Hi everyone! Welcome to my very first blog post! Today I decided to Review the Hard Candy Natural Eyes palette.
This palette retails for $8 at my local Walmart.
Now, when I first saw this palette, I was ecstatic! I was so excited to see it in Hard Candies new line for spring. The first thing I thought was how similar the lay out of the shadows looked compared to my favorite Too Faced pallets. The tin packaging is what completely sold me. So of course, I let my inner beauty addict out and I bought it on the spot. There were three different Hard Candy pallets for me to choose from, the Natural eyes, Sassy Eyes, and Smokey eyes. I LOVE my neutral eye shadows, so of course I purchased the Natural Eyes one.
The packaging is very cute. Its a gold tin with a magnetic closure, similar to the Too Faced pallets. Inside you get nine eye shadows, a Hard Candy Eyes The Limit eye primer, a mini black eyeliner, and a double ended sponge tip applicator. This pallet also comes with a little booklet with three eye looks in it, sort of a step by step guide in case you aren't sure how to create any looks with this pallet. However, just because it shows you how to use the shadows doesn't mean that's how you HAVE to use them! Playing around with them is half the fun! I haven't used the eyeliner, but I've always been a fan of the Hard Candy eye primer, so that was a huge bonus for me.
Now, on to the important stuff!
The top row has all matte shadows. The first one is Tease, a very light creamy color, then Toying, a medium warm brown, and finally Minx, a dark chocolate brown. The quality of these are okay, but to be honest I had a little bit of a hard time getting these to stay on my eyes. They sort of seemed to disappear during the blending process, but after awhile I was able to get them to work for me.. Sort of.
The second row is all shimmers. First is Bashful, a champagne color which is beautiful for all over the lid, second is Girlie, a shimmery light pinkish color, and then Philander, a dark chocolate brown with some chunky silver sparkles. The quality of these shadows were much better than the matte ones. I always feel like the drugstore pallets lack in quality a little bit when it comes to matte shadows, but these shimmers were perfection and I really enjoyed the application.
The third and final row has one matte shadow and two shimmers, the first is called Chatty, perfect for blending in the crease or for an all over lid color, next is an amazing metallic looking gold called Coy, and then we have a warmer brown with bigger gold sparkles in it called Frisky. Again, the matte shadow took some work, and I'm not a huge fan of chunky glitter in my eye shadows.
At the end of the day, I have a love/hate relationship with this pallet. I absolutely love the shimmery colors, and I think their quality is fantastic. On the other hand, the matte shadows gave me a lot of trouble. I think if you have the time to work with this pallet to get the color pay off that you want, then by all means, go for it! If I could go back, I would still repurchase it specifically for the shimmery shadows and the eye primer. (:
