Review Detail
3.3 1 0.5
Smashbox Be Discovered Eyeshadow Palette
Overall rating
3.3
Price
4.0
Quality
3.0
Effectiveness
3.0
When I saw the pretty pastel shades, I thought it would be really nice for spring, as it was on sale, I thought why not.
The packaging itself is a thick, hard and sturdy cardboard casing with a nice sized mirror thrown in for added convenience. I prefer hard plastic as opposed to a cardboard casing, but none the less I ventured on. On the back of the palette there is a QR code that you can scan with your Smart Phone that will take you to a tutorial video - I think this is really smart, especially for ladies who are fairly new to trying eyeshadow. I haven't personally seen the video, so I can't comment on whether its any good or not, I just really like the idea of it.
There are no names provided for each individual color on the palette itself, but names are given on the outer box (which I think is useless as the box often gets thrown away), but I guess that is unimportant as its the gorgeous colors I was after :)
Moving on to the eyeshadow, i found the consistency to be very powdery, It picked up well on my eye shadow brush, but it left a bit of mess after as it was kind of 'loose' (sorry hope I am describing this properly). It applies fairly well over my primer (Avon of course :), the colors are quite sheer though, and not as highly pigmented as I originally thought. This isn't a bad thing for me though as the colors give off a nice soft, natural and feminine effect which I like and can associate with Spring and Pastel colors. There was quite a bit of fallout/spillage, so I found myself doing some damage control once done. It gave me an average wear of about 3 hours until touch ups were needed, it just sort of fades.
Overall I think it's nice. Not horrible and definitely not WOW, Just fairly average. It gets the job done and that was all I was concerned about. I would not recommend this for those looking for a strong bold color due to the weak pigmentation qualities of this palette. This would also be better suited to cool toned or fair to medium skin tones.
The packaging itself is a thick, hard and sturdy cardboard casing with a nice sized mirror thrown in for added convenience. I prefer hard plastic as opposed to a cardboard casing, but none the less I ventured on. On the back of the palette there is a QR code that you can scan with your Smart Phone that will take you to a tutorial video - I think this is really smart, especially for ladies who are fairly new to trying eyeshadow. I haven't personally seen the video, so I can't comment on whether its any good or not, I just really like the idea of it.
There are no names provided for each individual color on the palette itself, but names are given on the outer box (which I think is useless as the box often gets thrown away), but I guess that is unimportant as its the gorgeous colors I was after :)
Moving on to the eyeshadow, i found the consistency to be very powdery, It picked up well on my eye shadow brush, but it left a bit of mess after as it was kind of 'loose' (sorry hope I am describing this properly). It applies fairly well over my primer (Avon of course :), the colors are quite sheer though, and not as highly pigmented as I originally thought. This isn't a bad thing for me though as the colors give off a nice soft, natural and feminine effect which I like and can associate with Spring and Pastel colors. There was quite a bit of fallout/spillage, so I found myself doing some damage control once done. It gave me an average wear of about 3 hours until touch ups were needed, it just sort of fades.
Overall I think it's nice. Not horrible and definitely not WOW, Just fairly average. It gets the job done and that was all I was concerned about. I would not recommend this for those looking for a strong bold color due to the weak pigmentation qualities of this palette. This would also be better suited to cool toned or fair to medium skin tones.
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