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What's your go-to eyeshadow palette for summer?
This summer, I think it might be the Viseart Ribbons Boheme palette!
— Christine
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Same as you Christine! I usually wear my Dior Garden Pastels palette a lot during the summer. But this year I’ll be rocking Ribbons Boheme all the way! It’s a great palette!
It all depends on the look I’m going for and what else I plan on wearing that day? So there is no consistent go-to summer palette perse. I do have a few new favorites, though! For glam and sophistication: Chanel Empriente du Desert quad. For fun looks and or versatility: BH Foil Eyes and Nyx Ultimate Brights eyeshadow palettes. I also love MAC Halcyon Nights for another small, but beautifully done little palette.
Nancy, I’ve been eyeing that NYX Ultimate Brights palette for a while. Is it pigmented? Can you use just primer or do you have to use a Milk pencil?
I’ve used it with and without Milk, and have gotten some bangin’ eye looks both ways! Some shades DO benefit from using a white base that has the ability to take the brightness up a notch. All in all, I am very happy with this little palette for colorful, fun, vivid looks!
Thanks Nancy! I’ll look for sale/coupon, it looks fun and affordable.
MAC Amber x 9 or if we can count quads, Chanel Empreinte du Desert!
I like the UD XX Vice Ltd Reloaded palette –it has pops of color that go with brighter summer clothes, but the colors aren’t too OTT, so versatile enough to wear to the office
I use the same one as I do all year. My z palette w all my MAC eyeshadows. In summer though I stick to my peach, champagne and bronzey shades!
If the colors work out ok for me it’s gonna be the Grav3yard Girl Swamp Queen Pallette! I want to swatch it before I buy it, so I’m waiting til it shows up at Ulta. It’s really calling me, so I hope it looks ok!
I have a CARGO California Throwback waiting for some tan on my face (goldish shimmery beige, turquoise shimmer, beige and dark brown mattes + warm shimmery bronzer and blush).
For fun I will use the Sleek Del Mar I and the Sleek Calm before the storm – both wearable with colors.
And for a quick makeup MUR Naked Chocolate – this one has that gold-ish beachy vibe on neutral shades.
I don’t think I have one – I love eyeshadows so much I don’t think I could stick to just one. But right now, it’s been Chanel’s Empreinte du Desert quad. And Stila’s Spirit palette is always within close reach because it has so many shades that it’s a great one to have at hand.
i have this really pretty bohemian palette (i believe it’s by makeup forever) and it’s just 6 gorgeous eyeshadow colors. i got it as a gift a few years back 🙂
Right now I’m really loving the Makeup Geek Manny MUA palette and though it’s not really a seasonal palette I’m sure I’ll wear it a lot this next summer!
My go-to palette is the LORAC Pro Palette all year long.
Anastasia Maya Mia Palette. It has all the shades I need.
I don’t wear eyeshadow that often in the summer – however, I’m really liking Revlon Floating in Love for Spring 2016 eyeshadow palette in Romanticism – pretty pink, gray, lilac and mint!
This is an easy one: Tarte Rainforest of the Sea!
Wearing Rainforest of the Sea myself this summer!
Along with a variety of peachy-bronzy and blue-grey singles.
It’s been a total toss up between Too Faced’s Sweet Peach or Peanut Butter & Jelly!
This is completely backwards since you’re “supposed” to do color in the summer and since I love color, but I’ve been on a neutral kick for the past several weeks. It’s been nonstop Naked 2, Chocolate Bar, Gwen Stefani, and original Naked lately.
But knowing me, I’ll probably get tired of neutrals soon and start digging into Urban Spectrum, Electric, or one of the Vice palettes again!
I really like Too Faced Sweet Peach for the shimmery browns, smokey plums, and unexpected colors like green!
Too Faced Peanut Butter and Jelly palette so far! It doesn’t leave the top of my vanity, it’s just too cute.
I actually tend to use cream eyeshadows a lot in the summer, so there’s no palette that I use more often than usual!
usually the Naked 1 palette but this summer I’m going use Naked 3 more.
Probably the new Chanel Empriente du Desert quad, and the MAC Wild Horses quad. I love a neutral eye with a pop of colour for summer.
I’m lazy, so I’m just using singles! I like L’Oreal 24H Infallible and Maybelline Color Tattoo for their finger-friendly application, long wear, and ability to work well as a one-color wash on the lids. 🙂
Those loreal infallible eyeshadows are amaziballs!
I switch all the time, and I’m a palette junkie, so I don’t have a single go-to. For color palettes, I’ve been reaching most often for UD Electric, UD Urban Spectrum, UD Alice TTLG, and Too Faced Peanut Butter and Jelly. For neutrals, I’ve been favoring UD x Gwen Stefani, Tarte Rainforest of the Sea, UD Naked 3, Makeup Revolution Salvation Palette in Girl Panic, and MUFE Artist Palette Vol. 1. As the temps get hotter, the more I’ll reach for the light neutrals and get my pops of color from waterproof eyeliners and bright lip colors.
Tarte’s Tartelette in Bloom Clay Palette
I’m with you christine, the viseart ribbons boheme palette all summer! 🙂
I like to wear Tom Ford’s Cream eyeshadows one shade all over the lid or I love Chanel’s Les 4 Ombres compacts I own several different ones. I usually only apply two or three eyeshadows from the compact at once. Also Tom Ford’s Honeymoon which I love. It really depends on what I am wearing and how I feel that day.
I usually don’t change my eyeshadows just because seasons change. I love all eye shadows. That is except if they are too shimmery. I am especially loving Naked 1,2, and 3. And Kat Von D Shade and Contour. As we get older,our eyes begin to wrinkle (UGHHHH) The bright and shimmery colors accent all the fine lines!!!
Oh to be young and daring again!!!!!!!!
I’m crazy for palettes but if I could only have one this summer it would be UD Alice. The bright colors are sheer so they are easy to wear on hooded eyes (at least mine). 😉
I have my Mac pallette filled with Mac eye shadows.
Me too and it is all I ever need. My favorite shades no colors sitting there being unused!
I am enjoying using the Too Faced Boudoir Eyes Palette for most of my look and then adding a pop of color with a bolder liner. The palette is very neutral and easy to use and has been great to travel with which is something that I have been doing a lot lately. I have been doing a lot of one or two night trips and the palette tucks right into my bag.
I got the Tarte Rainforest of the Sea during the Sephora discount this spring. I’ve been enjoying it & will continue until I get bored, or find something else.
I don’t tan so I don’t really change shadow palettes. I use the UD Naked palettes, some Clinique palettes and a neutral matte one by Too Faced. I tend to go a bit lighter in summer though.
I have a palette by Eve Lom that I received in one of my several subscription boxes. I’ve hit pan on two colors and am unable to find a replacement. It consists of six colors varying from cream, peach, burgundy and a range of three blue-greens.
Anyone have any ideas on how to find this? I tried all the searches I could think of.
Maybe it’s not Eve Lom but Eve Pearl?
Of course. Thank you, Claire. The correct name may help my search.
I tend to go to my matte palettes. Meet Matte Nude, Tartallete, In the Know and Shade & Light Eyes are my favorites
Currently Violet Voss Holy Grail and Kat Von D shade and light. Looking to pick up ABH Renaissance
Just got Anastasia’s Modern Renaissance palette, LOVE IT. So flattering and versatile. Also enjoying Tarte’s Rainforest of the Sea for easy daytime looks, and Cargo’s Land Down Under for pops of something brighter!
I don’t really have a go-to palette for summer. I gravitate towards certain colors (pink, purple, teal) and will grab palettes that contain those shades. The easiest one is the TF Pink Glow palette since it has coordinating eye and cheek products.
That’s a gorgeous palette you’ve chosen Christine – it really screams spring and summer.
I don’t really have a summer eye palette as such, I just tend to use some individual colours more like mint.
Dior’s Jardin – just gorgeous colours
Guerlain’s Les Gris – for beautiful blues
Benefit’s Shamrocker – for mint.
I don’t really go brighter for my eyeshadow in the summer, instead I tend to do a one wash of color on the lids kind of look and then a bold bright summer lip! for this reason I gravitate more toward singles or eyeshadow crayons (specially the nyx ones)
Definately got to be the Sleek sunset palette!
Too Faced Natural Eyes Palette with pops of color from UD’s Alice Through the Looking Glass palette.
I just bought the ABH modern renaissance palette on a whim and 2 days in, i’m in love. this may be used for the majority of my summer!
Desperately in search of a nice mix of shadows with matte, satin, maybe a lightening one..just feeling too old with all this shimmer lately!
I wear cream shadows a lot in the summer (Tom Tord, Charlotte Tilbury, Bobbi Brown and Laura Mercier) more than a particular palette.
My go-to palette is the TooFaced Semi-Sweet Chocolate Bar. Yummy!
I’ll be using my Too Faced Sweet Peach palette and Urban Decay Alice Through The Looking Glass palette all summer
This year it’s going to be my Marc Jacobs Style Eyecon No. 7 in The Siren palette paired with my Naked2 Basics. Between those two, I have every summer look covered.
I haven’t got one for summer! I tend to do color washes in the summer with light shimmer shades and a bold liner or colored mascara.
I think it’s my own made make up geek palette 🙂
What colours have you put together?
For a natural look , i put mocha in the crease , coco bear on the lid and shimma shimma inner conner or cosmopolitan ( it’s my all time favorite)