Sneak Peek: Becca Apres Ski Glow Collection Eye Lights Palette Photos & Swatches
Becca Apres Ski Glow Collection Eye Lights Palette ($45.00 for 0.35 oz.) is limited edition holiday palette that contains seven eyeshadows based on the brand’s famous Shimmering Skin Perfector Pressed Powders (their powder highlighters).
First Impressions
The texture of the eyeshadows felt drier and thinner with loose shimmer, and frankly, they lacked the creaminess of the powder highlighters they sought to emulate. From the brand’s description, it sounded like the formula was modified to be an eyeshadow, but that drier texture just made it difficult to apply the colors evenly or to maintain opaque coverage. They were more prone to sheering out and fading more quickly as a result, though they improved by using a dampened brush. I did find the eyeshadows to be blendable overall. The shades were fairly similar to their powder highlighter counterparts.
Underwhelming. I feel as if most of you readers will have better dupes for all these shades. Becca has a core competency in cheek products and some fine primers. I feel their competency away from their core is not as successful.
You’re exactly right, KJH. Look at how they botched up that JH eyeshadow palette, for instance. Becca needs to stick to cheek, face and lipgloss products.
Awww. How disappointing! I was planning on adding this to my list based on the formula being similar to the highlighters!
Pretty eyeshadows.
This look more like an offering from Too Faced (those round palettes of theirs, which I dislike). My reaction – BLAH and that surprises me because for the most part, I love Becca.
Very underwhelming, but money saved!
The colors aren’t too exciting, but love the glowy finish, but formula sounds problematic. I’m always wary of highlighters that were tweaked and reformulated into shadows – I think that’s what Hourglass did with the Modernist shadows and those were disasters.
❤️The idea but all too light. Underwhelming is a great description.
Shame on me for not being more patient! Just got mine in the mail, despite my distaste for round palettes haha! If it performs like this, it’s totally going back.
I also ordered the Laura Mercier L’Amour Exotique palette and I’m kind of disappointed- there was no shade listing so I didn’t realize that 2 of the shades are the same as last year’s edition, and the photo online makes the colors look more saturated than they are IRL.
So in summary… Not really thrilled with my 2017 holiday picks so far! 🙁
When I saw this I was like….why? Maybe if you only owned one highlighter from them it would be tempting, especially if the formula stayed consistent with the cheek products. But why wouldn’t I just use their current highlighters AS eyeshadows? *insert shrugging emoji here*
Very, very easy pass on this. Becca just fouled up another eyeshadow palette. Perhaps now this will let JH off the hook for that previous disaster of an eyeshadow palette? ?
A million shade just like these. Ugh. Maybe if I were 14 and had just started collecting? But, even then I would have been at the drugstore finding a cheaper dupe.
Looks nice but I don’t need it.
Money saved! I liked the idea of this but these are so underwhelming. I’d rather save my money and buy the actual highlights and use them as eyeshadows, or find dupes.
Whilst pretty, these shades live in most neutral eye palettes.
I had this on my Holiday List but will probably remove it . Disappointing because I love Becca, especially the Champagne Pop !
Underwhelming says it all.
This is an excellent example of why I am no longer brand loyal. So disappointing! Considering they have such a huge following for their highlighters you would think that the eyeshadows would be better quality. Right here is why I love this site Christine, for your honest and thourough reviews. I despise dry shadows, such a pain to work with. Well again, I think that there are alot of us on here that probably have dupes to these eyeshadows lurking in our stashes. I know i’m not alone haha.
I adore their Ombré Rouge palette (the nudes didn’t spark my interest). They should really release a new version of that instead of two underwhelming (looking at you JH) palettes in a row…
I think I will just stick to using the Becca highlighters that I have as eyeshadows instead of purchasing this palette! I use Champagne Pop quite a bit as an eye shadow and I love it. Thanks for the swatches/first impression, Christine!
Am I the only one who just blinked at this? This looks so underwhelming and boring. Becca should just stick to highlighters & blush.
Bleh, this doesn’t look as great as I thought it would on skin. If it shows like that on your skin meaning the little color I see, It’ll look like dirt on me lol
i actually thought this was a mini highlighter palette and i would’ve used it with those intentions..hoooowever, the swatches make me reconsider putting these in the basket. thanx for the review!!