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Tuesday, 26 July 2011

MUA Pretty Pastels Palette: Looks and Swatches

Makeup Academy recently came out with a Professional range (which to my annoyance appears to be in no physical Superdrug in my vicinity) which included - shock! gasp! swoon! - palettes for £4. Four measly squid! I like a lot of the £1 MUA range, so when I bought some of the Professional range online to send to Wendy I couldn't resist picking up one to try myself.



I went for the Pretty Pastels palette, as I don't really have many pastel colours in my collection, but at that price I'm sure I'll end up catching them all! You get 12 colours in a pan and each one is 20p sized (but er, round.) Compared to, say, a Sleek palette, the packaging isn't as sturdy or fancy looking, but it's minimal (there's often a danger of tweeny packaging at low prices and there's none of that here - I love the fact this is grown up, affordable makeup), functional (I've slung it in my bag with no problems), and I like that you can see the colours.

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Top row, L-R. Top row on bare skin, bottom row over NYX JEP in Milk.
Bottom row, L-R. Top row on bare skin, bottom row over NYX JEP in Milk.

Compared to the swatches I've seen of the other palettes, these do seem to be a bit more sheer, but of couse they are pastels. The pigmentation on some is pretty good, such as that lovely orange and the champagne colour from the bottom row. I only wish the top left hand cream, which has a lovely pink shift showed up more - it's gorgeous but very little payoff. Work on that one and bring out a full size please, MUA!

Let's have a butchers at them on the eye then, shall we?


Great for a quick, subtle neutral look...


...or a work safe rainbow?! Yes?! It totally is, right?

All in all, a bargain for four quid! Although a couple of the colours could have better pigmentation, but there are also some beauties here. I can see myself getting a lot of use out of the palette, especially for transitionary/blending shades, and I'm sure I'll pick some more up soon - I've got my beady eye on Dusk Till Dawn!

14 comments:

  1. nice rainbow eye make up! make a tutorial pls? :) loveit!

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  2. Hahahm work safe rainbow, I love it!

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  3. I'm not really into pastels myself. Too much room for disaster. I really like what you did with this, though. =D

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  4. Wow! Great palette and colors for that price!

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  5. Work safe rainbow? Heck yes! This palette is really pretty. I think Dusk Til Dawn would be amazing on you as well -- I love teals/blues on you.

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  6. Oooh this is the one I was most interested in from the range so this review couldn't have come at a better time. I'm gonna look out for it, possibly buy it online :) x

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  7. It looks so pretty on you, especially the 2nd look. I just can't pull off pastels. I look sickly!

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  8. The new Mua palettes are amazing from what I've seen can't wait to get my hands on them!
    Nora (http://www.noradaisy.blogspot.com)

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  9. such great product for that price. i need to get my hands on some mua

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  10. Oooh, love the work safe rainbow! I guess Makeup Academy is sort of like Wet n Wild in the US?

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  11. That is a really palette and I love the rainbow look, even though it's work safe it's amazing!

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  12. Ahhh your work safe rainbow is awesome!

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  13. A work safe rainbow.......I LOVE IT! Great idea! I must try something like this but I don't trust myself enough....when I think "rainbow" and then start putting on makeup, things tend to get out of hand.

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