Almost all drugstore brands are releasing new eyeshadows and I was especially curious about Catrice ones. They have matt finish and you know how hard it is to find good matt eyeshadows in drugstore…So of course I bought them immediately for testing.
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| Velvet Matt eyeshadows by Catrice |
Price: 3,95€ which is very good price for single eyeshadow.
Texture: they are very very smooth just like high end eyeshadows. I was surprised how smooth and velvet they are! They blend like a dream and look very nice on eyes. They are very pigmented so you just need to touch them lightly before applying. The only downside to them is that they are not very well pressed in the pan so if you dropped them they immediately shatter. I don’t recommend traveling with them. You can see on the picture that the brown eyeshadow didn’t even make it to the “photo shoot”.
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| Velvet Matt eyeshadows by Catrice |
Colours: I bought 4 colours, 010 Vanillaty Fair ( butter colour), 020 Pink-up Girls (light baby pink), 030 Jump Up and Brown (darker cool tone brown) and my personal favourite 040 Al Burgundy (burgundy with black base).
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| Velvet Matt eyeshadows by Catrice: 010 Vanillaty Fair, 020 Pink-up Girls, 030 Jump Up and Brown and 040 Al Burgundy |
Longevity: without an eyeshadow primer (or with bad eyeshadow primer) they don’t last long and they crease (on the first picture here under). If you use good eyeshadow primer they last all day.
Two different looks:
Final verdict: Apart from being badly pressed in the pan and the questionable longevity without primer they are very nice eyeshadows. I always use good eyeshadow primer so I don’t have any problems with creasing. They look good on my eyes and blend like no other eyeshadows in drugstore. If I see any new interesting colours I will buy them for sure.
