Maybelline Expert Wear Eyeshadow Palette/Octet in Sunbaked Neutrals is my third (and certainly not last) nude palette from the brand. The palette features 2 greens (which I don't care for, despite it's my favorite color) and six neutrals shades (which I am loving more and more, as I am getting boring) which seems rather foolproof.
The shade from left to right: 1. Caramel beige infused with small shimmer (perfect as a in-between blending shade or creating subtle depth). 2. Matte medium brown with shimmer (that is only visible on the pan) which should work well as lid/crease shade and a brow color. 3. Golden Copper Beige. 4. A shimmery pale sage.
(Those are not the real name of the shades. It's just that the picture seems bland and I am OCD...) Bottom row: 1. A dark shimmery chocolate brown with small golden shimmer. 2. Brownish copper with chunky glitter bit. 3. A chalky shimmery white that looks rather natural (as a highlighter) once blended. 4. A deep mossy green.
Beside the two greens, which are both kind of shimmery in a frosty way.
The each of the rest has a unique finish so I am pretty comfortable
wearing several of the six, without feeling overwhelmed. My three
favorite shades are the Expresso (chocolaty liner) , Copper (just feel
very sunny and bronzed-up) and fudge (a rather neutral and classy for the eye socket).
A neutral everyday sort of smokey eyes. Not sure what I did exactly, I think it's just deepest shade close to lashline then goes lighter as I approach the brow bone, then I used some of the white on the lower tear duct areas. (Yeah, it just kind of disappears when I open my eyes)
Overall: For the price (6.5 at Target and 10 at CVS ), it's a very wearable palette for every day. It seems that the four shades of the left are exactly the same thing as Maybelline Chai Latte quad so I will go for that instead when I run out of this.
cool pallete, there's a drugstore selling them near my house but I bought that chinese palette with 168 colors (all really pigmented) so I'll just avoid getting more eyeshadows cause I will end up not using them.
ReplyDeletebtw, The sunshine color is really beautiful.
I think the thing with those multi-pan shadow is that they are all in the same finish. For my eye type it's really hard to create dimension with that kind of finish only...Of course I also get overwhelmed when there are more than a few shades (I stick with singles most of the time).
Deletemine has matte, frost and shimmer shades so it's really a lovely toy!
ReplyDeletei do love this palette so much! i think these 8 pen palettes are such value for money but i have not seen many with colours as inviting as the sunbaked neutrals.
ReplyDeleteI actually much prefer the older format for the Chai Latte (where all the pan are of equal size, now they make one with the matte beige the biggest because it's a lid color)where all the pans are kind of big and it's a little cheaper. This 8 pans is one of the nicer one though. I used to hate buying palette because I only ended up using one of the three/four shades.
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