![]() ![]() "Where is my transition shade?!" you might cry out. For a lot of users, this is the first thing you'll notice and will balk at. Sure, you will have to grab two palettes, but $110 for two of these palettes is, for me, a much better move than $125 for one of the other 10-pan palettes where I can't see myself using it often. The colorful palette works nicely with either of the other two palettes. To me, two of these mini palettes are workhorse palettes (the two neutrals) and one is a supporting palette (the colorful one). I personally don't mind using two palette simultaneously, but I pick my supporting palettes strategically as I don't have (or want) a lot of them in my collection. ![]() I then have "palettes that do it all" which offer some fun colored shades as well as solid performing neutral mattes (think Anastasia Beverly Hills "Prism"). These tend to be colorful palettes that, for most days, I would never use to create one single eye look but instead I pair with neutrals. I then have "Supporting Palettes" which are palettes I generally use paired with one of my work horse palettes (think Kevyn Aucoin "Electropop Pro"). These contain mostly neutral shades and never fail me (think Viseart "Warm Mattes", Kat Von D "Shade & Light" and Tarte "Tartlette in Bloom"). The way I look at palettes is like this: I have workhorse palettes which are my go-to palettes. Sure, you don't get the highly glamorous glossy black palette case, but I think the artistically designed box pairs more nicely with the shadows than the black casing does anyway. With the mini palettes, that box IS the case, so you just open it up and the shadows are nestled inside. But the box is so nice I certainly don't want to throw it away. So if you keep the box, you have to remove the palette from the box every time. With the 10-pan palettes, you get a gorgeous, very luxurious black, glossy case and the fabulous artwork is, essentially, the box that covers the case. Something else I really like about these mini palettes is that the cover artwork does not go to waste. With these 6-pan palettes, I can immediately see a handful of options that I know I can create and will enjoy. With the larger 10-pan palettes, I felt I would have to plan out my look every time I went to use any of the three palettes. These palettes are easier to digest price-wise and it's easier to visualize looks that can be created with the provided shades. These palettes I love and I think it was a fantastic business move to bring in users who might be on the fence in buying the $125 palettes or who want a luxury product but not at the $125 price point. Basically, they were close to being a win for me but they weren't quite what I wanted and at $125, they better be something I really, really want. Every time I looked at these palettes, I found myself wishing they were slightly different that I could swap one shade for another in a palette I liked or that I wanted one more matte shade or that while I loved this one shade I didn't love this other shade that came in the same palette. On top of that, I could not really visualize myself using any of these regularly, and for $125, I want a palette I will use regularly and not just two or three times per year for special occasions. Just my two cents and this preference could be used for basically any palette on the market. I personally think it would have been really neat if Pat McGrath had sold these as singles to fill out the 10-pan palette however the user wanted instead of having predetermined sets of shades which the user may or may not want. I wanted to pick one or two special shades and then pick whatever other shades from the other palettes I wanted to use. It wasn't that I didn't like the shades, it's just that I liked shades in the other palettes better. Each palette seemed to offer a couple of shades that drew me in, but then the rest of the shadows didn't. The problem I had with these palettes was that, while I did want one, I could not pick just one to buy. However, the black is meant to be used to help transform the other shadows in the palette, making them more vibrant and influencing the color and color payoff. Each palette contains a black shade which seemed to throw consumers for a loop as many did not want "just a boring old black shade" in a palette that costs $125. They are known for having "special shadows" that transform when used on top of other shadows in the palette. These are the 10-pan versions of these mini palettes and contain 0.47oz of product. First off, everyone was obsessing over the $125 palettes that were released last Fall (or Winter I can't remember).
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