The reason I went yesterday is because I wanted to check out the Makeup Revolution Palettes. I had only just heard about Makeup Revolution, but the online reviews were comparing them to the Morphe Palettes. I would consider Morphe a prestige brand, but for being one, they are incredibly reasonably priced. I also think Morphe has excellent quality. I have nothing bad to say about Morphe, other than you can only buy it online. I hate paying shipping, and I vastly prefer to go into brick and mortar stores. The Makeup Revolution palettes are $5-$7 cheaper than Morphe + no shipping, so if the quality was on par, I was switching. I'm disloyal like that.
I wasn't sure what palette I wanted, there are so many pretty ones, but I have plenty of neutrals, so, magpie, that I am, I opted for the big, shiny one. The Mermaid Palette.
The palette runs $15 and for that money, you get 32 colors. I was pretty excited! I also bought two lipsticks. I bought two of the Amazing Lipsticks. I wanted a nude and a red. I picked the colors "Love Nude," and in honor of my nephews and niece who call me Aunt Lady, a bright red color called "Lady." It was made for me.
I couldn't wait to get them home and try them out. I mean, look at all these beautiful colors:
Unfortunately, I soon discovered that these colors are not pigmented at all. I started with the color, "Bay" as my base color and I couldn't see anything. I have on my Arbonne eye primer, which usually makes colors go on so smoothly and deeply, but there was just nothing there. When you see the pictures, note that I am wearing ALL of the following colors:
Bay
Ariel
Pretty
Princess
Sea
Waves
Turtle
Land
Mineral
Whale
See what you can see when you seen the pictures. Not much. I will say that the colors are very blendable, and the matte colors especially do seem to build a little, but I was really disappointed. I may end up just giving this palette to my toddler daughter to play with because there just isn't much danger of her making a mess.
As for the lipsticks, they are pretty colors, but very, very, sheer.
I already broke Love Nude because I was pressing so hard to try and get some color transfer. I will say, the lipsticks have this awesome, sweet sort of orange creamsicle flavor. They taste great. I am a big fan of that. The texture of the Love Nude is also stickier than Lady. Love Nude is sort of difficult to apply, but Lady slides right on. Love Nude is also very much a matte, whereas Lady has more of satin finish. Honestly, for $3, I am not going to complain about either one, because I do like both of the colors. The website does describe the line as "everything from matte to creamy" but doesn't say which colors are which. I guess you just get to be surprised. If you buy these colors, Lady is on the creamy side, and Love Nude is definitely on the matte side. For a matte though, it is not drying, and even though its hard to apply, once its on, it isn't hard to wear.
First up, here's Lady:
It wasn't the true red that I was expecting, its pinkier, but that is probably because it is so sheer. It does build, and sort of becomes red, but it takes a little work. I actually really like it though.
And here is Love Nude:
I really like this color too. I broke it trying to get a color transfer, so I had to be pretty gentle with it but it did eventually provide a transfer and its nude that I really like. I probably would buy more lipsticks from this line.
When I was buying the products, the checkout lady said that from Makeup Revolution, she really likes the blush palette and the eyeliner. They are all really reasonably priced, so I may try them out. As for the eyeshadow palettes? Stick with Morphe.
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