Preface: Back in 2021/22, I started compiling this post, but I never published it. The Makeup Geek company folded in 2022, but the website is still there. I recently updated my logo and came here to update my blog and I found this slightly unfinished and unpublished post. I decided to just post it anyway, so please let me know what you think. My Rhubarb and Burble Instagram profile has been my ‘blog’ for that last three years, and I have since moved into yarn related goodness. So watch out for future blog posts here, probably mostly relating to knitting and fibre.
Let’s start at the beginning. I’ve always hankered after creating my own custom eyeshadow palette to suit my personal taste. There are lots of beautiful palettes on the market, but there’s usually a shade or two which either aren’t as appealing or don’t necessarily sit well with the colour story. I had the seed of an idea to create a company offering customised eyeshadow palettes with personalised shade names, packaging, etc, but swiftly concluded that this would be too costly to produce on a bespoke basis.
I went online to see what customisable palettes already existed and came across the Makeup Geek website. I had watched various reviews on YouTube of Makeup Geek eyeshadow palettes, and they had, largely, been very good. Makeup Geek also produce and sell single eyeshadows and offer a ‘Create Your Own Palette’ option whereby you choose your nine shades and receive a free magnetic palette in which to keep them.
I thought this would be a good way to realise my perfect palette, although, I became almost overwhelmed by the vast array of colours and subsequent indecision. I knew I really wanted the palettes to have personal significance, so I decided to pick a colourway pertinent to my local area of North Devon. I eventually curated three possibilities, but, I didn’t want to buy three palettes without ever having tried the formula of the shadows. To take the final decision away from myself, I posted the three options on our social media and asked our followers to choose! Alongside this, I wanted the palettes to have meaningful names, so I ended up with the following combinations:
cc-by-sa/2.0 – © Philip Halling – geograph.org.uk/p/171273
cc-by-sa/2.0 – © Guy Wareham – geograph.org.uk/p/5117894
The leader changed a few times, but the eventual winner was No.3, The Exmoor Palette. I ordered it at the end of November (2021), and it arrived just over five weeks later. Everything survived the journey from Edgewood, NY just fine.
The shades from top to bottom and left to right are:
So pale – Matte
Cupcake – Matte
Spilled tea – Matte
Illuminaughty -Foiled
In the spotlight – Foiled
Mystical – Foiled
Olive you – Matte
Dedicated – Matte
Give me the dirt – Matte
All of their products are cruelty-free and most are vegan. The only non-vegan shades I purchased were: Give me the dirt and Dedicated. The matte shades are all from their Signature Eyeshadow range and weigh 1.5g each, except for the shade Dedicated which is from their Power Pigment range and weighs 2g.
The total cost was $46.99 (£36.74) including postage from the US including a $21.41 discount offer. When I purchased it, the matte shades retailed at $5.49 each. The foiled shades and Dedicated were $7.99 each. And as I said, the empty, magnetic palette was included in the bundle price. P+P was $8.99.
The article was going to have swatches and a full review, but I never got around to doing that. If you would like me to do it, please let me know.
Louisa
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