The Huda Beauty Icy Nude Palette is a cooler toned palette with lots of pinks, greys, silvers, and a hint of peach and gold in the right side column. It’s possible to get some depth out of this palette but for the most part, it is not a very smoky or dark palette. A good majority of the mattes stay in the light and medium range and the shimmers are also quite light and reflective. 

As with most of the larger Huda Beauty Palettes I’ve collected over the years, this one is ALMOST neutral but not quite. It complements a true neutral palette nicely but the tones in this are not really true skin-tone neutrals. 

I find it easy to grab for this palette on any old day for an easy-to-wear look that doesn’t feel too bold or done up. The most common way I’ll wear this is by using shades like First Class, Oneself, Poised, or High Life in the crease, the palest mattes on the inner corner and any of the shimmers on the lid. On a typical day, I don’t often wear deeper shades but these are not that dark on me and I’m able to easily use them with a light hand to add just a little bit of extra depth.

Price: $69
Availability: Huda Beauty, Sephora

Swatches

Iced Out– Pale blue to purple shifting shimmer with a very subtle and sheer warm base color. Sheerer opacity but builds easily and shows up well.
High Life – Light dusty lavender with a matte finish.
Platinum – Bright silver metallic with mostly fine shimmer and a little bit of sparkle. Has more opacity than some of the other shimmers.
Unapologetic– Medium deep reddish brown with a matte finish.
Faux Fur – Deep purpley grey-brown with a matte finish.
Gold Standards – Light peachy gold shimmer with larger flakey sparkles. Drier to the touch than the other shimmers.
Avalanche – Matte white. Somewhat sheer but brightens effectively.
Aurora – Medium rosy bronze with a sparkling metallic finish. Has more opacity than some of the other shimmers.
VVS – Warm silver with a subtle purple-gold shift. This one is flakier than the other shimmers.
Poised – Medium purple-grey matte.
She Riiich – Much deeper cool grey matte.
Cold Plunge – Pale peachy yellow nude with a matte finish.
IDGAF – Ultra pale, cool pink with a matte finish.
Bling – Silver biodegradable glitter. Feels grainier/sandier than traditional glitter and also has less of a reflect to it.
Oneself – Ultra pale greyish taupe with a matte finish.
Diamond Dew – Another warm silver similar to VVS both in texture and finish. This one is less warm than that one and is almost like a cross between a white gold and a warm silver.
Lavish – Medium muted rose with a matte finish.
First Class – Medium peach with a matte finish.

Video swatches here:

The mattes have a nice fine, smooth texture that feels lightweight and almost airy. They are a drier matte formula compared to other brands and I feel most of the lighter shades adhere better if used over a primer. They work fine alone but a primer definitely helps guard against dusting away with heavy handed blending. The only shade I had trouble using over primer was the shade Faux Fur. For some reason, that one would apply much more unevenly over primer and looked better over bare lids. Even if I didn’t use primer, this shade still did not apply as evenly as I would have like and emphasized texture on my lids. All the rest, even the cooler greys, were very nice though and I enjoyed how smooth they looked on my lids. If you’ve purchased any of the larger Huda palettes in the past, the formula of the mattes feels the same.

I like the shimmers less than I like the mattes mainly because of the fallout I get from them. The shades Gold Standards and Aurora had the most fallout and it took me a fair amount of effort to clean it up. The rest had minor fallout that was easy to clean up. Every shimmer has some amount of larger sparkle in it. Platinum has the least and mostly looks like a smooth metallic shimmer once I put it on the eye. It was helpful to use a setting spray with some of them both to keep fallout to a minimum and to get them to apply with more opacity more quickly. Despite needing a bit of help, I think the shimmers are still beautiful. They show up well, reflect a good amount of light, and I like the color choices that were made.

I personally enjoy the color story for the style of eyeshadow I like to wear. I felt there was a good range of depth in the mattes with a few different color directions I could go in (grey toned, rosy toned, or peachy) and the shimmer options easily complemented those mattes. I didn’t find it difficult to come up with looks but at the same time I didn’t feel bored by the shade choices. I could add some depth but in general I got lighter looks out of this palette, which is what I prefer. 

One thing to note about the color story… In the sea of palette options, this one might appeal as a potential everyday neutral palette. I want to just point out the shades in here are generally not true skin tone neutrals so it’s probably not the best choice for someone that wants a very “natural” eyeshadow look. For example, when I want an eyeshadow look that doesn’t actually look like I’m wearing eyeshadow, I end up needing a very light midtone neutral brown, which is not something you can find in this palette. Just keep this in mind depending on what you’re looking to get out of this palette.

Pros and Cons

Things I like:

• Love the matte formula for my aging eyelids
• These shades are easy to reach for any day of the week for any occasion
• Shades show up well but are not crazy bold/colorful/dark on me
• Cold Plunge and IDGAF double as color correctors on me

Drawbacks and other considerations:

• Shimmer/sparkle fallout is borderline annoying
• Faux Fur was the only matte I think didn’t perform well

Do I Recommend It?

Maybe. Only if you are not bothered by fallout. If you hate fallout, this may not be the best choice. I like the lighter tones, the nuanced colors, and the formula of the majority of the mattes enough that those positives outweigh the drawbacks for me. 

Looks

Looks 1-5 are available in the YouTube video below with some commentary on how the shades worked. I did looks 6-8 later off camera just to try a few more color combos.

Look 1:

• Cold Plunge – Inner corner, brow bone
• Lavish – Inner crease, inner lower lashline
• First Class – Outer crease/transition, outer lower lashline
• Aurora – Center of lid (dry brush, fingertip)
• Avalanche – Inner corner, brow bone (applied lightly to brighten)

Look 2:

• Oneself – All over lid and crease (applied pretty heavily)
• Poised – Crease/transition, most of lower lashline
• She Riiich – Outer lid/crease
• Avalanche – Inner corner, brow bone (more heavily than last look), near tear duct by lower lashline (very heavily)
• Iced Out – Center of lid (dry brush, fingertip)

Look 3:

• Cold Plunge – Inner corner, all over lid
• First Class – Crease
• Gold Standards – All over lid (first with dry brush, then with setting spray)
• Avalanche – Inner corner, brow bone (not very heavily, just to brighten)
• Faux Fur – Lower lashline

Look 4:

• Avalanche + Cold Plunge – Inner corner 
• High Life – Crease/transition (do this first!), lower lashline
• Faux Fur – All over lid, blended up into the crease
• Platinum – Center of lid (dry brush, then dampened brush)
• Bling – Lower lashline, layered over High Life
• IDGAF – Inner corner, brow bone (added this after the fact)

Look 5:

• Oneself – Transition
• Poised – Inner/outer crease, lower lashline
• Faux Fur – Add depth to outer crease
• VVS – Center of lid (dry brush, fingterip)
• Avalanche – Applied precisely near inner corner/tear duct
• Diamond Dew – Lower lashline (dry brush)
• She Riiich – Winged liner, smudged into upper lashline

Look 6:

• Poised – Inner lid/crease, inner lower lashline
• Unapologetic – Outer lid/crease, outer lower lashline
• VVS – Center of lid, center of lower lashline (dry brush, fingertip)

Look 7:

• High Life – Inner/outer crease, center part of lower lashline
• IDGAF – Center part of crease
• She Riiich – Liner
• Diamond Dew – All over lid (dry brush, fingertip)

Look 8:

• Cold Plunge – Inner corner
• First Class – Crease
• Unapologetic – Outer lid/crease
• Iced Out – All over lid
• Aurora – Outer lower lashline

The Huda Beauty Pretty Grunge Palette is the type of palette that looks like it could be a go-to, everyday eyeshadow palette while providing options to go bolder and be more creative. It’s a matte-heavy palette that is sort of neutral but not really considering there are a lot purple, mauve, pink, and peach tones. The more colorful shades add some variety and interest but are still muted enough to reach for on the daily. Only 6 shades are shimmers and there is one 1 black gloss.

Price: $69
Availability: Huda Beauty, Sephora, Kohl’s

Swatches

This is an overview of all the swatches. To see them closer up, in more detail, see this post.

Liberty – Medium pinky peach with a matte finish.
Heroine – Pale matte yellowy peach.
Avant-Garde – Deep brown base color with lots of silver and gold sparkles.
Renegade – Soft black with a matte finish.
Brave – Medium reddish mauve.
Beauty Chaos – Light-medium dusty lavender.
Rise Up – Light matte brown with subtle peach undertones.
Stand Up – Light rose gold shimmer with all fine particles.
Strong AF – Greyish purple shimmer with larger silver and gold sparkles.
Nirvana – Deep muted purple with a matte finish.
Haphazard – Deep grey base color with red-to-purple-shifting fine shimmer.
Fearless – Deep reddish brown with a matte finish.
Hope – Deep neutral matte brown.
Luv Anarchy – Light matte mauve.
Maverick – Metallic white gold with a mixture of fine shimmer and larger sparkle. Creamier/stiffer formula that is easier to pick up with a finger than with a brush.
Rebelle – Dimensional gold and lavender shimmer. Lots of larger gold particles and some finer lavender shimmer. Also has a creamier feel to it but is a bit easier to pick up with a brush.
Freedom – Light matte pink.
Grunge – Black glossy cream.

All of the mattes show up well without the need to build a whole lot to get good color payoff. Some of the lighter ones look a little darker on the lid than they appear in the pan. Beauty Chaos and Freedom were surprisingly deeper than I expected. The deepest mattes are nicely pigmented and can be the type to stick a little too strongly to the lid. They aren’t bad, I’ve had much more difficult and worse-looking outcomes but for these I find it helpful to use one of the lighter mattes underneath first and then go over top with one of the deeper shades. The result looks pretty similar and it is much easier to move the color around. I can also work in the opposite order and go straight in with a deeper shade but I have to be super careful about packing evenly and slowly blending outward to get a smooth gradient. Applying them with or without primer (ColourPop Party Proof Eyeshadow Primer) didn’t seem to make a difference in how they ahdered or blended. I got the most fallout from the matte black but for that and all the others just being sure to tap excess off the brush was plenty to get a clean application.

There are 6 shimmers in this palette and only 4 of those have a noticeable/bright reflective quality (for use as lid toppers). Haphazard gives me a satin finish at most and has a very prominent base color, enough that I could use this shade as a one-and-done shadow. Avant-Garde has some sparkle but most of what I see is its deeper base color. If you’re the type of person that likes to use shimmers on the lid most of the time, consider whether you think there is enough variety of shimmer in here to suit your taste. In general fallout was not bad from these. I got some fallout from the shades with larger/flakier particles (Strong AF, Maverick, and Rebelle) but it was much less than I was expecting from shades like these. Avant-Garde was the only one that had significant enough fallout to be annoying for me.

There are some things I find unique in here that I’m glad I have it for. Maverick is not my favorite shimmer to use on the lid because of its firmer/waxier formula but it works well to create a sparkly inner corner without needing to use a setting spray for the effect. Rebelle is an interesting crumbly looking mixture of gold and lavender that ends up looking nicely dimensional on the eye if pressed on the lid with a finger. I like the fine reddish shimmer in Haphazard and can’t think of another eyeshadow I have like this. And of course, the black gloss. I have some black creams (like NYX Jumbo Pencil in Black Bean and the black creams in the Patrick Ta Major Dimension III and Danessa Myricks Groundwork Palettes), but this is glossier and balmier. The gloss creases pretty bad but that is kind of the point. I like the smokey, dewy effect of just wearing it alone as eyeshadow and how easily and smoothly it blends around the edges.

Pros and Cons

Things I like:

• Great variety of color and depth for the matte shades with nothing being too similar to each other.
• Good color payoff and easy blending (recommend applying mattes in order of lightest to darkest though!)
• Most shades had zero or very minimal fallout (only one had lots of fallout).
• Some unique shades you don’t often find in neutral-ish palettes, like Haphazard, Maverick, Rebelle, and Grunge.
• The matte black in here is good quality. Pigmented, nice and dark, has smooth, even color payoff.

Drawbacks to consider:

• Not enough variety of shimmers to use as lid toppers for me personally.
• Not a fan of the formula of Maverick.

Do I Recommend It?

I think this is one of the better larger neutral palettes from this year. It’s not a low-cost palette but the quality and variety is there to support it. If I was looking for a good all around neutral palette, the only thing that would hold me back from this one is there is really only one truly go-to neutral combo of shades I can use. If you want a true neutral palette this might be a smidge too colorful but if you want more variety that is still in comfort zone territory it might be a good pick for you.

Looks

Look 1:

• Hope – Outer lid/crease
• Rise Up – Transition for Hope
• Stand Up – Center of lid
• Luv Anarchy – Inner crease, outer lower lashline
• Maverick – Inner lower lashline

Look 2:

• Freedom – Brow bone
• Beauty Chaos – Transition (applied to entire lid and crease area as a base for the next shade)
• Nirvana – All over lid/crease
• Rebelle – Center of lid (dry brush, finger)
• Maverick – Inner corner (dry brush)
• Haphazard – Lower lashline
• Make Up For Ever Artist Color Pencil in All Around White

Here I’m using that creamier/stiffer shade Maverick near the inner corner. This is the way I most enjoy using it personally for the sparkly effect I get without lots of fallout and without needing to use a setting spray to get it to adhere.

Look 3:

• Sydney Grace Snow Queen single eyeshadow – Brow bone, inner corner
• Freedom – Transition, lower lashline
• Rebelle – All over lid (dry brush)
• Make Up For Ever Artist Color Pencil in All Around White

I tried to get both the gold and the lavender in the shimmer on the lid to show up here. It’s there but it’s easier to see in person.

Look 4:

• Anastasia Beverly Hills Blanc single eyeshadow – Brow bone
• Heroine – Transition, inner lower lashline
• Rise Up – Crease, outer lower lashline
• Stand Up – Inner lid, inner corner
• Avant-Garde – Outer lid, blended into crease
• Make Up For Ever Artist Color Pencil in Boundless Bisque

Look 5:

• Anastasia Beverly Hills Blanc single eyeshadow – Brow bone, inner corner
• Rise Up – Crease/transition
• Hope – Outer lid, outer lower lashline

This is about the most truly neutral look I can get out of this palette. For some soft shimmer, I could top it with Stand Up (will add some rose gold to the look) or for more of a sparkly lid, I could top it with Maverick.

Look 6:

• Anastasia Beverly Hills Blanc single eyeshadow – Brow bone, inner corner
• Heroine – Transition, inner lower lashline, inner lid
• Liberty – Outer crease, center of lower lashline
• Brave – Outer lid, outer lower lashline
• Beauty Chaos – Inner crease
• Grunge – Liner
• Make Up For Ever Artist Color Pencil in Infinite Sand

I used a bunch of the mattes in different tones here to show them all together. The palette is more colorful than you might expect but the color is soft and still very easy to wear for most situations.

Look 7:

• Anastasia Beverly Hills Blanc single eyeshadow + Cherished from the Huda Beauty Rose Quartz Palette (mixed) – Brow bone, inner corner
• Luv Anarchy – Transition, lower lashline
• Nirvana – Outer lid/crease
• Strong AF – Center of lid/crease
• Make Up For Ever Artist Color Pencil in Infinite Sand

Look 8:

• Grunge – All over lid, lower lashline
• Freedom – Transition
• Rebelle – Center of lid
• Stand Up – Inner corner
• Make Up For Ever Artist Color Pencil in Whatever Black

I’m using the black gloss all over the lid sort of like a base. I started this look wearing it all by itself but felt it was a little boring, so I added a shimmer to the center. It creases but I don’t think it looks bad if it’s intentional.

Look 9:

• Heroine – Crease
• Maverick – All over lid
• Hope – Winged Liner

One more just to show you what Maverick looks like all over the lid. I applied this with a Sigma E56 brush (a stiffer, synthetic flat shader) and it took me a while to build it up evenly and strongly all over the lid. I could have also applied the shade with my finger but this formula can look a little thick and crinkly on the lid applying it that way.

The Huda Beauty Pretty Grunge Palette is a neutral palette with a mix of warmer and cooler tones and a nice range of depth. The left side is generally more neutral and peachy while the right side leans cooler and more pink/purple. There are 11 mattes, 6 shimmers, and 1 glossy cream.

This post is meant to show closer up, more detailed swatches of this palette. My review for this palette is here.

Liberty

Liberty is a medium pinky peach with a matte finish.

Heroine

Heroine is a pale matte yellowy peach.

Avant-Garde

Avant-Garde has a deep brown base with lots of silver and gold sparkles.

Renegade

Renegade is a soft black with a matte finish.

Brave

Brave is a medium reddish mauve.

Beauty Chaos

Beauty Chaos is a light-medium dusty lavender.

Rise Up

Rise Up is a light matte brown with ever so slight peachy undertones.

Stand Up

Stand Up is a light rose gold shimmer with all fine particles.

Strong AF

Strong AF is a greyish purple shimmer with larger silver and gold sparkles.

Nirvana

Nirvana is a deep muted purple with a matte finish.

Haphazard

Haphazard has a deep grey base color with red-to-purple-shifting fine shimmer.

Fearless

Fearless is a deep reddish brown with a matte finish.

Hope

Hope is a deep neutral matte brown.

Luv Anarchy

Luv Anarchy is a light matte mauve.

Maverick

Maverick is a metallic white gold with a mixture of fine shimmer and larger sparkle. This has a creamier feel to it and is easier to pick up with a finger than with a brush.

Rebelle

Rebelle is a dimensional gold and lavender shimmer. It has lots of larger gold particles and as well as some finer lavender shimmer. This one also has a creamier feel to it but is a bit easier to pick up with a brush.

Freedom

Freedom is a light matte pink.

Grunge

Grunge is a black glossy cream.

Huda Beauty Fauxfilter Under Eye Color Corrector is available in 5 shades ranging from peachy pink to rich orange and can be used to increase the effectiveness of concealer at cancelling out dark under eye circles. It can also be used anywhere else on the face to neutralize dark spots or pigmentation issues. These are $30 for 0.3 fl. oz. / 9 ml and can be purchased from Huda Beauty, Sephora, and Kohl’s.

I chose Pink Pomelo, which is the lightest shade, and it is probably the darkest peachy pink under eye corrector I’ve ever purchased. It is definitely quite dark if I just use it by itself and I feel the need to brighten the area back up with concealer after using it. I have both purple and green tones to correct around my eyes. This does better at cancelling out the greens from veins near my inner corner. It helps a little with the purple under my eyes but not as much as other correctors I’ve tried. Using this together with concealer is a bit more effective than just using concealer alone.

Here’s a before and after using the corrector on one eye and not the other. I applied concealer to both eyes so I could see how much of a difference this corrector makes:

The texture is thinner and lighter than I was expecting but it’s also surprisingly pigmented. It’s not watery but it is more runny than a concealer and doesn’t have the dewy, tacky finish of one either. It dries down to a semi-matte, skin-like finish. That said, it’s also not drying and doesn’t leave the skin looking cracked or flat once it is set.

I need a very small amount to actually do the job of color correcting. So much so that I feel I’ll never actually get close to using up the whole container. I’ve tried it with Too Faced Born This Way Concealer (a more hydrating one) and Urban Decay Stay Naked Concealer (a bit more drying) and it has paired well with both. Neither combo results in much creasing in the fold under my eyes. The corrector doesn’t add any extra heaviness so the concealers still sit well on the skin.

The shade I chose seemed like it could make a beautiful blush so, just for fun I decided to try it. The texture works well that way, blending quickly and easily without disturbing my foundation underneath too much. It’s nice that it’s not shimmery/dewy/glowy and just has more or less the same finish as my foundation.

Pros and Cons

Things I like:

• Texture/finish is on point. Looks good, feels good, doesn’t interfere with concealers I’ve used it with.
• Doubles as a very natural looking blush on me.
• Packaging seems nicely designed. Squared sides make it so it doesn’t roll all over the place. Frosted finish keeps away fingerprints. So far it hasn’t gotten messy around the neck of the container.

Drawbacks:

• Expensive for what it is.
• Maybe one shade lighter/yellower would have been nice.
• Shade I chose doesn’t work to correct other issues like dark spots. To be fair, I usually don’t use correctors for that anyway.

Do I Recommend It?

I don’t think color correctors are a necessity. They are nice to have to boost your concealer but the enhancement is subtle. If you feel you need that extra enhancement and the price isn’t out of your budget, I’d say go for it. The quality of this is nice. I would recommend getting shade matched at a local store if you have that option though!

Some Comparisons

These two have a similar thin, lightweight texture. The one from Elf is darker, warmer, less pigmented and has a more noticeable paint-like scent. The Elf corrector is visibly too dark on me even when I apply concealer over it. I think it could potentially be just as effective for someone with a skin tone it works for, though.

Here are some other products swatched side by side to give you a better idea of the color. Left to right is:

• Huda Beauty Fauxfilter Under Eye Corrector
• Elf Camo Color Corrector in Peach
• Benefit Erase Paste in 1 Fair (discontinued)
• Too Faced Born This Way Multi Use Sculpting Concealer in Snow (the concealer I use most of the time)

More of a dramatic, semi-experimental look with the Huda Beauty Rose Quartz Palette. I really didn’t like how this one came out but sometimes I post things and others seem to like them, so here it is.

This look is kind of all over the place. There a lot going on in the inner corner with Cherished applied over a larger area and then in a smaller area I wanted to try using Love Stone as a sticky base for Blissful. In the crease, I used Mantra as a base color and then again used Blissful on top for some sparkle. Blissful has lots of fallout but I did get far less fallout the way I used it on the inner corner.

I applied this over primer on one eye and without primer on the other eye. The third slide shows how much less even and lighter Mantra looks when applied to bare lids. It works okay but I definitely prefer to use this shade with a base. The difference wasn’t really obvious to me until I looked at the photos.

Eyes:

• Alter Ego Eyeshadow Primer
• Huda Beauty Rose Quartz Palette
  • Cherished – Inner corner, outer corner
  • Love Stone – Inner corner (used as sticky base for next shade)
  • Blissful – Inner corner (smaller area), layered over Mantra in crease
  • Serenity – Crease, center part of lower lashline
  • Abundance – All over lid (kept close to lashes), lower lashline (kept close to lashes)
  • Mantra – Crease
• Anastasia Beverly Hills Lash Brag Mascara
• Covergirl Lash Exact Mascara
• Essence Make Me Brow Eyebrow Gel Mascara in 04 Ashy Brows
• Essence Micro Precise Eyebrow Pencil in Dark Brown
• Make Up For Ever Artist Color Pencil in 500 Boundless Bisque

Base:

• Essence Pretty Natural Hydrating Foundation in 30 Neutral Ivory
• Bobbi Brown Corrector in Light Bisque (used for dark circles)
• Laura Mercier Secret Camouflage in SC-1 (lighter shade used as spot concealer)
• Soap and Glory One Heck of a Blot Powder

Cheeks:

• Essence Contouring Duo in 10 Lighter Skin
• Flower Beauty Flower Pots Blush in Sweet Pea

Lips:

• Kaja Heart Melter Lip Gloss Stick in Sweet Talk

Here’s a simple light and bright look you can get out of the Huda Beauty Rose Quartz Palette. It’s mainly a sheer frosty shade all over the lid with some slight definition in the crease and a soft winged liner.

I primed my lids with a tinted eyeshadow base (you could also use concealer) because I personally just like it better to have as even a “canvas” as possible when using a sheer shade over top. Then I used my finger to apply Self Love from my lashes to my brow bone and used a small shader brush to make sure I didn’t miss any spots near the lashes and brows. As a side note, I have noticed the shimmers in this palette tend to have more fallout when I apply them with my fingers than with brushes. This isn’t always true with every shimmer formula.

I added some soft purply depth in the outer crease and along the lower lashline with Serenity and added a bit more shimmer from Self Love over it on the lower lashline. The metallic pop on the inner corner is Energized. 

As an experiment, I used Mantra as a brow powder as well as the winged liner. I typically use a black or dark grey brow powder so I thought this might work and it did. The shadow is a little softer and more dusty than what I’m used to in a brow powder. I had to be careful not to go in too heavy handed to avoid ending up with darker brows than I wanted. But the color works. It has a very subtle purple undertone but, at least on me, it doesn’t really come across in the brows. It just looks neutral.

The main purpose of this was just to do another wear test. After 6 hours I noticed some very slight creasing which got only a little bit worse by the 8.5 hour mark. For using a “cream” shade all over the lid, it lasted much longer than I expected.

Eyes:

• Nars Pro Prime Tinted Smudgeproof Eyeshadow Base
• Huda Beauty Rose Quartz Palette
  • Self Love – ALL over the lid. All the way up to the brow bone. Applied with finger.
  • Serenity – Lightly applied in outer crease and mixed with Self Love on outer lower lashline.
  • Energized – Inner corner. Applied with eyeliner brush.
  • Mantra – Applied as eyeliner and used to fill in brows.
• Make Up For Ever Artist Color Pencil in 500 Boundless Bisque
• Essence Micro Precise Brow Pencil (deepest shade)
• Essence Make Me Brow in 04 Ashy Brows
• Covergirl Lash Exact Mascara

Base:

• NYX Angel Veil Primer (right side of face)
• Essence Pretty Natural Hydrating Foundation in 30 Neutral Ivory
• Benefit Erase Paste
• Laura Mercier Secret Camouflage in SC-1 (lighter shade)
• Soap and Glory One Heck of a Blot Powder
• Physicians Formula The Healthy Powder in LC1

Cheeks:

• Essence Conoutring Duo (deeper shade)
• Flower Beauty Flower Pots Blush in Sweet Pea

Lips:

• Revlon Kiss Plumping Lip Creme in Spiced Berry

Look 4 with the Huda Beauty Rose Quartz Palette. It’s mostly matte using a mix of the warmer and cooler shades with one shimmer on the outer lid. I tried something I normally don’t do which is using a deeper shade on only the center part of the lower lashline and brightening both the inner and outer corners. I think it created an interesting shape I’d try again with different colors/textures.

FYI, I tried pressing the outer lid shade (Empowered) on with my finger and it caused much more fallout that way than just using a brush. Keep that in mind if you have this palette.

I’ve been using several liners on my lower waterline recently and have found I really like the quality of this one from Fenty. I have many ColourPop liners but they don’t go on quite as evenly or have as much color payoff without lots of building.

Eyes:

• Huda Beauty Rose Quartz Palette
  • Precious – Inner lid/crease
  • Radiate – Transition for Precious
  • Aura – Outer crease, center of lower lashline
  • Gratitude – Transition for Aura
  • Cherished – Inner/outer lower lashline, under inner part of brow 
  • Empowered – Outer lid
• Fenty Beauty Flypencil in Bachelor Pad
• Benefit Roller Lash Mascara
• Viseart Brow Palette
• Anastasia Beverly Hills Brow Pen

Base:

• Maybelline Dream Radiant Liquid Foundation
• Benefit Erase Paste
• Tarte Shape Tape Concealer
• Laura Mercier Secret Camouflage
• Soap and Glory One Heck of a Blot Powder
• Physicians Formula The Healthy Powder

Cheeks:

• Essence Contouring Duo
• Too Faced Sweet Hearts Blush in Candy Glow

Lips:

• Skin Chemists Rose Quartz Youth Defence Lip Plump

What caught my eye about the Huda Beauty Rose Quartz Palette is that it’s sort of like a neutral palette but with a little more color and some fun textures. It’s more rosy than neutral but if you are the type to gravitate toward mauvey tones on a daily basis, it could be used for everyday makeup. I like that it goes beyond basics with several different finishes and brings in a couple pops of color with shades like Cosmic Love, Happiness, Joy, Moon Magic, and Blissful. You can do basic, easy, safe looks but you can also have a little fun with the same palette.

Formula Overview

There are 18 shades in total. 8 of them are matte, 1 is a pearly gloss, and 9 are varying types of shimmer finishes. You’ll have to see my swatches post for more detail about the shimmers as there are too many differences to categorize them. They all have an emollient, creamy quality to them but are still very much powder shadows. Some have mostly smaller particles (Quartz, Joy, Abundance, Energized, Self Love) and some are mostly made up of larger sparkles and are highly reflective (Cosmic Love, Blissful, Moon Magic). These are the only shades I get significant fallout from. Energized is also very reflective but only has smaller particles. Empowered is a mixture of small shimmer and larger sparkle.

The mattes feel smooth and finely milled, apply evenly and blend with not much effort. I haven’t gotten much kick back from them when picking up color with my brushes. Over primer, they go on a bit darker and more evenly, and take a little more time to blend. I get almost no fallout from them.

The gloss (Love Stone) feels like a lip balm to me and has pigment “pebbles” underneath the surface. It took me several swatches and uses to get far enough down to finally mix the shimmer into the gloss. What I get is a very subtle sheen from the gloss and a sheer rosy shimmer from the pigment. There are some medium sized pink, blue, and gold sparkles in it too. I’ve tried using it by itself on the lids, as a highlighter on the cheeks, on the lips, over top the powders, and underneath them as a base. So far my favorite way to use it is just by itself for a natural-with-something-extra kind of look. I think it looks nice on the lips as well.

Here’s what it looks like being worn (the second eye photo is there to show how it creases after a few minutes):

Shade Selection

The color scheme is mostly cool toned but there are a few shades that are a bit warmer like Quartz, Aura, and Gratitude. Blissful has a warmer brown base color to it. There is a LOT of midtone in here with a couple shades to add depth (Mantra, Empowered). I like that they included at least one very light shade (Cherished). Personally I would have liked maybe one more light shade and one less midtone. The kinds of looks I’ve gotten have all been either cool toned or just neutral.

Packaging

The palette itself feels like nice quality. Good sturdy plastic. The hinge has a bit of tension and so I can leave the palette open at a 90 degree angle and it will stay that way or I can open it all the way flat. The mirror is large and takes up the entire inside of the lid and has no distortions. To close the palette, it snaps shut (no magnets). I don’t find it difficult to open it but it’s a large enough palette that I do need both hands.

Wear Time

Out of the three times I tested this for wear time I got about 4 hours without primer before I started to notice creasing or fading in the crease. One day I got 11 hours with almost no creasing (probably a fluke), the other two days, I got more like 8-9 hours with primer.

Looks

Look #1:

• Precious – Outer transition area
• Mantra – Crease
• Cherished – Inner transition area
• Serenity – Inner lid, lower lashline
• Aura – Outer lid, outer lower lashine
• Energized – Center of lid
• Quartz – Inner corner

Look #2:

Look #3:

Look #4:

• Radiate – Inner transition area
• Cherished – Under inner part of brow, inner/outer lower lashline
• Precious – Inner crease
• Aura – Outer crease, center of lower lashline
• Gratitude – Outer transition area
• Empowered – Outer lid

Look #5:

• Self Love – ALL over the lid, all the way up to the brow bone. Applied with finger.
• Serenity – Lightly applied in outer crease and mixed with Self Love on outer lower lashline.
• Energized – Inner corner. Applied with eyeliner brush.
• Mantra – Applied as eyeliner and used to fill in brows.

Look #6:

• Cherished – Inner corner, outer corner
• Love Stone – Inner corner (used as base for next shade)
• Blissful – Inner corner (smaller area), layered over Mantra in crease
• Serenity – Crease, center part of lower lashline
• Abundance – All over lid (kept close to lashes), lower lashline (kept close to lashes)
• Mantra – Crease

Finally getting around to using the Huda Beauty Rose Quartz Palette again after a busy week. I started out with zero idea of what I wanted to do. By the time I got to the end, I didn’t realize how many shades I used.

What I Used

Eyes:

• Alter Ego Eyeshadow Primer
• Huda Beauty Rose Quartz Palette
  • Radiate – Transition
  • Aura – All over lid, blended into crease
  • Gratitude – Applied over Radiate in pretty much the same area
  • Self Love – Inner corner, blended upward toward the brow
  • Blissful – Center of lid
  • Empowered – Outer lower lashline
  • Precious – Inner lower lashline
  • Love Stone – Applied over Precious
  • Happiness – Outer corner
• ColourPop Creme Gel Liner in Joy Ride
• Viseart Brow Palette (deepest powder shade)
• Anastasia Beverly Hills Lash Brag Mascara
• Covergirl Lash Exact Mascara

Radiate and Gratitude didn’t both need to be used in this look. Radiate is a little more purple and gives more of a cool toned effect. Gratitude is more red and warmed up the look after I applied it. Both were easy to blend and I didn’t have to spend much time at all to get them to show up. 

Aura was also quick and easy to use. The color applied evenly and blended with not much effort.

I used a brush to apply Self Love and it came out pretty subtle. I wonder if I used my finger with this shade if I could get a bit more impact from it.

Blissful had a lot of sparkle fallout. I applied it with a dry brush so I am not surprised. This is one to try with a wet brush or sticky base. Maybe even the gloss topper could be used as a base for the few shades in this palette that have this texture.

Empowered has a thicker texture and I have to apply it a little differently than the other shimmers. It adheres well but that means that once I get it to stick to the skin, it is hard to blend it and move it outward from where I placed it. It’s easier to just pick up more on the brush and over a bit. 

I already used Precious in a previous look and enjoyed the quality. I only used it here to try applying Love Stone (the gloss) over it. I wasn’t blown away by the result lol. I finally got some of the shimmers in Love Stone to mix with the clear portion of the shade. It just adds a faint amount of rosy shimmer to the glaze that isn’t all that visible. Will have to keep trying it different ways.

Adding Happiness to the outer corner was a last minute decision because this look just felt kind of boring to me.

Base:

• Essence Pretty Natural Hydrating Foundation in 30 Neutral Ivory
• Bobbi Brown Corrector in Light Bisque (used for dark circles)
• Laura Mercier Secret Camouflage in SC-1 (lighter shade used as spot concealer)
• Essence Contouring Duo in 10 Lighter Skin (used the lighter shade as setting powder)
• Too Faced Peach Perfect Mattifying Loose Setting Powder

The Essence foundation is new to me and this was my first time trying it out. It seemed like the type that eventually sets and becomes difficult to move/blend. After applying it, I wished that I had used a primer because it wasn’t really helping the texture on my skin to look any better. I didn’t want to mess up what I already applied so I just kept going.

The lighter side of the Essence Contouring Duo seemed to work fine as a setting powder. Unlike a translucent powder, it adds some color and even a slight amount of coverage. I went over top with the Too Faced powder which I really like for smoothing. The Essence one isn’t as fine as the Too Faced one but it didn’t look “powdery” once on the skin.

Cheeks:

• Essence Contouring Duo in 10 Lighter Skin
• ColourPop Pressed Powder Blush in Coast To Coast

Lips:

• Revlon Kiss Plumping Lip Creme in Spiced Berry

How I Did It

This second look with the Huda Beauty Rose Quartz Palette is a grey and pink smokey eye with lots of blue shimmer all over the outer half of the eye. Both eyes were pretty crease-y by the end of the day. The Mac Paint Pot doesn’t last all that long on me.

There are three shades in this palette that have chunkier sparkles in them and when layered heavily are very reflective. I don’t remember where I read it now, but a few days ago someone mentioned they shine almost like indie shadows. I think that’s a good way to put it. One of them is Cosmic Love and this is the shade I put on my outer lid. It is a marbled cream with a sheen that goes from blue to purple to pink. It is really hard to get the color and shine across, and even to look at it in real life is hard. At some angles, it’s just sparkle and at others it’s a blinding reflection. The other two shades like this are Blissful and Moon Magic. Keep in mind these types of shades have lots of sparkle fallout.

What I Used

Eyes:

• Mac Paint Pot in Painterly
• Huda Beauty Rose Quartz Palette
  • Happiness – Inner crease
  • Empowered – Inner lid
  • Mantra – Outer crease
  • Cosmic Love – Outer lid
  • Joy – Inner corner
  • Abundance – Lower lashline
  • Cherished – Brow bone
  • Moon Magic – Brow bone, outer lower lashline
• Essence Make Me Brow Eyebrow Gel Mascara in 04 Ashy Brows
• Essence Micro Precise Eyebrow Pencil in Dark Brown
• ColourPop Creme Gel Liner in Swerve
• Fenty Beauty Full Frontal Mascara

Base:

• Tatcha The Silk Canvas
• Revlon Candid Foundation in 120 Buff Chamois
• Bobbi Brown Corrector in Light Bisque
• Laura Mercier Secret Camouflage in SC-1 (lighter shade)
• Soap and Glory One Heck of a Blot Powder
• Physicians Formula The Healthy Powder
• NYX Matte Finish Setting Spray

Cheeks:

• Essence Contouring Duo in 10 Lighter Skin
• Essence The Blush in 10 Befitting

Lips:

• Fenty Beauty Gloss Bomb in Fenty Glow

How I Did It

For my first dive into the Huda Beauty Rose Quartz Palette, I ended up with this greyish purple cool toned look. I focused mostly on the first two columns on the left side of the palette and added in the pale matte pink. I wore this look for 11 hours. One eye was primed and the other was not. The primed eye lasted the whole day with little creasing but the unprimed eye started creasing about 4 hours in.

I started out with the two matte greys (Precious and Mantra) and was pleasantly surprised with their quality. Most greys I use don’t work as well as warmer shades and can be more patchy. The color applied evenly and blended out easily. These have purple tones that became more obvious as I used them. I applied Cherished to the inner part of the crease/transition area, layering it slightly over the grey. This shade is very light but I think it shows up pretty well. On the lid, I used Serenity and Aura, and topped them with Energized. When swatching, Energized looks and feels more metallic than the other shimmers. I applied it with my finger to get more shine out of it and then softened the edges with a brush. Using a brush alone with this shade gave more of a soft sparkly effect. It had a small amount of sparkle fallout. Quartz was less punchy than the other shimmers so I built it up to get what you see here.

So far I’m impressed. The mattes were plenty pigmented but easy to blend, the shimmers were buildable, adhered easily, and didn’t have very much fallout. Wear time is not really typical for me. Usually I wont have such a big difference in wear time with and without primer. I normally will see creasing around 4 hours in with most eyeshadows over bare lids. Primers will usually get me closer to 8 hours.

What I Used

Eyes:

• Alter Ego Eyeshadow Primer
• Huda Beauty Rose Quartz Palette
  • Precious – Outer transition area
  • Mantra – Crease
  • Cherished – Inner transition area
  • Serenity – Inner lid, lower lashline
  • Aura – Outer lid, outer lower lashine
  • Energized – Center of lid
  • Quartz – Inner corner
• Make Up For Ever Artist Color Pencil in 500 Boundless Bisque
• Huda Beauty Legit Lashes Mascara (curl and length side)
• Essence Make Me Brow Eyebrow Gel Mascara in 04 Ashy Brows
• Essence Micro Precise Eyebrow Pencil in Dark Brown

Base:

• Smashbox Primerizer
• Nars Soft Matte Complete Foundation in 3.5 Salzburg
• Bobbi Brown Corrector in Light Bisque
• Laura Mercier Secret Camouflage in SC-1 (lighter shade)
• Soap and Glory One Heck of a Blot Powder

Cheeks:

• LA Girl Just Blushing Blush in Just Because (contour)
• Physicians Formula Butter Blush in Rosy Pink

Lips:

• ColourPop Just A Tint Lip Crayon in Always Right

How I Did It

The Huda Beauty Rose Quartz Palette contains 18 shades and has a cooler-toned, rosy theme to it. It’s almost like a neutral palette with a little bit more to it. 8 of the shades are matte, 9 are shimmers and there is 1 gloss topper. Of the 9 shimmers, some of them are described as being creams on Sephora’s product page (screenshot below). The info on the Huda website is slightly different and the way they feel isn’t what I think of as true creams. They just don’t have that dry feel that you might expect.

All of the creams in this palette are more emollient than a regular powder shadow and they adhere easily to the skin but they still have shimmer/sparkle fallout like a drier formula would have (maybe just not quite as much). They are not “squishy”. There are also regular powder shimmers in here and between the two different types, there isn’t a whole lot of difference in the way they feel.

All the of mattes swatched easily with hardly any patchiness or streakiness. They had a smooth, fine texture and felt very consistent throughout the palette. 

Quartz is a marbled shade and is described as being a cream. When all the marbling is mixed, it is a light copper with smaller particles and is semi-sheer but can be built up to look more opaque.

Aura is a medium reddish brown with a matte finish.

Gratitude is rosy brown with a matte finish.

Cosmic Love is another marbled cream. It has a lot of large sparkles that have a subtle blue/pink/purple shift and a sheer warm brown base color. It has more sparkles than base color in it, so if I swatch it lightly, it looks mostly sheer with tons of iridescence. I can also build it up to look the way it does in the heavier swatch.

Empowered is a deep grey powder shimmer. This is one of the most pigmented shades in the palette. I got full color payoff in two swipes. It has a thicker, almost waxy-feeling texture to it, picks up easily and adheres quickly to the skin. It’s not super obvious in the swatch but this has some large silver sparkles in it. I thought they showed up more easily when I applied this to the eye.

Joy is a light pink powder shimmer. It has a mixture of small and medium-sized particles. In the swatch, this looks somewhat grey/lavender but in real life this has a warmer golden glow to it with larger purple pinpoints.

Precious is a medium purplish grey with a matte finish.

Energized is a metallic cream. It feels slightly creamier than some of the other “creams” in this palette and is the most metallic looking shade in the palette. It swatches with full opacity but goes on a little more sparkly/sheer with a brush.

Love Stone is a pearly gloss. It has “pebbles” of pigment deeper underneath the surface that took me several swatches and uses to finally get to. It feels like waxy lip balm and doesn’t have a super glossy finish to it.

Cherished is a pale matte pink with a decent amount of color payoff for this type of shade. 

Blissful is a cream. It has large light blue-green sparkles and a sheer warm brown base color. It reminds me a little of Devinah Messier but doesn’t have as strong of a shift.

Happiness is a medium bubble gum pink with a matte finish.

Mantra is a charcoal grey with a matte finish.

Serenity is a muted pinkish lavender with a matte finish.

Abundance has lots of small purplish silver shimmer particles with some larger specks of blue and pink sparkle that don’t show up all that easily. It is similar in texture and finish to Joy and Empowered. You can probably tell in the swatch above, it looks thick and it feels that way too. It is easy to pick up color and applies with plenty of payoff.

Moon Magic is a cream and a lot like Cosmic Love in that it is heavy on the large sparkles with a very sheer warm brown base color. The sparkles shift pink to blue. This one can be built up but its more sheer and I can see my skin or any other shade I put under it more easily than with the other shimmers.

Radiate is a matte dusty rose.

Self Love is a marbled cream with part of the color being more gold and the other being a light pink. The way I swatched this, I can see both colors in the swatch because I didn’t try to really swirl both shades together. I kind of like the ombre effect this shade gives.

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Product Details

The Huda Beauty Haze Obsessions Palettes offer a softer, more muted take on color. Each palette contains a total of 5.8 grams / 0.2 oz of product and retails for $29.

The plastic palettes snap shut (no magnet) and contain a high quality mirror inside. The individual shades do not have names.

Formula Overview

The mattes are, overall, a solid formula. They are plenty pigmented, though I have other matte formulas in my collection that offer more color payoff than these. They are easy and quick to blend but not so much that they dust away too easily. The only exception to this was the deep grey in the Khaki Haze palette, which required a bit of extra time to blend. I didn’t find them to be too loosely pressed or powdery in the pan nor were they difficult to pick up with a brush.

One small criticism is that the lightest matte shades weren’t super easy to differentiate from each other on the eye, especially in the Sand Haze palette. I was able to build them up to a point where I could see them clearly against the skin. However, used as blending shades, they don’t offer a whole lot of color variation to a look.

The shimmers come in a couple of finishes. There are standard shimmer/metallic shades which give you a smoother looking finish but not a super high shine. These have smaller particles and very little fallout.

There are also shades with larger flecks of sparkle mixed in with shimmer in the base of the shade. They are commonly referred to as “topper” shades which is a bit of a misnomer in this case. There is enough base color that I would consider them standalone shades that don’t require any color to be placed underneath them. These shades tend to have a higher shine finish and reflect light more intensely. These had enough fallout to warrant taking precautions against that fallout. I found using extra powder under the eyes to be more effective than doing my base afterward as the shimmer particles really wanted to stick to my skin.

In the Sand Haze palette, the “toppers” are the top two shades in the first column. The others are standard shimmers.

In the Purple Haze palette, there is one standard shimmer which is the center shade on the top row. The rest of the shimmers have larger flecks of sparkle.

In the Khaki Haze palette, all of the shimmer shades have larger flecks of sparkle. The two shades in the top row are a bit more sheer though.

Shade Selection

I would describe these as neutral palettes with a hint of color. They would probably suit someone who loves neutrals but already has basic nude shades in their collection. You can get some subtle color out of these without it being overly loud. The looks you can get out of these are very “wearable”. If you are somebody that really loves color, these might be a bit too tame for you. Also consider that there isn’t that much depth to the colors. The deepest shades aren’t all that dark, which is something to note if you love very smoky looks.

All of the palettes were usable as standalone palettes where I didn’t find it necessary to pull in other palettes or singles to complete a look. That said, there were times when I found myself longing to reach for a matte white or matte black to add more contrast.

Wear Time

It seems that wear time has improved compared to previous palettes I’ve had from Huda Beauty. I remember getting around 5 hours of wear before seeing noticeable creasing with their New Nude palette and the Nude Obsessions palette in Light. These palettes wore closer to 8 hours before I could really start to see creasing. I did notice more fading with the warmer red- and orange- based shades. By the middle of the day those colors were noticeably less vibrant on the eye.

Khaki Haze Palette

Purple Haze Palette

Sand Haze Palette