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Wednesday, 5 August 2015

Best Budget Eyeshadow Palettes #AllMonthAugust


I do love a good eyeshadow palette. Pick the right one and you can be pretty much set for any makeup look from a more everyday-appropriate affair to a more glamorous night one. With that in mind, for today I thought I'd finally pin down some of my personal top picks in this area that I always seem to gravitate towards in pretty much every instance in which eye makeup is on the menu...

First up are the ones that were probably the ones that first got me into the whole palette thang - they are of course, the MUA Eyeshadow Palettes. These come with a mighty twelve shades (as is standard in many of these type of things) and for only £4, they're actually pretty darn good. They come in a wide variety of different 'shades' from one holding your classic goldy-bronzey tones to one full of bright 'n' bold colours if you're feeling more wild with your makeup offerings. The colours apply and blend easily, have fab pigmentation considering the price and applied on top of my Urban Decay Primer Potion (a standard I use for all eye looks, regardless of what I'm using and how well it wears) - there's not a crease or fading in sight. I always seem to come back to these.
 
Moving on, we have some discovered more recently when they were launched earlier this year - the Collection Eyes Uncovered Palettes. These are around the same price (£3.99), differing more in shades and quantities offered. Compared to the above, Collection's boast half of MUA's - only six shades this time round - and come in only three varieties, this time all staying exclusively to the neutral end of the colour spectrum. There's a super everyday-friendly one that's quite comparable to the Naked Basics, a cooler set of neutrals and then a warmer set too. Like I said, all palettes stay completely away from anything remotely colourful (unless you include the takes on subdued colour that occasionally feature) - but buy all three and you're pretty much set for any kind of neutral makeup look you'd ever want to create. You do technically get less for your dollar compared to MUA's one, but I actually find some of these shades to have far better colour pay-off, so I guess it's all swings and roundabouts here and depends on what you're personally after in a palette - a wider range of shades, or a smaller range of perhaps better quality.
 
Finally, and perhaps my favourite of the lot, we have the new Maybelline The Nudes Eyeshadow Palette. Now, you may've already seen this crop up in my recent July Loves and Lusts post (here) - so you can probably hazard a good guess at what my thoughts about this little beauty are. Unlike the others, this comes in one shade only, but on my does its content make up for that. Like MUA's, you get the full standard 12-shade-strong crop of colours to choose from here, again in a neutral theme. For me, the shade selection is by far the best out of the three - spanning mattes, shimmers and satins in a wide spectrum of tones that just cover everything. You've got your pale shades perfect for highlighting; your light taupe's ideal as an all-over-the-lid-type jobby; a few of your standard golds/bronzes/coppers and a good few matte browns for adding that extra depth in the crease and outer corner (plus a black!). The shades themselves are super pigmented (probably the most out of them all) and the shadows are so buttery and easy to blend with no falldown to be seen. With my standard UD companion, everything stays in place all day and as my recent Loves and Lusts would've proved - it's all I've really been using all of the last month. Can you tell I love this yet?

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