Maybelline Eyestudio Color Plush Silk Eyeshadow Ready-to-Wear Palettes

Maybelline Eyestudio Color Plush Ready-to-Wear Palettes

So I recently got sent some Maybelline palettes from a word of mouth promotion and I've been testing them out everyday for the past two weeks. What's really interesting about these palettes is that they're perfectly coordinated already, all the shades compliment each other and blend seamlessly into one another. No more staring at your eyeshadow collection, wondering if those two different colours would mesh well together. The matching shades have already been picked out for you!


Website States:

NEW! EYE STUDIO READY-TO-WEAR COLOUR PALETTES

Now silk makes shadow new again, no makeup artist needed.

• The Color Plush Shadow Collection has an exclusive formula with silk pigments to create the ultimate shadow texture and luminosity.

• Glides on effortlessly, reflecting light for a naturally rich lustre.

• Available in 12 stunning ready-to-wear shadow palettes.



I Say:

Important: These eyeshadows are S-H-I-M-M-E-R-Y!! Every single one has finely milled glitter in the formula and helps reflect light. I had to mention that in case someone thought that there's a matte shade somewhere. Nope!

These quads would be fantastic for someone new to using eyeshadow, these can be their training wheels until they learn because they're quite foolproof. This is from their new makeup artist inspired line I think.

Each palette comes with 4 expertly coordinated colours: a light, highlighting shade (the largest in the quad), two lid colours and one dark tint for lining.
I'm guessing that Maybelline would like you to work from left to right on the palette: highlight, base, crease, line.. but you can work with it however you like (: In fact, you don't even need to use every shade that they give you, you can mix and match quads to your preference.

Each palette also comes with a sponge tipped applicator with a wide, fluffy end and a flat, slender tip. It's good for packing on the shadow, use this when applying the makeup.
I just want to mention here that the packaging is very sturdy, but careful opening it the first time. I wrenched it open and scored a gash in one of the squares.


Colour Plush Palettes are nicely pigmented and are long lasting (with primer).
Girls looking for cheap M.A.C. dupes may not be satisfied, these shades will appear subtle when compared to M.A.C. eyeshadows. Therefore, Plush Palettes are suitable for everyday wear and give a more 'natural' and seamless look.


The best word to describe the Maybelline palettes is simply: silky.
-Similar in appearance or texture (especially in softness and smoothness) to silk
-satiny: having a smooth, gleaming surface reflecting light
-Smooth, sinuous texture and finish.
-of or like silk; smooth, lustrous, soft, or delicate

Yes, that's the best comparison possible. The shadows glide on so smoothly and softly onto the eyelid. The colours are shimmering and gleaming and seems to reflect light from the eyes. Even the shadow pigments feel like silk when you rub them between your fingers.




Here are looks that I've created with the Colour Plush Palettes, taken with my trusty camera named Flashcity. She's named that because of all the love that flash gets, it goes off every single bloody time and completely washes out my face. But I love Flashcity anyways, she's like an old friend and she rocks.


LOOK 1

Rocking shades from two different palettes here. From Green with Envy, I used the green shade and from Give Me Gold, the white and yellow shade.
I really liked all the colours, both palettes were well pigmented and the shades showed up nicely on the eyes. The last colour on both the quads were a bit too sheer to be used as liners.

LOOK 2

Pink Persuasion shown on the lids. In terms of pigmentation, this palette kind of disappointed me. The colours were a little too sheer to make the look that I wanted. The white highlight was very nice but pink and the grey shades were too lucid and didn't show up as bright as I hoped. As a result, all you would see is the highlight and the black eyeshadow because the others were too faint to show up! And speaking of the black.. it is terrible. I mentioned this before, but the last colour is often the sheerest in the palettes. This doesn't make any sense because it is for lining the eyes and it barely shows up at all=/

LOOK 3

Sorry for all the dark circles, I was REALLY tired that day.
The palette I'm wearing is called Legendary Lilac. The colours in this quad were really pretty but after a while, all the colours blended and started to look like one shade =/


LOOK 4

Without flash. This is what my face looks like without Flashcity bleaching it out.

Going for a underwater Mermaid theme (: It was also my first time curling my hair.. those things could be classified as weapons!

Please excuse the homework written on the hand, I forgot my agenda that day.. BTW this is Sapphire Siren.

This palette looks deceiving.. you might think it's a candiate for a M.A.C. dupe with all those bold shades but when you apply the pigments, they go on quietly, like a muted version of the colours. I'm not saying it's bad, the tints show up quite nice on the eyes. It's just that it's more subtle than Urban Decay for example.
The green goes on more of a greenish-blue, and the blue goes on darker than it appears. And the black is just bad, you can see two streak marks from when I tried to layer it :D

In Conclusion

This line of eyeshadow palettes is pretty neat, I like the concept of having eyeshadows pre-chosen for you because it lessens the work you for. Colour Plush Palettes make it SO EASY to apply on eye makeup, you can't mess up with these (: The colours are a little subtle which has it's advantages and disadvantages. The pro is that it looks really natural and not like you have on a M.A.C. forcefield. Bad thing is that it's not loud enough for a bold or nighttime look. Maybe it can be layered.. I haven't tried it yet.
The staying power is mediocre without a primer, so it is a must to apply it before makeup.
Maybelline Eyestudio Color Plush Silk Eyeshadows are shimmery, super blendable, pigmented and surprisingly wearable. I would recommend buying!

4.5/5 on the rockin' scale.


**Disclosure: I am participating in a word of mouth marketing program and I received these products on behalf of Maybelline, WOMMA and Matchstick. However this will have no effect on my opinion or reviews. **


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