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I picked up the MUA Ever After Matte Palette on my travels back home to UK this year and I finally cracked it open a couple of weeks ago. It was cheap as chips at only £4 so should you buy a ticket to UK to buy this baby?
There are 10 matte eyeshadows in a cheap plastic palette with a double ended eyeshadow applicator - which is pretty useless so you can chuck that out and use your dirty fingers instead :P
I am happy to see that the shades now have names instead of numbers (which they had when I first encountered MUA back in 2010).
These are the swatches of the top row which contains the lighter matte shades - Unwrap, Butter, Bare, Taffeta, Fade.
The pigmentation was slightly disappointing. They were almost non-existent in my yellow Asian skin. I actually had to swatch a few times for it to show up on my arm. But I appreciate the subtlety if you are going for a barely there makeup look.
These are the swatches of second row which contains the darker shades - Penny, China, Truffle, Fog, Smoke.
The pigmentation was better here, but not OMG-I-MUST-FLY-TO-UK-AND-BUY-THIS-RIGHT-NOW. My favourite shade is Penny - a great shade for contouring - the only problem is... I don't know how to contour properly without looking like i have a dirty face, hehe! But it's also great for faking the crease area on my Asian hooded eyelids.
Overall, I was left feeling a wee bit disappointed with the MUA Ever After Matte Palette because the eyeshadows weren't buttery smooth and as strongly pigmented as their mono single eyeshadows which I love. I guess I had high expectations as MUA is a brand that I have loved from their early beginnings when they only sold £1 products. However, the palette was ONLY £4 so it's definitely WAY better than other cheap eyeshadow palettes that I have come across which reek of some grandma scent with too much mica sparkles and looking at it will give you conjunctivitis - you know which ones I mean right?!
Well, thanks for reading this week!
Hope you all have an awesome weekend and catch ya next week.
Peace out,Hope you all have an awesome weekend and catch ya next week.
Ling xoxo
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