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Sneak Peek: Too Faced Grand Hotel Café Palettes Photos & Swatches
Too Faced Grand Hotel Cafe
Too Faced Grand Hotel Cafe ($49.00 for 1.46 oz.) includes three palettes, each containing six eyeshadows and a cheek color. It is housed in a “hotel” box, and as you might expect if you’re familiar with Too Faced, it has good presentation for gift giving. The interior, of course, well, we’ll have to wait and see how everything wears. For now, here are swatches of the shades:
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I like these colors, but the swatches for some of the shadows (like Peppermint Mocha) look worryingly patchy to me.
Many of these look dry. Curious to see how they perform for you.
Yikes. This is why I’m always very skeptical of holiday palettes. They rarely seem to live up to the brand’s normal quality. Frankly, I don’t want more of something if it’s going to be mediocre in quality. That’s not a bargain, to me. Although I will say Cold Brew is stunning! I’d buy that in a single.
Some of those shadows look really pretty, others *raspberry*. Would be interested to see if they are actually work better than the swatches suggest.
Oh wow, Peppermint Mocha looks bad and it seems like such a lovely color too. Only Central Perk and Gingersnap look great to me. The other shades look alright, except Black Coffee is reminding me of how MAC’s Carbon swatches
I really do believe these swatched make no justice on this set i have it and peppermint mocha does not swatch that chalky and bad other shades i got swatched way better than this
These are really cute, and very portable, but products are a mixed bag, and I’m not sure I want to smell Egg Nogg when I use the kit in summer time. As always, there’s 1 or 2 shades in each kit that I would love to have as a single. Will wait for your review
Hmm, some of the swatches look pretty patchy ?. Some of the colours look lovely but I’d be leery of buying something with so many patchy shades if indeed they do perform the same way on the eyes.
Too faced does make some elements holiday palettes. But dang I wish they make more permanent shadows out of some of these shades they like to repromote/slightly tweak.
The sad thing they use to have singles but I guess says were more into these palettes.
I ordered this already before seems like mattes need primer. This overall though I’d give a B- or B just front swatchs. The ones that are super pigmented make it so much more worth it. Peppermint palette seems to be the worst out of the three. The one I bought this for is eggnog and that green is stunning!!! Thank you so much for sharing.
Thankyou so much for these swatches I was waiting to see them! They really aren’t as pigmented as I thought and of course a makeup lover like me already has so many shades like these lol
It just occurred to me that Too Faced is really the Bath & Body Works of the makeup world. (aka, something I outgrew soon after college).
Lol. Love this analogy. I agree
Jesus tapdancing Christ on a cracker, Too Faced. Get your shit together.
Peppermint Mocha and Skinny Latte look so bad!!I like the fact that these smell like the Eggnog.Peppermint,and Gingerbread lattes but I doubt I’ll be buying this.Jarrod is having a giveaway of all the sets in the Christmas collection on Utube.It would be so awesome to win the whole collection.
Eek, some of these look BAD!
I bought this palette as well, and I have to say mine swatches beautifully! I had no issues with patchiness. I’m thinking maybe you got a did Christine!
To be honest, I’ll probably end up purchasing this. The second and third palette are very much up my alley and I can work with them. Stiff mattes can be fixed with some denser (aka cheaper) blending brushes like the Elf one, and NYX Milk jumbo pencil is a lifesaver for patchy or glittery lid shades. I probably put in enough work with most of my single shadows and larger palettes to get the same effect already, so the effort doesn’t detract from the value of travel-size palettes! Plus, the blush and bronzer in the last two would look amazing on my skin. Now I just need to find someone who would wear bright pink on the lid so I can gift that one away…
While I do actually see some real beauties: Central Park, Cold Brew and strangely all the pink/ purple shades, I also spot some REALLY awful ones too: Peppermint Mocha, Skinny Latte, etc.
But if anyone gifted me the green themed palette, I’d be one happy lady!
I believe these palettes are scented to match their themes, Nancy. So they probably have saccharine in them.
Oh, yeah, that’s right. Thanks for bringing that to my attention, because red, itchy, sore, super bloodshot eyes are definitely NOT the look I want to rock! Especially since green would really show up any red x’s 10.
This is the one holiday set that caught my eye the most from them all! How did you feel when swatching? Do you have any first impressions because I’d love to hear them!
Most of these look pretty awful, though I notice Too Faced has less glittery shades than last year (those awful, chunky shades). That was a good call. They’d probably be OK with primer, but the color selection is the same old, same old from Too Faced. Pass for me.
I can’t wait to see dupes for Central Perk! It’s the only color calling my name!
The only shade I’m particularly excited about is Central Perk. I’m covered on most of the other shades because I already own several Too Faced palettes. I can’t keep buying palettes for one or two nice shades, so this is a pass for me.
Packaging is so cute but The eyeshadows Are dissapointing. So I won’t buy it.
Far too few winners in this one.
A few of the shadows seem to swatch really badly but there are several I really like – Coffee Chip, Cold Brew, Cup of Joe – I love me those browns – and also Central Perk. Might wait to see if I have dupes or I might just break down and buy (I hope the shadows I like are all in the same palette and then I can give the others as gifts but with my luck, there will be one of the ones I love in EACH of the palettes!)
I already ordered this after stalking it for awhile. A few look patchy, but there are a few that look awesome. *keeping my fingers crossed*
Central Perk is the only real colour I like and it seems to be a decent swatch; but most of the others are seriously patchy.
Some look really good and others, well, less so, to be kind. I don’t think I’ll get this, but I might change my mind depending on the reviews.
How cow these look Terrible!!!!!!! How is the only amazing looking one the dark green? That’s CRAZY. That green is gorgeous tho.
I wish they were all shiny finish.
only the shimmery eye shadows look good to me, the mattes look disappointing in color pay off, quality.
Temptalia! Can you give a little information on which of the TooFaced Holiday collections you would recommend first? Like, if we were to only grab one, which would you recommend? the Grand Hotel Cafe, the Chocolate Shoppe (Sephora) or the Macaron one (ulta)? It’d be much appreciated!??!
I’m still testing everything! So very sorry Ashley!
Is it just me or have they practically regurgitated last years products but with New York instead of Paris? Between this set, the naughty kisses and sweet cheeks and the park avenue kisses. Fair enough the shades might be different but I feel like they could have pushed the boat out a bit here 🙁
Well, I bought this set sight unseen from Ulta online. I always prefer to buy in person and now I remember why (wanted to use my 5X Ulta points on Too Faced promo, though). This set stinks, and I mean that literally, ugh!
It doesn’t smell like coffee, eggnog, gingerbread, or peppermint to me. Each of the three palettes smells the same, like Play-Doh or this weird chemical-y, burnt plastic-y smell. What a disappointment. I’m going to keep it, though, because I actually like most of the shadows and blushes, and the smell isn’t noticeable when I wear them, only when I put my nose right up to the palettes. Over primer they seem fine to me, and I almost always wear eye shadow primer.
But the smell is horrible — am I the only one who thinks so???
Would you guys judge me if I want to buy this set just for the Central Perk shadow?? I just have this intense obsession with the tv show Friends and that shadow looks gorgeous!
It’s your money, so it’s not up to us or anyone else to judge 🙂 You could always take singles you have and perhaps create your own Friends-inspired freestyle palette!