Eyeshadow is really my first love, so yes, absolutely! I am also someone who tends to get excited by high-qualify formulas, so even if the color scheme has been done before, but if it’s from a formula I love, then I am game. That being said, if the brand has already launched a similar color scheme a few times before, then I already have it in a great formula so will be less excited for the next iteration.
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Eyeshadow palettes are the visual eye candy, the thing that tells a story and they never cease to draw me in. I get excited about blush and highlight palettes, but not to the same degree. So yeah, sometimes I feel bad in that I am always looking for the next one and even personally feel responsible for the rate of churn. But then something absolutely gorgeous flits by and I forget all about my 15 near dupes and I buy it anyway.
I sure do!!! I shouldn’t but eyeshadow is also my first love, makeup-wise, and while I have more than enough eyeshadow to last me several lifetimes, I still have a real weakness for palettes – anything from 3 to 30 shadow palettes and I’m taking an eager look! I should know better….but I don’t! Overall, if most of the colours are those I wear regularly and like, a palette offers the best “bang for my buck” which is the excuse I use far too often to buy far too many palettes.
Unfortunately, yes, but I do feel my obsession has waned a bit. Eyeshadow palettes are my favorite cosmetic, and I have far more than any other item in my entirely-too-large collection. I have become more particular and make smarter purchases — but still far too many purchases of essentially the same product for any reasonable person. I have issues. 🙂
No I’m finding it harder to be impressed. Formulas aren’t that unique or special and I have what I need. Cute nostalgic packaging doesn’t really do it for me
Yes and no. I like to see new color stories but, I joined the singles train a few months ago and I don’t plan on going back lol (unless it’s a magnetic palette). I just feel like a lot of these palettes have a lot of the same colors. If I can dupe the overall vibe myself and put my own creative spin on it why not? I know the formula won’t ever be an exact match but I still can get a similar look and thats good enough for me. I really adore the Sidney Grace singles and all their palettes are magnetic so you can mix and match with singles. Been really happy with all my purchases form them!
I love palettes but too many brands put out junk these days. So I love them a little bit less than I used to.
I do! I have enough variety in my collection that I don’t need any more palettes, but an interesting color story gets me excited every time! Knowing that I can dupe most of what comes out these days (using the handy Temptalia vanity) helps me curb purchases.
Yes I do get excited! Especially seeing each possible variation of Pat McGrath’s astral, blitz, satin, and color flip shades — and then seeing how she pulls the colors together in a coherent palette.
Only for indie shadows these days. Menagerie, Clionadh, and Kaleidos get me excited to try out new finishes and combinations. I recently tried Menagerie this year and was super impressed and excited to see what else they come out with. Alien cosmetics has some great color stories that are really exicting to me. I am still excited to try ShinebySD, Oden’s Eye, and Give Me Glow.
Yes? I’m a palette junkie. I love everything about them. I can’t help but get excited to see a new one.
Initially – yes. But I find that my interest is waning in palettes. I feel like palettes overwhelm me and have a tendency to “trick” me into a state of excitement and want. But more often than not once I spend a concerted amount of time really looking at the palette, I start to realize that I’m really drawn to only one or two specific shades rather than the palette as a whole or that I already have a lot of dupes for many of the individual shades but was blinded to it by those one or two shades that drew me in. So, palettes are really great for inspiration in color stories, but I’m at the stage where I’m really more interested in singles and really great formulas or unique options to supplement or fill in the gaps for what I already own.
Unfortunately for my bank account, yeah, I do! Mainly for more unique or at least interesting color schemes and different textures or finishes. I will say that certain brands have seriously begun to lose my interest in some or all of their palettes for various reasons: UD – poor quality, PML and CT – pink OVERLOAD, ColourPop – redundancy most of the time.
It’s really interesting reading the replies here. I guess many of us (not all, but many) are over 30 or over 40 or more (I’m over 60) so have had a lengthy time collecting and using makeup so there are quite a few here who, like me, feel they have way too much eyeshadow (and eyeshadow palettes) but still feel drawn to new ones, even though we know we’re almost at “critical mass”. Christina D’s comment pretty much sums it up for me and I’m guessing for several others (or more than several others) too.
Hmmm… sometimes I still get excited to LOOK at palettes, but I’m rarely excited to BUY them. I have so many, so even if I don’t have a palette in that exact combination of colors, I can probably create the same combination across multiple palettes. I think I only bought 4 palettes this year and 3 of them were Temptalia x Sydney Grace!
My wordy wordy I do still get excited over eyeshadow palettes, especially ones that suit my personal preferences and receive an excellent review from you Christine!
However many brands are still delivering the same old shades over and over again (lots of pinks, oranges and red and matte shades), so it’s fairly rare that something comes along that I feel quite confident in using most of the shades.
I do have quite a lot of palettes in varying sizes and I am now trying to make sure that they include a wider range of colours and not just dupes of each other.
No never for palettes. I only buy singles.
Yes….buuuut, they’re also the most boring and disappointing when I don’t like them (or they’re a bland regurgitation of “what sells”).
If I like the color scheme, yes!
Yes, I get excited to look at them – to take in the color stories and see if there are new textures and what nots. However, I’m not keen on buying 99% of palettes as I build my own palettes from singles. The palettes that I will purchase have to be ones that I can easily depot and mix into my singles collection. The last palette I bought was the PML Celestial Odyssey palette. It was my first (and most likely my last) PML palette that I will buy. I like it but I don’t love it. Also with lots of Indies presenting some seriously special shadows, I don’t feel too much FOMO when it comes to PML palettes. That being said, I still enjoy looking at eyeshadow palettes and love watching them being swatched.
Absolutely, yes!
There are few things I love more than looking at new palettes when it comes to makeup.
I have so very many palettes by now I feel slightly ashamed, so I try to really think before buying. I do think the ones I got this year have been wiser buys for most parts, there’s one or two I could have skipped, but I’m going to use them as they aren’t horrible in any way.
I hope I can stay on the track next year, really think before hitting the buy button, after all I don’t need anymore palettes for now or for a longish time.
I mostly wear cool tones, I don’t do dark smokey eyes, browns, most reds, oranges, orange golds, or pinks– so product development has really moved in a different direction– and I accept that. Even when product developers throw in a green or blue, there are usually more browns in any given palette and so to me it’s a waste of the resources that went into the product and the packaging, not to mention my money. I’ve already bought the palettes with just a few colors I can wear (ND Metropolis) or the glitzy shadows I don’t really use (PMG) so I don’t need to repeat those mistakes. Fortunately, I’ve put together a collection that works for me. Just bought some gorgeous singles from Lethal. The centerpiece of my collection is the ND green-brown palette which I bought at a deep discount. Ignoring the two brown end rows on the right, I concentrate on the 9 shadow palette within the palette at the center for the perfect green – gold palette. I also occasionally use the adjacent pale flesh row. At full price, this would seem too indulgent but getting it (at a discount) has saved me from spending tons on palettes I don’t use.
No, but I still look every now and then, just in case 😉