Sephora Breast Cancer Awareness Makeup Palette REVIEW & SWATCHES

Ok. This is crazy but I have been crazy for preloved makeup lately. It's one way to get an authentic stuffs with super MUCH cheaper price. That's how I got this palette :D . The real price should be around USD 49.95 with free shipping in Amazon, and it's no longer exist on their website. But some blogs such as http://www.hellomissniki.com and http://theblondeandthebrunette.com mentioned USD 25 as its price. Maybe the Amazon one was just overpricing this, or maybe that's why they offered free shipping. My price? I got this for IDR 175.000,- exclude shipping cost. Let's say it's IDR 200.000! For Indonesia price of this brand? Quite nice, maybe actual price will be more than IDR 300.000.
I know there are sooo many negatives review on this and I'm just curious of how this high-end brand brought this pallete on myself. You can check the other products of Sephora here. Let's start.

DISCLAIMER: I did this swatch myself, all things here are just my opinion. Different colors, swatches, and results might happen due to your computer's brightness/contrast, your skin color and your skin type.

Maximum cuteness?

The back of the palette

Much mini that what I thought :))

Inside

BLUSH

Natural Lights

Artificial Lights

This palette consist of 6 cute blushes color. From my swatches and in my opinion, the only two blushes that very pigmented is the D and F. The A, D, and E are the shimmery blushes and the B, C, and F are matte.
In my swatch in hand, the A color was the most blended color, the same color with my skin. I don't know if it will create a good blushes but if it's not I hope I can use it as a highlighter. So, here is the swatches in my hand.

Natural Lights

Artificial Lights

Honestly, I swatched them 2-3 times until I got the color pop on my hand, except the two colors that I said previously to be the pigmented one, the D and F. Anyway they're blushes, I have a local blush colored orange that is not really pigmented when I swatched in my hand but it beautifully visible when I put it on my cheeks. I don't really expect blushes to be verrrryyy pigmented when I swatched them in my hand.

EYESHADOWS

This is the hardest part of reviewing a palette. Contains of 36 colors of eyeshadows and the color mostly said to be used in pinky makeup. I don't think so. I think it contains almost all the essential colors we need. Whop. I only swatched them on my hand too, haven't tried any on my own eyes.

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My own capture.

I also have this difficulties to capture the exact color of the palette. Miss Niki captured is more defined than mine, but I think they're more brownish than the original while mine is more too bright. Ok, the real color will be between those pics. Happy wondering! *just give up*
I'll use numbers from the one I wrote in Miss Niki's capture for the swatches.

Natural Lights

Artificial Lights

Looks almost the same? True. No. 1-2-3 is like shimmer satiny finish. No. 4 is totally silvery glitter. No. 5 is just like yellow skin-toned matte color (and chalky too) and no. 6 is milky white matte color (also chalky).

Natural Lights

Artificial Lights

The second row consist of 4 shimmery shadows and 2 matte shadows. I love no. 7 swatch! Here comes the problem of this palette so far. The matte shadows tend to chalky and hard to be pop enough. And ah ya, can you see no. 12 clearly? No? It has the almost similar swatch with no. 4 above. The only different is the no.4 has a little bigger glitter. But the result? The same. Really.

Natural Lights

 

Artificial Lights

The 3rd row contains 5 shimmery shadows, and 1 glittery shadow.. All of them are shimmery pigmented enough shadows except the no 16. No. 15 is more glittery. You can't see that in Miss Niki's pic but you can catch the glitter on my captured. And wait, purple shadows seem to be the biggest trouble too in this palette, whoah!

Natural Lights

Artifial Lights

Ok, move to the 4th row. It contains 4 shimmery shadows and 2 matte shadows. Purple now is quite pigmented but you can see the harsh line on my swatch. It's 1x swatch and the line appears. Should find some tricks to use it. No. 24 seems to not pigmented because it's a light grey matte color.

Natural Lights

Artificial Lights

5th row! It contains 3 shimmery shadows, 2 glittery shadows and 1 matte black shadow. No. 28 and 29 should be glittery. In photos you can only see the no. 29 glittery stuff but not in no.28. No.28's glitter is liiiiiitle visible in natural lights. Purple however, is sooo chalky. Some rubs to blend it might erase it.

Natural Lights

Artificial Lights

Last row consist of two matte color ( 31 & 34 ), one shimmery ( 33 ) and three glittery shadows ( 32, 35, 36 ). Weird, the color dark purple become black-look color ( 34 ). I've tried to swatch many times and the results were just the same. The glittery are quite visible for no. 32 and 36 (see the natural lights pic) while the no, 35 looks like just plain black. I will try to explain the almost similar color swatch, in the real palette.
No. 31 is a dark brown.
No. 33 is a shimmery dark brown.
No. 34 supposed to be a dark purple, matte.
No. 35 supposed to be a black glittery. The glitter is GREEN. Dark with a dark glitter.
No. 36 is a black glittery. The glitter is silver. That's why it's visible.

LIPS

I haven't done any lipgloss swatch in my own lips because this palette has no brushes or tools, I guess I have to get one of the lip brush to swatch them. For now, here is the pic of the lipgloss that I took.

Beautiful?

Since in the last post I was addicted with red lips, I'm curious and can't wait to wear the red lipgloss in this palette! The previous owner of this palette had used almost all color of the palette, but it still left much for me. Lovely preloved thing!

That's it! My review, my opinion and my new palette. My first high-end brand.
Above all, I concluded that some colors are just chalky and hard to apply, some are nice. If I only look at the bad part, the local eyeshadows and blushes can be much better than this. But at the good part, there are still sooo much nice color left and ready to be tried soon!

Rate: ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ of  ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ for the chalky purple color (mweh!) and for the beautifull lipglosses.
Generous in rating? Yes, because I still hope to get more from this palette. Explooooring!