Hey, so I was just standing in front of my fridge in the kitchen, but I wasn’t there to make you a sheet of brownies, because…how would you even get the brownies? I wish I could send them through the screen. That would be cool if somebody could figure that out.
No, I was in the kitchen to see if these two new Estée Edit Gritty & Glow Magnetic Eye and Face Palettes would stick to my fridge because they’re magnetic, and yes, they do — so you can use them as both makeup and refrigerator magnets to hold whatever delicious recipe you’re working on at the moment.
The palettes are part of a $58 set in the Estée Edit holiday 2016 collection. One is just a straight-up eye shadow palette, and the other is for face and eyes.
When I opened the Eye Palette the first time, I immediately thought of the almost orgasmic but also laughably expensive $95 Victoria Beckham X Estée Lauder Collection palette released last month.
It’s amaze! — but it’s also crazy expensive, so I hoped that this might be a more affordable dupe.
It’s not, but it comes close. The colors are similar, but the Victoria Beckham shadows are slightly cooler toned and more neutral. The Estée Edit Eye Palette shadows are also shinier, and the pearl particles are less refined.
But…the Victoria palette is a staggering $95.
Yeah, wow.
It’s clearly aimed at a very posh (haha, get it?) clientele, whereas the Estée Edit Gritty Eye Palette aims to please a possibly younger crowd that craves something flashier with mega shimmer.
I like shimmer, but I’m really picky about it. I like it when the pearl particles are small because, you know, whatever, I’m in my 40s, and big shimmer particles make my lines look more…line-y. And I’m not into that.
Thankfully, the Estée Edit Gritty Eye Palette shadows don’t have that kind of shimmer, which is great.
And about that name — the Gritty Eye Palette — that’s kind of an unfortunate name, isn’t it? Because in makeup parlance, “gritty” isn’t typically used to describe something good, but I think it refers to grungy and smoky eye looks here. That’s probably the deal.
I do see some fallout with the eye palette — more than the Victoria Beckham shadows — but it’s not a big deal. I just do my eyes first and clean up afterward. Also, the shadows blend easily.
The Estée Edit Gritty & Glow Magnetic Eye and Face Palette Set
Limited edition, available now at Sephora and sephora.com ($58 for a set with both palettes)The set comes with…
- One Gritty Eye Palette with 6 Pearlized eyeshadows in Swerve (golden copper), Riff (champagne rose gold), Burn (burgundy bronze), Wavy (dark emerald), Mood (midnight black with multicolored sparkle), Trip (deep iridescent blue)
- One Glow Face + Eye Palette with six multi-use powders in Snowlit (platinum), 14K Glow (champagne), 1st Light (soft pink), Gleam (peachy pink), Ray (golden bronze), Beachy (burnished copper)
The Glow Face & Eye Palette powders, which I’ve mostly used to highlight, are also very shiny, but I don’t usually want a super bright shine on my cheeks, so I just use a little. If you have big pores, tread lightly, and buff that down with a skunk brush.
I’m drawn to…
Magnets! I have a bunch of them on my fridge. Some are from trips I’ve taken, and others are gifts from other people.
They’re great trip gifts because they’re so practical, and they don’t take up a lot of room in your bag.
Some of them are really funny and weird, too. I have this one from Montana with a wolf on it, and there’s a moon behind his butt…but it kind of looks like he’s farting a bubble.
I don’t know… 🙂
The other day when I was looking closely at my refrigerator magnets, I realized that this one I got on a trip to New York many moons ago says “Empire State Building” on it in Comic Sans, which I found really alarming…because I really, really hate Comic Sans.
Your friendly neighborhood beauty addict,
Karen
Those look really nice, especially that teal shade. But waay too much $$ and I’m really satisfied with my Mac neutrals atm 🙂
Hi Savannah,
It’s on the pricier side but you do get two palettes, and the pans are really big! The quality is there, too.
What MAC neutrals are you loving right now? My go-tos are Cork, Soft Brown and Saddle.
omg. the colors. makeup porn. this is such a perfect set for living in Hawaii. why am i broke.
Hi Christine,
Ahh, I miss Hawaii so much! Which island are ya on?
Oahu. Waikiki. Beats Philadelphia any day. El Hubs is from Hawaii, yes?
Ooooh here’s that gorgeous eye look agaiN! LOVE that green, oh my.
Thanks! The blue is my favorite from the palette. It pops off the skin!
Gosh, the palettes look amazing, especially the eyeshadows! <3
They are amazing! The eyeshadow have a little bit of fallout but it’s not too bad.
Thanks, Karen I was wondering if this was a dupe for that VB palette. The swatches look so purrty though!
So far I have managed to resist the temptation to spring for either these palettes or the Victoria Beckham one. You are not helping here. Lol. Must resist temptation and save as much money as possible to buy Christmas presents.
The shadows certainly look great on you!
Karen, call me crazy, but I bought this set at Sephora earlier this week. Even though the colors look *so* similar to the EL x Victoria Beckham palette in the pan, I think they look quite different on my lids as I’ve played with them this week. (Of course, I love these intense shades of blue and green and feel like I need to have them all… )
Anyway, I also bought the Laura Mercier Caviar Eye Stick set, so…
today I did a dramatic blue smoky eye using Tuxedo, the black shade from the LM set as my base, topped with Trip, the blue from the Gritty palette. Using Tuxedo as the base *really* makes it pop/glow! The look was a little dark for me, so I topped the shadow above the crease with Blue Moon from the Anastasia Moonchild glow kit, and it was *gorgeous*!
Which brings me to my last point… which is that I think I’ll end up using most of the shades (at least the top two and the bottom two — the middle two have some potential as blushes for me) from the Glow palette as eyeshadows rather than as highlighters. They’re a bit too metallic for highlighters for my taste. I use several of the shades from the Anastasia Moonchild palette that way, too. Eyeshadows seem dark to me this season, and my hooded lids need some brightening as well as some shading. With the Moonchild palette, I can use a super soft and gentle brush like Wayne Goss #14 and get a nice highlight, but I think the EE Glow palette is just aimed at a younger customer than me. But it’s still lots of fun. I’m going to try Wavy, the green shade from Gritty, over Tuxedo with Lucky Clover from Moonchild, and I’ll also try a smoky eye with the Aubergine Caviar Stick and Burn from the Gritty palette, with Snowlit from the Glow palette to lighten things up.
this set is $41 on sale at sephora right now 🙂