Beauty

Revlon's Galaxy Dream Palette

March 21, 2018

Hello my badass beauties!
Today I have a review of the ethereal Galaxy Dream Palette by Revlon. I purchased this palette back when it first came out at Wal-Mart for $13 & I've been in love with it ever since.
I'm so excited to see a drugstore brand hop on the "holographic" or iridescent / duochrome highlighter bandwagon.
In the pan, these highlighters don't look too exciting but when you swatch them, that's when the magic happens! It's a stunning palette & my photos don't do the swatches or the palette justice, but let's get to them!

pinky-orange, green, lilac-pink, & silver.

Finger swatches with flash.
Without flash.





I really love this higlighting palette. The formula isn't chalky like some highlighters, but it's actually pretty smooth and easy to apply and blend. A few of the shades sort of remind me of Kat Von D's alchemist palette. The only complaint I have is I wish the silver would have had  a blue shift to it, because that would have made this palette even more amazing. What do you guys think? Let me know in the comments below! As always, thanks so much for reading.

Beauty

Hard Candy's Out of This World Galactic Eyes Eyeshadow Palette!

March 13, 2018

Hello my badass beauties! I was finally able to find Hard Candy's Galactic Eyes palette at Wal-Mart so obviously I snatched it up. If you know me personally, you know I love anything and everything space(and beauty, obviously) so this palette is right up my alley.
The shades in the pans look stunning, & the packaging of the palette had me hooked due to it's holographic/iridescent lettering and design. This palette retails for $8 & you get 10 galaxy inspired shades that can be worn alone or layered on top of other shadows for a transforming effect.


I absolutely love the holographic packaging!


Close-Up on the shades along with their names.


One of the things I was pleasantly surprised about this palette is it actually comes with a real double ended brush instead of one of the spongy type applicators that most drugstore palettes have. For these swatches I didn't actually have to dig into the palette, I only lightly used my fingers to get the product out of the pans so I know if you are more aggressive with swatching they will be even more pigmented. One thing I noticed is it seems certain shades seem to have different formulas, because Supernova(purple) & Meteor(red) are very dry compared to the other shades that seem silkier and more pigmented, and easier to apply. Another thing is they are very hard to apply with brushes so I do not recommend doing so, it's much easier to apply them with your finger and then blend them out with the brush. So let's get to the swatches! 




From left to right: Constellation, Shooting Star, Alien, Blue Moon, Meteor, Eclipse, Nebula, Spaceship, Retrograde, & Supernova.

I used the shade Blue Moon all over my lid & it performed decently. It blended well & there's a lot of sparkle packed in there.


The whole palette has a foiled type formula & I did one to two swipes of the pigment for each swatch. Out of all 10 shades, I was most disappointed with the purple and red due to the formula difference & they were the hardest to build up. Hopefully these two will be much more pigmented the more you build them up. I love how sparkly all of the colors are because there's really no duds in this palette, it just takes some patience for a few of them. 
I've been using Hard Candy for quite some time now & I remember back when the Meteor Eyes Baked Glitter Eyeshadow Collection came out, which had some of my absolute favorite shades at the time. Hard Candy has really stepped their game up in product range, selection, & quality over the years and I love how affordable their products are.
What do you think of this palette? Have you tried it? Let me know in the comments down below!
As always, thank you so much for reading.