A Heavenly neutral palette?

Ever since I saw the pictures of the new products of the Professional Range from Budget Brand Mua Cosmetics, I've been longing to get my hands  on 'Heaven and Earth' a gorgeous neutral eyeshadow palettes, at a record price of £4.







A triumphant open bloggers event later, where all  participants were able to see 'Heaven and Earth' in action, and an overwhelming wave of rave all across the board later, and I was still not  sure whether this palette was for me. Why? I was scared it would be too shimmery for me.



 



My palette is a generous present from Danielle, who blogs at Madame Gourmand who kindly donated it to me and I have never wished more  than any other time to be in love with it. The shadows are utterly gorgeous, they are very soft, very pigmented but as I feared it right from  the beginning, they are too shimmery for me and I am unable to make it work. The shimmer is not chunky and is quite delicate but it still  remains too intense for me to wear the shadows confidently in the crease of my eye and beyond.





The search for a heavenly neutral palette  carries on...

What: Heaven & Earth Eyeshadow Palette, MUA Cosmetics, Pro Range
Price: £4.00
Where: Selected Superdrug Stores

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Earth Child ‘Forest’ Palette from BeautyUK - Review and FOTD

One item on my never ending wishlist of makeup products has been the 'Earth Child’ Eyeshadow Palette from Beauty UK, after being really impressed with my very first purchase from the brand, the Day and Night Palette (reviewed & fotd'ed here) So you can imagine how chuffed and bouncing up and down when Beauty Uk sent Earth Child (or the forest palette as I like to call it) for review purposes, especially for someone like me with a very small beauty  blog.






The sturdy palette contains a lovely combination of 10 eyeshadow inspired by the theme of Earth, with 2 matte shadows (the black on the top row and the brown on the bottom) and 8 shimmery eyeshadows. All the shadows are very soft, you have to be gentle with them but in return they deliver a very good pigmentation. Despite their softness, I have not experienced not much fall out at all. The matte colours have almost a velvet feel to them and do not have this chalk effect which I have found lots of matte shadows have. The shimmery ones enchant me, they have the perfect amount of shimmer in them and are not 'in your face, disco ball' glittery.






My favourite colours? hard to choose as I love them all. I'd say the star shadows of this palette are the copper (4) and the green colours (5 & 10) and this taupy grey (7) Colours 6 and 9 are perfect for highlighting, the black, used lightly (1) would intensify any colour combination you used on the lids and you can also use the matte brown (8) to fill in your eyebrows.







In short, a perfect mix of colours and this palette gets all my thumbs up. If you usually find the eyeshadow palettes from beauty uk too bright, this might be for you. The best of all? Only £3.99. I’ve had a little play with the palette. I have used the colours marked with stars on the picture below:






 




Additionally, I used my regular H&M black eyeliner, UNE skin glow eye pencil, and some falsies from Ardell. For the lips, my favourite lip stick of the moment: Mac Velvet Teddy with a little bit of Natural Collection Clear Lipgloss.

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