By Sheila
Yes, dear readers, that’s the sight of my brand spanking new Milani shadow palette just mere minutes after bringing it home from a CVS located less than a mile away from my house.
No, I didn’t drop it, that’s just what happened on account of the regular jostling that happens when you carry things home in bags after buying them from the drugstore. Sigh.
For this and this reason only I have to label this a product: fail, just because I don’t think it’s fair to recommend something that may very well fall apart mere moments after purchasing. For the price tag on this palette – a steep $8.99 – I would expect it to be a little more sturdy. True, they have a disclaimer on the website about the fragility of the colors, but still!
The kicker to all of this? Right after I’d finished taking photos and closed the palette, another shadow bar was unexpectedly crushed to smithereens because the enclosed sponge tip applicator was unfortunately out of its place.
However, there is more to talk about than failures when it comes to this set of six colors. The fact of the matter is that the shadows are a fantastic quality and I was extremely impressed with their blendability and buildability when placed on top of a shadow primer. In my case, I used the MAC Paint Pot in Bare Study and was amazed by the effortless shadow application.
So, here’s the quick and dirty on the palette – Great value, great colors, but horrid packaging. Come on, Milani, you can do better than this!
I’ve had two of these Runway Eyes palettes (the greens and the greys) and both have broken soon after purchase. Not on the way home, but after one or two uses they’ve just… combusted!
I agree that the shadows are lovely, quite smooth and pigmented. I’ve considered scooping out the shadows and re-pressing them into little pans. But that’s too much work when I could just buy another product.
The finished product looks beautiful! Do you have a tutorial for how to get that effect with the eye shadow? I’d love to replicate it.
It was poorly conceived to make the shadow raised like that. It probably wouldn’t have broken if it had been pressed in the pan as usual.
I’d suggest using EnKore makeup’s tutorial for pressing shadow in a different pan, but it looks like the amount of shadow in each shade bar is minimal.
Sara(m) – you’d think the company would have tons of returns or complaints by this time!
JulBride – yes, I’ll get to a tutorial for you.
Deb – Yes, a teensy amount of shadow, so not worth it. I ended up returning it because it was pretty much compeltely destroyed!