As I was waiting for my plane in Rome I decided to walk little bit around and of course to check the local duty free shop. Usually I stay away from PUPA brand as I’ve never liked their packaging (it’s always looked cheap like the makeup you would buy for 10 years old girl). This time, as there were lots of eyeshadow testers, I decided to swatch some and see what they are about. I was actually surprised how well they swatched and decided to buy 3 single eyeshadows (next post) and this palette to play with at home.
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| PUPA Milano Pupart palette number 3 |
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| PUPA Milano Pupart palette number 3 |
What you get: the palette includes 9 eyeshadows of 4 different finishes (iridescent – all three lightest colours, pearly - 4th, 5th and 8th colour, satin – 2 darkest colours and matt – 3rd colour), manual on how to create 2 different looks and a flat eyeshadow brush.
Brush: it is very cheap, low quality brush that doesn’t pick up any eyeshadow at all. If I had to rely on this brush, there wouldn’t be much of an eyeshadow on my eyes. It’s going to the trash right after this review.
Colours: the whole palette is rather cool tone. It suits mainly blue and green eyes’ girls. The difference between 3 light colours is quite small at the first sight but they perfectly suit for fit with each look designed in the palette (1st colour as inner eye corner highlight for all the looks, 2nd colour for the look with pink eyeshadows, 7th colour for the look with brown eyeshadows). The only matt colour (3rd colour, light cool tone brown) is a good transition colour that you put in the crease and blend upwards before applying dark colour in the outer eye corner.
You can create several looks with this palette: light day look (using 1st, 3rd and 9th colour), more colourful day or night look (using pinks), even the smokey eyes when going out (last three colours). You can see few of my looks I created for my work days.
Pigmentation: as you can see on the pictures, the eyeshadows are quite nicely pigmented, in case of lightest colours you have to apply little bit more or use light cream eyeshadow underneath to accentuate them.
Texture: these eyeshadows are quite buttery and blendable (not as much as some luxury eyeshadows but still very nice). They are not powdery so you don’t get any fall out (providing that you tap the excess off like with any eyeshadows).
Longevity: without an eyeshadow primer, the eyeshadows don’t stay very long (about 5 – 6 hours) but I don’t wear eye makeup without the eyeshadow primer so it is not issue for me. With eyeshadow primer, they last about 9-10 hours which is standard time.
Final verdict: the eyeshadows are nice quality, the palette is very compact and I’m glad that there is at least one matt colour. The dark colours have satin finish so they still work well to deepen up the crease. The palette lacks light matt colour but you can use concealer and face powder to simulate the same effect under the eyebrow. Overall I’m happy with the palette and if I had the chance to buy her “sister”, palette number 6 (all matt eyeshadows), I would probably go for it. Hmm, maybe I’ll stop by at PUPA store next time.
