SMASHBOX Photo Op Eye Enhancing Palette - Brown Eyes

This is a beautiful and handy palette from Smashbox for all you brown eyed people out there. It is a great starter palette that is perfect for everyday use, because these six shadows are each carefully selected to bring out the best in brown eyes, both as shadows on their own, and also with the variety of looks you can create using more than one shadow. 

The shadows come in durable packaging, and the shadows themselves are quite large in size which is a bonus if this is a palette you are constantly reaching for. Together they are created to compliment brown eyes whichever way you wear them, the palette consists of 4 beautiful shimmery shadows, with the two other cream and navy shades coming in matte formula which is great for creating a base and adding definition. The top three shadows are labelled as the 'soft trio', a collection of shimmery browns and taupes, great for creating gorgeous looks for every day or for a more subtle night time look. The bottom line of shadows are the 'smoky trio' which you can use for a more dramatic and dark look, although I don't think you have to stick to this necessarily, they are a good guideline and work perfectly as trio's, but I think you can mix them up to create equally as amazing looks.

As for the shadow quality itself, it is pretty awesome, the pigmentation is great and I love how shimmery and light reflective the iridescent ones are. They don't drop and blend really well. Most importantly though it's the colours that I love in this set, It is brilliant that Smashbox came up with specific eye colour palettes (blue and hazel are available to) so once you invest in this palette you would absolutely get your moneys worth. The only flaw is there is not a green eye palette as yet, if they had a green one then it would make for a wicked series of staple shadows for a kit.

Smashbox is available at Debenhams in the UK and Sephora elsewhere.
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