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My Thoughts: Huda Beauty Desert Dusk Eyeshadow Palette

Hear my thoughts on the new Huda Beauty Desert Dusk Palette. I'll be talking about everything from price to formula to performance!


THE PRODUCT ITSELF

This eyeshadow palette contains 18 shadows with 4 different formulas. Now she does cost an arm and a leg at a whopping $65 USD. The mattes are very pigmented and buttery. The color payoff is quite exceptional and it's very buildable. You can intensify these shadows or blur them down and achieve the type of blend you desire. The metallic shadows (especially when the brush it wet), they turn out gorgeous on the eyelids. For the duo-chrome toppers and the glitter shade, I recommend a glitter glue; maybe a wet brush for the duo-chrome shade, maybe. My suggestions for a glitter glue would be the NYX Glitter Primer (if you don't want to break the bank) or the Too Faced Glitter Primer. 


Here's a provided list of all the shadows and their correlating formula...

Matte Shadows: Desert Sand, Musk, Eden, Amber, Oud, Amethyst, Saffron, and Blazing
Pressed Pearl Shadows: Blood Moon, Nefertiti, Royal, Cashmere, Angelic, and Turkish Delight
Duo-Chrome Shadow Toppers: Celestial, Twilight, and Retrograde
Pure Glitter Shadow: Cosmo


SWATCHES

Top Row Swatches 
Second Row Swatches
Third Row Swatches
These swatch exceptionally well except the pure glitter shade, Cosmo, but that was expected. The color payoff of these shadows are amazing and the pigment is so intense when swatching with your finger. The Pressed Pearl (pretty much metallic) shades are smooth and pack a punch with the fingers, which can be an effective method of application on the eyes. Absolutely gorgeous. You might recognize these swatches from my Locked and Loaded Instagram from the other day (lol shameless plug).


PERFORMANCE

The mattes are exceptional, fantastic, and flat out amazing. A little goes a long way with the pigmentation of these shadows. As I mentioned in the beginning, you build the shadows up to intensify the color or blend them out to blur and smooth them out. I like to do a combination of both techniques in my crease for the smoothest blend. I then like to go into a Pressed Pearl Shadow and apply that with a wet brush or my finger on the lid. To add a little dimension, I like to go in with a topper shadow with a wet brush or a little bit of glitter glue. These shadows are super pigmented and very pretty. Definitely pasty girl friendly!

The addition of a decently sized mirror is new compared to it's
sister palette, the Rose Gold Palette

MY FAVORITE SHADES

Honestly, all the mattes are amazing; I love them all! Out of all the Pressed Pearl Shadows, I love Turkish Delight a lot because it's very unique and pigmented. I also really love Cashmere as a more natural colored shade for the lid. Of all the duo-chrome shades, it's pretty obvious, I am in love with the fan favorite shade Twilight. That shift from purple to blue is so gorgeous, no photo could do it justice. I don't really like Cosmo because if you don't own a glitter primer, you have to invest in getting one and this palette is already $65, I'M BROKE. Luckily, I got this palette for $31 thanks to the Sephora VIB sale and a $25 Sephora gift card. 


OVERALL

If you don't have these shades already and you're eyeballing this palette, save up your coins and get it if you really want it. But if you already own shades like this in your collection, it's not really worth spending $65 USD. However, this is significantly better than the Rose Gold Palette when it comes down to shadows and color theme. Plus, this comes with a fancy, not-so-little mirror that the Rose Gold Palette didn't have. I like that Huda Kattan took in the criticisms (example: lacking a mirror..) of her debut eyeshadow palette (the Rose Gold Palette) and incorporated them into the Desert Dusk Palette. This is a nice step up from the previous palette. The formula of the shadows are on par, the variety of looks and shadows is great, and I really love packaging. If you love to collect makeup, this is an eye catching palette!




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Question of the Post: Did you get this palette? If not, why?

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