Boudoir Eyes || TooFaced

 

Yay for marble backgrounds - they may be cliché, but they make life SO much easier (and prettier.)

 

For Christmas, I received this gorgeous TooFaced 'Boudoir Eyes' palette from Santa, and last weekend I created an eye look with it for the first time and fell completely in love. I'm in a make-up crazy phase at the moment (as you can probably tell from the huge increase in beauty posts), so I knew I had to post about this palette over here on my blog.

 

The packaging is pretty much the classiest packaging I've ever seen - even if the eye shadow shade names are no where near as classy ('lap dance'?!) - a baby pink and gold metal case designed to look like a pillow. I guess the whole theme of this palette is seductiveness, but the prude in me will just bypass that and focus on the pigmentation. The only fault I have with this product is a minor one, as I love it when palettes come with a make up brush, like the Naked ones do.

 

 

The colour selection is right up my alley: baby pink, champagne, heather grey, a shimmery brown - it literally has all the shades I would wish for in a palette to suit my skin tone. What I love about these eye shadows is the pigmentation, which is such high quality and true to the appearance of the shadow in the tray. I tried to swatch them to show you guys, but I am so bad at getting swatches to look professional! (Any tips???) My favourite shades in the range are 'Satin Sheets' and 'Sugar Walls', the sparkly shades that would look amazing for a night out. 'Garter Belt' is also a really beautiful dark grey that I don't think I've seen as a shadow anywhere before, and although it intimidates me I'm excited to try it out. 

 

When I went out on Saturday night I wanted a dramatic, fancier eye look than I usually go for, and instead of picking up my Naked 1 palette, which has become an extension of my own body I use it that much, I picked up this one. After a couple of false starts due to my lack of expertise, I decided to wear 'Satin Sheets' all over my lid, 'Sugar Walls' towards the outer corner of my eye all the way to the middle of the lid (blend, blend, blend), and 'Voulez-Vouz' on the very outer corner, with a slight wing to guide my cat eye. I then used my favourite Lengthening Eylure falsies to finish the eye look, and went for a slightly bolder lip than usual with a Soft Matte NYX Lip Cream in 'Prague'.

 

Overall this product gets a solid 9/10 from me - have you ever tried this, or any other TooFaced products out?