Consider this a lesson learnt, I think I’m going to start toning down on any of these “huge” palette like makeup products unless the reviews online are amazing! This was not one of those palette 🙁 Finding ways to store them is just a pain! Introducing Tarte’s Holiday 2011 palette called the Starlet. It’s a beautiful mirrored jewellery box that houses an array of eyeshadows, mascara, eyelash primer and blushes.
There is no doubt that the box is adorable, completely impractical and not the most sturdiest of boxes, but cute none the less. The makeup however is pretty second rate in my opinion. The swatches may not make it obvious, but the texture was very hit and miss. There were some shadows are had beautiful pigmentation, buttery formula, then others that were incredibly chalky, some were so solid that I had to literally dig into the pan to get any colour.
The blushes however were definitely much better than the shadows, but I would not personally recommend this palette to anyone solely based on the blushes which whilst were high quality, are not shades you need to buy this palette to own. They are easily dupable.
I will say that one up side to this palette is that it is relatively easy to depot all the product so you’re left with an empty mirrored box to store whatever you like in it 🙂 It was no easy feat to get the makeup out of the middle drawer though :/
Another great surprise was the Tarte eyelash primer, I’d never tried it before but since this palette came with a mini version I thought I’d give it a go and really loved the effect! I will definitely be purchasing the full sized version when I finish up this sample size and will post a review 🙂
I’m not sure if you can still purchase this palette, but don’t consider it a must have 🙂
Thanks for your review. I heard a lot of bad things about this palette which was such a shame, because I love Tarte and the packaging is so damn cute!
It is SUCH a shame! I absolutely love their packaging 🙁 So deceiving!
I’ve generally had bad experiences with Tarte’s products. Lights Camera Lashes and the occasional amazonian clay are the only products of theirs i’ve had a good experience with. Their eye products tend to leave me disappointed. 🙁 I’m sorry this was such a bummer for you.
Awww it’s good to know I’m not alone in that I’m just not using the products right, wish they weren’t so expensive 🙁
tarte is hit or miss for me too. some of my favorite makeup products are by them though! i love the femme naturale palette, amazonian clay blushes, their lipgloss 40 winks! the box for this palette was so pretty!!
Their blushes keep getting such great reviews! I really need to try they out more *_*
Thanks for the review. What a shame the eyeshadows aren’t that good. This palette looked so pretty and promising.
It does doesn’t it? I really wish it performed better 🙁
Ah well, at least the box is pretty 🙂
Is true, I’ve kept the box to store stuff in 🙂
How’d you depot everything?! With heat?
Yep! I use a hair straightener with wax paper! 🙂