SAUCEBOX PRO PALETTES

One day as I was shopping one of my favourite websites and I happened upon these visually intriguing palettes by a company called "SAUCEBOX" to this point I had no clue who they were and had heard very little about them as a whole.

So who are SAUCEBOX, here is the "About Us" from their website.

"SauceBox takes its beginning in 2010.  Founded by mother and daughter (both make up addicts). The name takes its roots in Old English, and means rude and impudent, obnoxious. We believe that make up is all about attitude and your inner self expression.  The goal was to create  high quality line with out high price – SUCCESS! The line combines two worlds of ‘ OLD AND PROVEN” with ” NEW AND EXCITING”. SauceBox cosmetics believes that every one is beautiful, and every beauty needs to shine. We provide extensive collection of eyeshadow for every taste, look, day, night, outfit…etc.  We are constantly looking for ways to innovate our product and add new items to our collection."

So there you have it and lets get into the two palettes I picked up from SauceBox who I just know are gaining more and more popularity daily and it will be interesting to see how their line expands with time

FORBIDDEN FRUITS

EACH EYESHADOW IS 4g FOR A TOTAL OF 24g

In this palette you get two shimmers, two glitters and two mattes, so its a great assortment for a only being 6 colours.Every colour is super bright and pigmented. Even the shadows with glitter the shadow it self is nice and soft and they all blend out beautifully.

I like that you can do bold bright looks, as well as a nice plumy variation on the smokey eye with this palette.

CREME DE LA CREME

So this particular palette does not have any names on the back, but I imagine this is changing as SauceBox is suppose to bring out revamped packing. So I will just be posting the pics for your makeup loving consumption.

 Black with and without flash

The black I did two shots to show case truly how dark it is like ink, but then in direct light to show the glitter particles in it as well.

I am so in love with this palette. I can't get enough of the beautiful depth of the colours and how rich and pigmented each and everyone is without falling short any where. This to me is a perfect palette because you get that super saturated black, and nice metallic colours and a couple of neutrals, which you can do endless looks with and is a dream to use. If you want an excellent versatile product and don't want to have to much in your collection make sure this is the one you get.

Each palette on the SauceBox website is $40, I paid $46 Cad for each for mine, but discovered shortly after my purchase that the price has gone up significantly which is very shocking. The palettes are now $65 YIKES that's quite the hike, glad I got mine when I did.

Any way I still do feel these are a worth while investment for any true makeup lover novice to aficionado.

Click here to check out all that SauceBox has to offer

I HOPE YOU ENJOYED THIS CLOSER LOOK AT SAUCEBOX EYE SHADOWS AND DON'T DELAY GET SOME SOON. THERE IS ALSO THEIR NEWEST PALETTE ETUDE WHICH OFFERS UP 8 COLOURS INSTEAD OF 6 AND ITS ALL MATTE NEUTRALS, THIS PALETTE HAS BEEN SELLING OUT IN LITTLE TIME AS SOON AS THEY RESTOCK AND IS FINALLY BACK IN STOCK NOW, SO GET IT WHILE YOU CAN.

THANKS FOR READING AND HAVE AN AWESOME DAY:) XO

NYX EYESHADOW PALETTES (PHOTO HEAVY)

WELCOME EVERYONE,


Today I will be sharing with you a few palettes and two trio's I picked up about three weeks ago from the NYX line. This is going to be a fairly lengthy post, but mostly photo heavy. I have not had a lot of time to play with them and create looks using them. However I often can tell from swatching and touching the shadows to know if I am going to love or hate them. So lets get started.


The first two I am showing are the trios

LOVE IN RIO- CAIPIRINHAS ON THE BEACH 3g
A stunning vibrant trio of aquatic blues with strong pigmentation

I find shades of blue such as these tend to often have the best colour payoff and often times purples are the weakest.

LOVE IN RIO- EN FUEGO 3g

I find this a very pretty sultry little trio with lovely shades suitable for evening looks

These particular colours and the texture make me think of suede and I love that rich burgundy berry tone in the middle.

Moving on the next are the 5 of the LOVE IN PARIS 9 pan palette

06- C'EST LA VIE

A nice complimentary mix of neutrals and gem tones

The three shades at the bottom are the real highlights of this palette, all shadows are shimmer in this one.

07-PARDON MY FRENCH

This is my favourite of all these palettes because all the colours are equally balanced and the colour payoff was the best overall. I love that its very earthy and their are some great orange toned shadows to be had in this palette.

My favourites in this palette is the light minty green, the orange gold beside it to the right and the chocolate brown with fine gold fleck glitter in the very middle.

09-MERCI BEAUCOUP

This palette is a mix of neutrals and pinky red based colours. There is also a good mix of matte, satin and shimmer finishes. However 4 of the 9 colours had extremely poor colour payoff as you will see in the photo's. If the pigmentation had have been more consistent this could have been an excellent palette for everyday use:(

As you can see really the two main standout shades here are the top middle and the one below it, also the reddish colour on the bottom right is decent. However I would probably skip this palette all together as its least favourable.

10-JE NE SAIS QUOI

This palette offers up shimmer, glitter, matte finishes and the colour payoff of the black and cream colour above it are phenomenal. The black is so saturated and the cream colour is the perfect finish and colour for brow bone highlight.

I would say 5 of the colours that are the light shimmer tones are to close in colour and the variations could have been a little better, however I love that black and actually the photo does not do it justice.

and lastly is

11-YOU ARE IN SEINE

So the black in this palette has chunky silver glitter and then the brown beside it is satin and the middle colour that's a peachy gold is shimmer and same with the gold at top left. All the other 5 colours in the palette are matte which I think will be a big selling point for some people. However again some of the shades are weak, but the true star in this palette is the matte indigo/teal blue on the bottom left.

Again that one really light shade in the middle to the far left is almost non-apparent, but this palette is still quite nice overall.













So that concludes my initial thoughts on these offerings from NYX. I hope you found a palette that has caught your eye. I just wished that they were all a little more consistent with the exception of "Pardon My French" which I feel was best overall.

The trios are 3g and were $8.99 CAD

The 9 pan palettes are $11.99 CAD

LET ME KNOW IF YOU HAVE TRIED ANY OF THE LOVE IN..... TRIO'S OR PALETTES FROM NYX?????

THANKS FOR YOUR SUPPORT AND HAVE A GREAT DAY:)



SECRET SOCIETY EYE PALETTE FROM QUO

Good day everyone,


Today I will be sharing with you another Limited Edition palette from Quo. It was part of their early fall line, but I don't know if it's still available or not at Shoppers Drug Mart. I normally don't like to review things that may not be available any longer but the presentation of this particular palette was just to pretty not to share.

The collection itself is called SECRET SOCIETY but the colours for this particular palette is called FEMME FATALE

 

So lets begin

The first thing that totally caught my eye was the packaging, which I do find most times then not Quo does a fantastic job with. Everything normally is impressive from a distance.

 

Then moving on to the offerings inside the palette it comes with 6 eyesahdows and 2 cream eyeliners.

 

 

The colour break down from left to right starting at the top is orange gold, minty blue, a smoky plum. bottom left to right is brown with a fine gold shimmer, teal and white. The two cream liners are pretty self explanatory.

The eyeshadows swatch in the picture with a shimmer but in person not as much. Its so fine that it's not really noticeable.

 

Here are some close up shots of 2 shades at a time

 

 

Then we have the swatches which I did with no primer

 

 

I actually feel this time around Quo did a good job with this palette, the shadows are fairly buttery, they wear well and the pigmentation is decent,  especially the cream liners.

 

Neutral colours are always good, but in this case the Teal & Plum steal the show.

 

This palette was $18 and each shadow is 1.8g and the cream liners are each 2g

 

I hope you enjoyed having a look at this multipurpose palette that will easily take you from day to night.

 

IF YOU LIVE IN CANADA DID YOU PICK UP ANYTHING FROM QUO'S SECRET SOCIETY COLLECTION?? LET ME KNOW IN THE COMMENTS.

 

TILL NEXT TIME EVERYONE

 

STAY BEAUTIFUL XO