Review : LORAC PRO Palette
Who can resist palettes? Especially if
they’re in mood for nudes—the nude eye looks, eye shadows are so in lately! I
think I should own one too…. It’s pretty late, I know, but it’s worth the time
spent waiting. Now please take a look at this beautiful baby, LORAC PRO Palette!
PROfessional
Palette!
The
box this palette comes with is a simple black box, with dazzling and glitter
pattern printed on it. I found it not boring, quite eye catchy tho! At the back
side of this box, you will find some descriptions about this palette.
LORAC
PRO Palette was created by a MUA named Carol Shaw—wow it’s quite an almost
similar name to mine, ahem forget that just now—and has 8 shimmer colors plus 8
matte colors. For those who craves more—or at least, the same numbers of matte
and shimmer in one palette—like me, this palette is just awesome! You will get
16 eye shadows (each 0.02oz) in one palette consisting of both most craved
finishes of eye shadows. Not only that, they also included a mini size of
Behind The Scenes Eye Primer (0.17 oz) A sweet treat, by the way!
This
palette has a black, matte packaging which is made of some kind of rubber which
reminds me of NARS’ products. This rubber material is super.hard.to.be.cleaned.
I should admit I kinda have difficulties dealing with it. Has that silver
coated LORAC PRO palette on its lid, making this whole palette looks exclusive
and very professional. Surely looks expensive also!
Being
quite thin and made of cardboard, this palette surely feels very lightweight.
Yet, it’s thin!
LORAC
PRO Palette is made of a sturdy cardboard then is wrapped with this-kind-of-rubber.
The lid closes not too tight surprisingly, it has magnetic closing on lid but
surely it’s slightly looser than theBalm’s. This palette has mica plastic
inside it to separate the mirror from the shadows, and I found out the plastic
was actually sliding out of this palette!
Matte
: Shimmer = 1:1!
Inside
there is a big mirror, yay for that! All the eye shadows on the first row are
all mattes, and all on the second row are all shimmers. Not a specific name
they gave for each shade, the names are just based on what colors they are
actually. The shades’ name is written just below them.
( top row) White - Cream - Taupe - Lt. Pink - Mauve - Sable - Espresso - Black (bottom row) Nude - Champagne - Gold - Lt. Bronze - Pewter - Garnet - Deep Purple - Slate |
PROmising
Formulas and Staying Power!
Surprisingly,
all the eye shadows are super smooth, finely milled, and super buttery! It’s
super blendable too, and won’t look muddy on eyes or dead. They have superb
pigmentations too, for each shade! The matte ones are super smooth, yet the
color payoff is awesome. It tends to fall out due to its smoothness, so be gentle
to them! Try to use a dense but soft brush. These eye shadows are very finely
milled, that’s why harsh brushes will cause some fall out.
White - Cream - Taupe - Lt. Pink |
Nude - Champagne - Gold - Lt. Bronze |
Shimmery
ones are more buttery, what; it’s like a half cream shadow for me! It’s super
smooth and…awesome! These ones are less powdery if to be picked with harsh
brush, but I do, do recommend you to use soft, gentle brush instead tho.
Mauve - Sable - Espresso - Black |
Pewter - Garnet - Deep Purple - Slate |
The
staying power, what else should I say? It has a super great staying power on my
lid, even without primer! It won’t lose its own color, yet not turning into
muddy too, which is just awesome ♥ Here I’m attaching some photos of mine using shadows from
this palette. FYI, all the eye makeup below is done WITHOUT EYE PRIMER.
Gold - Lt. Bronze - Slate - Black |
Champagne - Taupe - Gold |
(Oh
and for the mini size primer given, I let it go on my blog sale LOL because I
had already own the full sized one. Will do the review on another post, soon!)
PROmising
in Such Price!
To
those who want a comparison between this and the famous NAKED palette, which
one to grab first—I’d say you gotta grab this one. This palette has more color
range for the shadows, yet the formulas of the shadows are awesome, better than
those in both NAKED palette. NAKED palette is for $50 (containing 12 eye
shadows + mini UDPP/lip gloss), and LORAC PRO Palette is for $42, (containing
16 eye shadows + mini size primer.) Surely this palette is a bargain!
Score
Last
Words?
For the colors, I think I’ll have nothing to rant about. All
of them are very compatible to each other, and they work really great both on
people with warm, cool, and neutral skin undertone that they bring the range
from pink to a garnet color! The only thing to complain about is, the palette’s
packaging. The rubber plus a not-so-tightly-closed magnetic lid is a loss for
me. Despite of the minus, this palette has got my heart with the quality of the
shadows and the color range. Overall, this palette is my HG nude palette so
far! Good job LORAC, for moving my heart from NAKED to this PRO palette!
12 kisses
Still need to get this baby and add it to my nude palette collection :)
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of course! well, i'm thinking of grabbing another palettes too. nude is sure addictive
Deletethis stuff looks so good!
ReplyDeletereally want it but i already have naked palette :(
the UD naked palette has more shimmer shades than matte shades, and some are too shimmery x_x
anyways, nice review :3
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it's good! ha, don't you say? i want naked 1 palette after grabbing this and naked 2. yet, i'm grabbing nudetude just now...oh girls.
Deletegrab this, i beg you, this is worth every penny!
i want this! thanks for reviewing and spreading the 'poison' hahahaha....
ReplyDeleteyou can't say you don't, eh? <3
DeleteI love this palette, i don't own it unfortunately, but i thinks it's AMAZING, great pigmentation and lovely colors :X Maybe i will be able to buy it soon, i would really like to have it in my make-up collection :D
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go grab it! it's worth your money (okay i've repeated this line a lot...) more than naked-s sister does!
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ReplyDeletebeli di MP say :D hehehe cantik, indeed! thankyou, i will :D
DeleteAaahh want! Superb review, thankss caroline :*
ReplyDeleteshould grab thisssss steph! >w< welcome, glad you like it <3
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