Pari Beauty Tricks of the Trade Palette Swatches and Review

By Wednesday, December 28, 2011 , ,

A few weeks back Pari Beauty sent me their new Holiday Palettes (Black Tie and Tricks of the Trade). I'm finally getting some time to do swatches and pictures.  I apologies for my dry skin, tis the season.
Tricks of the Trade Full Face Kit includes:
  • 8 richly pigmented eyeshadows
  • 1 full sized customer favourite precious glow illuminating primer
  • 2 luscious lip gloss shades
  • 1 perfect flush blusher
  • 1 highlighter
  • 1 mineral highlighter/bronzer duo illuminating powder
  • 1 double ended applicator
Sells for $69.00

Front of box
Back of box
Inside
Inside again
eyeshadow swatches
Glosses and eye primer
 duo bronzer/highlighter (the two left swatches),
highlighter (top right) and blush (right bottom)
Review:
This palette seems to have everything in it, including a full sized eyeshadow primer. 

The eyeshadow primer is great, it works well and has such a pigmented colour of its own.

The bronzer highlight duo is very pretty and pigmented on its own. It really is pretty. The highlighter is matte and goes on a bit chalky on my arm but looks nice on the face. I like that with all the shimmer out there they give a matte option. 

The shadows go on smoothly, my hand does them no justice. The black is the only one that went on a bit chalky, it is also the only matte one. The rest are either shimmery or satiny. I love the pigmentation of the shadows.

The glosses are nicely pigmented and a little sticky. I don't find them crazy sticky, but pretty sticky non the less. 

This is a nice contrast to the Black Tie set, which shadows are all brown or black. There is such a pretty variety of shades.

Pros:
Great variety of colours
Matte highlighter is a nice change
Bronzer and highlighter duo are gorgeous
Full sized eyeshadow primer
Pigmented glosses
Mirror
Canadian
Good price

Cons:
Glosses are a bit sticky
matte highlighter and black shadow are a bit chalky

Overall:
This is a great palette for giving to someone who might be a bit afraid of colour, it has such a variety of shades they can play around and get comfortable with colour. I pretty much love this palette, I really think for the price it is a great deal.

I plan on putting two looks up tomorrow that use this palette.

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