Just My Luck

ColourPop Just My Luck 9-Pan Pressed Powder Palette ($12.00 for 0.36 oz.) is a new, permanent (!) green-themed palette that the brand specifically created without "teal" or "brown" -- all green, you know? I think the palette is better thought of as a complementary palette; it's for someone who either loves greens and sees the nuance between every shade or wants to add green to their line-up and be done in an instant. To that end, I decided to show the palette in two ways: a cooler-toned look and a warmer-toned look. You'll likely want to add-in your go-to brow bone highlighter and perhaps a few favorite transition shades, depending on the look you're going for.

Most of the shades were pigmented, blendable, long-wearing, and easy to work with--and there was a good range of depth, undertone, and finish. The only shade that gave me trouble as Act Natural, which was a little thinner in texture and took longer to spread and blend out than the other shades but was workable.

It actually had more similarity to Melt's Smoke Sessions than I would have thought off-hand, but ColourPop's take includes more mattes and has more mid-tones, which gives this palette a lighter feel in comparison (I did a similar cool-toned/warm-toned take with Smoke Sessions here, which shows how much darker, smokier Smoke Sessions turns out).