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Sneak Peek: Fall 2015 Palettes from bareMinerals, Becca, Tarte Photos & Swatches

Tarte Energy Noir Eye & Cheek Palette
Tarte Energy Noir Eye & Cheek Palette

If it wasn’t apparent by the abundance of sneak peeks, but we are in the throes of fall color collections and releases. July you say? Well, they come a little earlier everywhere and maybe by 2020, we’ll be looking at fall in April 🙂 The best thing I can do for you is providing early swatches while I work on the testing and writing portion of the review process. (Testing takes the longest, followed by finding dupes, in case you were curious.) For total clarity, I purchased the Becca and Tarte palettes, while bareMinerals sent theirs as a press sample.

Palettes in this post:

  1. bareMinerals Work, Weekend, Wow Eyeshadow Palette ($26.00 for 0.17 oz.)
  2. Becca Ombre Rouge Eye Palette ($40.00 for 0.20 oz.)
  3. Tarte Energy Noir Eye & Cheek Palette ($38.00 for 0.54 oz.)

See more photos & swatches!

bareMinerals Work, Weekend, Wow Eyeshadow Palette
bareMinerals Work, Weekend, Wow Eyeshadow Palette

bareMinerals 500 Thread Count Ready Eyeshadow
bareMinerals 500 Thread Count Ready Eyeshadow

bareMinerals 500 Thread Count Ready Eyeshadow
bareMinerals 500 Thread Count Ready Eyeshadow

bareMinerals Trench Coat Ready Eyeshadow
bareMinerals Trench Coat Ready Eyeshadow

bareMinerals Trench Coat Ready Eyeshadow
bareMinerals Trench Coat Ready Eyeshadow

bareMinerals Custom Made Ready Eyeshadow
bareMinerals Custom Made Ready Eyeshadow

bareMinerals Custom Made Ready Eyeshadow
bareMinerals Custom Made Ready Eyeshadow

bareMinerals Starstruck Ready Eyeshadow
bareMinerals Starstruck Ready Eyeshadow

bareMinerals Starstruck Ready Eyeshadow
bareMinerals Starstruck Ready Eyeshadow

bareMinerals Fuze Ready Eyeshadow
bareMinerals Fuze Ready Eyeshadow

bareMinerals Fuze Ready Eyeshadow
bareMinerals Fuze Ready Eyeshadow

bareMinerals Rowdy Ready Eyeshadow
bareMinerals Rowdy Ready Eyeshadow

bareMinerals Rowdy Ready Eyeshadow
bareMinerals Rowdy Ready Eyeshadow

bareMinerals Nightfall Ready Eyeshadow
bareMinerals Nightfall Ready Eyeshadow

bareMinerals Nightfall Ready Eyeshadow
bareMinerals Nightfall Ready Eyeshadow

Becca Ombre Rouge Eye Palette
Becca Ombre Rouge Eye Palette

Becca Ombre Rouge #1 Eyeshadow
Becca Ombre Rouge #1 Eyeshadow

Becca Ombre Rouge #1 Eyeshadow
Becca Ombre Rouge #1 Eyeshadow

Becca Ombre Rouge #2 Eyeshadow
Becca Ombre Rouge #2 Eyeshadow

Becca Ombre Rouge #2 Eyeshadow
Becca Ombre Rouge #2 Eyeshadow

Becca Ombre Rouge #3 Eyeshadow
Becca Ombre Rouge #3 Eyeshadow

Becca Ombre Rouge #3 Eyeshadow
Becca Ombre Rouge #3 Eyeshadow

Becca Ombre Rouge #4 Eyeshadow
Becca Ombre Rouge #4 Eyeshadow

Becca Ombre Rouge #4 Eyeshadow
Becca Ombre Rouge #4 Eyeshadow

Becca Ombre Rouge #5 Eyeshadow
Becca Ombre Rouge #5 Eyeshadow

Becca Ombre Rouge #5 Eyeshadow
Becca Ombre Rouge #5 Eyeshadow

Tarte Energy Noir Eye & Cheek Palette
Tarte Energy Noir Eye & Cheek Palette

Tarte Full Moon Amazonian Clay Eyeshadow
Tarte Full Moon Amazonian Clay Eyeshadow

Tarte Full Moon Amazonian Clay Eyeshadow
Tarte Full Moon Amazonian Clay Eyeshadow

Tarte Charged Up Amazonian Clay Eyeshadow
Tarte Charged Up Amazonian Clay Eyeshadow

Tarte Charged Up Amazonian Clay Eyeshadow
Tarte Charged Up Amazonian Clay Eyeshadow

Tarte Dark Drive Amazonian Clay Eyeshadow
Tarte Dark Drive Amazonian Clay Eyeshadow

Tarte Dark Drive Amazonian Clay Eyeshadow
Tarte Dark Drive Amazonian Clay Eyeshadow

Tarte Stone Unturned Amazonian Clay Eyeshadow
Tarte Stone Unturned Amazonian Clay Eyeshadow

Tarte Stone Unturned Amazonian Clay Eyeshadow
Tarte Stone Unturned Amazonian Clay Eyeshadow

Tarte Up Too Slate Amazonian Clay Eyeshadow
Tarte Up Too Slate Amazonian Clay Eyeshadow

Tarte Up Too Slate Amazonian Clay Eyeshadow
Tarte Up Too Slate Amazonian Clay Eyeshadow

Tarte Misty Mauve Amazonian Clay Eyeshadow
Tarte Misty Mauve Amazonian Clay Eyeshadow

Tarte Misty Mauve Amazonian Clay Eyeshadow
Tarte Misty Mauve Amazonian Clay Eyeshadow

Tarte Power Plum Amazonian Clay Eyeshadow
Tarte Power Plum Amazonian Clay Eyeshadow

Tarte Power Plum Amazonian Clay Eyeshadow
Tarte Power Plum Amazonian Clay Eyeshadow

Tarte Lunar Eclipse Amazonian Clay Eyeshadow
Tarte Lunar Eclipse Amazonian Clay Eyeshadow

Tarte Lunar Eclipse Amazonian Clay Eyeshadow
Tarte Lunar Eclipse Amazonian Clay Eyeshadow

Tarte Crystal Spark Amazonian Clay Eyeshadow
Tarte Crystal Spark Amazonian Clay Eyeshadow

Tarte Crystal Spark Amazonian Clay Eyeshadow
Tarte Crystal Spark Amazonian Clay Eyeshadow

Tarte Unearthed Amazonian Clay Blush
Tarte Unearthed Amazonian Clay Blush

Tarte Unearthed Amazonian Clay Blush
Tarte Unearthed Amazonian Clay Blush

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Katherine T. Avatar

*BM Nightfall (blue) is pretty! So is Starstruck. Wish they would release those as singles, have way too many of the other shades already
*Becca’s kit is way too warm for me, but the pigmentation and colors look nice
*Tarte– uh oh. The shimmery shades look nice, but the matte shades are struggling, look dry

Cee Avatar

Eagerly waiting for your Becca Ombre Rouge review, Christine! 🙂 It seems like the warm neutral matte palette I’ve really been missing from my collection. Holding out to see if it performs as well as it looks, esp. in terms of pigmentation.

Mariella Avatar

I love the name and concept behind the name of the BM Work, Weekend, Wow palette but I have some of those shadows already and so don’t feel all that interested. If only the Tarte palette had a better, more flattering shade of blush for me, I would be on my way to Sephora NOW to buy it! But the blush might be the deal-breaker in this, sadly.

Tessa Avatar

I will say my coloring generally favors cooler eye shadow tones and DEFINITELY warm cheek colors. So for me…. a pleasant relief to see something I could use for both eye and cheek.

Not sure about the quality of this particular palette, though. Might both wait for review and swatch it in person.

Christine Avatar

Do you think that would work with the Tarte brand? Whenever I see a brand that is famous for and mostly does more neutral shades, I wonder if going brighter/more colorful makes sense. It reminds me of Bobbi Brown and when she did a neon/brights palette, and it was awful, so it was almost like, “Stick to what you know!”

Katherine T. Avatar

Bobbi Brown had a neon/brights palette?? The last 50 palettes that I’ve seen from her had 50,000 shades of brown. I’ve given up on her eye palettes. And Tarte is next. They need to take some risk, or risk losing customers who are are bored with the same colors coming out over and over again. I mean, I don’t expect them to go from neutrals to neons, as that’s not what their brands are about, but some color (greens, purples, blues) would be nice, and I would definitely consider buying them again.

Nancy T Avatar

Whoa!!! If I’m feeling a little overwhelmed by all these “Fall” offerings, I cannot even begin to imagine what you must feeling with this motherload of palettes! And it’s only the very beginning of SUMMER?!? Must say, I think there are some lovelies stored within all 3!

Alecto Avatar

How on earth do you have time to test all these? Your reviews always mention “stayed on for 8 hours” etc., and you only have one face! I picture you walking around during the day with one eye look on one eye, a completely different look on the other, two shades of blush on either cheek, and one shade of lipstick on your top lip and another on your bottom, all the while trying to explain to people you meet that you’re a professional and not some wild eccentric. Oh, the things you do for us!

Christine Avatar

That is actually how I test. If I’m able to, I will wear two neutral palettes so the eyes aren’t like… neons on one, neutrals on the other. I wear one lip product at a time, but I test, remove, test, remove (however many fit in the time for the day). To be honest, it’s rare that anyone notices/says anything. Oddly enough, when it is really differing, I’ll have someone say they like the makeup and I have to ask them… which eye.

jaz Avatar

The becca palette looks good. I don’t need a lot of matte shades because I only use a matte shade in my crease (and I don’t always do that) , so this looks like it would be perfect.

Rachel R. Avatar

I love the BareMinerals palette. It looks wonderful. The Becca palette is nice, but I don’t need it. The Tarte one is disappointing: What happened to the mattes? The colors look straight out of Tartelette palette, but the quality is awful. I love the blush, but agree it’s too orange for the palette. I wish it were sold separately.

Ashleigh Avatar

I’m loooving that Tarte blush… I would get it if it were a single pan for sure!

Already received and am loving the Becca Ombre Rouges palette. But I’m biased because those colors are MY COLORS in capital letters! Like if Naked 3 and Too Faced Semi Sweet palette had a small, travel-sized baby, that would be it.

Bonnie Avatar

I can’t believe the cheapest palette swatched the nicest overall of the three! I’ve never been a bare minerals fan (I tried their original foundation and it looked so powdery and unnatural on me!) but their “ready” eye shadows have been looking pretty good lately! Not so impressed with the tarte and becca eyeshadows.

Nazlee Avatar

Hi Christine! I love your blog so much. Just wondering, out of these three palettes, which do you like the most/recommend? I feel as though Tarte keeps coming up with the same color scheme for their palettes, but maybe it’s still worth looking into? I know they’re all different, but thought I’d ask anyway. Thank you!

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