Focallure Tropical Vacation Eyeshadow palette Review, Swatches
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| Focallure Tropical Vacation Eyeshadow palette Review, Swatches |
“An essential eyeshadow collection featuring 14 shades
including neutral and berry otnes. Use Focallure intense permanent palette,
Tropical Vacation edition to create endless looks for daytime and evening”…. is what the brand Focallure claims
for this eyeshadow palette. I came across this brand while browsing through
makeup sale accounts in Instagram. On googling, I found that Focallure is a Chinese
brand selling affordable makeup. While “alert bells” did ring for me since
Chinese are infamous for poor quality products, Focallure seemed to have quite
good reviews on Youtube by many bloggers. I decided to give it a try. The
Instagram handle @focallure_beauty_india
is the official dealer of Focallure cosmetics in India and I
chose the eyeshadow palettes Twilight, Evergreen and Tropical Island as my
first order from them. While the first two contains vivid shades, Tropical
Island contained neutrals to earthy tones with a mix of shimmer and mattes and
I couldn’t resist it. Let’s see if the brand and the palette convinced me
enough or was this just a bunch of wasted notes J
Product Name:
Focallure
Tropical Vacation Eyeshadow palette
Price: Rs. 500 for 71 OZ/14 gm
Buy from:
www.focallureindia.com
or their Instagram handle @focallure_beauty_india
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| Focallure Tropical Vacation Eyeshadow palette Review, Swatches |
Ingredients:
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| Ingredients |
Packaging:
The first
thing which attracted me into this brand was the amazing packaging of its
products. The eyeshadow palettes are lightweight cardboard with magnetic lid which
might not seem appealing to everyone but I find such palettes very convenient for
travelling rather than heavy plastic or metal palettes. Also, each Focallure
palette covering has interesting graphics printed on them. Take a look!
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| Focallure Tropical Vacation Eyeshadow palette Review, Swatches |
The Tropical
Vacation palette also has a dual-ended brush with a flat paddle brush on one end and
a blending fluffy brush on the other (Quite like Urban Decay
palettes). I absolutely love the quality of the brush. The bristles are neither
too sparse nor too dense which would restrict the swiveling of the bristles
while blending.
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| Focallure Tropical Vacation Eyeshadow palette Review, Swatches |
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| Focallure Tropical Vacation Eyeshadow palette Review, Swatches |
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| Brush |
My Experience:
The warm berry
tone mattes and the bronzey shades make this palette look very similar to the famous Anastasia Beverly Hills Modern Renaissance palette.
Infact, this was one reason for me to pick this up since I cannot afford the
costlier cousin.
There are four shimmers
in this palette: Taro, Desert, Bright and Empire
Rest ten are mattes: Wax, Beach, Frost, Retro Copper, Magenta, Coffee,
Apricot, Moscow, Camel and Heat.
The shimmer shades are extremely
pigmented of which Desert is the most intense one.
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| Focallure Tropical Vacation Eyeshadow palette Review, Swatches |
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| Focallure Tropical Vacation Eyeshadow palette Review, Swatches |
Same is not
true of all matte shades. A little bit
of work is needed for Moscow, Retro Copper and Magenta. Apricot barely shows up
on wrist swatch, but surprisingly works like a wonderful transition shade on
eyelids.
While picking
up with a brush, there is a bit of fall out in the palette, but I did not find
any major chalkiness in any shade. I have tried out all shades without any primer
or base beneath and they show up quite well, so I can guess that a primer
underneath or using a setting spray on the brush would make the shades pop
more.
The shimmer shades
show up more if deposited with the pad of the fingertips. Have a look at the
swatches below. These swatches are done with fingertips and no primer
underneath. The shade Empire is a much vibrant shimmer purplish
brown than what is shown here (The lighting caused this difference maybe)
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| Finger Swatch: Focallure Tropical Vacation Eyeshadow palette Review, Swatches |
Below are swatches with the flat brush. Quite
obviously the pigmentation seems way less here since there is no primer
beneath. Fingertip always picks up more product than brush does.
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| Focallure Tropical Vacation Eyeshadow palette Review, Brush Swatches |
The matte shadows
blended very well on the eyelids. I used the brush provided with the
palette and was able to do a smooth application.
One fact
which struck me odd was when I ran tap water over the hand swatch and gave a
good rub, all the shadows came off
without any cleanser. Have a look. This reinforces the need for a good
primer underneath otherwise staying power will be compromised.
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| Focallure Tropical Vacation Eyeshadow palette Review, Swatches |
Finally, here
is a simple look on my eyes. I could not experiment much because I had to take
feeding breaks for my new-born J I wish to create ore looks in future.
In a
nutshell, this is a really pretty palette for beginners. For people accustomed
to immensely pigmented and buttery smooth high-end branded eyeshadows, you can
give this a skip. However, I am really fond of the shade selection in this
palette and can see myself carrying this on short trips.
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| Eye Swatch: Focallure Tropical Vacation Eyeshadow palette Review, Swatches |
Rate: 3/5
I am hoping
the other two palettes don’t disappoint me as well. Reviews coming soon J
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