Back in 2010 I reviewed Smashbox’s Eye Wish Palette and thought that was an impressive palette. Since then I’ve been through my fair share of truly impressive palette and decided to give Smashbox’s Click You’re It palette a whirl so I could compare it to their previous holiday palette.
My general impression of this palette is yes, big improvement on their Holiday 2010 version BUT it really isn’t a must have in anyone’s collection. You know those type of gifts that are just kinda of a nice addition, nice to have, but not really an essential? Yeah, well this is it.
The range of colours is very usable, you’ve got neutral shades and some more colourful ones, but nothing too over the top. But the actual quality of the shadows is not the best in my opinion, I found that some were very rich and pigmented (the darker shade) but the lighter ones were pretty disappointing. Left me feeling very lackluster.
However one stand out feature of this palette which 2010 sincerely lacked were the gel liner / cream shadows. This year they were absolutely beautiful! Creamy, pigmented and very easy to apply. I remember last year I have to literally dig into the pan to get any colour, complete opposite to this year.
But is it worth buying this entire palette just for those cream liners?… Honestly? Maybe! At $49US, that works out to be a little less than $10 for each liner, throw in the primer, mini eye tutorials and eyeshadows as bonus and it isn’t a bad deal. It really comes down to personal preference, if you don’t have a ton of gel liners and want variety without splurging out, then consider this palette JUST for the eyeliners.
I’ll keep this in the palette for now, but I know personally after a few month of using the same big palette I have a tendancy to try and depot everything into an easy to store and access Unii Palette. As the palette is essentially made of cardboard, you know this won’t be a hard goal to achieve if you decide to.
All in all, it’s an okay palette. I’m guessing you may not be able to get this palette anymore, as it was limited edition to Holiday 2011 :/ But after reading this review, I hope you don’t think it was a huge loss 🙂
Thanks! It’s always a great relief to know I don’t “need” something. I’m still thinking of your Tom Ford review and I think I “need” that. lol
Isn’t it? More money saved… but not if you splurge on Tom Ford eyeshadows missy! lol
I still shudder at the thought of depotting. Given that I have most of the colors here I’ll definitely pass out on this one. Especially given the meh performance of the lighter shades.
Oh don’t worry! Despite having done a tone of depotting, I still always make a mess AND I have cracked my fair share of palettes 🙁 Now I only ever depot cheaper brands, no way do I depot expensive brands, can’t trust myself!