Product Review -- Too Faced Natural Love Ultimate Neutral Eye Shadow Collection

Over the past year or so, Too Faced's track record with eye shadow palettes has been pretty hit or miss.

For example, I absolutely adore the Sweet Peach Palette and the Peanut Butter and Jelly Eye Shadow Collection, but on the other hand, the White Chocolate Chip Eye Shadow Palette and Peanut Butter and Honey Eye Shadow Collection  were just a whole lot of 'meh' in my book.

So I had pretty much decided that I wasn't going to purchase the Natural Love Ultimate Neutral Eye Shadow Collection -- 1), because I wasn't so sure how good it would and 2) because there were some repeats from previous Too Faced Palettes that I already own.

I faltered a little when I saw a photo of it because it certainly looked beautiful, but I still held strong.

Until Emily Noel from You Tube  reviewed it pretty glowingly and since I always feel like I can trust her opinions, I bit the bullet and ordered the palette.

And the good news is, I definitely don't regret it.

Review -- Clinique All About Shadow 8-Pan Palette in Neutral Territory 2

Neutral/nude/natural eye shadow palettes have been all the rage in the makeup world for the past few years, and I've tried most of them.

The Clinique All About Shadow 8-Pan Palette in Neutral Territory 2 may be the best one that I've tried this year.

It doesn't offer as many shade options as the Urban Decay Naked Palettes or my beloved Nude'Tude Palette from The Balm, but the colors that it does have are all lovely, wearable, and easy to work with.

It's kind of a no-brainer palette, now that I think about it.

By that, I mean that you can put together a look with having to think too hard about it -- I don't know about you, but when I'm in rush, I usually don't have time to think too much about my makeup, which is why this palette was definite favorite for me during the busy holiday season.

Review -- bareMinerals Ready Eyeshadow 8.0 in The Power Neutrals

 When it comes to makeup, there are many types of products that I have trouble resisting.

Anything peachy tops that list for sure.

But coming in at a close second is neutral/natural/naked eyeshadow palettes.

It's probably because I just get so much use out of them.

Now, don't get me wrong -- I love playing with colorful eye shadows as much as the next girl, but when I'm in a hurry or just don't feel like thinking too much about my makeup, out comes my UD Naked or Naked 2 Palette, my The Balm Nude'Tude Palette, my LORAC Pro Palette, et al.

As far as I'm concerned, I just can't have enough natural eye shadow options.

(Clearly, since my last post was about the Mally Easy on the Eyes TSV featuring the In the Buff Vol. 2 Palette and here's another yet another one ...)

When I first saw the bareMinerals Ready Eyeshadow 8.0 in The Power Neutrals presented on QVC a couple of months back, though, I did resist.

Product Alert -- Mally Easy on the Eyes TSV from QVC

If you've been reading this blog for a while, you probably realize that I am a total sucker for QVC's beauty TSVs.

They're just such good values and can be a really great way to try a brand that you're not familiar with.

However, in all the years that I've been purchasing TSVs -- and it's been at least 10 now -- I have never purchased a Mally Beauty collection.

I've tried a couple of Mally's products over the years -- lipglosses, eye shadow sticks, eye liners, and mascara -- but I guess none of her previous TSVs really caught my eye.

However, when I saw that her upcoming collection scheduled to air on QVC on July 5th contained an eye shadow palette, I was pretty much sold.

Neutral Eye Shadow Palettes

Ever since Urban Decay released the Naked Palette about two years ago, nude, natural or neutral eye shadow palettes haven been all the rage. I remember that when the trend started, I was kind of disappointed because I didn’t think of myself as someone who really liked neutral shades. I tend to gravitate toward soft peaches, purples, greens, and other colorful shadows.

But I bought the Naked Palette anyway, just because I love Urban Decay’s shadows and figured it would be a good basic collection for traveling – and a funny thing happened. I started to realize that over the course a normal week, I probably wore colorful shadow looks two or three time. The rest of the days, I was using neutral shadows – many from the Naked Palette and other single shadows I’d accumulated over the years.

It turns out – whether I knew it or not – I am a big fan of neutral, natural, nude, whatever you want to call them shadows.