- Laura Mercier Baked Eye Colour Palette (Limited Edition, $48)
I was so excited when I swatched this palette in store because the shadows were so beautiful swatched, truly, but when I actually played around with the palette this morning it was a nightmare to work with. My makeup usually takes like, 15-30 minutes but all in all this took like an hour to get any pigmentation on my lids at all, and that is with primer and both dry and wet application. The colors just don’t get picked up by the brush, they simply refuse to leave my fingertips and get on my lids - auuuughhhh!!! When applied wet, the shadows are a a bit more pigmented, but not enough to make this palette worth purchasing. If you are looking for a sheer tint with shimmer thrown in, perhaps this is the palette for you. However, I expected much more from Laura Mercier, and this just isn’t it. I ended up giving up on packing on the colors and just put a dash of an Urban Decay shadow on my lids so I could get my eye makeup over with. That one swipe of Urban Decay Omen gave more pigmentation than 7+ applications of any of the LM colors! Really! I’m so mad.
I have seen drugstore shadow with better results. Such a fail formula. Skip it. Boo. Hiss.
