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In part six of the Chocolate Vault review, we’re looking a the face palettes. Each contains two pans of product. They’re not available separately but similar items on the website go for £6.
The Salted Caramel Chocolate Palette is one of the non-exclusive palettes in the Chocolate Vault. It’s available separately for £9 from Revolution Beauty. It is vegan and cruelty-free. It has a 12-month shelf life once opened.
Who loves salted caramel?
Revolution brings you the best salted caramel recipe. There is no better combination than these 16 shimmer and matte addictive shades. From delicious nudes to tempting pinks to bring you salt and sweet at the same time.It’s sweet, it’s buttery, it’s salted caramel goodness.
As you can see this is also one of the older palettes from the inside design. There are two fewer shades than you get in the newer palettes because there are two large highlight shades. Great if you’re of lighter skin tone, the reverse if you’re not. The names are also on a plastic sheet rather than the packaging itself.
As a result, it’s the older formula, that means while it’s still good it’s not as good as the newer palettes. They’re a little drier and harder to blend but they’re by no means unworkable. They’re more like your regular highstreet shadows.
It’s a good range of colours if you’re into the range of brown neutral tones again. There are two pops of colour. One more of a navy blue and one pink. They’re both shimmer shades, although it’s more obvious in the pink. This one mostly contains matte shades with only 6 shimmers overall.
If you’d like this one on its own it’s available at Revolution Beauty for £9
This jelly highlighter costs £6 from Revolution Beauty or Superdrug. I can not find the amount of product listed online and it’s not on the product itself either. It does have a 12-month shelf life once opened and is Vegan and cruelty-free.
Continue reading “Revolution Jewel Collection Jelly Highlighter in Prestigious Review & Swatches”
The Diamond Dews are eyeshadow toppers. They cost £18 from UK suppliers or $20 from Lime Crime direct. They have 4.14 ml of product each and have a 12-month shelf life once opened. They are Vegan and cruelty-free.
A lid topper that brings the effect of sparkling diamonds to your eyes. Packed with reflective particles that instantly add that OMG! factor to your makeup.
Continue reading “Lime Crime Diamond Dew Review & Swatches – Holy Shift, Confetti and Tinsel”
The Lemon Drizzle Chocolate Palette is one of the non-exclusive palettes in the Chocolate Vault. It’s available separately for £9 from Revolution Beauty. It’s not Vegan but it is cruelty-free. It has a 12-month shelf life once opened.
I Heart Revolution Lemon Drizzle Chocolate Palette will make your mouth water with a yummy combination of 18 refreshing shades. This sweet-scented mixture of 10 yellow, brown, red and nude mattes and 8 warm metallics makes creating playful makeup looks a piece of cake.
It’s a collection of warm-toned yellows and oranges with a combination of matte and 8 shimmer shades. There’s only one real cool tone shade and that’s delicious. It’s a little out of place but you can certainly make it work.
These swatch well on the arm and go well on the eye too. There are enough deeper shades to do a nice brown smokey eye.
One thing to note is Fluffy and Tangy, which are both shimmer shades are very similar when you swatch them. One they eye they look nearly identical which is a shame.
I do like this palette, so if you’d like it you can get it separately to the set for £9.
The Smores Palette from I Heart Revolution is exclusive to the I Heart Revolution Vault, which you can get from Revolution Beauty or Superdrug for £72. It is Vegan and of course Cruelty-Free.
The outside has lovely white chocolate drips on, which makes it easy to find in your Chocolate palette collection.
The inside is full of warmer tones in neutral colours. There’s a nice mixture of matte and shimmers in here for that perfect brown smokey eye. The mattes blend well and the shimmers look amazing when they’re foiled.
It’s a particularly good palette if you’re fond of the neutral brown eye look. It’s got just enough foil shades to take it from day to night.
I like this palette and it’s great for the price. It’s currently exclusive to the Vault but I won’t be surprised if in the future we see this one as a single release.
The Smores Palette from I Heart Revolution is exclusive to the I Heart Revolution Vault, which you can get from Revolution Beauty or Superdrug for £72.
Continue reading “I Heart Revolution Chocolate Vault – Smores Palette Review and Swatches – Part 3”
As part of the I Heart Revolution Chocolate Vault set we get three lipglosses. Two are exclusive to the vault with the third being already part of the I Heart Revolution range. They contain 2.5ml of product and have a 12-month shelf life once opened. They are cruelty-free but while the Salted Caramel gloss is Vegan I can’t guarantee the others are.
I was surprised at how much I like these. I am not a gloss person but these are not sticky at all. They, of course, won’t last once you start eating and they are all quite sheer. This, however, is a feature of all glosses, so I can’t count that against them. They are all quite heavily fragranced but that doesn’t last on the lips. However, if you’re allergic to fragrance this might cause an issue.
This is the one that’s available to buy separately for £3 from Superdrug or Revolution Beauty. It’s a light cool nude colour. This one has a salty smell. It looks good on me and I like it.
As you can see Praline and Salted Caramel are pretty much the same colour but Praline is the pinker version. This one has a very sweet smell.
Chocolate Cherry smells like cherry and is the most opaque of them but also sheer. It looks very dark in the tube but goes a lovely shade on the lips.
All in all, I like these glosses. Do you like them?
The vault is still available from Superdrug or Revolution Beauty.
At this point, I have to state I can’t hate anyone who’s sick of Harry Potter. It’s a cultural phenomenon at this point in the same way Star Wars is. I myself who stayed up to buy the books as soon as they came out, as someone who went in costume to the films I am getting a little tired of the way it’s saturated our culture.
But then again it means we get things like these palettes from The Wizarding World Exclusively Boots.
Sadly for me, that’s really where the joy ends.
There are of course 4 palettes, one for the Gryffindors, Slytherins, Ravenclaws and Hufflepuffs. They cost £12.50 each and are currently available at Boots in the Christmas 3 for 2. They have 6 x 1.2g of shadow and expire 12 months from opening. They are not vegan-friendly. Ingredients are listed towards the end of the post.
The problem with these palettes is not so much the design. It’s simple and I prefer the cardboard packaging, it’s much more environmentally friendly. It’s more along the lines of the shadows themselves. Of course, each palette is really limited by the fact they’ve tried to stick to the colours of each house.
The Slytherin Palette is also very limited in the fact that all of them bar one shadow is a shimmer shade. That happens to be the black shade. Now I am a shimmer fan but it’s not really practical for everyday use. It would have been better to have at least one more neutral in a matte colour.
There’s also a strange combination of cool and warm in the palette. A very cool toned silver with a golden toned neutral and a golden shift on a warm green. It’s not the best combination.
It’s also not really great unless you’re of the beige persuasion.
Then there’s the performance of the shadows themselves.
They finger swatch very well but I found them quite hard to pick up on a brush and then blend on the eye. They foil incredibly but as I said they’re all shimmer so that’s really not practical.
In all, I’m not a massive fan of this palette and have been unable to swatch the others. For me, it’s a nice gift for your Harry Potter fan that’s kinda into makeup. If they’re really into it, then pass and go for the brushes.
Slytherin Palette Ingredients
Shade: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Mica, Talc, Dimethicone, Synthetic fluorphlogopite, Zinc stearate, Phenoxyethanol, Tin oxide, [+/- (May contain) CI 77891 (Titanium dioxide), CI 19140 (Yellow 5 lake), CI 77491 (Iron oxides), CI 42090 (Blue 1 lake), CI 77492 (Iron oxides), CI 77499 (Iron oxides), CI 77742 (Manganese violet), CI 77510 (Ferric ferrocyanide), CI 75470(Carmine)].Shade: 6
Mica, Dimethicone, Synthetic fluorphlogopite, Talc, Zinc stearate, Phenoxyethanol, CI 77499 (Iron oxides), CI 77891 (Titanium dioxide), CI 77491 (Iron oxides).
Did you get this one? What did you think? Let me know in the comments below.
We’ve seen the face palettes, let’s take a look at the makeup pigment palettes. The name makeup pigment palettes tell me at least some of these are not eyeshadows, I think especially in the Red Velvet palette to get a bright colour.
The palettes are all in the same shape as the I Heart Revolution Chocolate range. They’ve got the melting chocolate palette design on the front. Normally these kinds of palettes retail for £8.99. There’s two in this set. The Peanut Butter Cup palette and the Red Velvet set.
The Peanut Butter Cup palette smells a bit like peanut butter. I’m not fond of the smell but it doesn’t last on the face.
As for the swatches, as you can see they’re quite strong colours. A few of them are quite stiff but they blend very well. It’s about on par with the usual Chocolate palettes. There’ of course a very warm overall tone to this palette but there are a few cooler undertones too. It’s of course very yellow toned overall.
I do like it but I’m struggling with ideas on how to use them all. Some of the colours are very similar so of course, will blend into one another but that can also be useful for a seamless gradient. Overall I like this one more than I thought I would.
The Red Velvet palette was the one of the two I was the most excited for but the one that let me down the most. There are a fair few tones in here that are too close to the Peanut Butter Cup palette for my liking. It’s a slightly cooler-toned palette.
Frosting is the first I’m going to mention because you can’t really see the two-toned nature on my arm. That flash of pink is what you can see. It’s a nice flash but can get lost. Beetroot is really quite patchy and better off as a transition shade or inner corner highlight.
I’ve found these shades to be harder to blend. They’re not unworkable but they’re not great either. If this was a single palette I’d say skip this one. As part of the set, I think it brings it down a bit.
Overall they’re not bad palettes, Red Velvet is not great though.
If you’d like it you can get yours online at Revolution or Superdrug.
So are you picking this set up? Did you agree with me? Let me know in the comments below.
Today we’re taking a look inside the I Heart Revolution Chocolate Heart gift set. Specifically the face products inside.
The Praline Chocolate Face palette has three different products in the one palette. There are a bronzer, a baked blush and three highlighters. In total there’s 18g of product and it’s all vegan.
As I said in my overview of the set, I think this particular palette isn’t the best because it tries to please everyone.
They are as usual for Revolution highlighters really pigmented. The blush is less so but can be built up.
Next out of the package is the Chocolate Heart Bronzer.
There’s 10g of baked bronzer in here. It’s much warmer than the bronzer in the Praline Chocolate palette and has golden shimmers in it. Of the two bronzers, I prefer this one as it really does warm the face. It is also much lighter (although a little buildable), so suited to the lighter end of the spectrum.
So what do you think of the face palettes? Have you asked Father Christmas for this set?
If you’d like it you can get yours online at Revolution or Superdrug.