Review: Accessorize Baked Eye Shadow Trio

Hi

In the holiday season, all the shops start making gift sets, which I am have a love/hate relatipnship with. Love because they make you look at and try out products that you wouldn't necessarily try otherwise and hate becuase they can charge you alot of money for extra packaging and other bits that you don't need. But the other day while walking though Superdrug I saw this Accessorize baked eyeshadow trio gift set and it caught my eye.  Accessorize are a jewellery and handbag brand by trade but have recently starting branching out into make-up on a larger scale and up until this point I haven’t tried or wanted to try any of it. This is simply because I tend to find companies where make-up is not their main focus don’t tend to put that much thought and effort into making it good. However M&S have recently been very successful with their make-up ranges so I thought I would give Accessorize a chance.

Their baked eyeshadows individually are £3.95, so the trio pack at £5.99 basically meant you were getting one free. The packaging seemed nice and the colours fairly unusual but not unusable, so I made my purchase.

The outer packaging was very pretty as you would expect from accessorise although not very Christmassy which butterflies decorating the front and back of the box. I do like the combination of the purple and gold colours though, giving a very classy feel to the product.

Inside the eyeshadows are individually packaged in clear plastic compacts with the brand name and logo painted in gold on the top. Other than the logo the packaging is very clean and simple and allows you to see the colour you are looking for instantly which, with a make-up bag the size of mine can be very helpful.

Top: wet, Bottom: dry

Molten copper is the first of the 3 eye shadows and is a deep copper/bronze colour, very close to that of a British penny, and it has bright yellow gold flecks baked in. When swatching the gold almost disappears leaving only gold glitter visible. This however adds such dimension to the copper and prevents it from being just a shimmer shadow. The shadow is very pigmented and blends easily but without a primer or cream product underneath looks as though it may rub off quite easily. The back of the box of for these shadows suggests that because they are baked you can use them wet as well as dry so I wanted to say that when wet this shadow had a lot more staying power, brighter pigmentation and higher shimmer.

Top: wet, Bottom: dry

Golden Caramel makes me think of a cappuccino after it has been stirred, the white froth on the top blending with the coffee and chocolate underneath. There 3 definite shades in this shadow: a creamy pearl white, a warm but light caramel and a deep cranberry red hidden in the cracks of the first two. When used dry this shadow becomes quite sheer although the shimmer and glitter still catch the eye. When wet though this colour comes alive as a gorgeous shimmery pearl which catches the light at every angle and demands attention.

Top: wet, Bottom: dry

Cosmic rays is quite different to the first two shadows in that it contains a very deep dark forest green. It also has a large amount of antique gold which is blended together to make such a beautiful looking shadow I almost don’t want to use it for fear of destroying its beauty. When used dry the green is quite dull with the gold glitter sparkling on top creating all the excitement. But when used wet the drama intensifies as the dark green creates a beautiful backdrop to the antique gold which shimmers and gleams in the light.

For all of the 3 shadows I would say that dry they are good for day time when you want just a little bit of shimmer and sparkle, but if you want a dramatic impact with lots of “look at me” then use these shadows wet. For the price I think I have got some really good eyeshadows that are going to look great for day or night.

Have you tired any of Accessorize's make up yet? Let me know in the comments below, I love hearing what you think.

Love

Jude xxxx