I Did the Tik Tok YouTube Eyeshadow Palette Tag
There has been a tag making the rounds on YouTube, that was created by beauty YouTubers Allie Glines and Samantha March. Eyeshadow is my favorite makeup product so I wanted to throw my hat into the tag here on The Mod Woman. The tag consists of 13 questions about your eyeshadow palette collection.
1. Newest Palette
I decided to be literal with this question. Technically the newest palette to my collection is the Natasha Denona Sfari palette, which I picled up from NDs website when it was 50% off. But it’s an older palette. So instead I will go with a newer palette on the market that I recently picked up in the Sephora sale, Artist Couture Supreme Nudes. I’ve used it a few times now and it has a beautiful formula.
2. Oldest Palette
The first real eyeshadow palette I ever purchased was the Kat Von D Metal/Matte palette, but I decluttered that palette earlier this year. So I have to go with my second oldest palette and the second palette I ever purchased, the BH Cosmetics Carli Bybel palette. I never reach for it anymore and will probably eventually declutter it. I credit this palette with introducing me to the wondrous world of highlighting thanks to the four highlighter shades in the palette.
3. Most Expensive Palette
I own both Pat McGrath and Natasha Denona palettes. Natasha wins with highest price point at $129, but I have only paid retail price for 1 of my large ND palettes and it was the $65 Sunrise palette. So I am going to go with my Pat McGrath Decadence palette. I still didn’t pay the full price for it but I definitely paid more for it than my ND palettes.
4. Most Affordable
This was easy. I recently purchased one of the E.L.F. bite size palette in Hot Jalapeno. Which retail for $3. THREE DOLLAIRS. I’m pretty picky about drugstore eyeshadow palettes since they are pretty hit or miss - and lets face it - usually more miss. But the reviews for them have been great across the board and the color story of yellow-based swampy greens in Hot Jalapeno spoke to me.
5. My Everyday Palette
I don’t have an everyday palette. I own a lot of palettes and I like to switch up my eye makeup pretty much everyday. I’ve been wearing makeup most days recently even in lockdown because its a great outlet and pick me up and semblance of normalcy for me. And I’ve been using a different palette every single day like I normally would. BUT. There is one palette that is a palette that I have traveled with a number of times and that is a must-have in my collection. The Milani Soft & Sultry palette. One of my favorite palettes ever. It’s a beautiful cool-tones neutral palette that you can use to make simple or more dramatic looks.
6. Most Colorful Palette
BH Cosmetics Take Me Back to Brazil palette. Easily. It’s essentially a rainbow palette. I’ve had it forever and I never use it anymore. I am looking for a colorful palette with better quality shadows. I feel like Take Me Back to Brazil is a good beginner palette but the formula is pretty hit or miss.
7. Smallest Palette
I could have chosen the elf palette again but decided to switch it up and pick one of my other teeny tiny palettes, the Natasha Denona Mini Retro palette. She tiny. But cute. With a beautiful color story and formula.
8. Biggest Palette
My Anastasia Beverly Hills Norvina palettes in Vol. 1 & 3. I’m not into huge palettes in general but somehow I wound up with 2 of these palettes lol. Honestly they are obnoxiously large but also really great formulas so I overlook the size. They are also fairly expensive but the cost breakdown is fairly reasonable in comparison to some other palettes. Norvina recently came out with Vol.4 and its pretty…ugh.
9. Palette w/Best Memory
I am not someone who is nostalgic about makeup, so this one was a bit tough to answer. I opted to go with Melt Gemini because this palette was rather serendipitous for me. It features my favorite color. Was released right around my birthday and is named after my zodiac sign. I bought it for my birthday in 2018 and it was my first Melt palette. It’s my perfect color story. I wore it along with ABH Soft Glam pretty much the entire summer of 2018.
10. Palette Worth the Hype
Natasha Denona Metropolis. A lot of people talked crap about this palette’s color story when they first saw it. I was one of them lol. It seemed all over the place and not cohesive. Until I learned what the inspiration was and then it made perfect sense to me. Natahsa’s inspiration was art deco design. Hence the name of the palette. Outside of that the quality of this palette is amazing. People rave about it and for good reason. It was named a favorite by so many beauty influencers last year and it was my favorite palette of 2019 and features one of my favorite eyeshadow formulas, ND’s cream to powder formula. I have created so many looks with this and I’m never bored by it.
11. Palette NOT Worth the Hype
Too Faced Chocolate Gold. So many people raved - and continue to rave- about this palette. I felt like maybe I was missing out on something and so I bought it. And…I don’t get it. The metallics are beautiful but the color selection makes no sense to me. There are only three mattes in the palette. A super pale tan (which if you are deeper tan medium to tan won’t show up on your skin at all), a matte black and a white. Das it. And the formula is pretty meh as well. It’s currently sitting in a bag of makeup to give away or re-sell right now and I have been tempted to take it out and revisit it. But honestly? What’s the point?
12. Favorite Palette From a Favorite Brand
I decided to go with Melt for this one. I struggled with this one because while I LOVE my Gemini palette and it is one of my favorite palettes it isn’t my favorite Melt palette. My favorite Melt palette is Muerte palette from their holiday 2019 collection. I love everything about this palette and the collection itself; the color story the aesthetic and design, the formula. It’s perfection.
13. Most Used Eyeshadow Palette
Because I use a different palette nearly everyday I had to think long and hard on this one. But then I remembered how obsessed I was with my Anastasia Beverly Hills Soft Glam palette in 2018. I wore it nearly everyday for two months. That’s a long time for me. It was a stressful ans busy time and I was looking for something easy and effortless that still looked amazing and that I didn’t have to think about too much. Soft Glam was that palette. I could do an eye look in 5 minutes and it would be stunning. This is the reason why it ranked so high on my ranking my ABH palettes post.
This was a lot of fun to do. I love watching tag videos and it was fun to create my own list of answers for this one!
