Too Faced Pretty Rebel Palette - Review, swatches, and comparisons

The new eyeshadow palette from Too Faced is so pretty! According to the description on the box, it's meant to be able to give you all kinds of looks, from classic to really wild and colorful. It has a good variety of neutrals, colors, and finishes. Here is the palette and swatches:

Top row: Dainty, Charming, Girly, Totally Fetch, Miss Sparkles
Bottom row: Ringleader, Gangsta, Instigator, Badass, Jailbird

Most of the colors have good pigmentation, with the exception of Dainty, Charming, and Totally Fetch. It just takes so much effort to build them up.

Left to right: Dainty, Charming, Totally Fetch. You can't even see Dainty--that's how unpigmented it is

I was most drawn to the neutrals in this palette, but they're not that unique. If you have some of the more popular neutral palettes, you will already have some of these colors. They're not all exact dupes, but most of these can give you a very similar, if not identical look.

Left: Dainty
Right: Cream from Lorac Pro palette
*Lorac's Cream is less chunky

Left: Ringleader
Right: Sin from Urban Decay's Naked palette 

Left: Charming
Middle: Espresso from Lorac Pro palette
Right: Sexpresso from Too Faced's Natural Eye palette
* Charming is very chunky and unevenly pigmented

Left: Girly
Right: Definer shade from Wet n Wild's Comfort Zone palette
*MAC's Club is also the same color

Left: Gangsta
Second from left: Crease shade from Wet n Wild's Comfort Zone palette
Second from right: Snakebite from Urban Decay's Naked 2 palette
Right: Smog from Urban Decay's Naked palette

Instigator is pretty unique; it's a metallic yellow, which I don't think is very wearable. If that's what you want, go for it, but I have some colors that are more flattering.

Left: Instigator
Second from left: Gold from Lorac Pro palette
Second from right: Half Baked from Urban Decay's Naked and Naked 2 palettes
Right: Honey Pot from Too Faced's Natural Eye palette

Hot or Not: NOT

This is just kind of an okay palette for me. If six of the colors have dupes/alternatives and three are poorly pigmented, is it really worth getting? I wouldn't recommend this to someone who already owns a lot of the popular neutral palettes, because you're getting a lot of overlap. Get this if you want kind of an "eyeshadow starter palette"--you get a good mix of neutrals and really fun colors. Just make sure to use a good primer underneath to get better color payoff.

Marc Jacobs Beauty Lolita eyeshadow palette: Review, swatches, and comparisons!

Marc Jacobs Beauty just launched at Sephora last week--I picked up the eyeshadow palette in The Lolita.

The packaging is really sleek, and reminds me of a Mont Blanc pen. It seems pretty sturdy, and it snaps shut, so it won't fling open when you're traveling with it. It also comes inside a sleeve, so that shiny enamel case doesn't get scratched.

You get seven eyeshadows and a nice, long mirror. The thing that's notable about this palette is that you get five light colors, one medium shade, and one really dark color--it's a little unbalanced, which means you probably won't have a lot of variety/options with this palette.

Look at how chunky the white color is! :(

The quality of the colors is just okay; the matte colors (first three from the left) are a little difficult to build up and kind of chalky, and the glittery color (middle) is really flaky. The three shimmery colors on the right are fine, but the quality is not as good as Urban Decay eyeshadows. Just looking at the colors, though, it really reminds me of the Too Faced Natural Eye palette.

Swatching the colors side-by-side, you can see that there are a lot of similarities between these two palettes! The only color in the Marc Jacobs palette that seems more unique is the pink color, which has purple iridescent shimmer in it, but if you already have the Too Faced palette, it's really not worth getting the Marc Jacobs just for this one color.

Top row: Shades from the Marc Jacobs palette
Bottom row: Comparable colors from the Too Faced Natural Eye palette

The price is also kind of concerning; it's $59 for seven eyeshadows--I'm sure most of that goes towards the packaging. To put this in perspective, that's $8.43 for each color; the Too Faced palette is $36 for nine colors, so $4.00 each. Each of the colors in the Urban Decay Naked palettes cost $4.17.

The high cost is particularly disappointing when you dump out the sponge-tip applicator at the bottom of the sleeve; for $59, I would expect an "extra" that is much more impressive than this.

Hot or Not: NOT

If you already have neutral palettes, The Lolita palette is really not worth getting; there are just palettes with more variety, higher quality eyeshadows, and more reasonable prices out there. If you're interested in these colors, get the Too Faced Natural Eye palette (find it here); it's cheaper, better quality, and has more colors.

However, this seven-color palette also comes in other colors (there's one with jewel tones, one with purples, and one with a mix of neutrals and colors) which may be worth checking out if you want a really luxurious eyeshadow palette with some unique colors. See the whole Marc Jacobs Beauty collection here.