The composition of an eyeshadow palette, i.e bringing together complementary tones, shades and textures-need to be stunning as they’re often fairly expensive, and something of an investment piece. A range of shades allows you to change up your eye look, with the small palette taking you from day to evening. A beautiful compact and a good quality, double-ended tapered brush are a bonus.
Below are classy Palettes that are highly recommended:
Hourglass Modernist Eyeshadow Palette In Exposure, 5G – 5 Shades
This palette has five shades of plum, gold and neutral, which blend excellently and suit all skin tones. It’s free from parabens, gluten, nanoparticles, fragrances and sulphates. And that comes at a cost but it can invest in your make-up, this is worth spending on. There’s a great quality pigment that gives a rich colour pay-off, and with mattes and shimmers you can easily go from day to night with just this palette.
Sunkissed Natural Eye Palette, 20.4G – 12 shades
This eye shadow palette will definitely give you a great value for your money. This kit also includes an Eyelid primer to ensure the eyeshadows stay put for as long as possible. It’s a mix of 12 shades including soft, neutral creams, fawns and taupes, rich and chocolate browns and smoky charcoal and greys. This palette doesn’t have the most highly pigmented shadows tested, but it’s a good place to start for smoky eye novices, as you can build up the colour intensity slowly and blend the shades together.
Too Faced Sweet Peach Eye shadow Collection, 17.1G – 18 Shades
If you’ve had enough of taupe, brown and fawn shades and you’re looking for a modern twist on neutrals, then this is worth a try, It boasts peachy-toned pinks, corals and bronzes, combined with darker, smoky charcoals and plums for contouring. The textures range from matte to shimmer and all the way up to a full sparkle, with a rich pigment and great colour intensity. Infused with peach essence, just opening the tin gives a fruity hit. It’s great value for money, too, comes with a gorgeous eighteen (18) shades. It contains a how-to-guide for three eye looks.
Make Up Forever 9 Artist Shadow Palette 4, 11.7G – 9 Shades
This product is coming from an innovative, cult brand, coveted by make-up artists since the early Eighties, this palette contains nine shades that can be used in isolation, or as three separate trios. The booklet gives three looks-Vamp, Romantic and seductive – and explains exactly where to use each shade on the eye. For novice users, this is the ideal place to start if achieving a smoky eye feels a little intimidating. The gel-powder formula ensures ultra-smooth blending, the matte shades are great for sculpting and enhancing, and it includes a rare white_ for creating light effects under the brow bone to open smaller eyes.
By Terry Eye Designer Palette In Colour Design. 14G – 10 Shades
A bolder selection of shades than most palettes offers, this dazzling compact contains neutral base tones alongside some more daring choices for a vibrant pop of colour. The texture is velvety smooth and easy to blend for good colour build up. The double-ended eye shadow brush is a great quality one too – with a softer brush for blending and a firmer, angled brush for definition and lining along the lashes and crease.
Pixi By Petra Mesmerizing Mineral Palette In Sunset Mattes, 5.76G – 6 Shades
A palette of mattes isn’t for everyone, but if you’re a dab hand with a shadow brush then you won’t need the more forgiving shimmers and metallics in your palette. The vitamin E here nourishes and protects while mineral content gives a smoothness to the formula, so there’s no dragging as you apply . There’s a pretty combination of rose pinks, rose golds, soft fawn and neutrals for a simple daytime eye. The applicator is of better quality than most free sponge applicators in a palette. It’s double-ended and longer than usual, with a better quality firmer sponge for more effective colour pick-up and precision blending.
