The NARSissist eyeshadow palette (LE) review, photos and swatches.

And here it is! The limited edition NARSissist eyeshadow palette.  15 gorgeous eyeshadows housed in one palette.

Pictured below is a guide to all the swatches and reviews, named for your convenience 😉

L & R (Left and Right) are colours that appear in existing duo eyeshadows. The others are all existing singles except Bad Behaviour which was an LE.

*P.S- Click on the images to view full size 🙂

Row 1

All about Eve (L) – A shimmery warm beige with a slight pink tinge. This had medium colour pay off, and went on somewhat sheer.

Madrague (R) – A light brown with a slightly warm undertone, this matched my medium skin and disappears once blended in. I feel on fairer skin tones this would show up very well.

Fez – A high shimmer coppery bronze. This had excellent colour payoff. The best performer in this palette!

Bali – A neutral dark brown.  Although this was not dry to the touch and was finely milled, it applied quite patchy with less than impressive pigmentation.  This was the dud in the palette, which was a shame as it would have been a great colour for crease work in a neutral matte eye look.

Coconut grove – A deep, dark, warm matte brown. It was finely milled and pigmented, and the colour pay off was average, although I should note it was a bit disappointing compared to the Coconut grove single eyeshadow, which had incredible colour payoff and is one of my all time favourite NARS colours.

 

Row 2

Madrague (L) – A matte cream shade with a light yellow undertone. This was very soft to the touch and finely milled. The colour pay off was very good and would make a lovely highlighter for the brow bone or a good base shade.

Nepal – A warm shimmery rose. This had good colour payoff, soft and blendable. One of my favourites!

Ashes to ashes – A neutral taupe shade with a shimmer finish. This went on a bit sheer due to its harder, firm texture, but I found that the colour was easily buildable.

Brousse  (R) – A deep dusty aubergine shade which was gorgeous. I did find some difficulty picking up the colour as it was a dryer, stiffer texture. Although, this too was buildable to full opacity.

Mekong – A deep dark matte brown with bronze shimmer. This was well pigmented with very good colour payoff but was slightly on the dryer side.  A gorgeous shade nonetheless.

 

Row 3

Bellisima (L) – A shimmery yellow ivory shade with gold flecks.  I found this a little powdery and applied sheer.

Lhasa – A dusty shimmery lavender shade.  One of my favourites in this palette as I owned nothing like it! This too was on the harder side, and went on sheer but was easily buildable to medium opacity. And looked gorgeous once applied!

Bad Behaviour – A LE colour released with the Guy Bourdin collection. This is a warm pewter shade. The colour payoff was good. And was pretty much opaque once applied.

Dogon (R) – A deep Navy with very fine shimmers, although upon application it looked almost matte. This felt soft to the touch but the colour payoff was not too great.

Pandora (R) – A deep matte black. This had decent colour payoff, although blends into a very sheer shade which required a lot of building to get full coverage.

 

Final thoughts

I found the colours in this palette very workable, I personally see myself reaching for this regularly if not every day.

All but three had good and buildable coverage, namely Bali, Dogon and Pandora.

And my favourites were Fez, Nepal, Lhasa, Bad behavior and Mekong.

Overall around 9 out of the 15 were very good shades (blending easily and buildable to a higher opacity with no powderiness). It’s value for money, considering In Singapore a duo retails somewhere around $45 I believe.

For those who prefer very highly pigmented eye shadow with intense colour pay off, this palette might be a bit disappointing. However for a majority of makeup users this would make a perfect travel companion or a great addition to your everyday makeup bag as it’s a nice compact size housing a total of 15 eye shadows!

Also if you are already a collector of NARS eyeshadows and own quite a number of these shades, obviously there’s no point in purchase since none of the colours are new. However if they are your favourites, this would be a great way to own the same colours (for travel purposes) as a portable version at a very economical price.

In conclusion, I see this palette selling out fast, as all NARS palettes. So if you are interested, act fast 🙂

Pre order link for Singapore – http://bit.ly/narsissist

Palette info-

Retail price SGD115

Net wt. 0.03 oz. 1g (x15)

Launch date for Singapore- 3^rd Feb.

 

Special thanks to Julyen at the NARS counter at Tangs for providing me with valuable info while putting together this post for you and also a thank you to NARS for generously sending me a palette for review.

P.S- To see this palette in action, drop by my IG page, there’s a dramatic eye look that I post yesterday after my NARS makeover 🙂