REVIEW: bhcosmetics 6 Color Eyeshadow Pro Palette...

I've been a tad naughty of late - I decided that while my eyeshadow collection is somewhat extensive (to say the least), some of the items were looking a wee bit tired, and it was time to freshen up the selection. I mean I had numerous palettes and pans in my kit that were over four years old, and what better time of year than Spring to have a clean out, and bring in some fresh blood. After all, I work darn hard all year, and creating eye looks is probably my main creative outlet, as well as being a therapeutic way to relieve some of the tensions that build up in a day, plus it's a relatively harmless past-time that also gives me the greatest of pleasures...

So now that I've proven beyond a doubt that my recent investments are completely justified (lol!), here's one of my new "therapy" kits. Whilst I've purchased a couple of ready-made palettes over the last few weeks (to be revealed), I thought it was time to put together a customised box of a few of my favourite hues, and bhcosmetics was my first port of call, with their versatile and extraordinarily inexpensive pro-palette builder... 

The above array of stunning pigments cost me US9.98 (plus postage) ♥ The empty box is fully magnetised, has a distortion-free mirror inside the lid (which shuts with a firm click), and the wells are cleverly designed with a curved cut-out so that it's super easy to remove the pans, or shift the sequence around. There's also a 15 pan box (US17.98), but I thought I'd be conservative to start with...

It's a easy as pie to put together from their website - you start by choosing the palette size, and then drag and drop whatever shades take your fancy from the huge array of colours and finishes. There are mattes, shimmers and metallics, with most categorised into warm and cool hues. The 6 palette is cute and petite and not much bigger than a powder compact, so it's beaut for travelling...

              

And below are the colours I chose, along with some pretty shonky swatches - I'm hopeless at swatching, so please bear that in mind :-( These are two finger swipes over the top of a bb cream...

The letters describe the finish e.g. CS = Cool Shimmer, MM = Metallic Matte, CM = Cool Matte etc. The colours on the website are reasonably accurate - if anything, they tend to be a bit bolder and brighter in real life. The only one that was a bit disappointing was the purple, but over the top of a white kajal base, it's beautiful ♥ I'll be posting an EOTD using a couple of these colours (including the purple) over the weekend...

All up, I'm thrilled to bits - I should have caught onto this customising caper many moons ago!

Have you ever indulged in a tailor-made eye shadow palette?

Take care of you,

kats