For the past 2 years or so I have heard many people rave about how amazing the Glamlite formula is and I was always curious about it. However, I was slightly put off by the insane and somewhat bulky packaging, so I wasn't really drawn to their products until this palette released. I received this as a Christmas gift from my lovely sister and I was so excited to try it out and I've spent the past month playing with it and I have some thoughts to share!

First off, this palette comes in the most insane outer packaging. It's so cute but again, insane. Glamlite tend to go all out with their packaging (I'd recommend checking out their website if you're unfamiliar with the brand). I'm going to keep this ice cream truck outer packaging and hopefully I can display it somewhere!

This was the first palette I was aware of from Glamlite that had more standardised packaging. The front has a really cute raised, 3D ice cream sprinkle design which is a really cute detail. It's still pretty sleek so it doesn't impact how you could store it.

The main reason I was drawn to this palette was the lighter, almost pastel shades in the bottom 3 rows. I found it a bit weird there were so many neutral shades but then I remembered ice cream cones exist. However I do find it a bit strange they chose to include 5 quite similar brown shimmers. Although there is some slight variation, I don't think they were all necessary, I would wanted to keep 2-3 shades and had the depth in tone be a bit more varied. I also found the shade Strawberry and Rainbow Sherbet are also very similar too, I would I have loved if Rainbow Sherbet had been more red-toned.

There seems to be an absence of deepening shades, I would have liked a deeper purple matte, a deeper green matte and a deeper blue matte to add more depth to the looks you can create with this palette. I found I reached for Chocolate a lot more than I thought I would because there aren't really any other shades that can add depth.

I swatched these in columns from left to right on bare skin in natural lighting.

For the first look I created I used Mint Chocolate as my transition shade and Cookie Monster to deepen. I then used a combination of the two shades on my lower lashline. I tried put down some glitter glue on my lid and inner corner before packing Cotton Candy lid and on the inner corner I used French Vanilla.

I started with Pumpkin in the crease and along the lower lash line before deepening with the shade Butter Pecan. On the lid I used Pecan Praline and for my inner corner I used French Vanilla.

As for this look I used Mochi as my transition shade and Bubblegum in my crease. After that I used Raspberry to deepen the crease even further, before placing some glitter glue on my lid and inner corner. On my lid I used Strawberry and in my inner corner I used French Vanilla.

For this look I used Mango on the inner part of my crease and on the outer half I used the shade Pistachio. I then deepened the outer half of my crease using the shade Green Tea to deepen. On top of some glitter glue I used Lemon on the inner half of my lid and Birthday Cake on the outer half of my lid. Again my inner corner colour is French Vanilla.

I started with Raspberry in my transition area before adding Black Cherry in my crease and on the inner and outer third of my lid. Then I took the shade Chocolate to further deepen where I had already placed Black Cherry. I used some concealer on the centre of my lid before placing Salted Caramel on top. On my inner corner I used French Vanilla.

I started this look by using Honey Lavender as a transition and crease shade. I then took some of the shade Chocolate to deepen it further, which took a bit of time blending. I then packed on Gelato on the outer half of my lid and Blueberry Cheesecake on the inner half of the lid. I then took combined French Vanilla and Blueberry Cheescake as my inner corner highlight.

For this look I started with the shade Orange Cream as transition before taking Red Velvet in the outer crease, outer lid and lower lashline. I then cut my crease using a white concealer, before packing on Rainbow Sherbet on my outer lid and Lemon on inner lid. On the centre of my lid I sort of mixed the shades together and I also used a little of the shade Strawberry. For the inner corner I used French Vanilla.

I wanted to see how neutral I could take this palette. I started with Peanut Butter in my crease before deepening it with Chocolate. On the lid I used Strawberry Cheesecake with a little bit of Cookie Dough and French Vanilla on the inner corner.

For this look I used Raspberry as a general crease and transition shade and also ran that along my lower lash line. I then took some of the shade Chocolate to deepen the crease as well as a little bit along my lower lash line. I then took some glitter glue all over my lid and inner corner before applying Taro all over the lid. For the inner corner I layered French Vanilla and Blueberry Cheesecake.

After using this palette for this last month, I can see why they Glamlite formula gets so many rave reviews. This matte formula is incredibly blendable, it did not take long at all to to get a very nice blend every time I've used it and I could very easily combine shades like Raspberry and Chocolate without too much trouble. The mattes remind me a bit of the Emme Cosmetics formula, as when they swatch they're a little bit flakey and they feel quite powdery yet not dry (if that makes any sense). I do quite like formulas like this as I've found that that means they're very easy to work with.

The shimmer formulas in this palette varied a little bit, but in general they're all quite metallic. For context, I like super metallic and sparkly shimmers so I have very high standards when it comes to shimmers and for an eyeshadow palette, these are pretty intense. I tend to be a bit disappointed with shimmers in palettes nowadays when they don't perform like my favourite indie brand shimmers. There is some fallout to them though but I don't mind that too much but just thought I'd share that. I tend to almost always use glitter glue whenever I use shimmers and this did help a bit with fallout. French Vanilla was by far the most flakey but in general the other shades applied very smoothly.

I really have enjoyed playing with this palette! The formula is incredible, all the shadows worked wonderfully for me and I can see myself reaching for this palette a lot. I definitely understand why the Glamlite formula is so highly rated!

The con of this palette for me is definitely the colour story, I think this could have been edited just a bit and skipped some of the repetitive shades and replaced them with some deeper colourful mattes. Although I like the fact that you can take this palette in a more neutral direction, you can only get like 2 more neutral looks from this palette yet there are so many neutral shades there just isn't a lot of variation.

If you like the colour story then I would definitely check out this palette! I'm definitely considering buying more products from the brand in the future.

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These eyeliners have been on my Colourpop wish list for quite some time and I've been excited to start using them. Colourpop do have a set of their pastel shades but when I placed my order some of the colours were out of stock, luckily I was still able to pick up the colours I was most drawn to.

Before purchasing these I didn't own many eyeliners so my collection has increased by quite a lot.

Exit is a matte, bright white.

Ice Breaker is a pale, cool green with a matte finish.

Big Splash is a matte, light blue.

Amethyst Hour is a matte light pink with purple undertones.

I haven't seen all that many images of how these liners look on the waterline, so I thought I'd share some images of how they look! Left to right, top to bottom, the shades are: Exit, Ice Breaker, Big Splash and Amethyst.

Ice Breaker swatches true to colour on the skin, however on my waterline it didn't show up vibrantly at all. I'm guessing this is due to that the colours cancel each other out so it ends up looking like a light neutral with a slight green undertone rather than a pastel green.

I noticed that if I tried to layer one singular colour to achieve a higher level of opacity, the liner would sometimes become patchy. It seems as though you can only get to a certain point with these liners before they reject what you want to do. I noticed this most with the shade Big Splash. However layering different shades on top of one another worked really well. I like layering eyeliners to get more colour options and these liners work well for that purpose, as I can easily layer these liners with one another as well as other liners in my collection.

I didn't notice any major fading, that being said I didn't wear these for longer than maybe 7 hours, so I can't speak on whether or not they'd last all day.

I did hear from someone that the Colourpop eyeliner formula dries out really quickly, so I am going to try and use them as much a possible this year.

So these liners are a bit of a mixed bag for me. They're ok but not amazing. I can see myself reaching for them regularly as I do enjoy wearing liner on my waterline to add a little something to my eye looks. However, I don't think I'll be expanding my collection from this range because of what I've heard about the formula not lasting longer than a year, as well as the fact they do get a bit patchy if you build them up. I think they're decent but not outstanding.

I wouldn't wear Amethyst Hour by itself due to the nature of the colour rather than issues with the formula. I was expecting this shade to be a lot more purple but it's pretty much a straight up pink. On the eye it didn't look quite as flattering on it's own. I think the name led me to believe it would look a lot more purple on than pink, which is slightly frustrating. I also was a bit disappointed by Ice Breaker as it isn't pigmented enough to cancel out the pink tone of my waterline so comes off like a neutral tone.

Hope this review is helpful and thanks for reading!

The JDGlow Galaxy shadows have been on my wish list for a while now and I finally decided to try them out! I'd been hearing amazing things about this range from so many people, so I felt like I had to know what the hype was about. I decided to play it safe and only purchase four shades from this range and I chose the colours I kept thinking about.

Unexpected is a bit of an enigma, the base is a medium bronze that shifts green and somewhat purple, while also having flecks of green, teal, gold and purple flecks of shimmer in it. You can mainly see the bronze and green the most but the longer you stare at it the more colours you can see. It's very hard to capture all the colours in photos which is so frustrating.

Good Gawd has a pale pink base that can look more nude in certain lighting, with flecks of blue shimmer running through it.

N-Sane is a medium lilac that has a base that leans more warm-toned and has flecks of blue shimmer.

These shadows are all from the Galaxy shadow collection; yet they all feel a bit different. Prismatic and N-Sane feel more like smooth duo-chromes, whereas Good Gawd and Unexpected are more flaky and textured, although Good Gawd is not quite as flaky as Unexpected.

The most comparable formula I have tried is probably the Devinah Cosmetics shimmer formula, which I really like. The only slight con with this kind of formula is that on my hooded eyes the shadow can wear down a bit quicker in the hood of my eyelid. It's not a massive issue for me personally, as I don't wear eyeshadow for long enough for that to happen.

I did get a fair amount of fallout, even though I almost exclusively use a glitter glue with shimmer eyeshadows, so keep that in mind! I'm ok with doing my eye makeup first but I know not everyone likes doing it in that order.

I thought I'd show how these actually perform on the eyes. For the mattes I used in these looks I mainly used the September Rose Slush palette, except for the look using Unexpected, where I used the Dose of Colors Friendcation palette

Wearing Prismatic on the lid and inner corner

Wearing Unexpected on the lid and inner corner

Wearing Good Gawd on the lid and inner corner

Wearing N-Sane on the lid and inner corner

Although there were some inconsistencies in the formula from what I've tried, all of these shadows performed really nicely on the eyes. I would consider buying more from the range as I have really enjoyed using these shadows, however I have heard some shades in the Galaxy formula are just glorified shimmers and not these beautiful, intense metallic shimmers that I've tried.

These shadows are lovely and met my expectations and then some. If you like an intense, super sparkly shimmer then these shades are some to check out!

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