Norvina Eyeshadow Palette Review

     You probably already know that purple is my favourite colour. So naturally, I was very excited for this palette when I first heard about it. Being an owner of both Modern Renaissance and Subculture Palette, and having heard the reviews about it, I know people will be talking about this palette, too. But as usual, even though the palette's colour theme is targeted for purple lovers like me, I'll review this palette unbiased and share my honest opinions with you.

The palette consists of 14 cool toned shades: 7 mattes & 7 metallic shimmers

     Here are swatches of all the colours. But I won't stop at that. For this review, I am doing something I've never done before, which is swatching all colours on my eye one-by-one, removing it each time. This way, you'll be able to see how each shadow actually applies on the eye.

     This is how my eyelids look bare, without any product. I will be applying each shadow without any moisturizer, primer or base, and applying it just with my ring fingertip. I'm gonna start with the mattes first because it'll be easier to remove.

 Base - as the name itself, it's a perfect base to start of with. It completely cancelled out my dark lids. I removed it before applying the next shade.

 Soul - a periwinkle blue, a very unique colour.

Incense - a nice cool toned brown to use as a transition shade. 

 Love - a light pink. For me I'll probably using this mainly as transition, and not a main colour as I'm not a big fan of bright pinks.

Volatile - a cool toned dark brown to deepen the outer v. 

Eccentric - an orangey brown. I thought it'll be more orangey, which I'm happy it wasn't as it will be out of place in the palette if it were.

Passion - a dark burgundy. This one was the patchiest to apply. 

 Dreamer - the shimmer shades has a lot of fallout.

Summer 

Wild Child - it's more pink than this in person, and has a pearly shift

Rose Gold - my second favourite

Celestial - of course my favorite shade, but not just because of the colour. It applied the best. It was the smoothest out of all shimmers, has the least fall-out (compared to both shimmers and mattes), and as easy it is to apply, it's also the easiest to remove (compared to the other shimmers).

 Dazzling - my least favorite. It was chunky and rough to apply. It's also almost similar to Summer. I wished they've added another purple shimmer shade instead.

Drama - like Passion, this applied patchy. So I think Anastasia has a problem with dark shades.

Here's also a picture of how much kick-up the shadows have. Dazzling really is the worst offender.

For this review, I won't be doing an eye-look because my eyelid is burning! But let me know in the comments if you want me to do a tutorial. I hope you liked this review format, and I will continue to do it this way for all of my next ones!

Subcuture Palette Review

Sooo... I guess here it is! Anastasia Beverly Hills' very controversial Subculture Palette! I got this about a month ago but this is the first time I'm opening the box and playing with the colours. I guess I was in a Schrodinger's cat situation and I was kind of scared of how it's going to be. (Not a smart idea because it would have turned out bad, I wouldn't be able to get a refund at Sephora). That being said, you can probably guess that I already have a good experience with this palette!

Firt off the colours are gorgeous. It's unique, edgy, perfect fall colours! The pigmentation is just amazing!

Top row swatches

Bottom row swatches

People are saying that it's too pigmented which makes it hard to blend. But for me if it's too pigmented, that means I'm paying more for the actual pigment than fillers!

But then there is also the argument of it not having enough binding agent so the shadows are too powdery and have a lot of kick-up, which wastes a lot of product.

Roxy and Axis are the shadows that have the most kick-up, but with a light hand, it will minimize the kick-up. With this, I can see why people were saying that Norvina should have advertised this as loose pigment shadow. But for me, the quality is still good and I just can't get enough of the colours!

Considering the powderiness, there's not much fall out. Axis had the most fall out when I played with the colours.

 I used Roxy as the transition, Adorn as a cut-crease liner, Axis on the lids, Rowdy and Cube on the lower lash line, and Cube on the inner corner. I used no primer and the shadows went on really well.

So there you go! Long story short, I'm really loving this palette!