Happy friggin' Saturday. And it's a beautiful one, I might add! I was playing around with my new Anastasia Beverly Hills Artist Palette ($30.00) this morning and came up with a few looks. I first want to add, that the palette markets itself as highly pigmented, but I really don't think it's "highly pigmented, which may not be so bad. I don't typically wear eyeshadow on a daily basis, let alone super bright colors, so I don't mind that it's not highly pigmented. Off the bat, it really reminds me of my Make Up For Ever Artist Palette, except it doesn't perform as well.

I noticed as I was swatching, there was a good amount of fallout. I experienced that problem with the colors Phresh and Beigely. I was under the impression that a large part of the problem was the brush. Both ends are very dense for some reason and weren't really good at picking up the color. I ended up using my Urban Decay duo shadow brush and it minimized some fallout but not all. I used a NYX eye crayon as a base in Yogurt. Here are two looks I came up with.


Inner lid: Beigely



 Although this palette did not meet my expectations, I don't regret buying it. I probably have some of these colors in my makeup collection but none of them all together which inspires me to create looks with this palette. Also, it was only $30; I'm sure most of my eyeshadow palettes costed more. I am anticipating trying out Orange You Fancy and Anaconda. Dusty Rose looks like it would be a good every day work shadow. 

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