Hey Cupcakes!!
This is hopefully going to be a short post but with all the pics who knows. I wanted to review the BH Cosmetic 88 palettes for you because they are soooo popular, I do have a few thoughts about them and some swatches so let's get this show on the road!
My BH Story:
When I first started to watch YouTube everyone and their mother and their little dog had either the BH Cosmetic 88 Palette or the Coastal Scents 88 Palette. They are basically the same palettes with different color variations but anywho....I was sold. I watched videos obsessively and knew that I would literally die without them. Melodramatic...absolutely! I asked my mom to get them for Xmas and so my relationship started with not one palette but two, yes you read right...two palettes. I saw endless makeup possibilities that ran farther than my wildest dreams and they had so much potential. What ended up happening was that my eyes were too big for my stomach type of deal and I think for me at least it was better in theory. Ends up I actually don't like super bright eye shadows or shadows with an extreme amount of shimmer. Who knew? Well I guess my mom might have liked to know that considering she bought it for me and I really haven't used it all that much aside from the matte black and the highlighter colors. My bad.
Packaging:
As far as the packaging is concerned, I think that it is functional. Obviously it is a basic black palette very similar to a MAC 15 eye shadow palette except it holds 88. It is extremely light weight and slim...ideal for traveling or to take with you if you ever felt the need to apply makeup to a small town. Whatever I don't know your life....Point is it is sleek and basic...no frills, nothing flashy, but not cheap either.
Product:
The color range is out of this world. It is like the big huge box of crayolas that you got as a kid except you can decorate your face!!! The shadows are extremely pigmented. They can be really chalky and create fallout but for $19.95 for 88 shadows you can buy some makeup wipes and call it a day. They do blend very well and easily so I think they are great. I own both the matte and shimmer color palette and I have to say that I prefer their matte formulation much more than their shimmer. The word on the street is (aka website and known fact) that they use mica in order to add shimmer to well to their shimmer colors. That being said the shimmer colors all have the same white pearlized shimmer to every color which can wash out the actual color and just make it look frosty on your eye. I am not a big fan and I can't really describe it all that well...sorry.
Overall:
For me, I wouldn't buy these products again...or make my mom..lol. I don't love the shimmer formulation and I do like the matte but I should have purchased the neutral matte palette because it fits my lifestyle much better. I think overall this is really my problem because I let YouTube convince me that I wanted the color palette...but please like I am really going to wear bright red eyeshadow. Half of the colors I don't use and the ones that I do I use sparingly. I have been meaning to give them away to a friend but my mom will get mad and ruin my life so probably not. Overall, I do think these are great palettes. I think that the shadows are easy to blend and gives you every color you would ever need including a matte black and white! I think that if you are a beginner with makeup this is a great buy to sort of test the waters and experiment with looks. Ordering them from the BH Cosmetic website is so simple and they come super fast. I think that at $20 it is a great purchase and I would recommend this product to someone who isn't afraid of color and likes to do bold looks. Basically I am a wimp and should find my inner rainbow. Here are some pics and be warned they aren't great, just work with me ok? Oh yeah and I wasn't about to go an swatch 176 colors like a crazy person...I don't have that much arm...lol...so basically I chose random colors that look pretty and vibrant from each palette!
Love Steph!
