ChiChi 5 Glamorous Looks to Go Review: Nudes

I recently purchased the ChiChi 5 Glamorous Looks To Go makeup set, and so I thought I would post a review!

On the Chi Chi website, this palette is described as "A clever make-up palette system containing 5 individual pop-out make-up palettes and a purse size travel compact case. Simply choose your required make-up palette, pop it in the travel case and you are ready to go!! The 5 colour stories include Nudes, Bases, Bronzes, Smokeys and Brights. Entire set contains 30 Glamorous Eyeshadows, 3 Blushes, 1 Bronzer, 1 Shimmer Highlighter and 5 Lip Gloss shades. ".
Here are my photos of the travel case:

I think the idea of this palette is brilliant and very useful.

I will be doing a seperate post for each block of makeup, so stay tuned for more! This time I will be looking at the 'Nudes' set (pictured below).

                                                                         Colours:
-I am really impressed with most of the colours in this set, I found all colours (excluding #2 and blush) to have a shimmer finish.

-I feel that while these shades are different, if you tried blending one into the other they would morph into one colour.

-While swatching I found my first problem with this palette. #1 barely shows up on my skin (you can't even tell it's there with the flash). That was disappointing for me as the colour looked really pretty in the box. I was quite suprised that the shadow turned out this way as I have swatched ChiChi's single pressed pigments in my local Target and I have always been impressed with the colour payoff. This leads me to believe they may have used a different (and cheaper) formula for this value set.

- As you can see in the swatches below #2+4 are a little bit streaky. Nothing major though.

- The lipgloss is a nice colour however I don't think I would personally pair it with the shades in the Nudes set.

- I'm not a fan of the blush colour on my skin tone and hair colour (I have a natural red colour). It brought focus to imperfections on my skin.

These shadows do last quite a while on the eyes, however I would still recommend using an eyeprimer first. The shimmer shades tend to crease on the eyelid if you aren't careful.


Purchase again?
No. I don't think I would purchase the Nude set (if they were sold individually) again. However if shade #3 was sold as an individual colour, I would consider buying it.


Thank you so so soo much for reading! It means so much to me!
The next set to be reviewed is "Smokey".

Kate
xox