I know I know, yet another famous palette that everyone has tried and I am waaay behind in my reviews! Story of my life, but I promise to try and do better? 🙂
Now that we’ve kissed and made up, let’s get on to the review! LORAC isn’t a brand typically available in Australia (at least from what I can tell), but it’s a popular brand especially in the states and when this palette came out it was often compared to the famous Naked palettes from Urban Decay. I thought I’d give the community my 2 cents!
This palette contains 16 eye shadows, the top are filled with mattes and the bottom 8 are all shimmer. The colours are all based more around neutral to wearable shades that the majority of people would use. You won’t find any ultra bright blues or yellows here! It also comes with an eye shadow primer which I have yet to use, though have heard good things about (sorry I just have an existing back log to work through)
The palette is light weight and very thin! It also comes with a large mirror perfect for on the go. I guess what I’m trying to say is this palette is perfect for travel! And the shades are perfect for taking any look from day to night to in between. You’ve got some perfect lighter shades that I’d use for work, some more richer browns and golds I’d use for the weekend and darker shades perfect for creating a smokey look or using as an eyeliner. And they have a pure white and pure black shade included, two important shades that always seem to be neglected!
The quality is amazing, highly pigmented, easy to blend, really there isn’t anything bad I can say about this palette.
So the big question is, Naked or LORAC?
That’s a tough one because it depends on your needs and priorities. For the everyday girl (or boy) whom is more focused on creating wearable looks and isn’t really keen on experimenting too much with different shades of the standard colours, then skip the Naked palettes and just pick this up instead! The colour range and texture is larger here~
But if you’re a beauty enthusiast who wants a lot of variety and tends to go into different moods regarding what you want to use etc, then get both! Either way you won’t be disappointed, it’s all good 🙂
If you’re interested, you can purchase this off Sephora for $42US, I used a mail forwarding service to obtain mine.
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