a matte highlight on me.

Saturnalia

Saturnalia is a flaky/sparkly shimmer with holographic sparkles. Light gold to green to blue shift with a pink base color that stains the skin a bit. The blue is the hardest color to see unless I’m looking at it almost sideways.

Catmint

Catmint is a medium cool dusty purple with a matte finish.

Khion

Khion is more of a metallic shimmer, similar to Forbidding, but this one is a multichrome with holographic sparkles. Red-violet to gold to green shift and a light blue base color. I’ve used this one several times on the eye so far and what is most visible to me in the mirror is the red-violet shimmer against a subtle blue backdrop. Very interesting shade.

Transformation

Transformation is a medium matte grey with subtle purple tones.

Wolf Moon

Wolf Moon is a metallic silver shimmer with large silver sparkles. This has that firmer, denser, more opaque quality that Forbidding has. It’s also not a shifty shade. The color at the top of the swatch is more accurate to what I see in real life.

Mothers’ Night

Mothers’ Night is a deep cool brown with a matte finish.

Snow Crystal

Snow Crystal is a flaky/sparkly shimmer with holographic sparkles. Light pinky purple to blue-green shift with a sheer blue base color.

Cold Moon

Cold Moon is a medium muted sky blue with a matte finish.

Borealis

Borealis is a flaky/sparkly shimmer, no holographic sparkles in this one. Purple to warm pink to greenish bronze shift.

Winter Solstice

Winter Solstice is a pale muted green with a matte finish. In playing with this shade so far, it is hard to see the green tone against my complexion. It looks very muted and almost greyish.

Kallikantzaros

Kallikantzaros is the lone regular metallic. It looks a bit chunky in the swatch but when I smooth this out, it looks like it’s all small particles, giving more of a smooth shimmer finish that is less topper-like. It is a pale bluish silver with no shifts.

Rebirth

Rebirth is a deep matte grey.

Storm Faerie

Storm Faerie is a flaky/sparkly shimmer that shifts from teal to blue to purple. With the little bit I played with this one, it doesn’t seem to have much of a visible base color on the eye.