Small Palette Shade Review – Essence: Dancing Green (opinion in the comments)
Small Palette Shade Review – Essence: Dancing Green (opinion in the comments)
🤔 Small Palette ~ In-Depth Shade Review 🔍
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➡️ NOTE: This is MY opinion & experience; regarding the shade quality. As always, use/buy the makeup that makes YOU happy. Also, none of my stuff is sponsored. I do it for fun.
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Smaller palettes are great, but with a smaller-sized palette it is IMPERATIVE that each shade performs remarkably well. Considering you have limited options to create a look, each shade must do its job to contribute to the overall palette quality.
This review focuses on EACH shade in a palette, tests each shade to its limit, and lets you know which ones function as expected, and which shades are duds. At the end, you can see if the palette is mathematically worth the offering price, or if you should skip it.
Today, we are using the Essence Makeup: Dancing Green eyeshadow palette. This is my first time deep-diving into this palette, & I’m excited to see how it works.
I swatch each shade in multiple ways (because a single swatch doesn’t always tell the entire story!), & I test each shadow out on my actual eye.
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⭐⭐ Legend:
+ description: color of shade
+ designation: color family shade belongs to
+ formula type: description of compound
+ pigmented: applies tinted or colorless
+ color similarity: color applies same color as appears in pan
+ patchiness: experienced any skips or baldness in application
+ blendability: ability to smoothly blend shadow
+ kickback in pan: amount of powder released when brush touched in pan
+ fallout: amount of powder residue on my face after application
+ rating: 0/10: an opinion of the overall performance of the shadow
+ determination: whether the shade is functional for value, or a dud.
+ comments: any noteworthy or valuable information about the shade
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▪️Name of Palette: Essence Makeup – Dancing Green
▪️# of Shades in Palette: 6
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✔ RATING SCALE:
A = 9-10 / FUNCTIONAL
B = 7-8 / FUNCTIONAL
C = 5-6 / FUNCTIONAL
D = 3-4 / DUD
F = 1-2 / DUD
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⭐ Shade 1 – Review: (You Can Dance)
+ description: champagne
+ designation: cool tone
+ formula type: shimmer
+ pigmented: yes
+ color similarity: yes
+ patchiness: no
+ blendability: yes
+ kickback in pan: yes
+ fallout: yes
+ rating: 8/10 (B)
+ determination: functional
+ comments: none
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⭐ Shade 2 – Review: (Feel the Beat)
+ description: sage green w/ gold reflects
+ designation: cool tone
+ formula type: shimmer
+ pigmented: yes
+ color similarity: yes
+ patchiness: no
+ blendability: yes
+ kickback in pan: yes
+ fallout: yes
+ rating: 10/10 (A)
+ determination: functional
+ comments: the gold really shines in this shade
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⭐ Shade 3 – Review: (Rock Music)
+ description: teal w/ blue reflects
+ designation: cool tone
+ formula type: shimmer
+ pigmented: yes
+ color similarity: yes
+ patchiness: no
+ blendability: yes
+ kickback in pan: yes
+ fallout: yes
+ rating: 10/10 (A)
+ determination: functional
+ comments: none
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⭐ Shade 4 – Review: (Watch That Scene)
+ description: olive green
+ designation: warm tone
+ formula type: matte
+ pigmented: no
+ color similarity: no, appears lighter
+ patchiness: yes
+ blendability: yes
+ kickback in pan: yes
+ fallout: yes
+ rating: 3/10 (D)
+ determination: dud
+ comments: none
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⭐ Shade 5 – Review: (Night is Young)
+ description: hunter green
+ designation: cool tone
+ formula type: matte
+ pigmented: yes
+ color similarity: no, appears lighter
+ patchiness: yes
+ blendability: yes
+ kickback in pan: yes
+ fallout: yes
+ rating: 7/10 (B)
+ determination: functional
+ comments: this shade had the MOST fallout
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⭐ Shade 6 – Review: (Only Seventeen)
+ description: silver taupe
+ designation: cool tone
+ formula type: shimmer
+ pigmented: yes
+ color similarity: yes
+ patchiness: no
+ blendability: yes
+ kickback in pan: yes
+ fallout: yes
+ rating: 10/10 (A)
+ determination: functional
+ comments: none
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✅ Best Performing Shade: Feel the Beat
❌ Least Impressive Shade: Watch That Scene
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⚠️ Overall Shade Performance Ratio (dud to functional) = 1:5
➡️ Overall Dud Percentage = 17%
➡️ Overall Value Percentage = 83%
💲 Total Palette Cost = $3.99
💲 Total Palette Value = $3.31
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Conclusion: Mathematically, you are ever only going to get $3.31 worth of value out of this palette.
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Maybe I missed it (although I’m wearing my glasses right now so I have no excuse) but it would be amazing if you had an overall palette grade/rating/opinion like would you buy it knowing what you know now and how likely are you to use this regularly.
Personally I’d want more green out of something that seemed, based on the name, to be green themed???
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