Lime Crime Venus Vivid Palette – Review and Swatches

The Venus Vivid palette is the next one in the Venus series from Lime Crime. It costs $38 from Lime Crime. It has 8 x 1.61g of product and a 12-month shelf life once opened. It’s vegan and cruelty-free.

Unleash your creativity with the Lime Crime Venus Vivid Palette. This bold, contemporary palette boasts a range of finishes including matte, metallic, shimmer and foil. The rainbow-hued shadows boast vibrant shades of cobalt, orange, yellow, green, fuchsia and violet.

I say is $38 but at the time of writing this, it’s only available in a bundle with other items on Lime Crime for Halloween. It’s available at Ulta and in the UK you can only get it at LookFantastic.com.

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The packaging is as always cardboard but this time the outside has venus traced as if she was a neon light. The inside has a mirror but as it’s cardboard it does not stay open. Inside the shadows are surrounded by a neon pink. I like this for a vivid palette and sticks quite well with Lime Crime aesthetics.
It’s very much a rainbow palette, although they’re not all matte colours. There are 4 matte and 4 shimmer/foil colours. So not the perfect palette for a rainbow but still nice and bright. The formulas on these are soft and pigmented. I got a little kickback in the pan but no fallout.

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So let’s get to the swatches.

  • Betty (matte bright blue)
  • Flutter (bright purple metallic)
  • Star burst (bright pink-orange matte)
  • Lux (bright golden yellow foil)
  • Limelight (matte lime green)
  • Happy Place (yellow green shimmer)
  • Super Bloom (bright orange foil)
  • Sassy (bright pink matte)

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Star Burst is redder than it is orange and Happy Place’s green shimmer is hard to see.
I’m a little confused about the names in this palette. I mean all the previous ones have seemed to theme well and make sense but this one really does seem to be a random collection of names.
It also really reminds me of the 10th Birthday palette. I suppose that’s also because it’s a pigment palette with Lime Crimes formula. The yellow shades in both are shimmers, which is very interesting. They’re actually a nice compliment for one another, providing the mattes for each that the other is missing.

I really like it. They go on the eye nice and bright and last all day.

If you’d like one of these palettes you can get it from Lime Crime for $38 or LookFantastic in the UK for £35.

Betty: Mica (CI 77019), Zinc Stearate, Ethylhexyl Palmitate, Silica, Caprylyl Glycol, Dimethicone, Ethylhexylglycerin, Hexylene Glycol, Indigofera Tinctoria Leaf Extract, Tin Oxide, Phenoxyethanol. May Contain/Peut Contenir [+/-]: Titanium Dioxide (CI 77891), Blue 1 Lake (CI 42090).

Flutter: Mica (CI 77019), Synthetic Fluorphlogopite, Ethylhexyl Palmitate, Zinc Stearate, Silica, Caprylyl Glycol, Dimethicone, Ethylhexylglycerin, Hexylene Glycol, Tin Oxide, Phenoxyethanol. May Contain/Peut Contenir [+/-]: Titanium Dioxide (CI 77891), Ferric Ferrocyanide (CI 77510), Red 28 Lake (CI 45410).

Lux: Mica (CI 77019), Ethylhexyl Palmitate, Zinc Stearate, Calcium Aluminum Borosilicate, Silica, Hydrogenated Polyisobutene, Tin Oxide, Palmitic Acid, Hexylene Glycol, Ethylhexylglycerin, Dimethicone, Caprylyl Glycol, Benzoic Acid, Phenoxyethanol. May Contain/Peut Contenir [+/-]: Titanium Dioxide (CI 77891), Yellow 5 Lake (CI 19140:1).

Limelight: Mica (CI 77019), Zinc Stearate, Ethylhexyl Palmi tate, Silica, Caprylyl Glycol, Dimethicone, Ethylhexylglycerin, Hexylene Glycol, Phenoxyethanol. May Contain/Peut Contenir [+/-]: Titanium Dioxide (CI 77891), Yellow 5 Lake (CI 19140), Blue 1 Lake (CI 42090).

Happy Place: Mica (CI 77019), Ethylhexyl Palmitate, Calcium Sodium Borosilicate, Zinc Stearate, Silica, Calcium Aluminum Borosilicate, Dimethicone, Caprylyl Glycol, Ethylhexylglycerin, Hexylene Glycol, Tin Oxide, Phenoxyethanol. May Contain/Peut Contenir [+/-]: Titanium Dioxide (CI 77891), Blue 1 Lake (CI 42090), Yellow 5 Lake (CI 19140).

Super Bloom: Synthetic Fluorphlogopite, Ethylhexyl Palmitate, Zinc Stearate, Mica (CI 77019), Calcium Aluminum Borosilicate, Silica, Caprylyl Glycol, Dimethicone, Ethylhexylglycerin, Hexylene Glycol, Tin Oxide, Phenoxyethanol. May Contain/Peut Contenir [+/-]: Titanium Dioxide (CI 77891), Red 6 (CI 15850). SASSY/STAR BURST (Face): Mica (CI 77019), Zinc Stearate, Ethylhexyl Palmitate, Silica, Caprylyl Glycol, Dimethicone, Ethylhexylglycerin, Hexylene Glycol, Phenoxyethanol. May Contain/Peut Contenir [+/-]: Titanium Dioxide (CI 77891), Yellow 5 Lake (CI 19140), Red 7 (CI 15850), Red 28 Lake (CI 45410), Red 30 Lake (CI73360).