I’d have to say Coastal Scents produces some of my favourite budget friendly palettes, even though I’m fully aware companies like BH Cosmetics (which I also love and need to review), Crush Cosmetics and a ton you will find on eBay all use the same wholesaler as Coastal Scents (hence why you can find so many palettes that look like this), I still love Coastal Scents just because it was the first one I got introduced to and still seems to have the largest variety 🙂
If the blog wasn’t obvious enough, I’m a bit of a collector (dude I collect useless achievement points on World of Warcraft, it’s my thing, let it go!) and so when I heard Coastal Scents was coming out with some new 88 palettes I snapped them up! I already owned all the previous versions so buying this was a bit of a no-brainer.
Introducing the Prism palette, which contains 88 shades of mostly matte, with a few shimmer shades thrown in for good measure. Out of all the 88 palettes available, I’d be inclined to recommend this one to makeup beginners because it has such a wide range of shades. True whites all the way to true blacks, with a mixture of shimmer and matte. It’s a solid beginner kit.
I used a gold shade in the inner corner of my eyes, a dark purple over the lid and the black as liner.
The shadow quality is pretty much comparable to all the other palettes, it’s not terrible, but it’s not absolutely amazing either. You’ll get a decent amount of pigmentation for daily wear and most looks, but if you’re like me and are crazy about getting intense, eye blinding shades then you’ll either need to prime your lids with your desired cream eye shadow and dust over this shadow to “alter” the colour, or head down the pigment road.
I swatched every single colour just for you guys~~ Hope you find it useful and also hope that you see what I mean by “decent” pigmentation.
This palette goes for $19.95US from the Coastal Scents website, which sounds like a great bargain! But, for you Aussies, beware the insane shipping costs that Coastal Scents deals out. Admittedly they do really go all out to ensure the palettes arrive nicely packaged, but it’s still not 100% fool proof (one of the colours was completely smashed for the next palette I’m reviewing).
Thanks for taking the time to swatch them all, Celina! (:
My pleasure, so long as it’s useful~ That’s all that matters 🙂
Whoa HT, you did it!! Fab post, well done 😀
You know it! Heheh, no worries 🙂 Not the best swatch photos, but I was getting pretty tired by the end lol
Thank you so much for the swatches. It must have taken a lot of time. 🙂
My pleasure! It sure did, but totally worth it to help readers decide whether this is a palette they want or not 🙂 Planning to do it all again this weekend with the Mirage palette 🙂
Oh my gosh, that’s a lot of swatches! The shimmery colours are always so much better than the matte ones, I find. Thanks for going through the trouble to swatch them all Celina. The eye look you did is so pretty!
I love your dedication on swatching all 88 colours, your arms must be sore that day 🙂
Thanks! Aaha, my left arm has built up resistance now 😀