I would need a good variety of eyeshadows, probably 10-12, along with three cheek colors, and a highlighter. I need some variety in color and finish! The palette would need to be cohesive within the eyeshadows included but also the eyeshadows as they relate to the cheek colors.
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If all in one includes face products as well, I’d like 4 to 6 neutral shadows (more would be nice too and so would one hit of colour), a blush shade that I can actually wear (I only need one – I don’t shift back and forth all that much and not at all between cool and warm shades) and one wearable highlighter (again, meaning cooler and also lighter). A liner pencil like Sephora Cappuccino or at least space for one would be a bonus. A finishing/setting powder would be nice and a cool toned lipstick or gloss – along the lines of MAC Craving or Clarins (DC’d) Raspberry gloss – would round it out perfectly. Of course, all of this is in an “ideal makeup world”.
It would all depend on what I intend to use it for. For travel, it doesn’t need to be more than 8-10 eyeshadow shades that allow me to go in several color ways , yet must be very cohesive. Ideally, it would give me 2 blush shades, one perfect highlighter and a contouring shade or muted bronzer. And while not necessary, if it did include one or two very usable [for me] good quality lip products, that would make it even better.
As for something I never bring out of the house? Hmm. Not sure I would be game, actually.
I don’t look for anything in all-in-one makeup palettes because the concept doesn’t interest me. If I were to take the idea seriously, I’d probably want something for travel, so … neutral-ish with a warm theme. Maybe two or three pops of color in the eyeshadows.
Okay, specifics: 3 matte eyeshadows light cream, warm medium tan, yellowed medium-dark brown (nothing too dark). Additionally, a satin or shimmer medium copper; a medium-dark, neutral, shimmery red; and a light, satin-y, greyed blue (just a whisper darker than my actual skintone). For face: a desaturated neutral peach blush; a pale (probably white-gold) subtle highlighter that’s super smooth with no sparkly bits; and a gold-based, medium-light, greyed brown contour powder.
Realistically, palettes just have powders and such, but if it came with eyeliners slotted in, I’d get a skin color liner (satin), a medium yellowed brown (matte), and a color identical to the blue eyeshadow I described above (satin) — all effective in the waterline, of course.
I would prefer my perfect palette to be a mostly cool toned palette with at least several matte shadows and a couple of pops of colour in a mix of finishes. I would again prefer a couple of cool toned blushes and a highlighter that is light enough for my skin tone. The finishing powder would be one that would not make my skin overly matte and of course, was very fair. Toss in a brown eye liner pencil and I could use that combined with a matte shade for my brows. I would like both a cool toned and a warm toned lipstick as I do like to use a warm toned lipstick with a cool toned eye shadow look and most important of all, I want my lipsticks housed separately from the powder products. That could mean a cover over the lipstick wells or two small bullet lipsticks housed in the pallete like a drawer or a well for them to sit in. I would like all of this by early summer when I start my travelling, please!!
First of all, I don’t tend to use ‘all in one’ eye and cheek palettes, generally because the cheek side of things is not the right shade for me – often they are pinky based. And that’s if I like the eyeshadows.
So, ideally, I would like an 8 pan of neutral shades, featuring a mix of satin and shimmers and two cheek shades, one peachy coral (no shimmer) and another more mattish highlighter in a soft cream shade.
An actual lipstick would be preferable to a lip gloss and the shade could be a lovely berry colour. An added bonus of a good mascara would be appreciated too.
A dream all cohesive to me would have three blushes one in pink, peach and light mauve. Three lipsticks or lipglosses in berry, blue reds, bronze, peach, coral and rose pink. One pinkish highliter, nude or peach. Don’t care for a mirror or brushes included but the range of colors to go with each other. Eyeshadows in purples, plums, bronze, olive greens, gold or rose golds and silver.
Mostly, I use all-in-one palettes for travel where space is an issue. The first thing I look for is whether it’s fair-skin friendly. I like 5-12 eyeshadows in a variety of colors and finishes (heavier on neutrals, though), and either one “goes with everything” nude blush or a pink and a peach blush, or all three. I prefer if it has either a fair-skin friendly highlighter or an eyeshadow that will double as an HL. If it includes cream blushes or lip colors, they should be separated from the powders.
I prefer a mirror. I don’t care about brushes, as they’re usually trash. I don’t care whether they have eyeliner, mascara, or lip products. I can put those in my purse makeup bag just fine. I prefer they don’t have bronzers (almost always too dark, shimmery, and orange), contours (usually too dark and warm), or colored setting powders (usually too dark).
BareMinerals The Magic Act actually is my favorite. It’s nearly perfect for me because:
*It’s not too dark for my skintone. There’s no useless bronzer or contour.
*It has a six-shade gradient of warm neutral eyeshadows in a variety of finishes.
*It has a plum-pink blush, a warm peachy-pink blush, and a rosy-brown nude blush. The perfect basic trio.
*It has a highlighter. I’d probably prefer a lighter, white-gold HL over Magic Act’s The Premiere, which is peachy-gold. The Premier works fine, though.
*It has a mirror.
*It folds up to be either really thin or really compact, depending on how it needs to be packed.
If I have more space, the BH Cosmetics Blushed Neutrals Eyeshadow & Blush Palette has a lot of variety and it’s thin and light.
I’ll often just pack a neutral-heavy eyeshadow palette that has colors that do double-duty for contour, blush, and highlighter rather than a proper all-in-one palette. Too Faced Chocolate Bon Bons works great in that capacity.