She did think another City Color palette was a bit better in comparison to what I have to show you and I also found the shades in her top-pick palette [Figtastic] more appealing overall, but I didn't want to spend a lot of money on a brand I've never tried before and I couldn't find it for under a tenner on a UK site (Amazon do sell it. £8.74 & £4.85 post). But since I love the look of the shades with peach and burgundy tones in them in the Harvest Moon palette too, and found it easily at an affordable price [£5.99 with free post on Amazon UK], I decided to give it a go and see what I thought of it...
The Harvest Moon palette contains 16 [EmilyNoel83 says that they are] full-sized shadows, half of which are shimmery, whilst the other half looked like they were matte, but turned out to be more of a satiny formula that also contain a little bit of shimmer.
I wanted to review this palette to tell everyone how great the more shimmery shades are. They feel like butter on my brushes; so soft, smooth, and they just glide on. Honestly; I really was wowed by how well they apply - they feel like a cream formula, and they look molten. I've been wearing them without a eyeshadow primer, and haven't had any problem with creasing or fading. They do produce a bit of fallout when blending with them, but not much.
The more satiny shadows didn't wow me as much, but they are still very usable - they are a bit more powdery and produce a bit of fallout, but they have good pigmentation and blend and & well as the shimmery shades do. I've noticed a little bit of creasing, but that was after 12 hours of wear, so an average work day [8 hours] of wear is fine.
I think that this palette is a good buy if you like the colours on offer - what you see in the pan is what you get on your lids shade-wise, and the quality is good for the price.
However there is room for improvement; I would have liked some totally matte shades to have been included in this palette for the crease and transitioning (the satin shades can be used for this, but I have deep-set eyes so prefer to use matte shades in my large crease area), so the Harvest Moon isn't quite a complete look in one palette - it is possible to do so and for the testing period and the below demo looks I used nothing but the Harvest Moon palette with no issues, but now I've allowed myself the choice I've found that I automatically use a matte shade or two from another palette when I want to use a shade or two from my Harvest Moon one.
Here are my favourite two looks I wore during my month-long testing period:
I didn't use a primer or any other shadows
1 - used as base, from lid to brows.
2 - crease shade
3 - used all over lid
4 - applied to outer V of the lid
5 - Applied with smudge brush above crease shade to soften it, and transition it into the base colour.
3 used to line the underneath inner half of lower lashes, and 4 used to line the outer half.
I'm wearing Estee Lauder Sumptuous mascara
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1 - used to define crease
2 - applied all over lid, and inner third of crease
3 - applied above shade in crease, and blended upwards.
4 - dotted on in outer lid and blended into lid shade.
5 - applied under brow and blended into transition shade, to eliminate any harsh lines.
2 used to line the underneath inner half of lower lashes, and 1 used to line the outer half.
I'm wearing Estee Lauder Sumptuous mascara
The Harvest Moon palette is only £5.99 [free p+p], from a third party seller on Amazon UK.
EmilyNoel83's "Surprisingly good palette's - under $10!" video (which features the Harvest Moon palette) can be watched here.
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