The 'Smoky Copper' eyeshadow palette by The Body Shop was released with their Christmas collection back in December and ever since I first laid my eyes on it, I knew I had to have it. And so I went out and bought it a few weeks back, as I'm not one to wait too long especially when it comes to beauty or perfumes.
The palette comes with two rather good quality mini brushes which is very handy when on the go, a flat brush and an angled brush for increased precision in application. The shades are very wearable and very much to my liking. This palette is versatile enough in its shades to be suitable for all eye colours in my opinion, but would be especially gorgeous on blue eyes due to the copper/bronze shades enclosed.
When swatched with fingertips the formula is highly pigmented and buttery soft, but when applied with a flat brush, in all fairness you don't get the same pigmentation for some reason. It therefore performs at its best when used on top of a cream base - the usual eye primer underneath just won't cut it I'm afraid, or simply applied with a wet brush. I personally prefer the first version- applied on top of a cream base and by that I mean something like the Maybelline Color Tattoos or the Stila Smudge Pots, the eyeshadows stick really well onto them and work beautifully in every way possible.
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| 'Smoky Copper' applied over Maybelline Color Tattoo in shade 'On & On Bronze' |
All in all, for 25 Euro you get 7.2 g of eyeshadows and when compared to a Clarins quartet (5.8 g) which costs about 40 Euro, I must say that this palette was worth the investment for me and I'm very pleased with it and because of its wearable neutral shades, I would see myself getting a lot of use out of it.
Have you tried this?
5 comments:
Im loving the colors in this palette, right up my alley. Its been so long since I have been to The Body Shop.
Sara x
I love a good smokey eye myself, too : ) i have a black stila pan i use in the crease for it, gives fantastic definition.
Adding you to my subscriptions if you don't mind. I like your blog, your woofs and your no photoshop policies.Am a student mua from cavan with pugs,bunnies and my chap is a photographer. Talk soon I hope : )
kim xoxo
@Kim Annabella - Thank you so much for your lovely comment, really appreciate it! Also thank you for noticing my 'no photoshop' policy, as I really stand against it (on blogs at least). I'll defo be checking your blog out too xoxo
It's nice for an informal site, and also quite important for the not so informal displaying of work. I was looking at some make up artists portfolio's recently- in the name of getting my own together and printed out and honestly, I couldn't see the actual make up for all of the retouching! It makes very little sense, it's so obvious to anyone in the trade or with even the smallest bit of digital image processing training.
@Kim Annabella - Oh I hear you, sure all you need is good lighting and a fab camera with great flash, to make all those 'imperfections' go anyway, so why take this further with Photoshop? Beats me to be honest. One thing I know: I am totally against it on blogs, we see enough modified pics in magazines as it is in my opinion. xx
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