MY TOP 5: MAKEUP REVOLUTION EYESHADOW PALETTES

What better way to start a Monday than with a little post about my favourite drugstore brand - Makeup Revolution. Today I'd like to show you my absolute Top 5 palettes from MUR that tick just about every single box for me. Cool to warm neutrals with a touch of crazy colour and most importantly lots of mattes and beautiful shimmers.

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I've always been pretty vocal in saying the Chocolate series from MUR are my absolute faves! The formula and shadow pigmentation smashes pretty much any other drugstore brand by a mile! They're this good! I own every single palette from that series and I'm sure I own many more as certain sneak peeks on Instagram suggest (damn you Adam Minto!). It was heartbreaking choosing the best out of them but I have and these 3 will rock your world. 

Let's start with Naked Chocolate. The packaging is of white melted chocolate with its powdery yellow finish. I call it - the wedding palette, as it consists of a great mixture of neutrals with cool mauves, cool & warm browns and lot's of delicate shimmers. The pigmentation is insane and the shadows all blend and transfer well. It's a perfectly balanced neutral palette, so if you do not own any MUR palettes - I'd start with this one! (Click here for REVIEW WITH SWATCHES)

I love warm tones and the newest addition to the Chocolate family is Chocolate Vice. I only just recently reviewed it for the blog so I'll be brief . It's an absolute gem for those loving warm tones shadows. If you are a proud owner of blue, grey or green eyes, these shadows will make your eyes pop! Great mixture of warm tones mostly from golds, through coppers, browns, peach and reds! Stunning palette! I find that pigmentation & formula is slightly better than the previous Chocolate palettes and It's been my favourite for a while now.  (click here for REVIEW WITH SWATCHES)

Salted Caramel palette compliments the others very well. It's a lovely mixture of cool, neutral and warm Browns with a touch of gold and even colour. It's a great neutral palette, especially for evening looks as there's: plenty of medium to dark browns to choose from. Again the pigmentation is great and the shades blend beautifully together. If you're looking to update your collection with darker neutrals - this one is for you. It's been designed as a dupe for Too Faved Semi Sweet Palette so if you don't fancy spending £40.00 on the original, MUR dupe is available for fifth of the price. (Click here for REVIEW WITH SWATCHES)

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Another warm toned gem is the amazing New-Trals VS Neutrals palette. With plenty of cool to neutral crease shades and lots of peach and reds, it's a perfect palette! If you'd like to make those grey/blue eyes pop, look no further. From semi-mattes, through satins and eye popping shimmers, it's a gorgeous choice all year round, especially summer and autumn, when we tend to stick to warmer colours in our makeup routines. I'm in love with the top row shades - they're original and pigmentation is spot on. Bottom row reminds me of Naked 3 shades and it compliments the warm shades of the top row perfectly. (click here for REVIEW WITH SWATCHES)

Last but certainly not least is the Redemption Matte Brights Palette which has been my absolute favourite colour palette of the whole last year. The crazy colours are intense and pigmented, when applied over white base you can really make them pop. Perfect add on to any collection, if you'd like to start experimenting with colour in your looks. Side note: for pastel shades just mix any colour with the White shade in the palette. It's a great all rounder and perfect for anyone who's just starting with colourful looks! 

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MONDAY WITH MAKEUP REVOLUTION: CHOCOLATE VICE REVIEW WITH SWATCHES

Happy Monday beauties <3 I thought what's best to start your gloomy and rainy Monday with, than an awesome new ish release from Makeup Revolution :) I'm a huge fan of their Chocolate palettes with Death By Chocolate, Naked Chocolate and Salted Caramel being close favourites (CLICK HERE FOR REVIEWS: NAKED CHOCOLATE, SALTED CARAMEL & PINK FIZZ). When Chocolate Vice landed I knew I'll be getting it at some point, as I love warm tones and there were few peachy shades that interested me from the first look.  Was it worth it? Stay with me to find out :)

The packaging is what always convinces me to buy a palette and I Heart Makeup chocolate design is the best. I honestly prefer it to the original Too Faced packaging. I love the melted chocolate design. Plastic is of better quality than your standard MUR packaging too. It holds good quality mirror and double ended sponge applicator. I don't understand why companies still put those in, as you can't really use them, can you? They're rubbish. All the names of the shadows can be found on the plastic sheet covering the shadows. This is a small minus as it would be better, if these were printed next to shadows. Trying not to lose the name sheet, as I call it, it's always a drag. However the price of the palette being mere £7.99, you can forget and forgive easily.

Inside you'll find 16 eyeshadows in 3 finishes: mattes, shimmers and satins. Although it's mostly warm toned palette, there's still few shades borderline neutral to cool. Shimmers are the most buttery with satins holding their place too. Mattes are mostly semi mattes and lighter shades don't show pigment as well as the others. Two highlight shades are as per usual in this range larger than others, with one being a shimmer highlight and other semi matte. It's a well composed palette in my opinion with only two shades I'd personally change in terms of the finish, not the colour itself. 

Vice - white with yellow gold shimmer, great pigmentation

Sway - light beige matte, great pigmentation

Satisfy - light champagne shimmer, great pigmentation

Require - light peach with lots of gold shimmer, great pigmentation

Convert - medium camel warm tone matte, great pigmentation

Treat - dark cool tone brown matte, great pigmentation

Habit - yellow gold shimmer, great pigmentation

Persuade - copper shimmer, great pigmentation 

Need - medium ashy cool tone brown, near taupe, great pigmentation 

Crave - dark brown with copper and gold shimmer, great pigmentation

Lust - dark charcoal with silver and navy shimmer, good pigmentation

Reason - peach satin, great pigmentation

Must - true coral satin, great pigmentation

Maleficence - dark camel with orange undertone matte, great pigmentation

Fancy - medium coral with pink tones satin, great pigmentation

Appeal - off white matte, little chalky, good pigmentation

The winning shades are Satisfy, Require, Convert, Reason, Must and Fancy with few mattes like Sway, Convert, Treat and Need. This is one of the best quality chocolate palettes Makeup Revolution ever came out with. There's not a single shade that lacks pigmentation, their all either great or good. Only one shade came out chalky when swatched but still transferred to lid with no fallout or lost pigmentation. They all wear nicely on the lid, up to 12 hours with primer. They blend nicely and I must say, mattes are really holding their own in this one. Normally mattes are what Makeup Revolution doesn't get quite right, but I must say I love the mattes in Chocolate Vice. I like my warm tones for daytime as they empathise my eye colour and Chocolate Vice has been the only palette I've used for couple of weeks now. There's plenty of looks you can create here. What's lacking is matte black shade. Not for me, as I have plenty of black mattes to choose from, but for someone who's buying only one palette to suit all their needs. Lust is ok but I don't understand the need of adding micro glitter shimmer to it, it should have been simply left as dark matte charcoal.

To sum up, I really enjoy using this palette and it's a brilliant value for money, so if you're looking for great quality satin and shimmers and warm tones of plenty - this one is definitely worth checking out :) It completes my chocolate collection and easily takes the lead when it comes to quality and palette composition. Have you tried Chocolate Vice? What are your thoughts? Let me know in the comments section below. If you haven't and would like to give it a spin - it's available here.

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