The Truth of the Butterflies

I recently bought two Morphe eyeshadow palettes, the 35P and the 35W There are 35 shadows in each palette. They are a mix of matte and shimmer.  The 35W has a variety of warm tones:  There are oranges, purples, pinks, browns, beiges.  The palettes are around $20 which is crazy, mostly crazy because the shadows are actually super beautiful! I do need to layer is a little to get more intense colors but other than that they are beautiful. They last all day, and they blend beautifully. I'm a huge fan of the pink in the third column, and the second from the bottom in the first column.  The 35P is just as beautiful, it has a bunch of purply tones:  One of my favorite things about this palette is that it also gives me browns and a few tan/orange colors towards the bottom left. The purples are build-able which is nice because that allows for a nice subtle look, or something more dramatic. This palette s...

Number 1: Kat Von D's Shade & Light Eye Palette At this moment in time this is my favorite eye shadow palette, I think it works wonderfully with my eyes. It has cool, warm, and neutral browns. All matte. When I swatched them on my arm they are grouped by tone of brown. Left is at the top of my arm, and then the warm browns are at the bottom. You can go some casual eyes to smokey eyes and they blend beautifully together. The bigger colors are the base colors, then the color on the left is the crease color, the darkest shade is the outer corner color, followed by a highlight color. I love the neutral and cool colored highlight, but the warm is too warm to be a highlighter for me. These shadows are nicely pigmented and I suggest starting small and building up the two darker colors in each set. Number 2: Urban Decay's Naked 3 I have always loved the way pinks looked with brown eyes so naturally I was drawn to this palette. But personally it doesn't have the pe...