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Round-up: Natasha Denona Metallic Eyeshadows + Overview
Natasha Denona Metallic Eyeshadow ($27.00 for 0.08 oz.) has the most shades of the four distinct finishes in the brand’s eyeshadow line-up. They range from frost to true metallic with good to great pigmentation and are easy to blend. For me, the let down was in how they wore, as they tended to crease or fade more readily than the average powder eyeshadow. I had better luck using a thicker primer, like MAC Paint Pots, than thinner ones, like NARS Smudge Proof (but these sometimes still creased faster than usual, even over a primer).
Aero (512M) is a very light silver with cooler, bluish undertones and a smooth, metallic finish.
- Nearly opaque pigmentation
- Smooth, moderately emollient...
Aero (512M) is a very light silver with cooler, bluish undertones and a smooth, metallic finish.
- Nearly opaque pigmentation
- Smooth, moderately emollient...
Glossover Breakdown
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94%
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Glossover Averages
product
9
pigmentation
10
texture
9
longevity
9.5
application
5
Total
94%
product
9
pigmentation
10
texture
9
longevity
9.5
application
5
Total
94%
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Based on 1 Review, 4 Quick Reviews
The Good: Creamy (3), Buttery (2), Long-wearing (2), Smooth (1), Easy To Apply (1)
The In-Between: Buildable (2), Highly Pigmented (2)
The Bad: Hard To Apply (1), Creases (1)
“Nastasha” should be “Natasha” in the title for all 3 of your roundup posts.
Fixed, thank you!
With all the absolutely fabulous MUFE, ABH & MAC singles readily available, and much better at staying power, I’ll likely skip on these. $29 and it creases and or fades SO quickly is a bit of a ripoff unless a shade is undupable and a “can’t-live-without”.
I wish they had longer staying power on!
I am so incredibly uninterested in this line. Overhyped, overpriced, and will be over with soon, I hope. There’s nothing innovative or unique for the price. (I’m not criticizing your review, because I know lots of people are interested. I’m just not impressed and had hoped to be.)
I’m sure the buzz will die down soon!
I have four of Natasha’s small palettes of shadows and I really REALLY like them! Her ingredient list sounds more like a natural brand- it has a large % of wax and oils. When I read that I knew I would need to use either Rain Cosmetics primer or Youngblood’s eye primer. For some reason primers like Urban Decay & Nars are complete fails on the “natural-organic” type shadows. You need a sticky primer to make these work-at least I do.
I’m more than willing to accept a higher priced item and less longevity to not have some risky “all chemical cocktail” packed all over my eyes.
I really appreciate this list by texture/finish as now I can focus on the singles rather than the palettes. I’m like a lot of women where I only use half of the colors in a compact which means I waste $ in the long run. Thanks Christine- this is such a great idea- these lists of yours! No really. Your blush list and recent MAC post with the visual list was incredible.
Happy to hear you’ve found a good primer that works with these, Trish! 🙂 I found a thicker primer seems to do best but haven’t tried anything particularly tacky like TF Glitter Glue level.
Blue Spruce and Oxide are gorgeous! I will have to remember those.
They are pretty!
Thank you so much Christine – I really love the Teal colour and the gray brown colour. They are gorgeous.
My pleasure as always, Genevieve!
I would love to try some of these colors, but $27 is a lot for a single eyeshadow that I can’t swatch on myself and creases easily — especially since eyeshadows love to crease on my oily, wrinkly, hooded lids. And none of the palettes appeal to me. 09 at least is all metallics, and I like four of the shades, but none is one of the colors I really want to try. I really appreciate the work you did in reviewing these, because some of these colors are hard to resist. If there’s ever a way to pick some up less expensively, I’d like to try Blue Spruce, Bottle Green, Graphite, Quicksilver, Metallic Steel Blue, and Slate, at least.
From the few reviews I’ve seen/watched with those with hooded lids is that these have creased/transferred for them 🙁 But with the right primer, I’m sure there’s a way to get decent longevity out of them — I just think that, given that they promote them as long-lasting, that at the price point they should perform that way!
Hi Christine! Just out of curiosity, were you on the conference call with Beautylish and Natasha Denona a few weeks back? I was on the call and I was surprised to hear them admit that people have been giving her products bad reviews. I have been watching Natasha’s YouTube videos for well over a year now. I also follow her work on Instagram, as well. When I watch her apply the eyeshadows, they apply beautifully–no creases, no fading. The eyeshadows I have bought from her line are unlike any other I have tried. I love their texture and I don’t have any issues with them at all. Back to the conference call: Natasha said that a lot of people are applying them wrong! Please, don’t interpret that as me saying that you are applying them wrong, but people are using flat synthetic brushes or regular eyeshadow brushes to apply her products because they are like pressed pigments. She said to apply them using fluffy brushes, which I really don’t understand because I would think that there would be tons of fall-out because of it. Anyway, I’m tempted to try her shadows with her line of brushes, but to have to buy specific brushes to use the eyeshadows seems expensive and unnecessary. Just wanted to bring this up! 🙂
No, I wasn’t. If the ones you’ve bought work well for you, I don’t think you should need to use a fluffy brush, though? Or her brushes? Whatever you are already using seems to work just fine! They apply well enough for me (well, except the mattes), but for me, the wear is noticeably shorter (just in general) – it’s less getting them on and more getting them to stay put! They don’t crease immediately by any means, just by the end of 7-8 hours, they have often creased.
I don’t think you should have to use the brand’s brushes for something like powder eyeshadow, personally, and I don’t think there has ever been mention of it previously (seems odd to make it a point now). Even if it was like a pressed pigment, that is not a new or revolutionary concept, so your standard eyeshadow brushes would surely work! From the sounds of it, they work really well on you and you don’t have any issues with them fading/creasing, so unless you actually need/want the brushes as brushes, I don’t think you need to buy them just to use with her eyeshadows.