What eye palette did you love when it came out but wouldn't impress you as much now?
Tom Ford Nude Dip! It’s still a great quad, but there are other neutral palettes I reach for more.
— Christine
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Urban Decay Naked Smoky. I used it almost exclusively when it first came out but I slowly started gravitating towards new palettes and singles. There is actually nothing wrong with it and I would use if if I had to lol….just like everything, the newness wore off and I was on to something else.
I didn’t get into makeup much until my late 20s and Naked Smoky was my first high end palette. I only wear cool tones and I’m glad I bought it when I did because within weeks, it was discontinued and the multi-year warm toned red/orange/yellow palette explosion began very soon after.
Tarte Toasted Clay Palette. One of the first palettes I ever bought. Ugh. The smell. The fallout. The lack of shade range in their lineup for forever. (I donāt know about the latter now. Stopped buying the brand years ago and decluttered everything.)
Probably the KVD Shade+Light eyeshadow palette because, well….it’s all matte!!!
I still use mine and love it.
Urban Decay paletts, some ABH ones, some Tarte and Too Faced….not that they are bad now, but so many new companies to choose from that are truly inoventive and different, I have actually gotten rid of most of them…..I’m always intrigued by new and better formulas and textures that are coming out and ones that are more than about 2 years old usually just sit there…………
The original Naked pallette.
I was wowed for years.
I still miss it today.
Despite all the brands I’ve gotten to know afterwards and the makeup stash I have, I would buy it in a second if it became available again (and it was the same quality).
ABH Modern renaissance
More than I can list….like 70-75% of what I own. It was my bad that I literally went palette crazy for at least 10 years.
Too Faced Sweet Peach or Colourpop Yes Please. The super warm toned doesnāt interest me much anymore!
This is going to blow some people’s minds but ABH Modern Renaissance palette. I hardly used anything else after I purchased it and still pull it out occasionally for Vermeer but the shadows are very dusty. They fall out without a really good primer, the packaging is dirty and yucky and I am just over it. I should declutter it.
It doesn’t blow my mind – I disliked that palette from the get-go (never bought it because those colours are just really unattractive to me and on me). I loved Vermeer and was so happy that I could get it as a single as it is very flattering on my and a lovely, “wide awake” sort of shadow for me.
I think I convinced myself that it looked good on me because everyone raved about it online and I thought it was just me but with the explosion of those same tones and the fact that as I have gotten older the shades make me look sick, I have to get rid of it. I can’t say it wasn’t well used though. I still like similar shades but with cooler undertones. I also am being more selective in what I purchase.
I’m surprised that this palette is still around and going strong when others from the company (“Mario”, Self-Made, Sultry) are long gone. I just don’t get it.
I know. I recently saw it on Sephora and guess I just thought that it probably wasn’t available anymore. I also think that at the time, I thought ABH’s shadow formula was good but I now know better. Oh well, live and learn.
I actually really like the ABH shadow formula for the most part. The singles I have are fabulous and the 2 palettes I have are very good quality too. Which shadow formulas do you prefer?
I think it is the powdery formula that gets me. It is the same reason I don’t love ColourPop’s pressed eye shadow formula but I will work with them just because they are so cheap. I guess I should re-evaluate my thought process, LOL. I haven’t really looked back at ABH to see if they have released any new palettes?! I haven’t purchased an ABH palette in a long time so formula may have changed. While I don’t care for the repetitive color stories I do like the Pat McGrath formula. I also have several Indie brand shadows that I love. I tend to like the formula’s that are a bit silicone feeling, almost wet. They tend to grip more to my eyelids.
Urban Decay Naked 3. I loved it so much when it came out I wore it incessantly. Now I would reach for Huda New Nudes.
Urban Decay Vice 3. I saved for that palette when it came out because it looked so cool! Today, all of the colors are available a) for less money; and b) in a better quality.
Hmmm – there are a couple that I truly loved when I purchased them, but now I wouldn’t rave.
bareMinerals Soft and Smokey – went to high heaven to get it and there are a couple of shades I truly loved, but it lacked a gold shade and had two vanilla shades, so I don’t use it much now. Midnight Luminance is a gorgeous green shade, but now that I use Earthbound from the On the Horizons palette, it’s the best subsitute.
Another one is Guerlain’s Les Aquas – I still have it because of the teal blue shade, but really don’t use it much these days.
Smashbox Punked CoverShot. It was my go-to during the years of nonstop ultra warm sunset/sunrise palettes but I can dupe the grungy cool toned gray and purple color story I still love with much better formulas, using mattes from Devinah Cosmetics Eternal Night or Vieve Ninetease palettes and metallics from SG singles.
UD; The Nakeds (all of them).
Hot take: Pat McGrath Mothership Divine Rose II. I thought it was such a special palette when I got it. Now, I canāt tell you the last time I used it. Seems every palette sheās released since has a similar color story.
The Tartelette palette by Tarte. Now that matte formulas have improved in quality and price point, there is a lot more competition for what the palette represented. But it was a great workhouse when I first got it.
The Chanel quad in 368 Golden Meadow from 2021. When it first came out, I was so blown away by the beautiful formula of the satiny mattes I even thought I might hit pan on those shades (silly me). Nowadays, it is just way too warm, orange-y and peachy for my current taste.
Like a few others here, UD Naked 3. I much prefer Huda The New Nude.
That’s funny you say Nude Dip because I was thinking if I could only have one or two eyeshadows/palettes, I’d keep Nude Dip and my old Urban Decay Mildew. I hope the quality of Nude Dip hasn’t changed in the past few years because I’d like to update my old one.
I think the UD Game of Thrones palette. It was really cool when it came out, but now it just seems really gimmicky and not as interesting.
I thought I would see a lot more mentions of Pat McGrath š. Not because of quality, but perhaps redundancy with the same color story.
Naked 3, the OG Divine Rose š. Iām a sucker for those mauvey roses. I used to use it so much, but it has not had been in my weekly rotation for quite some time.
My first one, the Too Faced Natural Matte palette (original). No way I’d buy it now. Too nude and matte, but that said, it’s wasn’t a bad palette (at the time).