Zoeva Matte Eyeshadow Palette Review, Photos, Swatches

Matte

Zoeva Matte Eyeshadow Palette ($26.50 for 0.50 oz.) includes ten warm-toned, matte eyeshadows housed in a slim, cardboard palette. The eyeshadow formula is supposed to be “highly pigmented” and “easy to blend.” Overall, the eyeshadow formula was pigmented, silky, blendable, and long-wearing. It was an easy palette to apply, use, and wear, and the shades coordinated with each other well. It is going to work best for someone who likes richer, warmer shades along with matte finishes; it would also work as a complementary palette to a more shimmer-heavy palette to add more versatile transition and crease shades. There were two shades that could have applied better and been less powdery, though they were workable and if you normally use primer, the shortcomings were even less apparent.

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Nighthawks

Nighthawks is a light, yellowed beige with warm undertones and a matte finish. It had good pigmentation with a smooth, lightly dusty texture that applied well to the lid and did not sheer out too easily, so while it felt dusty, it never looked or acted that way in practice. This shade lasted for seven and a half hours on me.

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Urban Culture

Urban Culture is a muted, medium brown with warm, yellow undertones and a matte finish. The consistency was smooth, soft, and finely-milled but had substance, which helped it adhere well to bare skin with smooth, even, and opaque color coverage. The color wore for a solid eight hours before fading on me.

Through the Window

Through the Window is a vibrant, medium orange with warm undertones and a matte finish. It was richly pigmented with a smooth, finely-milled texture that was a touch dusty in the pan but applied exceptionally well to the skin–blendable and no fallout at all during application. This shade lasted for eight hours on me.

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Cheap Bar

Cheap Bar is a muted, medium-dark reddish brown with subtle, warm undertones and a mostly matte finish. The eyeshadow had a subtle sheen to it–not quite as flat or as matte as other shades in the palette–but was still fairly matte. It had rich, opaque color payoff paired with a soft, silky, and blendable consistency that was a touch dusty in the pan but not on the lid. This shade wore nicely for eight hours before fading.

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Lost in Thoughts

Lost in Thoughts is a light-medium brown with warm, yellowish undertones and a matte finish. It had good pigmentation that applied evenly and smoothly to bare skin. The texture was soft without being powdery, blended out with ease, and sat well on the lid. The color showed signs of fading after eight hours of wear.

Across the Street

Across the Street is a soft, buttery yellow with a matte finish. The pigmentation was mostly opaque, which was buildable to full coverage in a layer and a half. The eyeshadow felt soft, smooth but not dusty, and applied easily to my lids. It wore well for seven and a half hours.

Eerily Empty

Eerily Empty is a muted, medium brown with warm, orange undertones and a matte finish. It had opaque color coverage with a smooth, velvety texture that wasn’t too soft or too firm in the pan. I didn’t have any trouble blending out the color on the lid, and there was no fallout during application. The eyeshadow lasted for eight hours before fading on me.

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Chat Late at Night

Chat Late at Night is a rich, medium-dark reddish copper with warm undertones and a mostly matte finish. There was a very, very subtle sheen where it did not appear as flat matte as some shades in the palette did. It was richly pigmented, easy to blend out and work with, and long-wearing at eight hours of wear.

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Lonely City

Lonely City is a deep, reddish plum with warm undertones and a matte finish. It had semi-opaque pigmentation, which was buildable to opaque coverage in two layers. The texture was more powdery, though soft and finely-milled, and more prone to having some fallout during application if I wasn’t very careful about applying it. It wore well for seven and a half hours before fading on me.

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Two Clocks

Two Clocks is a deep, taupe brown with subtle, cool undertones and a matte finish. It had medium, buildable color payoff that could have applied more evenly to bare skin. When I used it as a crease shade, it seemed to apply and look better overall than it did when I tried patting it on the lid–I think the necessary opacity made it more obvious where it fell short. This shade wore well for just over eight hours on me.