She is one of my favorite YouTubers and popularly known as ‘sophdoeslife’.
She’s extremely down to earth and super talented when it comes to creating any sorts of makeup looks.
She reviews the latest from the beauty industry, trying out all kinds of products from low to high priced, but she mostly prefers reviewing drugstore brands.
She is simply Soph 😊
For all of you who don't know, this palette is actually considered “the sequel” to it's predecessor, so it follows kind of the same color pattern as the first.
The packaging of the "Extra Spice" is a reversed version of the first, with rose gold on the palette and the letters in matte beige. It’s absolutely gorgeous for a drugstore palette, and I dare say that you even get the feeling like you're using some high end quality palette for the price of just 10£.
I literally butchered this palette, but that just goes to show how much I like and enjoy using it!
Inside you get a full sized mirror, and 18 eyeshadows which are cruelty free and vegan.
Soph actually heard her audience and instead of putting the shade names on a piece of plastic covering the eyeshadows like the last time, on this palette she imprinted all of the names underneath each shade, which I think is so great!
When it comes to the shadows they all perform really well.
The shimmers are vibrant, the mattes are rich in color, but the only thing that bothered me about the mattes it's the fact that they are pressed a little too hard.
What I mean to say is this, when you are making matte shades and they are vegan formulated it's a bit harder to work with the shadows and get instant pay-off pigment on the eye if they are pressed too hard in the pan.
I would have preferred if the mattes were pressed pigments because those are easy to work with and give instant pay-off.
But putting that aside, they all blend and work with each other really well when applied on the lids.
So let's finally get into each shade individually:
Every Day – A duo-chrome pale purple with a white/iridescent shift
Running Late – A matte orange with a light brown undertone
Infinity – A silver/metallic shimmer
Cheesecake – A matte chestnut brown with red undertones
Cookie Dough – A matte soft/light brown
Dreams – A warm copper shimmer
Vitamin C – A bright matte yellow
Sweet n' Sour – A warm matte orange
Twenty One – A cherry pink with red undertones
Romance – A rich burgundy shimmer with a pink shift
Enchanted – A matte purple with red wine undertones
Lakes – A matte olive/khaki green
Brownies – A deep brown with purple undertones
Chocolate Orange – A warm brown with red undertones
Mulled Wine – A matte purple
L.A. Sun – A bright gold shimmer shade
Aurora – An olive/khaki shimmer shade
Reputation – A matte charcoal black
SHIMMERS
MATTES
Overall, I am so so impressed with this palette. Sophie has given us a fantastic product along with three beautiful nude lippies that I unfortunately don't own, but will buy really soon.
The palette is an absolute dream, but as I said there are some things that I would change when it comes to the matte shades and how hardly pressed they are.
Setting that aside the shadows are really very good. The quality of the packaging is amazing let alone the shades!
This palette is so fairly priced, maybe even underpriced for what it offers to all of us as consumers.
I would highly recommend buying it and would rate it 7.5/10 🌟
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