The Essence All About eyeshadow palettes came out a year ago, and I was very excited to buy them. I managed to purchase 3 of them, so I'm here with a lot of pictures, swatches and reviews.
Essence All About eyeshadow palettes
There were 4 of these palettes originally. I didn't buy the 4th one, it was Paradise themed and had very bright colours in it. The Candies and the Paradise palette is going to be discontinued soon, and Essence will release 2 new All About palettes to replace the old ones. They are called Deep Sea and Romace, and you can check them out in this post. There is a Chocolate inspired All About palette as well, it was released in September, but I don't own that either.
Essence All About eyeshadow palettes - Nude, Sunrise and Candies
You get 8.5 g of product in each palette.
Essence All About Nude eyeshadow palette
The packaging is sleek and sturdy, made out of hard plastic. My only complaint is the fact that the label wears of after 1 day, and it upsets me greatly. One ride in your makeu bag, and no writing will be seen on the lid of the palette. Not cool, I don't like when the writing wears off so quickly. Nothing saddens me more.
Essence All About Nude eyeshadow palette
The texture of the eyeshadows is unique: it is soft like butter, but it's squishy at the same time, like a sponge. It kinda reminds me of Lancome eyeshadows. The pigmentation is very good, these are Essence's best eyeshadows so far, considering both softness, texture and colour payoff. The eyeshadow texture of the How To Make palettes (review here) is nothing compared to these. Even better that these little ones are half the price of the How To Make palettes.
Essence All About Nude eyeshadow palette
There are no mattes in any of the palettes, however, there are different finishes: satin, shimmer and glitter.
Essence All About Nude eyeshadow palette swatches
My only concern is the similarity of the shades: there are quite a lot of look-alike colours in each palette that blend together on the eyes, and look like one colour. If you put the pink shades next to each other on your lid, they will look like one pink shade. It's not the end of the world though, you still get 4 different shades in this palette: a light beige, a pink (all 3 pinks look very similar on the eyes), a brown and a burgundy.
Essence All About Nude eyeshadow palette
Catrice Absolute Nude palette vs. Essence All About Nude palette
To compare the Essence and the Catrice palettes, I put them next to each other. You can see that the Essence palette is tiny and cute, very handy when traveling. The texture of the Essence shadows is a lot softer than the texture of the Catrice eyeshadow palettes. The shades of the two palettes are different enough to pick them up both if you like nude palettes.
Essence All About Candies palette
The Candies palette is a beautiful pastel palette for Spring, suitable for unicorns, fairies, pastel-goths and makeup lovers. It's just simply gorgeous. If you've been following me for a while, you know that I love wearing pastel shades in the Spring months.
Essence All About Candies palette swatches
Once again, the pink, peach and lilac shades look different on my hand, but once I apply them to my lid, they all look very similar. The green and the blue shades also are similar on the lids. I tend to use colour bases under the shades, which really helps.
Essence All About Candies palette
Essence All About Sunrise palette
Essence All About Sunrise palette
The shades of the Sunrise palette are quite different from each other, so all 6 shades show up as different colours on the lid. This one is a perfect palette for Autumn.
Essence All About Sunrise palette swatches
The fact that the similar shades of the first 2 palettes show up on the lid as one colour might be a problem for some, but the texture of the eyeshadows is so incredibly soft that I really don't mind.
I'm planning to buy the two new releases as well once they hit the stores. I wish that all of Essence's eyeshadows had this lovely texture.
Have you tried the All About palettes?
Makeup look using the Candies palette can be found here.
Photo wearing the Sunrise palette can be found here.
FTC: I purchased the products with my own money.
A Sunrise paletta nekem is van, bár a matt színt hiányolom belőle, összességében tetszik, jók a színei (és végülis van külön épp elég matt színem)
ReplyDeleteA Nude palettára fáj még a fogam, de az sajnos a Rossmannjainkban nem elérhető (no meg a Chocolate is tetszik, de ennyi nude palletát nem fogok beszerezni)
Az újak közül a Romance tetszene (de túl sok kihasználatlan palettám van, úgyhogy ha meg is veszem, inkább csak egy gyenge pillanatomban :D
A Romance paletta olyan, mintha összerakták volna a nude és a pasztell palettát, szóval lehet, hogy igazából nem lenne rá szükségem nekem sem. :') Sőt. Persze a gyűjtő mást mond bennem. :)
DeleteAranyos kis paletták, szerintem a fiatalabb korosztálynak szuperek, de engem nem hoztak lázba annyira.
ReplyDeletetbh nem hinném, hogy korhataras lenne bármilyen smink is, és azt sem, hogy te túl idős lennél, de kinek mi. ;)
Delete:D Nekem mindegy, én csakis a pigmentáltságára vagyok kíváncsi, nehogy a kukában landoljon. Ez all about Sunrise-ban gyönyörű az a narancs!
DeleteA minőség mindenképp fontosabb, mint hogy "kit céloz meg" a márka. Utóbbi csak illúzió. :D Sok idősebb, youtube-famous sminkes használja ezeket a palettákat, amit nem is csodálok.
Deleteoh i just cant thank you enough for this post i so wanted to purchase one of these palettes but was unsure about their pigmentation and performance
ReplyDeleteI'm glad I could help! :)
Deletei just bought the All About Nude and the All About Chocolate yesterday! i also took the catrice all matt palette. can't wait to try all this!
ReplyDeleteThat's a lot of new goodies, have fun with them :)
DeleteWell... i also took the tubes of Effect eyeshadows you were talking about... and a few more stuff... i was feeling well :)
DeleteGreat job! :) Hope you'll like them.
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