August 21, 2011

Welcome Home Too Faced Natural Eye and Stila Pro Artist Palettes

I've added a couple of new palettes to my little collection lately. They're not exactly new, they've been out in the shops for a while now, but they're new for me.


Actually, the Too Faced Natural Eye is something that I owned previously, but when I bought my Naked Palette (remember this story?) I decided to give my Natural Eye to my mum as I thought the NP had everything that NE had plus more. But lately I had started lemming for it again and I couldn't exactly ask for it back could I?

Anyway, I had been given some vouchers to spend at Apothica, so after 2 weeks of daily indecision I finally settled on these two.

(For Aussie readers, Apothica DO ship to Australia, and while shipping is $22 - $26, the prices of the makeup there are very cheap, thus making up for the high postage cost if you buy several items).

Too Faced Natural Eye kit ($34.70US at Apothica)
I will not be showing swatches of this palette as I feel there are already too many fabulous swatches available on the web. All I will say is that just because you have the NP, doesn't mean you don't need this one. The colours, while comparable to NP, are still unique enough in their own right to warrant an addition to your collection.


Stila Pro Artist Palette No 1. ($20.78US at Apothica)
This one took me a while to decide on, because I couldn't find any decent swatches anywhere. In the end I took a chance on this one and bought it. I'm glad I got this as the colours are gorgeous, especially when used wet. Below are swatches both using a dry and a wet brush.

Left side
The yellow shade, Prize, is just too powdery with massive fallout. Even used wet it's still not that great. The other two are fab!

Right side
These 3 shades are my favourite of the lot, they are pigmented both dry and wet, and the colours are just gorgeous. I've also used the blue and the purple one as an eyeliner to line my eyes with a pop of colour.

And here's a quick eye look using Moxie on the lid, and Lucky on the lower lashline.

My only gripe with this palette, apart from the powdery yellow colour, is the packaging. It's cardboard (so it gets dirty very easily), and it's unnecessarily big. Once I depot them into my Z-palette I'll be happy. Apart from that this is a very versatile palette due to the combination of bronzes and taupes with the blue and purple.

Have you got any of these palettes? If you own (ed) the NP, would you get the Natural Eye?

19 comments :

  1. Oooh these both look gorgeous, i dont own a lot of palettes except a lot of the Sleek ones and the Naked palette but i do like the look of these xx

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  2. Only just recently discovered Stila and loving their shades. Really like the look you put together with it

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  3. I love the purple shadow on you! I've not tried either of these palettes but they look gorgeous.

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  4. Oh no... I have the Naked palette arriving in the post any day now, but... now that I've seen this post on the Too Faced palette, I can easily justify picking that one up also!!

    http://such-a-beautiful-life.blogspot.com

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  5. @Nicoletta - the sleek ones are definitely good, i've got a few myself as well but i can't help it and always want more :-)

    @The makeup fairy - stila's pretty good isn't it? it's actually reasonably priced and their pigmentation is amazing.

    @Vita - if you do want to try them, try to buy online as it's half the price that it sells for here.

    @e.Xx - I hope you like the NP, it's a gorgeous palette. Not that that should stop you from lemming after the too faced one, they're clearly different! lol

    Lilit
    xo

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  6. Lilit... I'm so easily influenced, I purchased the Too Faced one online about three seconds after commenting on your post ;) x

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  7. Ha ha ha - you won't regret it, it is a great palette! Especially with warm weather around the corner this has the perfect combo of summery shades.

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  8. I have the naked palette but i still want it! Never being able to satisfy the urge to buy new makeup products can get quite expensive!! haha The colours look gorgeous!

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  9. those shadows look great! I own the naked palette, but I haven't had a chance to pin up the natural eye palette yet!

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  10. I have the Naked Palette and never use it. I'd probably never use the Too Faced one, either!

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  11. I WANT the Naked Palette and after much swatching I decided on it and the Smokey (new) as my TF palettes of choice. I liked Natural but it had too many shimmery shadows for me. Now you're making me lemming. xD

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  12. "Hey mom... remember that palette I gave you... Weeeellll.." hahahah :)
    Both of these look lovely.
    I think that blues/purples always complement brown eyes beautifully.

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  13. color as quite pretty i think a base is needed to achieve good results

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  14. Too Faced Natural Eye must be my favorite eyeshadow palette ever! Absolutely love it!

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  15. So pretty been eyeing it for a while love the swatches I really need to have this in my life.
    xo

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  16. Ohhh I've been lemming after the natural eye palette ever since I got the romantic eye palette- I must resist! lol

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  17. Oeh pretty! I've seen the natural too faced palet a few times but never really looked at it, but now i see its really nice. The stila one too.

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  18. Fabulous haul! The shades in both of those palettes look so pretty!

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  19. I love my natural eye kit - I don't regret getting the Naked palette but there is something "sweeter" about the TF palette.

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