MAC’s Snowglobe eye shadow palettes from last year’s Ice Parade Collection brought back memories of a snowglobe I had as a child. That snowglobe had a Christmas tree and a snowman in it and it was one of my favourite toys.
I do like the silver glitter in the clear liquid design on the cover of the eye shadow palettes, it makes it very different from the MAC eye shadow palettes I have seen in the past. There were 3 Snowglobe eye shadow palettes : cool, warm and sultry.
The Sultry palette was my least favourite of the palettes simply because I found the eye shadows the most difficult to swatch of the 3 palettes. In general, they were chalky with poor colour pay-off and I would have to use an eyeshadow primer with these, without exception. There isn’t even one Veluxe Pearl eye shadow in this palette whereas the Cool and Warm palettes had 1 Veluxe Pearl left.
From the pic of the swatch above, you might think there are only 5 colours and I don’t blame you because Lightfully was near impossible to swatch. Black Tied and Shadowy Lady were also difficult to swatch but at least those are dark unlike the almost invisible Lightfully.
I have to use a brush with these colours because I can’t pick up any of the colours with my fingers. The brush included in the palette is fine for picking up the colours and for blending but I didn’t find any of the colours in this palette particularly outstanding. Of the 3 palettes, my favourite was the Warm palette as that one provided the best colour pay-off.
The Sultry palette is going to someone who will be far more appreciative of it than I can ever be. Incidentally, the Sultry palette was the only 1 of the 3 sold out at MAC Penang so perhaps I am missing something. All the palettes are 6g and retailed at RM188.
Note : The product was a press sample.
These look very versatile. Can be used for both day and night depending on what you do with the colours
That’s true, a smoky eye look can be created with these colours but the only downside is that they need to be used with eyeshadow primer in order to get the best out of them.