(Croatian version below ↓)
If you want to know what’s my biggest makeup disappointment of 2018 – keep reading this post. I was sooo incredibly excited for this palettes to come out that I still can’t actually believe they’re so bad. I bought them as soon as I saw them in store without even reading a single review. I usually read the reviews first, or watch Youtube videos of products I want to buy. So, I Heart Revolution came out with 3 Shake’n’Sparkle Glitter palettes: One True Love, Fortune Seeker and Starry Eyed. Why was I so excited? Because of the packaging, of course. They have the most beautiful packaging ever! Loads of confetti inside the liquid just like those Disney cups we had when we were children. Literally every girl’s dream.
But, oh my, oh my, how deceived I was. I tried One True Love first and used the pink matte shade. I don’t even know how many times I dipped the brush inside the pan to get some sort of pigmentation, but nothing happened. You can’t even swatch it. Even the swatches of glitter shadows aren’t good. I mean, some of them are, but you just can’t apply them on the eyelid. CANNOT. I really had to try hard for the photos. The shades are so hard panned, there is zero pigmentation and there is no point of talking about blending because there is nothing to blend. LOL
So, I just closed One True Love, removed that hideous attempt of an eye look, and without losing hope went on to try the second palette – Fortune Seeker. It’s swatches were slightly better (glitter swatches to be precise, mattes were still horrible), but unfortunately, they also performed bad on the eyelid. I started off with the lavender matte shade. I also kept dipping the brush inside the pan and barely managed to create something on the crease. I didn’t even want to try the other mattes so I mixed the first and seventh shade and somehow made something that looked decent – decent, but not nice. I won’t even mention how bad the other shades were.
So, I removed the makeup once again and went on to try the last palette – Starry Eyed. Now, this palette makes no sense at all – it has only two matte shades, white and blue?!, which are bad. And who the heck would be satisfied with only these two matte shades? Logic – zero logic. On the other hand, swatches of glitters were surprisingly good. But, since I had a bad experience with first two palettes, and by then I was pretty frustrated, I just didn’t try my best to make a good eye look. Matte shades were bad again, and I still don’t know what to say about the glitters. They stay on the eyelids, but somehow they’re too creamy and they tend to break down so you have to be careful when working with them. Which, of course, I wasn’t. So, I’ll try the Starry Eyed palette once again, without any previous poor attempts of creating a good look. 😀
And so be it, something I was so excited for, turned out to be a total failure. I, obviously, do not recommend these palettes. You can find better, or not better – you can find great palettes for the price of these ones. They’re 10.99€ each on the website, while I payed 14€ in the drugstore ☹ And these are the proof that looks are deceiving! Haha
I hope that with this post, someone will be saved from a total disappointment. And if you already tried one of these palettes, please tell me your thoughts. I really want to know.
xoxo, ninaizknina
Slijedi najveće razočaranje što se tiče šminke u 2018. godini. A toliko sam se radovala ovim paletama da je to nevjerojatno i odmah ih ugrabila prije nego sam išta pročitala o njima. Riječ je o tri I Heart Revolution Shake’n’Sparkle Glitter palete: One True Love, Fortune Seeker i Starry Eyed. Zašto sam im se toliko radovala i bila euforična? Pa zbog pakiranja, naravno. Najljepše pakiranje ikad! Znači, glitter se prelijeva kao kod onih čaša što smo imale kao male. Ako to nije SVE, ne znam što je 😀
Aliiii, koja greška. Prvo sam išla isprobati One True Love i krenula s rozom mat nijansom. Ni sama ne znam koliko sam puta grebala četkicom po njoj da bih dobila ikakvu pigmentaciju, i na kraju ništa. Ni swatchati se ne da. Čak ni swatchevi glitter nijansi nisu dobri. Neke jesu, ali na oku se ni one ne vide. Vraški sam se morala potruditi za fotke koje su ispale super – dokaz da se ne vjeruje svemu i svačemu. Nijanse su toliko čvrsto presane da je to nevjerojatno, pigmentacija nula, a o blendanju nema smisla ni govoriti jer se nema što blendati.
I tako, zatvorim ja One True Love, skinem taj pokušaj šminke na očima, ne gubim nadu i krenem ponovo s drugom paletom – Fortune Seeker. Njeni swatchevi su bili mrvicu bolji (odnosno swatchevi glittera, mat su i dalje bili užas), ali nažalost, na kapcima opet ista stvar. Krenula sam s mat lavanda nijansom. I u nju sam uronila sto puta četkicom i na kraju jedva uspjela napraviti da pregib liči na nešto. Nisam uopće dalje htjela pokušavati s mat nijansama tako da sam pomiješala prvu i sedmu nijansu i nekako nešto napravila da izgleda iole pristojno – pristojno, ali ne i lijepo. O ostalim sjenilima neću ni govoriti koliko su loša.
I skinem i to sve, i bacim se na Starry Eyed. E sad, ova paleta ima najmanje smisla – ima dvije mat nijanse, bijelu i plavu?!, koje su loše. I tko bi bio zadovoljan sa samo te dvije mat nijanse? Logika 0. S druge strane, swatchevi glitter nijansi su stvarno dobri. I budući da sam se treći put iznervirala, samo sam bezveze išla probati kako bi to bilo na očima. Mat su bile ajme, ali za glittere zapravo ne znam još uvijek što reći. Ostanu oni na kapcima, ali su nekako previše kremasti i raspadaju se tako da treba pažljivo raditi s njima. Što ja, naravno, nisam bila u stanju nakon prve dvije palete. Tako da, Starry Eyed ću probati još jednom, odmorna, bez ikakvih prijašnjih pokušaja/promašaja. 😀
I eto tako, tugo moja, nešto čemu sam se toliko radovala me toooliko razočaralo da je to nevjerojatno. Nikako ne preporučujem ove palete. Za te novce se na tržištu itekako mogu naći puno bolje, i to ne kvalitetnije, nego kvalitetne palete. Na njihovom sajtu dođu 10.99 eura, a ja sam u drogeriji platila 14 – plač. I ovo je dokaz da vanjski izgled vara! Hehe. Nadam se da ću ovim postom nekog spasiti od razočarenja. I ako ih je netko kojim slučajem probao nek’ mi napiše svoje dojmove. Hvala 😀
P.s. sad ne znam šta da radim s njima – da ih čuvam jer su lijepe ili bacim jer ih realno nikad neću koristiti? Dileme, dileme. 😀
ninaizknina 