Continuing with my Eyeshadow Palette Brand Ranking Series, we have Melt next! This was very tough because the quality is so similar across the board. It really comes down to color story for this one and how often I actually use the eyeshadows, not just look at them admiringly.
Melt Cosmetics Eyeshadow Palette Ranking: (Most Favorite to Less of a Favorite)
Being in the bottom three of something never sounds good, but I had very few issues with these palettes, save for Smoke Sessions. Melt Cosmetics is known for having, at the very least, a stellar matte formula. It’s a bit ironic that the most hyped non-limited edition palette from the brand is the one that is the worst performing on me. That being said, I still consider it a decent product. The reason it’s on the bottom is because it’s the only palette from Melt (in the rectangular pans) that had mattes that are stiff and took a bit of time to blend. The shimmers are not impactful without being dampened and are the only ones from Melt that give me any creasing. As for the color story, I love half of the palette and completely ignore the other half (the cool-toned blue-green shades). The first two photos at the top of the page were taken before I left the US. Because this particular palette is known for having the most problematic formula in terms of how long it can last before it goes bad, I was worried it wouldn’t last. However, I haven’t had any issues with any of my Melt palettes all this time. I consider myself lucky!
The Zodiac palettes have only the slightest lower matte quality than the top 4 in the ranking. The color stories are beautiful, but not unique, which is why I didn’t reach for them as often as the others. The shimmer quality of these is actually better, but having a good shimmer isn’t as impressive of an achievement as a good matte. These are the only reasons I put them lower. They just have so much competition in my eyeshadow collection that they are the last palettes that come to mind when I think to reach for some Melt shadows.
Mi Amor
I like the performance of the shimmers in the Amor y Mariposas palette more than the top 3, but that wasn’t enough to get the palette to be bumped up higher on the list. 4 of the 14 mattes take extra time to blend because they are pressed pigments. They aren’t shades I use that much, so it isn’t as strong of a negative point against this palette. The color selection is beautiful. The pans in this palette are the same size as the Zodiac ones. I had the idea to depot them into those smaller palettes a bit too late. As much as I liked the colors, I didn’t reach for the palette as often because of its large size and how I inconveniently stored it. I didn’t use this palette enough, which is quite telling where it stands with me.
The Top Three
The palettes in this category have all been partially depotted at some point during my ownership of them, and I’ve taken them traveling as part of custom magnetic palettes. In fact, the flatlay photo above shows which ones were taken from a previous trip.
Rust is a beautiful warm neutral palette. I love the mattes in there to use as the transition and crease shades for a starting eyeshadow look. I usually pair them with a Clionadh shadow or other special shimmer, duochrome, or multichrome shade from my collection. The reason it’s number three is because the shimmers don’t give enough impact, even when applied damp, and I have sealing issues with the shades Tarnish and Ravage.
I love purples, so it makes sense that I like She’s in Parties. However, it’s warm purples I prefer and this palette has a mix of both cool and warm shades. The matte quality is fantastic. The shimmer quality is fairly decent in terms of performance and with passable levels of sparkle. This palette has light and dark shades, but it’s hard to get something in the middle. I may not use She’s in Parties as much as Rust, but the quality is overall better. So, it ranks second best.
Gemini II has green shades that I adore! Almond Eyes and Matheo are some of my favorites from my entire collection! I can also get tired of pinks pretty fast, but the ones in this palette are the kind I love! Warmer pinks are great! The matte quality is superb, blendable, and pigmented. The shimmers are as good as it gets from Melt.
When it comes to using the Gemini II palette, I never use the pinks and greens together. Technically, that means I don’t consider it as cohesive of a palette, but I get a lot of use out of it by pairing it with other palettes and single eyeshadows. This gets the number one spot due to having the best quality and me liking every color in this one.
Another indication is that I only depotted Love Sick and Boy Mum, then took the entire rest of the palette with me when I moved! My most used shades from She’s in Parties and Rust came along in a custom palette as well, but the largest number of Melt eyeshadows came from Gemini II. The photo below shows all the long rectangular pan eyeshadows I ended up taking with me to Germany.
I created the custom palette as well with a mix of Zodiac Earth and Amor y Mariposas shades, but when my luggage went over the weight limit and I needed to leave some makeup behind, that one was unfortunately the one that had to stay back.
What can also be spotted are four Smoke Sessions shades. This is because those were my favorite colors from the palettes, but mostly also because I waited so incredibly long to buy that palette. I did not want to leave all of them behind. So, it’s a matter of principle and less about thinking I would miss them. My top three are the ones I would miss most because of the mattes. Melt’s mattes are within my top five favorite formulas of all time! It’s a shame I don’t feel the same way about most of their shimmers, but I have more than enough shimmers I love. It’s much harder to get me excited about mattes, which this brand certainly nails most of the time.
The final point I wanted to discuss is the acknowledgement that I have zero palettes from Melt that came out between 2023-2025. The only two that interested me were Smoke Sessions II and The Bride of Frankenstein. I skipped getting Smoke Sessions II because those are still not the kind of purples I wear often enough, plus my concern that the quality could be similar to the original Smoke Sessions that ranked last on my list. I would have absolutely bought The Bride of Frankenstein Palette if it was available to purchase in Germany. The only retailer I know that sells Melt Products is Purish, and they did not stock that one. I looked into international shipping from Melt’s own website, and it’s just too costly. So, only the future will tell if I ever get my hands on that one.
I took a long break from the Natasha Denona brand (since December 2022), but after purchasing the Yucca palette for half off, I wanted to continue my series of ranking all the eyeshadows from the brands whose palettes I own the most of in my collection. I’ve covered Pat Mcgrath Palettes, Huda Beauty Palettes, Oden’s Eye Palettes, and Viseart Palettes so far. Just like with Viseart, I’ve rearranged most of the palettes with removable eyeshadow pans. However, I’m familiar enough with them to be able to remember what they were like and rank them as they were originally intended.
Ranking List of All the Natasha Denona Palettes I Ever Owned:
Before we get into the rankings, I wanted to show the eyeshadow singles I got as gift-with-purchase freebies I got from Sephora. I wish they weren’t glued down so I could put them in a custom magnetic palette to save some space when I moved. Because I couldn’t without using my Z-Potter, I left them behind.
I didn’t own any of these shades already because they all come from palettes I was uninterested in buying.
Mini Gold Palette
This is very much my type of color story! The beige shade doesn’t show very well on my skin tone, but I still use it along the brow bone. This palette is cohesive and the look I created in the photo above is my default combination for daytime. For night-time, I use a lot more of the deep brown. For so few shades in this small palette, I don’t feel limited by the available choices. They all still perform beautifully, even though this is five years old. The mattes blend well, Dark Sepia and Antheia are very smooth, and D’or pumps up the intensity from satin to sparkly when added to the look. I don’t need to apply any of them with a damp brush. The Natasha Denona formula has gone through its changes over the years, and the ones used in this palette is my favorite performing type from the brand. I also love that it’s small because it makes me feel like I could actually use this up one day. It doesn’t take up much space and is easy to travel with, which I have done several times. Other than making Lodge slightly lighter, the fact that I wouldn’t want to change this palette is why it’s number one!
Metropolis Palette
The first picture has all the Metropolis shades, just not in the right order. The second picture is how I keep this palette with Metropolis and Bronze palette colors.
Other than Mini Gold, this is my next favorite color story from the brand. I have so many options, but I do end up with my favorite go-to looks as well. Although I replaced six of the shadows with ones from the Bronze palette, all that really did was give myself deeper orange and red shades. I essentially turned the Metropolis palette into something better suited for my skin tone.
This was the palette that ND seemed to have perfected the cream-to-powder shadows and my love for them really took off. They’re a few months short of five years old and still haven’t fully dried out. My lighter green and a brown shade require me to use my finger to get them out of the pan since they don’t pick up as well on most of my brushes, and one of the blues is nearly dry, but I still love this formula. I love the way it blends and looks on the eyes. It has a satin effect from sheen and not shimmer. The mattes and shimmers are perfect performers for my style. They’re pigmented, but still blendable. They’re smooth and nearly buttery feeling. They layer well on each other. The shimmers are impactful. They last all day. I don’t have creasing issues. To me, this is Natasha Denona’s best performing palette. The fact that I replaced some shades, and it doesn’t have something like Dark Sepia and Antheia (two of my all-time favorite colors from the brand), are the only reasons this ranks number 2. Realistically, it’s tied for the top spot.
Glam Face Palette
Even though this isn’t strictly an eyeshadow palette, I had to include this in the rankings because I really enjoy these eyeshadows. The only reason I left this behind in the US, which I regret, is the fact that the pans are glued in so I couldn’t have the eyeshadows without the blush and highlighter. I don’t mind the blush, but I hate that highlighter, and I kept forgetting to use this because I didn’t keep this palette with the rest of my eyeshadows. If the eyeshadows were in their own separate palette, it would probably look as used as Mini Gold considering how much more often I’m reaching for neutral eyeshadows.
The formula of these is good, but different from Metropolis and Mini Gold. There are no cream to powders. The shimmers are intense, but slightly less smooth with larger size shimmer particles. They’ve got more slip, so I get a little bit of creasing, but not too much. The mattes are pigmented, but a little less easy to blend. They don’t require a lot of effort, just more than their best performing ones. The end result though is gorgeous, which is why I still consider this a favorite.
Gold Palette
The shades I kept with me from the Gold palette are Dijon, Varis, Log, Lime Chrome, and Brass. I liked more colors from the Gold palette, but I had similar enough yellows, golds, and browns from other ND palettes that they felt less necessary to bring along. Lime Chrome is another of my absolute favorite shades from Natasha Denona, Log was used on my wedding day, plus Dijon and Varis are shadows I use at least once a month. So, it’s not surprising that I hold the Gold palette in high regard. The brand’s new Golden Palette is meant to replace this one and has 9 repeat shades, yet only Varis and Log out of the ones I saved are in there. I clearly didn’t mind going without the blues, but Lime Chrome was the single most important shade for me in that palette and it’s not in the new one. So, even if I hadn’t pumped the brakes on buying new things from the brand, I would have skipped getting it (even though it’s admittedly pretty to look at).
I believe Python, the deep blue, was the brand’s first creamy-matte or cream to powder eyeshadow. It still needed some work, as I felt it remained too wet. It didn’t blend as easily or smoothly either. The ones from Metropolis were such a step up.
The Gold Palette colors were a bit repetitive, but condensing it down to favorites made it worth having in my collection.
Bronze Palette
I was using this palette quite a bit, until I decided to swap around six shadows into the Metropolis palette. I feel like my changes still improved upon the Bronze palette, but it could have benefited from being condensed down. Unlike purples and greens which I could own plenty of in a single palette and be content with the various nuances, the subtleties of bronze and oranges and everything in-between couldn’t hold my attention. This palette is so visually appealing that I couldn’t bear to leave it behind, but I don’t love it enough to actually use it as often as I should.
The mattes are less creamy/buttery and more along the lines of smooth, soft, and powdery. I like the cream to powder, though the slight purplish color of it is an interesting choice. The shimmers are impactful, smooth, and opaque though, just how I like them. So, the quality overall isn’t perfect, but quite good.
My Dream Palette
Shortly after I bought this palette, I went on my brand strike. So, I didn’t have the chance to review it. Considering I took 8 of the 15 shades with me, one could assume I really love this palette. However, I mostly just wanted to be able to continue testing the palette with shades I might actually reach for when doing my makeup.
What drew me to this palette in the first place were the additional cream to powders, the purple heavy color story, Vision as a multichrome, and Invention as the stunning fiery orange. I like having smoky options like Blackest Black and Familia, although I left Familia behind since I was taking Log. Some of the colors I abandoned were because even though they looked different in the pan, they looked too similar to each other on my skin. The mattes performed similarly to Bronze’s mattes (so good, but not the ultimate from ND), and the shimmers were either the same or in some cases even more sparkly. Vision is pretty, but doesn’t has as strong of a color shift as I’m used to from indie brands. Blackest Black takes a bit more effort to avoid overapplying or not sticking to the skin well enough and looking patchy. Invention also didn’t look the way on my eyes that I envisioned. This doesn’t count against it, but I have to point out that the misspelling of spontaneous as Spontaneuos is a bit comical.
The pros for this palette put it slightly ahead of Bronze, put the cons count slightly more against this palette as well. The overall performance is most important, and because of slightly more technical flaws, this palette got nudged out of the top five.
Love Palette
The palette has a cohesive color story, but I took my top favorite shades with me, and unfortunately that combination doesn’t look nice together all in one look. The cream to powder in this one is on the drier side now, which is interesting since it’s one of the second to last ND palettes I bought. It’s always been on the sheerer side, but getting product out is tougher now. The mattes feel similar to the ones from the Bronze palette. The shimmers are beautiful as always. Based on the amount of eyeshadows I saved and how much I liked the Love palette as a whole, I couldn’t put this palette any lower. However, I have a lot of pink and purple palettes I prefer over this one (from other brands). Some of those were custom palettes I made myself using individual eyeshadow singles from other brands. So, I couldn’t put this higher either. Considering how pink and red heavy this palette is, it’s shocking enough that I decided to place it above Natasha’s other purple palettes. Purples are among my favorite eyeshadow colors, but the quality differences were too big to overlook.
My disinterest in most pink palettes is the reason I am not planning to buy the Roxa palette. I would love to try the new matte formula in that one, but there are too many light shades and pinks for my taste. The palette would have to go on sale for nearly 50% off for it to be worth it for me to purchase (beyond financial reasons is the lack of space in my home and not wanting to be wasteful).
Yucca Palette
My first thought when I saw this palette was that the color story was pretty, but I didn’t need it since I still owned the Colored Raine Safari palette (which is honestly even prettier). I also said if I ever was to buy it, it should not be at full price since I was unsure how much this could bring to the table over Metropolis, which I assert has a better color story and formula, over this one.
At some point the mattes from Natasha Denona strayed further away from the creamy ones I loved, to a silky drier one. It’s similar to the mattes in the Bronze, Love, and My Dream palettes except these don’t spread as easily. If we look back at my past posts, ND’s eyeshadows used to go on and on in a long pigmented opaque swatch. These mattes are still pigmented, but when I was trying to swatch them, they kept having gaps of no color. I had to swipe at least three times for all of them to get a complete line to show across my arm from left to right. Willow still looks terrible. The swatches don’t look that great in general even though I built them up a lot more than usual. Of course, swatches don’t tell the whole story, and it’s more important how the performance is on the eyes. Honestly, they blended fine, but it was far from effortless. They’re not bad, but something is just off in comparison to the quality from the brand I’m used to.
There are two cream-powder mattes in here. For some reason, Fushi is thicker in texture and Calathea has more slip. I prefer Fushi because it’s much easier to get the product onto my brush and smoothed onto my eyes. Calathea required more packing and effort. It’s also a different color on my skin than I expected by looking at it in the pan. I wanted a deeper and less muted shade, but I admittedly already have that in the Metropolis palette. So, I understand the brand wanting to offer something different.
The shimmers are the best aspects of this palette, aside from Fushi. They give impact. They have sparkle to them. They don’t fade. They have minimal fallout and don’t require being applied dampened. However, I noticed that these are sheerer than I’m also used to. I can see my skin underneath, which makes them not look the same way as I envisioned. For example, Plantasia looks like an orange-reddish-bronze in the pan, but I see more golden-yellow on my lids. In order to get a warmer tone, I have to fake it by putting an orange matte underneath so that color is what shows instead of the brown of my skin. The same goes for Makia that I expected to be antique gold-olive, but looks more lemon-lime. For more green, I have to put a green shadow underneath. Those two were the shadows I was most excited to have, besides the cream-powder ones, so I was admittedly a bit disappointed.
A surprise favorite ended up being Camu Camu for its near neon brightness. On the flip side, one of the biggest disappointments was Flax because it just isn’t deep enough to give me the depth level I require for my skin tone.
Despite this palette consisting of colors I typically enjoy, this ranked much lower because it’s as I feared. It doesn’t give me much different than I could get from Metropolis, plus the formula is less to my liking. It’s further away from my preference, which doesn’t make it necessarily a bad palette. Or at least, it wouldn’t be considered that bad if the blending time wasn’t longer.
I expect to continue using Ixia (it’s a wonderful orange), Fushi, Makia, Citrine, Camu Camu, Plantasia, and perhaps even Calathea. That’s slightly less than half of the palette, so the 24 Euros I paid via Selfridges is still alright with me.
Lila Palette
From this point and onward, I don’t have any of the palettes with me.
I thought for certain that this was going to be my most beloved palette. The shades on my skin didn’t look how I expected them to though, which is ultimately when I had the idea to swap some colors around. That unfortunately didn’t cause me to use this palette any more often because the matte quality was not as great back then. The older ND formula had some that blended quite well, some that were slow builders, and some that were straight up duds. They were rougher in texture too. The shimmers were more like satins because they weren’t as reflective as I prefer. I think this was more of a makeup artist driven formula than consumer-friendly one where shadows were easier to blend with color stories that were more intuitive for putting together.
This palette holds a place in my heart for nostalgic reasons and appealing to my purple lover side, but it wasn’t the brand’s best by far.
28 Purple Blue Palette
This palette is also nostalgic because I got it in one of Beautylish’s Lucky Bags. The euphoric feeling I got from taking the chance on spending a lot of money and “winning big” on such an expensive palette was quite the rush. The reality is that I’m really not a fan of blues, so this palette was half wasted on me. Influencers really hyped up this palette when the brand first came to Sephora US, and it was very good at the time, but not $200+ good. The mattes had that stiffer formula I mentioned in the Lila section. They were pigmented and required some effort to blend, though they were still fairly good. The shimmers were crazy pigmented, but didn’t have the sparkle intensity I love. It wasn’t bad, just not to my preference. I basically turned this into the “discard” palette of all the larger pan Natasha Denona eyeshadows I would never use (mainly cool tones, blues, and unneeded browns). By the time I decided I should probably sell it or give it away, the shadow quality just wasn’t good enough. So, I only kept it for nostalgia reasons.
Mini Lila Palette
I got this in August 2018. It’s definitely one of the weakest performing ND palettes of all time compared to the rest of the brand’s eyeshadows. However, it was still a decent performing palette compared to everything on the market. Even when I felt like I outgrew the palette, I couldn’t fathom giving it up because of that Blue Dahlia shade, which was such an uncommon color at the time. I have to give this brand credit for having specific colors that stand out to the point that I know them by name. Even among my favorites out of my entire eyeshadow collection, I have some palettes I love for the quality and color combinations available. Some of my favorites I still reach for a Clionadh shadow to add something special on top. However, Natasha Denona’s brand does have some special shades within their palettes.
For quality reasons and the one direction this palette can take me, it’s nearly at the bottom of this ranking.
04 Five Pan Palette
This was my first ever Natasha Denona palette, back in February 2016. I don’t know how many people even remember when she used to put her large sized eyeshadows in these 5-pan palettes for nearly $50. This was so similar to Viseart’s Minx palette, but Viseart did it better which is why I ended up selling mine on Mercari. I basically just wanted to try the formula and see what the hype was about. The only matte shade in here was an absolute dud. In fact, it was supposed to be a satin like the others, but mine had not a single bit of shimmer in there and trying to get it on a brush and get it to not look patchy was too great a task. The other colors performed the way all her older shimmers did, which was nice, but not my cup of tea. I think the brand made a much smarter choice when they switched to minis. People could talk about crushed pearls and diamond powder all they wanted, but if the customer isn’t over the moon about the end result, the price tag still won’t be worth it.
So, that is every palette I owned from Natasha Denona ranked! The way it currently is today, I consider this brand a maker of one of my favorite formulas for both mattes (older formula and cream powder ones) and shimmers, which is not something I can say often about the brands I use. Metropolis and Mini Gold would for sure in the top 20 eyeshadow palettes in my collection (if a list were to exist) out of the several hundred I’ve owned.
I have a long unstable history with Viseart, but the bottom line is that I own a lot of their eyeshadows and I continue to keep an eye out for new launches. Over the years, I kept curating my collection, only keeping the shades I felt were the most useful to me. When I was preparing to go overseas, I needed to evaluate which ones would have to stay behind, which is where the idea for this post originated.
The eyeshadows in the top left gold rimmed palette are my older ones that are more fragile. I excluded them from the custom palette, in addition to the Neutral Mattes that already had several damaged shadows from when I depotted shades from the older packaging to the newer Slimpro empty palette.
Below are the two custom palettes I curated. I couldn’t make just one because of the different pan sizes. Viseart currently has three eyeshadow pan sizes they sell.
Viseart has a lot of nearly identical shades, and some colors don’t look the same on my skin as they do in the pan. So, I had to swatch everything and choose the ones I liked the most. The color story in the revised Grand Pro 1x palette looks very heavy on the midtone neutrals, but that’s because I realistically don’t use a lot of the lighter colors. If I have one or two, that’s generally enough. However, the nuances between those various browns and pinks were so nice I couldn’t decide between them and decided to just take them all.
Since I had to analyze my collection and think about the palettes they were part of, I’m in a better position to be able to rank them in their original forms, similarly to the way I discussed my Pat Mcgrath Palettes, Huda Beauty Palettes, and Oden’s Eye Palettes.
Omitted from the ranking portion are the individual eyeshadow singles I bought, since they came from palettes I didn’t own in their entirety.
Ranking List of All the Viseart Palettes I Ever Owned:
Each of the thirteen above are linked to their previous reviews, swatches, or discussions.
Dark Mattes (purchased in January 2016)
This is my number one Viseart palette based on the original formulation and not the current Dark Mattes Slimpro palette. Viseart’s eyeshadow formula was always simplistic, but the original ingredient list used to include Octyldodecanol, Myristyl Lactate, and Isononyl Isononanoate, which are all emollients. I haven’t tried the current version of this palette, so I don’t know if it feels or performs in the same way. However, there was a period of time that I felt Viseart’s quality went down, so they’re not impervious to production issues. I think it would be a safe bet to guess that the original and new ones look and feel the same, but perform a little differently. It could still be good, but I don’t know from firsthand knowledge.
I loved this palette so much because of the gorgeous color story and insane blendability. It was my go-to Fall palette for so many years. The bottom row of blues and greens were a little less pigmented and took longer to blend, but overall it was a great palette.
After about five years, some of the shades eventually became hard to use (it’s only promised to be good for two years). I tried to replace it with the Dark Edit palette. Ironically, the Dark Edit is at the bottom of this list. Yikes! More on that later.
The remaining shades I still own from the original Dark Mattes were working extremely well before I left, particularly the oranges. Viseart’s orange shades set the bar that I compare to other brands. It’s similar to the way I consider Oden’s Eye an authority on greens.
Petit Fours – Violetta
This is among Viseart’s relatively newer palettes. Whatever quality/production/formula issues they seemed to have between 2020 and 2021 (allegedly) might have been over with by the time this was produced. To me, this is the most interesting color story the brand has released, or at least among the quads. For starters, it has a duochrome which is not a common feature among the brand’s palettes. Seeing the shade Verrerie next to all the other shimmers in my custom palette, one can see that the finish of it is different and it’s evident how much it stands out from the pack. Viseart also tends to love including brow bone shades and other light eyeshadows. For the ratio to be this high of dark colors is another uncommon, but very welcome, attribute. This selection of colors allows the user to truly be able to take a look from daytime to nighttime. It can go from relatively light and ethereal to deep and dramatic. Each shade is distinctly different, yet they all pair well together. It was a holiday release that gives me Christmas vibes reimagined without the use of straightforward reds or greens.
In terms of performance, it’s their best shimmers yet. There’s no creasing, fading, or any other kind of longevity issue. The only reason this isn’t in the number one spot is because it’s the newer of the two. It hasn’t stood the test of time like the Dark Mattes palette, and there is less variety purely because of there being less shades. If you’ll allow me some leeway, we can consider this quad tied for first. The best part is the fact that what’s available online right now should still be the same quality as the one I own.
Bijouxette Étendu
This was another unusual release because of how colorful it is, and not being filled with a ton of light shades. There was a time when I loved having a neutral matte crease and outer corner paired with a shimmery lid shade. This palette is perfect for that style. Creating looks within the same color family is possible, but I think the second best style option is to go for pairing multiple colorful shades together. I love the combinations I showcased in my initial review for Bijouxette. Back then, I called it a jewel-toned rainbow palette, but I want to add that it also has a tropical flair.
The mattes are very pigmented, but blend and layer well. They’re buildable and long lasting around the eyes. The shimmer finishes are a mix of the semi-toned down ones Viseart is known for, combined with ones that are more impactful and intense like in Violetta. However, the level of smoothness makes these shimmers the best Viseart has done (out of the ones I’ve tried), tied with the Violetta shimmers. I’ve always been impressed that they are smooth without having a dimethicone slip to them that other creamy/buttery formulas often have, which means I don’t have to deal with creasing.
This palette is a little bolder than what I reach for most often, but it’s one I have no regrets buying and I’m still happy I purchased it.
Petit Pro: London Étoile
This is very much my type of color story, and the quality is great (though Brixton takes more effort to blend than the other mattes), so this was bound to be rated highly. It has a range of depths among the neutrals and sophisticated colorful shades. It doesn’t offer a ton of variety, but enough to keep things interesting. The colors in here can be duped by other shades in other palettes from Viseart, but it was nice to have it all curated in one place. This is why I didn’t include the shades in the small custom palette. I would rather bring the whole thing, in the pre-arranged colors, during the next wave of products I return with from the US. When I’m in a very specific mood fighting between my desire for something demure, but still wanting my eyes to be the star of my makeup look, this is when I want to use this palette the most.
Petit Pro: Soleil
The purple shade in this palette is a little rougher to the touch, drier, and takes a bit of blending, but it’s a pretty color. The thing is, Viseart has made so many shades that look identical to it or near enough to duping itself, that it’s not as special. While the shimmers were a little more unique to Viseart at the time it was released, I also have similar colors from other palettes of theirs. That just leaves the cream matte (very replaceable) called Patile and bold yellow called Pastis, which is hard to build up adequately on my eyes. Although this was a likeable palette at the time that I originally owned it, I don’t think it’s as interesting anymore, beyond being a handy supplemental palette for travel. The options give strong sunrise and sunset vibes, making me think even more about vacations when I look at the color story. In terms of quality, it’s quite good with the exception of the two laborious mattes.
Petit Fours: Peridot
I like the colors in this palette, but the matte barely shows on my eyes and the deep green doesn’t provide enough depth for me. So, I don’t think this is as successful as a quad. As a supplemental palette though, this has been more useful. At the time, this was a very good option, but I can name plenty of other green palettes by now that have more to offer. Even though the quality of this one is very good, other brands have matched theirs with the added benefit of other ingredients in their formula that make them feel smoother, softer, or creamier to the touch. This makes other brands’ shimmers a more pleasant experience since I tend to apply those with my fingers. For that reason, I feel that this palette should actually rank lower, but the quality prevents me from being able to do that.
Petites Shimmers Coy
I was so enamored by this color story because it represents the shimmering nature of fish scales, colorful koi fish, and whimsical spring time. These eyeshadows are thinner and sheerer than the brand’s usual shimmer shades, making them well suited for producing a watercolor effect on the eyes (which is not my usual preference) or like toppers because the sparkle level was turned up a notch on some of the shades. They are so beautiful to look at that I forgot the most important thing about a palette is to choose one with colors I would actually wear on my face. Nearly all of them are light colors, I’m not interested in the cool toned shades, and I have to spray them to get the opacity level I’m used to. Plus, there are no true mattes. This palette really isn’t for me, which is why it’s lower. However, the great quality is undeniable and the eyeshadows work in the way they were intended, and can even be used in other ways for those willing to put in the effort. So, this palette doesn’t deserve to be anywhere near the bottom.
Theory II Palette- Minx
I’ve shocked and surprised myself in numerous ways regarding this palette. For starters, I could have sworn I reviewed it, but I can’t find details of it anywhere. What I had instead was a review of Natasha Denona’s large 5 pan (#4), which was extremely similar to Viseart’s Minx. I purchased Minx a month after that review and felt that the quality was even better than Natasha’s. So, in 2017 I decided to sell my ND quint on Mercari (my first sale on the app). In those days, these palettes had too simple of a color story for my tastes and I didn’t need two near identical palettes. I still ended up selling Minx a month after selling Natasha’s. However, I have to say that based on my preferences now, I would have appreciated these colors a lot more today. The brand made it so simple for consumers and professionals alike giving a light, medium, and dark shade plus corresponding shimmers. This was still during the time when Viseart’s eyeshadow quality was so good. The blend and ability to layer the colors together was great. Viseart’s shimmer level was more in line with my past, as a former lover of satins, but they were still pigmented and nice. They reminded me of the shimmers from Melt Cosmetics. In fact, both brands are notoriously not complimented on their shimmers. However, whether I like them or not varies from palette to palette. This was a better palette than I’ve given the brand credit for in the past.
Neutral Mattes 01
This is where the rankings start to get really tricky. I purchased this from Boxycharm in the original square packaging, but I can’t confirm if it was made in the current formula or if it was the last of older stock. I don’t know if I’m remembering correctly that the Viseart shadows still had a packaging change within the square shapes before they were replaced by the SlimPro palettes. In any case, the quality is actually very good, so I’m going to guess it was in the original formula. My biggest gripe with this palette is that the colors look way too similar on my skin. The first row looked like white, two off-whites, and cream. The middle row had a brown that didn’t look as deep on me as it looked in the pan, an orange, an ashier brown that looked similar to the deep one, and another brown that swatched cool toned grey with a splash of brown. The final row had black, blue-grey, regular grey, and another brown grey that had more grey in it. This was supposed to be my ultimate neutral palette. Had the eyeshadows looked true to color on my skin, it would have been. However, this palette could be boiled down to five colors: a light color, brown, orange, grey, and black. I always used the same shades, so the remaining seven were pointless to have. The only reason this palette is still in my collection in its entirety is because they’re too fragile in their depotted state to be sold. Objectively, on people with different skin tones, perhaps this palette is true to color. In that case, I can see why it’s Viseart’s best selling palette of all time. It even looks normal on the dark arm photo on their website. However, this palette was too repetitive to be considered worth the price, had I paid full price for it.
Grande Pro 1x
The quality in this palette is inconsistent. I went extremely in-depth with the positives and the negatives in my original review. The short version is that many of the darker shades were stiffer and harder to blend. The light and mid-toned colors were thinner and worked better, but needed to be built up a bit. Columns 3-5 were perfect. The vibrant eyeshadows were the toughest to use and driest feeling, with the exception of the orange (Pumpkin). It’s no surprise because the brand really nails oranges. The performance being all over the place is why I couldn’t rank this higher. I appreciate that I get more variety in this palette than the Neutral Mattes and I can essentially replicate those colors by using the shades in this one. However, the better performance is why Neutral Mattes is higher.
Warm Mattes 10 SlimPro
I didn’t have this palette long enough to review it or even take a photo. I kept six shades and sold the remainder in a custom palette. I don’t know what I was thinking when I got it. It seemed like a good idea in theory because I like warm shades, but it was just too repetitive for how the colors looked on my skin. It was in the current formula and still good quality, but not as useful as I hoped. The Neutral Mattes had various depths from light to dark. In this palette, the darker options didn’t go as deep as I needed. Considering I could also recreate some of those looks from Warm Mattes using Grande Pro 1x colors, and at similar quality for those particular shades, this had to drop lower in the rankings.
Boheme Dream
I kept seven and sold five of the eyeshadows from this palette. It wasn’t a surprise though. The pinks, silver, and light blue were never of interest to me, which is why I held off on buying the palette for so long. So, I intentionally purchased it on sale with the plan to recoup some money by selling the ones (in unused condition) that I didn’t want. I had no issues with the quality of these eyeshadows. The reason this ranks lower is because the overall color story was less cohesive and more of a supplemental palette. In addition, the Viseart older shimmers are decent but make the palette even more lacking for me with the absence of mattes. Even though I kept one more shadow from this palette than the Warm Mattes, I think the matte formula is more impressive compared to many other brands than their shimmers are to other brands. So, by default, it took position number 12 on the list.
Dark Edit
The same issues I had from Grande Pro 1x regarding blending the dark shades and showing patchiness on camera rather than real life were happening with this palette too. The purples and black matte specifically were so annoying to try and look non-patchy, smooth, and stay adhered to my eye area, that it put me off buying Viseart palettes for a very long time. It is overall the worst performing palette from them I own, and the only one I would say is actually objectively bad. There’s something wrong with the way my batch was formulated. There were more duds than good ones. The bottom row of shimmers were the only ones I could call great or good. It’s such a shame because I think this selection of colors is even better than the Dark Mattes because it gets rid of the blues I didn’t use often and had the benefit of including shimmers, so I could make a complete look. However, I knew immediately when I made this post that Dark Edit would be at the very bottom.
That’s the end of this ranking! I hope it’s been helpful, though it’s admittedly tricky recommending things from Viseart when the old and new eyeshadow ingredients are not the same. Their eyeshadows are not one of my top 5 favorites anymore, but I’m still interested in seeing what they release and I continue to be curious about their launches. For those interested, but wary about the quality, I recommend trying to catch one of Viseart’s sales. Sometimes they have select palettes up to 60% off, though a 40% discount applies to more palettes during their sales. It’s how I ended up with so many from the brand.
Not pictured above, but will be included in the rankings, is the Stone and Rock Palette.
I unofficially started an eyeshadow ranking series for the brands whose palettes I own the most of in my collection. So far, I’ve done this with Pat Mcgrath Labs and Huda Beauty. Today, we’ll be doing it with one of my top ten favorite eyeshadow brands: Oden’s Eye.
Each of the thirteen above (excluding #11) are linked to their previous reviews. I did many eyeshadow looks already, so anyone looking for that kind of inspiration specifically can click there.
I’d also like to note that even though there has to be something that falls in the worst category, the quality of these palettes is so good that I don’t hate any of them. #13 is there purely for preference reasons, and if I had to assign a grade for #12 in the USA grading system, it would be within the B- range, which is still quite good.
Disclosure: I am not affiliated with this brand/company. All opinions are my own and every palette was purchased by me with my own money. The links in this specific post are regular non-affiliated ones.
Top Three
I mentioned in my October 2022 low buy series what my top four were, and my thoughts haven’t changed. For a while, numbers one and two were nearly tied, but by now I have solidified my opinion on how they rate for me.
Because I typically use this palette in conjunction with Clionadh singles, I didn’t have many eye looks showcasing using this palette by itself, so I decided to add some here.
Looking at the state of my palette, it’s clear that I reach for specific shades mainly: the entire first row, Snow Man, Best Wish, Little Star, Gingerbread, Happy Ending, and Santa Star. The greens, duochromes, and neutrals in here allow me to create some of my all time favorite looks. Colors like Best Wish aren’t prevalent in my collection, so I have some unique options, and the palette layout’s color combinations inspire me. In addition, this is the brand’s best quality with no duds. The number of times the brand had to bring this and the Christmas Eve palette back is a testament to how good they are and why they’re so sought after.
In the purple eye look photo, you’ll notice I have a purple matte in the crease that I created using a blue and red shadow. That’s one of the things I love about Oden’s Eye, that their shadows are so blendable and layer well with each other, that I can do certain tricks to get even more use out of this palette. I really can’t stress enough how much this palette inspires me and how often I think about using it, even while testing other palettes and wishing I could incorporate some of the shades into whatever eye look I’m creating at the time.
I don’t think I ever want to have to rank my entire eyeshadow collection, but I know that if I did, this palette would place within the top ten. I don’t know where exactly it would fall on that list, but it would be somewhere among the cream of the crop!
Red Dragon (Legendary Diversa Group 1 Round 1 w/Judy)
Considering the number of beautiful greens, neutrals, and specialness of the duochromes that make up this palette, it’s no surprise why this was such a close contender for first place. I don’t care so much for Fire or Dragon, but everything else is a color I continually reach into this palette for. I’m a colorful eyeshadow lover at heart, and this palette gives me soft and more toned down colors than the Merry Christmas palette, which is why it took second place. It’s my dream version of a neutral palette, but slightly less inspiring. I can name a lot of other neutral palettes (or neutral palettes with pops of color) that I love, so it’s the shimmers in particular that helps this one stand out from the pack. Solar Flare is a particularly stunning shadow, and I really like Luna as well.
The quality is once again top notch. It’s not a perfectly performing palette since Aurora is still hard to layer with the other shadows and if I don’t want the look to be too soft, it takes some time building up the mid-tone shades. However, softness is a preference thing which could make the palette closer to perfection for someone else than it was for me.
The Urd Mini Palette (Norn’s Collection)
Following the theme, I love greens and I like having a neutral shade in the crease or to deepen up/add smokiness to the look (which is fulfilled by Past). This is why this palette is in third place. I love the shimmer level of Luxury and the tone of that dark green. Nostalgia is the kind of murky green I like, similar to Matcha Cookies in the Merry Christmas Palette and Jade from Red Dragon. I’m not usually one who likes pastels, but Memory works well. I rarely use the shades in the center, but they are additional options. At one point, this was my most used Oden’s Eye palette that I enjoyed bringing along while traveling. This was my ultimate small mini green palette for years until it got upstaged by the Natasha Denona Mini Gold palette. Since I got Mini Gold, I rarely use Urd anymore.
Because I can technically get a similar look from the two previously discussed Oden’s Eye palettes, and those other ones have extra shade options, I had to rank them higher. Also, the quality of Urd is very good considering this is technically the brand’s “older” formula. Their newer formula is a bit softer and a touch easier to blend.
Christmas Eve (Original Release Holiday 2022)
At first glance, this doesn’t look like the kind of palette I should like because of the number of cool toned shadows, especially the blues. However, something about the arrangement of the colors is very inspiring. It still has a green and some neutrals to appeal to me, but it also has those stunning golds and purples. This is the palette I think of in the rare instance that I actually want to incorporate some blue into my looks because I’m more likely to use deep blue or duochromatic ones, both of which this palette has to offer. When I feel like I’m wearing too much of the same look, I have this palette to break me out of that.
Again, the quality of this and the Merry Christmas palette have yet to be topped by any other Oden’s Eye palette. This is why, despite it not being my usual preference in colors, it deserves to be in the highest percentile for the quality. Because I use the Natasha Denona Mini Gold palette more than the Urd palette, it left room for Christmas Eve to be more used by now than Urd!
Norn’s (Norn’s Collection)
This is a bit nostalgic because it’s the color story that enticed me to try Oden’s Eye products in the first place. It’s no surprise that I like it considering the whole bottom row of duochromes, it having Pink Chameleon as a multichrome, there being greens, purples, and neutrals. It has so much of what I love, which is ironically a partial hindrance. It’s easy enough to mix colors with neutrals, but if I want to use two different color families or a two-tone look, these colors don’t all go together. I’ve done blue-purple looks and red-orange looks, which sound like they should work, but I didn’t like how they turned out. In addition, even though there are many colors I like, if I want to do a monochrome look there aren’t enough purples to complete it the way I would want it to look (unless I do some mixing like the photos seen below). For my green looks, I’m missing a midtone green shade. As sparkly and pretty as Amber Palace is, I’d prefer a smoother and less flaky gold shadow so I could use it in my inner corner. So, I love the colors and it’s a good quality palette, but it is a bit challenging to think up cohesive looks in the beginning. By now, I’ve used it enough times that I have my go-to looks for this palette.
Also, even though it doesn’t look the most used, it’s simply a matter of needing to test other palettes and being unable to use this more due to time restraints. This is not a palette I’ve ever forgotten and at least every few months I say to myself, “I should use Norn’s again.” For all these reasons, it had to rank highly. I even bought the updated formula so I could have it here when I moved! That’s why I chose to do eye looks below in order to test the quality and make sure that I liked it as much as the old one, if not better. Thankfully, it is a little bit of an upgrade, though Outsider is still not the easiest to blend.
Hela (Oden’s Eye x Angelica Nyqvist Round 1)
This palette has greens, but they lean a lot more yellow or blue toned than standard greens, which makes them less my preference. However, they’re still pretty. Goddess is a shade I rarely use, but in combination with the other shades, I’ve been able to make some really pretty looks. This color story makes me think partly outside the box and partly within my comfort zone, which I can at times appreciate. Angie intended for Hela to benefit both color and neutral lover’s alike, and I think she succeeded in that. It explains why this palette appeals to me so much, though I can get intimidated by the color story and sometimes don’t want to rise to the challenge in coming up with a look. The quality is fantastic, but because it’s 50/50 whether I want to use this palette or reach for another one instead, it’s place in the middle of the pack seems about right.
Hummingbird (Legendary Diversa Group 1 Round 1 w/Tina)
Visually, this palette stands out the most and is what I consider the “fun” one. It’s colorful and tropical with that beautiful multichrome called Fancy. I don’t choose this palette as often as the others because a fourth of these shades are blues, which I rarely use, and I don’t like how the Star Apple shade is formulated and looks on my eyes. It’s the only eyeshadow that is time consuming to blend, whereas all the other shades are really great quality. While I appreciate the vibrancy of the shadows, it’s hard for me to use this as a standalone palette. This is a major factor as to how I like it so much, and why I recall it so fondly in my memory, yet it still managed to rank at 7th place. I think a palette like this is useful to have in one’s collection, even as a companion palette. However, if I’m ranking things based on each palette’s own merits, I can’t position it any higher.
Giant Wolves (Legendary Diversa Group 1 Round 1 w/Annette)
To this day, I still have mixed feelings about this palette. The quality is fantastic, minus Hati which was the shade that needed to be repressed because it was impossible to get product out of that pan. This color story is appealing to me visually, but not as much to actually use. I’ve been able to make interesting and pretty looks in the past, but they’re a bit edgier than I’m into now. The top row and Desolate are the main reasons I reach for this palette, but I just keep using Merry Christmas or Red Dragon’s greens instead and forget I also have green options in this one. If I want a bright pink, I reach for the Hela palette instead of Ablaze. I don’t want those blues in the bottom row and I have plenty of grungy greens like Antipode by now.
The first four shades in this palette are similar to what’s in the Stone and Rock palette, but I can at least say I’d choose to use Giant Wolves’ version over Stone and Rock. I still like Desolate more than Cheer, and Sköll is like a way more exciting version of Splendid as a deep plummy blue-purple duochrome rather than dark gunmetal. So, although this palette is a little less unique, it’s still different enough to be worth keeping. I don’t think I’ll be getting much more use out of the palette, but I’m not ready to give up on it just yet.
Flora Story (Legendary Diversa Group 2 Round 1 w/Amanda)
The eyeshadows in this palette feel a little different from the brands other eyeshadow formulas I’m used to, and this could be at the request of Amanda/MakeupJustForFun who Oden’s Eye collaborated with on this palette. I discussed this palette and each shade at great length in the original review. To sum it up, this palette is full of soft tones that are still pigmented. The textures are a bit different, the two matte greens look similar on my eyes, and Orchid isn’t formulated in the way that I’d like in terms of how it appears on the eyes.
As I started working on this blog draft, I realized that the eye looks I created in the Merry Christmas palette are just a warmer version of the looks I created for my Flora Story review. One of the things I praised this palette for in the past is that it added something different to my Oden’s Eye collection, but since I figured out how to recreate those looks, it dropped down to 9th place. I also would have said I’d keep reaching for this palette in the future, but I have my doubts now. I don’t think I’ll be bringing it back to Germany with me.
Trick or Treat (Oden’s Eye x Angelica Nyqvist Round 2)
This is a nice performing palette, even better quality (in my opinion) than the Flora Story palette. The only reason it’s ranking this low is because the colors I like in here are close to some of the shades in the Merry Christmas palette, but in the tones I prefer less. Because I have the Merry Christmas palette in a color scheme more my style, I will reach for that over this one every single time which makes this almost pointless to have in my collection. Admittedly, I wanted it for the palette artwork on the cover, plus to support Angie after certain individuals were being unnecessarily mean rather than constructive about this holiday release. I won’t get into it here as I harped on it quite a bit in my original review. There are some pretty shades in here, but I’m more confused rather than inspired by this color story. Since I prefer the Merry Christmas palette, I don’t see myself using this again unless something happens to my Luxury shade from the Urd palette. Then Crypt Keeper could be a substitute.
Stone and Rock Palette
There are so many Oden’s Eye palettes with phenomenal greens in them, which is why I only allowed myself to purchase this one if it went on sale during Black Friday (which it did and so I had it shipped to Germany). I thought that this would become my go-to green palette, but once I saw how they looked on my skin, I realized these aren’t the tones of greens that I love. Madness, Exuberance, and High Spirits are right up my alley. I still have to build up Madness quite a bit for it to be visible though. Cheer, Dreamland, and Frenzy make a nice combination as they share a blue undertone, but as I mentioned countless times that isn’t my preference. Frenzy needed to be applied damp in order to get on my eyes smoothly, and Cheer is a dark blue-green that’s easy to blend unlike Outsider from the Norn’s palette. Jubilance is pretty, but blends in too much with my skin tone. Gleefulness is beautiful in tone, but it’s not my favorite to use because it’s so flaky (and strangely wet feeling in the pan compared to the other shimmers). Passion is slightly smoother, but still a little flaky. Cheerfulness looks light green in the pan, but the tone is more blue than I expected! It’s a smooth shimmer, but with some shimmer particles that are randomly bigger than the others. I didn’t need to apply Cheerfulness or Lightheartedness damp, nor High Spirits which was bound to be different since it’s a multichrome. High Spirits is truly smooth in texture and reminds me of Clionadh’s Jeweled Lite multichromes (based on photos online). Splendid is more like a traditional shimmer. It’s not as fine in shimmer as High Spirits, but it’s not flaky like most of the others. All of these shimmers have the amount of sparkle I like, but the downside for me is that they’re sheer. I can see my skin from beneath them unless I put a matte shade on the lid first. I tend to not like shimmer topper eyeshadows, and though these aren’t technically “toppers,” they’re still less opaque than I want. I also don’t get a strong enough green tone in them, considering this is a green palette, unless I put High Spirits on top.
I like that there are neutrals in here and a gradient of options from light, medium, to dark. That makes it a cohesive palette. This palette leans more cool than warm, which is not my favorite choice, but I’m sure many people would love that aspect. Elevated works nicely as a deepening shade, which I prefer over Passage. Black shadows can be tricky to find a balance between making an impact, but being buildable so it doesn’t immediately overpower a look. Passage isn’t the best, but it’s not the worst either.
Since this palette is said to be “richly pigmented” but also can be “…soft and natural,” I’m going to assume the sheerer shimmers was an intentional choice and not a downgrade in quality. The overall performance is pretty good, but I couldn’t help feeling disappointed by my own mistake of not realizing this color story of greens is intended for cool toned green lovers and not me. Among my entire eyeshadow collection, this would probably fall in the middle. It’s only because there’s such tough competition among the Oden’s Eye offerings that it landed this far down.
The Bottom Two
Solmane II is an admittedly very pretty color story. The pastels work well for me, which isn’t easy to accomplish on those with dark skin. However, I’m still not the biggest fan of wearing blues on my eyes, so the entire first row is a miss for me. The darkest shades in this palette are a little harder to blend than the usual Oden’s Eye quality I’m used to, but they get a passing grade. I like warm purples rather than cool purples, so even the middle row isn’t my favorite. Ironically, the oranges are my favorite aspect of this palette. It’s ironic because Oden’s Eye tends to do too straightforward of oranges for my taste, without much nuance, yet this is the palette in which I think they did oranges better. So, because the quality is alright (rather than fantastic) and the color story isn’t fully my preference, this is why it’s nearly last in my collection. I still don’t think it’s a bad palette, and if someone wanted to buy it, I wouldn’t dissuade them. I’ve certainly had worse from other brands. This one just isn’t for me and I don’t plan to use it again.
Cat’s Breath is in the bottom because I just cannot get myself to use this palette! I’ve only done a few looks with it and didn’t even complete a wear test because I didn’t like how they turned out. We’ve got the blue, a pastel, light cool toned silvery shimmers, and a standard orange: all things I dislike for eyeshadow colors. White Peach and Cat Hair are the only two colors I like, but Cat Hair is a tone of brown that doesn’t show on my eyelids. So, I haven’t been motivated to give this a thorough testing despite owning it for well over a year by now. I just wanted it for the adorable art design. This palette is also in Oden’s Eye’s older formula. It’s discontinued, so I especially don’t feel a reason to properly test this palette. It’s a collection piece and nothing more, which is why I had to mark it last.
And that is the end of this ranking post! If I was forced to do some spring cleaning, I would keep everything in the top 8 and declutter the rest. Of those at the top, I still need to bring over Hela, Hummingbird, and Giant Wolves. If it wasn’t for the baggage weight limit, Hela at the very least would come with me in the move.
I buy a lot of eyeshadows from Pat Mcgrath, but they don’t always stay in my collection. When I recently had to choose which palettes to bring with me during the first wave of me moving overseas, and which products would have to wait until another time, I still ended up leaving some of the higher ranking palettes behind purely because of the brick-heavy packaging.
Today, I thought it would be fun to discuss where I would place all the quads and palettes I once owned if they competed head to head!
The Disappointments (Ranks 19-16): MTHRSHP Velvet Liaison, Mthrshp Mega Celestial Nirvana, MTHRSHP Rose Decadence, and Pat Mcgrath x Star Wars MTHRSHP Dark Galaxy
It’s strange to consider Velvet Liaison the lowest ranking palette because the quality is actually good. From my subjective perspective though, nothing else could be lower because this is the only PML palette I never had enough interest in to review, didn’t feel the need to bring it with me to the US, and haven’t felt compelled to use now that I’m back in Germany.
It being an all-matte palette instantly makes it a supplemental palette that doesn’t stand on its own. I always need a shimmer in my eye looks. The shades also don’t go together for me in a way that I would be satisfied with using on its own. The lightest color is also quite stark looking on the eyes but fades from my inner corner (where I’ve used it) fairly fast.
These mattes are smooth, blendable, and pigmented enough if I use the deep brown in everything, but I just can’t be excited by the color story. I bought this because it was deeply discounted and I didn’t have many palettes while I was on vacation, so shipping it to me made sense. The overall launch of the three palettes just wasn’t exciting either though. So, even though I think it’s better quality than the next palette, I’m rating it lower.
It’s weird to say, but I was feeling guilty about not buying Celestial Nirvana considering how much I’ve gone on and on about wishing the brand would make more colorful palettes (and especially including a green). The thing is though, I meant for the Motherships and MTHRSHPS. The Mega MTHRSHPS are a good deal for the customer for shade variety, but the bulky packaging makes me never want to reach for them, especially since this is even heavier than the first one they released. There also seems to be a difference sometimes in quality between the brand’s palettes made in Italy versus the US. I eventually bought this because swatches I saw looked so nice and it was deeply discounted at the time, but this doesn’t live up to the brand’s normal quality which makes the cost not as great of a deal. As I mentioned in my review, these are super pigmented (minus the neutral mattes), the mattes are more difficult than usual to blend (especially the purples), and the green I wanted so much was a complete dud. When I return to the US, I’m considering depotting some of the shimmers and decluttering the rest of the palette. It just isn’t worth bringing over or even trying to sell to be honest. At least, not when there are sixteen other palettes I liked more than this one.
Rose Decadence is a pretty color story, but I just couldn’t be excited by it. This was released during a time before the brand had any blushes, so the ability to use the lighter matte as a blush color was the main selling point. If I had been able to get a decent enough return on the purchasing price, I would have sold it, but the resale value on this palette was very low. That’s the main reason I still had it, plus the guilt that I never gave it enough of a chance. The quality was good. I just wasn’t interested in pink at the time and the beautiful rose packaging on the outside was a big selling point, along with the price. This was also during the time when the brand didn’t have as many sales so I couldn’t buy the pricier palettes.
Dark Galaxy was the opposite. The resale value was high, but I kept it around for a long time because of the limited edition factor. The colors were pretty, but just not the kind of looks I was interested in making. When I realized though that the quality of Pat’s eyeshadows do diminish over time, I tried to sell it while the quality was still good so that someone else could at least get more enjoyment out of it than I could. Sometimes the collector side of me feels a twinge of regret, but I know I made the right decision getting rid of a palette I just wasn’t ever going to use again.
Like, But Will Never Use (Ranks 15-11): Blitz Astral Quad – Nocturnal Nirvana, Pat Mcgrath Labs x Star Wars (5 pan) – Divine Droid, Mini Eye Ecstasy: Subversive, MTHRSHP Subversive La Vie En Rose, Bijoux Brilliance (5 pan) – Lunar Nightshade
Nocturnal Nirvana was difficult for me to decide to sell. I loved the green in here, as well as the purple color, but the purple shade dried out and became hard-panned. It became impossible to use that shade, the yellow-gold was a bit boring of a color in the time period that I was getting even more interested in yellow and gold shifting multichromes, and I never wear aqua blue eyeshaows. It did not seem worth keeping an entire quad in that heavy packaging for just one eyeshadow. Plus, I knew I could use the funds to purchase a different quad instead, so I stopped regretting it. To date, that purple is the only baked eyeshadow from the brand that worsened in quality like that.
I said I would depot the mini plastic palette, but I never did. I said I wanted to get more use out of those shades, but I never did. I still stand by the quality and acknowledge the beauty of those colors, but the lack of mattes really kept me from reaching for it and the clear packaging both deterred me from wanting to use it while preventing me from having the willpower to destroy it to try and get those pans out. Getting this small palette at the reduced price of $14 was still much better than if I had purchased the full size Mothership Decadence palette. So, I don’t have as many regrets about how this palette got cast aside. Also, I’m not sure why this was called Mini Subversive instead of Decadence considering the shades are from the Decadence palette and don’t resemble the Subversive range at all.
Speaking of the Subversive range, this palette I actually got a decent amount of use from. The colors weren’t perfect for me since I’m not interested in light purples or vibrant pinks, but I was obsessed with that rich luminous purple! Plus, the other shades were nice too. It’s unfortunate that the time when I was starting to get the most use out of La Vie En Rose was also when the quality was starting to deteriorate. The shades started applying patchy, especially my beloved purple shadow, so that’s the main reason I stopped using it. The reason this palette ranks in 12th place, for something I used to love so much, is mainly because the quality didn’t last as long as some of my other products from the brand that I had for even longer. Plus, the color story isn’t as versatile.
Of all the new 5-pan palettes from PML, Divine Droid is my least favorite because of the lack of mattes, the aqua blue, shades of green and red I don’t wear as often as other shades of those colors, and the quality being slightly lower than the rest (as discussed in my review). Having it is like having a weaker version of Nocturnal Nirvana, but at a better price-point. So, it gets 14th place.
Lunar Nightshade looked so unique in promo photos, but it’s debatable whether this is better or worse than Kaleidos’ Futurism III Astro Pink. Just like that palette, as much as I was fascinated by the color combination, I rarely wear a look that that on my eyes. I don’t have complaints about the quality. It just ranks lower than the rest because of how much more I prefer the other four that I own.
Like, But Don’t Use Enough (Ranks 10-5): Pat Mcgrath x Star Wars MTHRSHP Galactic Gold, Mega MTHRSHP Celestial Divinity, Mothership IX – Huetopian Dream, Pat Mcgrath Labs x Star Wars Eye (5 pan) – The Golden One, Bijoux Brilliance (5 pan) – Bronze Ecstasy, Celestial Nirvana (5 pan) – Nude Allure
Unlike Dark Galaxy, I really wrestled with the decision to sell Galactic Gold. I loved every shade except the dark purple, but it was a matter of me being distracted by my other palettes that I didn’t reach for it enough. I could tell the quality was starting to go the way of the other six-pans, but I was so reluctant to let go of it. Even when Celestial Divinity was released with the same shades (but smaller) of both palettes, it still took me a while to have the heart to declutter it. As a collector, I still felt a sense of regret on and off for the next few years until very recently when the brand re-released the Star Wars palettes “from the Vault,” and instantly the coveted aspect of having a limited edition never-to-be-released-again product was gone. I’m finally free of regrets now that it isn’t as special from the collector standpoint!
The reason this had to at least rank number 10 is the fact that I still don’t use those shades in the Celestial Divinity palette, yet I was so overwhelmed by nostalgia that I almost bought the Vault palette! Remembering the times I did create looks I loved from this palette had that strong of a hold on me! The reason it’s not higher though is the fact that I use other palettes more and the quality of this one started to drop.
As for Celestial Divinity, the fact that it includes shadows from both Star Wars collab palettes, plus six unique shades in which two of them I really liked, is why it had to rate higher. If the quality of this palette is still good, it will come back to Germany with me in the second wave of products.
Huetopian Dream is a hard one to rate because I find the left six shades to be so boring, but they’re admittedly very pretty on the eyes. It’s better than the previous pink palettes because I have some really stunning golds and a non-baked multichrome to work with. It’s lower down on the list because of the high cost for colors that are repetitive for the brand, having only three baked shades (the ones that add to the palette cost) instead of four, and having two shades that tend to crease on me as I mentioned in my review. It’s still fairly new in my collection, so my thoughts could change up or down on this one.
Now, we’re getting to the palettes I actually brought with me to Germany because I couldn’t be without them!
Of the 5-pan small palettes, the Golden One’s color story is not very exciting, but I’m still obsessed with the non-shimmers in this one. They’re such a fascinating texture and looks nice on the eyes, plus golds will always be pretty to me (albeit at times boring). Needing to pair this with something that gives me more depth is why it doesn’t rank higher. Based on the colors alone, Huetopian Dream is technically more exciting. The reason this is above it is because it has less flaws.
Bronze Ecstasy gives me several depth options, plus has this stunning bronze shade that I find super appealing. The lack of variety of the colors is why it doesn’t rate higher, and that bronze that I love can be troublesome as I discussed in my review, but I haven’t used this palette enough, so there’s room for me to rate it higher as I continue to use it this year. I know I’ll get more use out of this palette than The Golden One in the long run.
Surprisingly, Nude Allure is not my usual type of color story, but every look with the palette is so pretty that I could not rank it any lower than 5th place! The sparkle colors in these eyeshadows make them so much more nuanced than a typical peach, pink, or purple. The addition of that matte ensures that I can do complete looks with this palette as well. It’s so good. I definitely want to use it more in 2024.
Most Precious (Rank 4): Mothership VIII – Divine Rose II
This is the only palette in my top 7 that I didn’t bring with me. I wanted to bring it desperately, but for one thing, it’s just too heavy. I could only make space for one of the big Mothership palettes, so this had to stay behind. Plus, this was my first time using a Relavel case in my suitcase, and I didn’t know if I would have any makeup packaging casualties on the trip, so I didn’t want to take the risk that this palette could end up damaged. Part of what makes this palette so precious and in a category of its own is the limited edition mirror pink packaging. The brand hasn’t released something like this since, so the exclusive aspect and inability to replace it (only in the standard packaging) bumps up the value for me.
I’ve used the pinks in here as blush before. I like the Sextraterrestrial multichrome in here so much that I didn’t feel the need to buy the Clionadh equivalent for years! That’s really saying something!
This isn’t my favorite color story from the brand, but I like enough of the shades that I continually want to use it. It’s literally only because I’m so scared of ruining the packaging that I don’t reach for it more. You better believe this is at the top of the list for things I’m planning to bring back with me next time!
Must Haves (Rank 3-1): Luxe Quad – Interstellar Icon, Celestial Nirvana (5 pan) – Bronze Bliss, and Mothership III – Subversive
This was the toughest category to rank because I love Interstellar Icon, but I don’t use it enough. I absolutely love Bronze Bliss, but it’s not a universally exciting color story. I technically have stronger emotional ties to Divine Rose II than Subversive, but getting more use out of Mothership III has been on my mind the most out of everything. In terms of color variety, quality, and packaging, Subversive has it all. I think it’s the best and most well-rounded of all the Pat Mcgrath palettes I own. That’s why I ultimately decided it deserves the top spot.
Interstellar Icon is the quad I purchased with the money I made from selling Nocturnal Nirvana. I’m not much of a blue lover, except for use on my lower lash line, so that’s a slight negative against it. The Blue Blood color is the same as from Decadence and the mini I own, so I used to reach for the mini to use that in my eye looks and keep this one as new as possible until the quality inevitably drops and this becomes the “fresher” one. Now that I don’t have that palette with me, I’ve started using this pan of it again. Divine Dahlia is my favorite shade in the quad and the reason I typically reach for this. Even though I feel like I don’t use this a ton, it’s technically still one of my most used Pat Mcgrath palettes. Also, when I think about favorite eyeshadows from Pat Mcgrath, this quad always springs to mind.
Bronze Blissis my favorite of the 5-pans and literally what kicked off my love of this new eyeshadow formula from the brand. The silver color in the center is one of the most stunning silvers I’ve seen, but it’s a little messy to use since it’s so much wetter than the other shadows. The black and two bronze shades are what keeps me coming back to this palette or constantly thinking about it when I want to create a neutral glam eye look.
Last, but not least, is Subversive III. I can technically make eye looks from this palette without needing to reach for anything else because it gives me light options, deeper options, colorful shades, and neutrals. For that reason, it’s one of Pat’s most well balanced color stories (and certainly of the ones I own). The way I do makeup, I still miss having a medium toned brown, but for that I just reach into my Hindash Beautopsy palette.
As one of the big older Mothership palettes, it has those special shades in the final quadrant that most of the brand’s fans love. This, plus the lux packaging, makes it closer to being worth the price. As great as it is, I still think it’s only worth it at 30% off or greater. Eyeshadow formulations have come a long way in the past decade, so for those interested in the palette for its actual quality, it’s hard to justify such a steep price. For those that don’t mind the upcharge for the packaging, multichromes, the eyeshadows being made in Italy, and other extra costs, the pricing makes sense for such easy to blend eyeshadows and refined look to them on the eyes. Despite how old my palette is (not as old as the originals since I didn’t buy it until years after it first released), the performance is still there.
RECAP OF RANKING FROM FAVORITE TO LEAST FAVORITE:
1. Mothership III – Subversive
2. Celestial Nirvana (5 pan) – Bronze Bliss
3. Luxe Quad – Interstellar Icon
4. Mothership VIII – Divine Rose II
5. Celestial Nirvana (5 pan) – Nude Allure
6. Bijoux Brilliance (5 pan) – Bronze Ecstasy
7. Pat Mcgrath Labs x Star Wars Eye (5 pan) – The Golden One
8. Mothership IX – Huetopian Dream
9. Mega MTHRSHP Celestial Divinity
10. Pat Mcgrath x Star Wars MTHRSHP Galactic Gold
11. Bijoux Brilliance (5 pan) – Lunar Nightshade
12. MTHRSHP Subversive La Vie En Rose
13. Mini Eye Ecstasy: Subversive
14. Pat Mcgrath Labs x Star Wars (5 pan) – Divine Droid
15. Blitz Astral Quad – Nocturnal Nirvana
16. Pat Mcgrath x Star Wars MTHRSHP Dark Galaxy
17. MTHRSHP Rose Decadence
18. MegaMTHRSHP Celestial Nirvana
19. MTHRSHP Velvet Liaison
Over time, for various reasons, my love of the Pat Mcgrath Labs brand has dropped a bit. However, the love of my top ranking products from them hasn’t dwindled. They make good products and their launches are something I still always pay attention to. I’m still plenty interested in what they have next, even though I buy things from them at a slower pace now.
That’s all for today! I hope to see you next week!
The full list of links to my various Huda Beauty reviews can be found HERE, but today I am also including mini reviews of the three palettes I purchased during the brand’s Pre-Black Friday sale for 2023. I’ll be sharing my initial impressions of the new additions to my collection. I would normally never include them so soon in a ranking post, but because my experience was so distinct, I don’t think my opinion on these will change with time.
Because the brand is having such deep discounts on the website, up to 80% off, I decided to post this early instead of my usual Mondays for anyone wanting to see additional opinions before making a purchase. For this reason, there will not be a post on Monday November 27th, but I hope to have another up the following Monday. There’s no guarantee as life is so chaotic right now (but in a good way)!
DISCLOSURE: Other than the Gemstone Obsessions palette that was gifted by Sephora and not Huda Beauty (and not even for PR reasons), I purchased everything else with my own money and I’m not an affiliate of the brand.
MY CURRENT HUDA BEAUTY PALETTE RANKING
Wild Obsessions Jaguar
Nude Obsessions Rich
Lovefest Obsessions
Naughty
Empowered
Nude Obsessions Medium
Brown Obsessions Toffee
Precious Stones Obsessions Amethyst
Brown Obsessions Caramel
Gemstone Obsessions
I wasn’t sure if I should include the Glowish quad since it’s technically from a separate Huda brand, but if I were to throw Moss into the rankings it would place at number 6 and everything else would be shifted down on the list. It doesn’t have impactful shimmers, but the performance is great. Because there are only four shades, I can only get two looks that I really like, whereas I can make at least a few more good ones with Naughty and Empowered despite all their flaws. So, if Moss was expanded into a 9-pan along the lines of the Nars Climax palette, there could have been potential for it to rank 4th place instead.
Jaguar reigns supreme because it’s the one I keep thinking about the most after reviewing it. It’s the one with a concise yet complete color story, and has great quality mattes and shimmers. Jaguar is specifically one I would love to get more use out of, but I’m constantly testing other palettes, so I can’t. However, I plan to change that in 2024. The Rich palette has the same great quality and a variety of depths to be able to make complete looks as well without needing to reach for other palettes. It’s like a mini of the Naughty palette without the unnecessary extras. Lovefest is like the other three, but shades 2 and 6 are too similar on me and although shade 3 is very eye-catching in the pan, it’s lower impact on the eyes than I want. So, it gets third place for being slightly more limited than the other two.
An eyeshadow looking more fun than it is useful is the theme of the two full size palettes I own from the brand. Naughty has exceptional mattes and beautiful shimmers, but some of the experimental textured shadows don’t quite work for me (like Slippery and Hard) and some of the matte and shimmer shades are a little too close to each other. This palette could have been edited down. For the same reason, Empowered is a bit lower because although the mattes are all fantastic, the right side has so many that look the same on my eyes because of my skin tone. We have more of those “innovative” formulas of shadows that work better than in the Naughty palette, but I didn’t necessarily want them in practical use. I go back and forth as to which of these two rank higher because I think Empowered is more successful with the formula and texture variety, but with the exception of the deep smokey look I can create from Empowered (that I can also get out of Jaguar), I think my eye looks with the Naughty palette turn out prettier. I ultimately decided for this list to choose the end result over performance.
The Medium palette earns the next spot because there isn’t enough depth for me to be satisfied. I’d need to grab another palette to deepen the outer corner of my eye looks, as is my preference. I know it’s called a Medium palette and is filled with mainly medium toned shades, but the Rich palette had the full gamut of options, so this one could have had at least one deep one as well. I’ll save the rest of my thoughts in the review.
I loved the look of the Brown Obsessions Collection, but I didn’t hear the best reviews for them after they launched. Because they were priced at such a good deal, I was willing to risk getting them in the hopes that people were wrong and they’d be just like the other Obsessions palettes, but they’re not. I’ll write more about the issues with Toffee in the review section, but it places here because of one specifically problematic shade and the drop in quality from the rest. Amethyst sneaks in between the two I own because it has a beautiful color story and I loved it at the time, but the newer Obsessions palettes have even better quality mattes and my deepest shade is patchy. Plus, I’m not into those tones of mattes. I loved satins a lot more in the time period that I first had Amethyst, but they’re just not as interesting to me now. It’s the three shimmers in the center column that make this palette still a good one even though I’ve had it for five years. Caramel is brand new (at least in when I purchased it though I’ve no idea if I have a newer batch or old stock), but I have even more problems with it than Toffee so despite it being one of the most beautiful color stories Huda has created in my eyes, it pains me to have to put it so low. And ranking at the very bottom is Gemstone which I received for free from Sephora ages ago as a thank you gift for being part of their beauty community forum before they changed the website and archived a lot of those past posts. There’s a reason I never bought this palette myself because even though the colors are pretty on an individual level, it makes no sense put together except as a purely supplemental palette intended to be used with other palettes to make cohesive looks. The shimmers in here are more impactful than the satins and metallics in Amethyst, but those center shimmers in Amethyst still so greatly surpass the Gemstone ones that I had to put this at the very bottom. The lack of mattes solidified this decision.
If my ranking of Jaguar is any indication, I would say it’s probably safe to assume the quality of the palettes in the Wild Obsessions Collection is excellent, though I can’t confirm it personally as I just have one of the three. I kept saying I wanted to get the other two, but the color stories just aren’t perfect for me, especially with the too-similar-of-tones problem. So, even though I recommend them most, one would have to ask themselves how useful will these tones and colors and formulas actually be? The same goes for the Nude Obsessions line, though I only have two of the three. They’re great, but did I really need them? This becomes even more poignant when it comes to the larger palettes with their various textures, formulas, and finishes. How much someone loves it is less of a quality issue and depends entirely on their personal preferences. For instance, the cream liner shades in Empowered work fine and could be a base for the duochromes, but it’s not so good if I need something that’s fully transfer-proof or something that’s easier to glide onto the lids to line them. So the pros for one person could be a con for someone else.
Huda’s newest palette, Pretty Grunge, looks gorgeous. However, I know it’s not perfect for me either which is why I’m going to pass on it and try to be more conscious about the future additions to my collection that I make from this brand.
Huda Beauty Nude Obsessions Eyeshadow Palette in Medium
I took the palette photo at night, and for some reason the shadows look darker in the pan than they should, so the photo just above the swatches is a more accurate representation.
Medium is a mix of light and medium toned eyeshadows. Shade 6 is the darkest in the palette, but it isn’t dark enough to give me the depth level in the outer corner that I prefer, so that automatically makes this a supplemental palette for me.
Shade 1 is close to my skin tone so it doesn’t show up very well, but the tiniest bit darker Shade 3 is the one I’d need to reach for as the transition shadow. 4 and 8 are the same depth with Shade 4 being slightly warmer and peachier pink whereas Shade 8 is a cooler pink. The matte quality is nice, but my options are limited.
The shimmers are pretty and thankfully don’t give me any issues with longevity. Because Shades 2, 5, and 7 are in the same color family though, I’m not getting wildly different looks. So, the combination of similar mattes with shimmers that are close enough, it really cements the fact that there isn’t enough variety for me as a standalone palette. The quality of this palette is good, but is in the middle of the ranking list specifically for these reasons.
Huda Beauty Brown Obsessions Eyeshadow Palette in Toffee
I think gold shades and warm tone neutrals are pretty, so I couldn’t resist this palette any longer. Shades 1, 3, and 9 are similar matte quality to the other Obsessions palettes, but not quite the same level, and I’m not sure why that’s the case. They’re a little more dusty in texture, but they blend well enough not to bother me. I just notice the slight difference. The pigmentation level is the same for all except Shade 5 which had to be built up in multiple layers to last on my eyes. This is still a better performing yellow than some in my collection that are usually made too thin and dust away, or are mixed with too much white base, so I’m not unhappy with it. The only matte that gives me considerable trouble is Shade 7, which is patchy. I had to tap on quite a bit of product to get it to cover the bald spot and by the end of the night I still ended up with it looking strangely. Because I still have Shade 3 as a deepening option, I can forgive Shade 7 being a bit of a dud. I also give props for having distinctly different matte colors.
From just swatching the shimmers, I correctly guessed which ones were going to give me the issue where it moves out of my crease line. Shades 6 and 8 resemble the standard Huda metallic-shimmers to the naked eye, but they’re more emollient feeling than the others. To be fair, they didn’t move or crease as much as I expected, but there was still a little movement. The amount I had at the end of the night was tolerable to me. However, some palettes don’t have any shimmers that crease on me, nor patchy mattes, so that’s why this is so low on the ranking list.
Shade 4 has a fun pattern and feels like a stiffer version of a Super Shock shadow, but the more it’s rubbed, the harder it gets compacted into the pan. I can already tell this shade is going to be tough to pick up on a brush or even my fingers in the future. Shade 2 is dry feeling and has visually interesting patches of larger particle silvery/white sparkles called a “pearl flake texture” that adds more drama and shine to eye looks. It doesn’t swatch the best, but looks super pretty on the eyes.
Toffee is pretty and workable, but I don’t really recommend it. Perhaps the current sale price of $9.60 makes a different, but perhaps not.
Huda Beauty Brown Obsessions Eyeshadow Palette in Caramel
This actually came in a “Caramel Brown Obsessions Kit” which had the palette, four mini liquid lipsticks, and a bag for $13.50. I’m just going to focus on the palette in this review.
This color story is absolutely stunning! It’s such a shame that the quality of this one is the worst of any other Huda palettes I own. It’s still not the worst palette I’ve ever used, but it doesn’t live up to the expectations I have for the brand’s eyeshadows. It was already difficult to pick up Shade 1 from the very first time I used it and swatched it, so that doesn’t bode well for future usage. Shades 2 and 6 are the metallics, but Shade 6 is way wetter feeling than the rest and it’s so difficult to build up. It looks pigmented at first, but when I try to smooth it out to create the shape I want in the outer corner, it fades significantly to the point where there’s hardly enough color left. So, I had to keep building it up. Shade 5 looks flakier than the metallics, and looks like it should be a standard shimmer, but it’s as creamy as Shade 1 and hard pressed as well, though I’m able to get decent payoff for now and it’s just a matter of time. Shade 7 has that fascinating pearl flake texture, but for some reason is wetter than that same formula shadow from the Toffee palette. Of course, all this emollience leads to moving issues on my eyes. In the demonstration photo below, I showed what it looks like 7 hours later, but it was noticeably looking that bad already when I looked in the mirror 5 hours in. It didn’t get significantly worse and I’ve still had worse performances from other eyeshadows before, but this one really disappointed me.
Part of the issue is that the mattes, which can help keep the area dry despite my semi-oily lids/crease, is that these particular mattes in the Caramel palette are all thin and don’t build all that well. It took me quite a few extra swipes to get a decent swatch of the colors in the swatch photos. I would normally do no more than 2 swipes for swatches, but considering this is one of the few palettes with mattes that don’t all look the same on me, I wanted to make sure those colors could be seen properly. At least, how the colors should have looked on me if they were able to build up since they’re thinner with less pigment.
I should note that I used the same primer with all three of these palettes, but the only one that has zero longevity issues for me is the Nude Medium palette, which supports what I heard about the Brown Obsessions collection being unequal in quality to my favorites from the brand.
I love this color story so much that I considered even bringing it to Germany with me despite the performance. However, I thought about my Natasha Denona Bronze palette and Metropolis. Between those two, I could very easily recreate this look. So, I’m leaving it behind.
That’s everything for today! I hope this has been helpful and I wish you a Happy Thanksgiving (if you celebrate it), Black Friday, and Cyber Monday!
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