So there's this tag that's been circulating on YouTube and I thought it would be a fun thing to do because you all know how much I love my palettes! It's the Perfect Palette Tag! There are 8 questions and obviously, each answer has to be a palette and not a single product. I've accumulated a lot of palettes over the years and I can't wait to share with you how I feel about them! I'll try to choose palettes that are still available for purchase. I know this is getting a bit old, but I wanted to wait for Christmas so I could put a few newer things on this list.
Also, I won't be including any build-your-own palettes because I'm pretty sure this tag is meant to be for already-made palettes, otherwise my MAC palettes would definitely be on this list!
I'm also tagging all my readers to reply to this post with your Perfect Palette list! I'm also adding a bonus question, #9 First Palette Ever. Just copy/paste the questions below to the comments with your answers!:
Perfect Palette Tag
1. Best Packaging
2. Best Color Payoff
3. Most Versatile
4. Best for Traveling
5. Biggest Regret
6. Best Color Names
7. Least Used
8. Most Used, Most Loved, Desert Island
9. First Palette Ever
My Perfect Palette Tag
1. Best Packaging
Too Faced A Few of My Favorite Things
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| Too Faced A Few Of My Favorite Things Palette |
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| Too Faced A Few Of My Favorite Things Palette |
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| Too Faced A Few Of My Favorite Things Palette |
Too Faced always has amazing packaging but I thought their Christmas collection this year was to die for. All their palettes are super cute and colorful and packed with a ton of makeup! The A Few of my Favorite Things set comes with a lovely makeup bag that's roughly the same size as the palette and the same pattern as well with the criss-crossed stripes. Inside the bag you get the beautiful palette and a couple other things. The palette itself is like a book, it's thin and it opens up to shadows on one side and blushes and bronzers on the other along with a look book. The set also comes with a mini Better Than Sex Mascara and a Lip Injection Color Bomb. I know this is about palettes, but just wanted to mention the goodies that came with it. Since the palette is thin like a book, it makes it easy to pack into your luggage with all your stuff when you're travelling.
2. Best Color Payoff
Urban Decay Naked 3
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| Urban Decay Naked 3 |
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| Urban Decay Naked 3 |
I don't even know what to answer. I love all my Too Faced palettes. I love all my Naked palettes. I'm going to say Urban Decay's Naked 3. I just got it and I've been really impressed with the pigmentation as a whole. There is one particular glitter shade that's lacking in pigmentation, but all the rest are amazing! Honestly, there are so many wonderful palettes to choose from. The Naked 3 has some wonderful shades and they're all very flattering.
3. Most Versatile
Too Faced Loves Sephora 15th Anniversary Palette
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| Too Faced Loves Sephora Palette |
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| Too Faced Loves Sephora Palette |
I chose this palette as most versatile because it's got a whole bunch of different colour eyeshadows. You can do a neutral look using Piano Keys and Behind the Counter, you can do a purple smokey eye using Soho and Envy, and you can even do a green eye using David & Marg. There's also a glitter shade called TF <3's The Cast, and it's the most glitteriest shade I've ever seen. You've got so many options with this palette and it also comes with two bronzers and a blush, so you've got your whole look in this palette. You can really go from day look to party look with this palette.
4. Best for Traveling
Urban Decay Naked palettes
Too Faced No Makeup Makeup
NARS Adult Content Cheek palette
NARS X Guy Bourdin One Night Stand Cheek Palette
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| Urban Decay Naked Palette |
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| Urban Decay Naked 2 Palette |
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| Urban Decay Naked 3 Palette |
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| Too Faced The Secret To No Makeup Makeup Palette |
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| NARS X Guy Bourdin One Night Stand Cheek Palette |
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| NARS X Guy Bourdin One Night Stand Cheek Palette |
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| NARS Adult Content Cheek Palette |
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| NARS Adult Content Cheek Palette |
If you're going away somewhere and you don't want to pack a ton of different face products, this palette is just for you. It has a concealer, brightener, luminizer, cream blush, powder blush, and bronzer. The only other thing you need to go along with this set is a foundation or BB cream and a setting powder. This little palette will save you so much space! It contains everything you need for a full face. I love this palette. I'm always using the brightener to highlight around my brows and to do the Kim Kardashian concealer under the eyes thing. The concealer itself is a little too dark for me, but it should be perfect for medium-toned girls. The brightener works better as a concealer for me. You could probably mix the two to get your custom shade. The pink blushes are beautiful and you have the option of cream or powder. I just really really love this palette and I love having all my face products in one place! If you don't like pink blushes, go for their Natural Face palette instead. It has peach blushes and is meant for medium skin tones whereas the No Makeup Makeup palette is meant for lighter skin tones.
For the eyes, bring your favourite Urban Decay Naked palette and you're all set! I'm going to include all three because I probably would bring them all on vacation. I like being able to choose what I want to wear in the moment and not planning my makeup a whole week in advance. Also some other great cheek palettes are the NARS Adult Content and the Guy Bourdin One Night Stand Cheek Palettes. So many different shades all in one, and it's not just blush, you have a bronzer and a luminizer in each palette! These are definitely the perfect cheek palettes to bring along on vacation.
5. Biggest Regret
Sephora Collection Smokey 2
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| Sephora Collection Smokey 2 Palette |
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| Sephora Collection Smokey 2 Palette |
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| Sephora Collection Smokey 2 Palette |
If you know anything about me then you know I'm a huge sucker for smokey eyes. Which is why I really thought I would love this palette. I loved that it was exclusively a smokey eye palette and that it came in a range of different shades. But what I didn't like is the quality of the eyeshadows. I know that Sephora Collection isn't the best, but it could have been way better in my opinion. Some of the shades didn't show at all, especially the light brown trio. Some colors were just weird, like the green trio for example looked horrible on me. They could have gone with a more flattering olive green instead. The only thing I really use is the lipstick trios. I don't really use it much anymore so I regret buying. I bought into the hype because it was a smokey eye palette.
6. Best Color Names
Too Faced Boudoir Eyes
Too Faced Natural Eye
NARS
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| Too Faced Boudoir Eyes |
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| Too Faced Boudoir Eyes |
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| Too Faced Natural Eye |
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| Too Faced Natural Eye |
Too Faced always has the best color names, hands down. With names like Sexpresso, Erotica, Cocoa Puff, Fuzzy Handcuffs, Lap Dance, Garter Belt, Smokin Hot, and since it's Christmas: Whiskers on Kittens, Tinsel, Crisp Apple Strudel, Party Time, Pure Glam, and Woolen Mittens, it's hard not to smile when you read the shade names. NARS also has some great sexual shade names, like Orgasm, Deep Throat, Desire, Amour, Sin, and Sex Appeal. And once every year or two they come out with blush palettes, so it counts as a palette. It's a little awkward when your mom asks you what shade blush you're wearing, but I'm sure you'll never forget the name of it!
There aren't any palettes in particular, but I chose a couple to show the cute names.
7. Least Used
Sephora Collection Medium Shopping Bag
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| Sephora Collection Medium Shopping Bag |
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| Sephora Collection Medium Shopping Bag |
I wanted to choose something a little more recent, but the truth is that I really do use everything I have. I bought this a couple years ago so it's not available anymore. As I described earlier, Sephora Collection's eyeshadow quality isn't the greatest. When I bought it I loved the color diversity but for some reason I never ended up using it. I don't know why that is. I'm also weird and I like things to be perfect and new so that probably adds onto why I haven't used it. At the time, I had way less makeup than I do now so it was a cheap way to add a lot of colors to my collection.
8. Most Used, Most Loved, Desert Island
Too Faced Smokey Eye palette
Too Faced Love Sweet Love Xmas 2012 palette
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| Too Faced Love Sweet Love Palette |
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| Too Faced Love Sweet Love Palette |
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| Too Faced Smokey Eye Palette |
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| Too Faced Smokey Eye Palette |
You all know how much of a smokey eye freak I am. So I definitely have to say that my most used palette is Too Faced's Smokey Eye palette. I love it. The trio that is most used is the brown Day Look because brown is more school appropriate, I guess. The black Classic Look is just that... classic. It was the first type of smokey I ever did and probably the first type of eye makeup I ever did on myself as a teenager. Back then I loved dark black smokey eyes. The darker, the better. The purple Fashion Look is also beautiful, though I use it a bit less than the other two. This palette, as a whole, is my most used makeup palette by far. I really really love it and I use every single shade in this palette. I think they did a great job on it because to me, there's absolutely nothing wrong with it. Another palette that's actually hit pan is Too Faced's Love Sweet Love Christmas 2012 palette. It came as a set with a makeup bag and a few other goodies. I love the Night Look in this palette so so so much. I've actually hit pan on two of the shadows. I love everything about that look, the 3 shadows, the blush and the lip gloss. I find it gives a perfect soft smokey eye and the blush and lipgloss are super flattering for my skintone. Nowadays I try not to use it too often because it is limited edition and I'm starting to not have much left :( Even though I love the Night Look, I'm not that great a fan of the Day Look in that palette. It's alright, but it's not my favorite.
9. First Palette Ever
Sephora Collection 5-in-1 Color Play
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| Sephora Collection 5-in-1 Color Play |
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| Sephora Collection 5-in-1 Color Play |
So I decided to add this question to the tag because I thought it was interesting to see what everyone's first ever palettes were. I got mine quite a few years ago from Sephora. This was way before we ever had a Sephora in Montreal. This was back when I was an older teenager (I think) so I didn't have that much makeup just yet. I was browsing Sephora's website and I saw this palette that I just had to have. I thought it was so versatile; it had a huge range of colors and it had 5 mini sub-palettes that you could remove and put in your purse. I thought to myself, wow I need to get this! And that was the Sephora Collection 5-in-1 Color Play Palette. It has 5 sub palettes, blacks and greys, browns, purples and pinks, blue and greens, and rainbow pastels. It had all the colors you would ever need to pull off any kind of makeup look. It also came with 5 blushes (1 for each palette) and 10 lip glosses (2 for each palette). I knew the quality wasn't the best but I still really enjoyed this palette. I still have it today though I don't reach for it often.
Thanks for reading and I hope you enjoyed this type of post. I had a lot of fun doing it, but it was so hard to narrow down my choices!! I really wanted to list all my palettes because I really do try to use them all and as often as I can. It's obvious I love my Too Faced palettes and I've been really getting into the Urban Decay Naked 1,2, and 3 palettes. I also love the NARS cheek palettes I got recently. They're so much fun to use! I also really wanted to include my MAC X Antonio Lopez Face Palette in Pink but I felt like the NARS cheek palettes were more versatile.
I'd really like to see what your perfect palettes are so I'd love for you to all respond to this post in the comments so I can see what your favourite palettes are! Just copy/paste the list above and fill in what your fav palettes are. It was definitely challenging for me to cut my list down, how hard will it be for you girls to narrow it down?
Hopefully this post gave you some ideas of some good palettes to try out in 2014! You can obviously see which brands I'm a fan of!
Steph xo.
PS. My next post should be my Favorite Makeup from 2013! And I've got a bunch of good posts coming up!
