An affordable drugstore palette

Elf has come out with several Mad for Matte palettes, which are quite famous on Youtube, and I have the Nude Mood. If you like neutrals, bases and transition colors, you will love this palette. It is an affordable drugstore palette, with fine quality and pigmented shades.

Great for drugstore!

This eyeshadow palette is my favourite drugstore palette I have tried! It is so cheap (cost wise) so i didnt have great expectations but I needed something cheap at the time so I got this. Wow! The color payoff is decent and the colors are fairly easy to blend! For a drugstore eyeshadow these are A+

Wow

I don't wear eyeshadow often but this palette is great! So affordable especially for such a good product. The colours are so pretty and well pigmented. They have a whole collection too so there is something for everyone. Love it!

Wearing it today

This eyeshadow palette is totally worth it! First of all, it's very affordable, one of the greatest things about ELF. I hadn't used it lately and today i saw it in my makeup bin and decided to use it. My eyes turned out good. The only problem I have is there doesn't seem to be many choices; it's all basically browns that are super similar but it still does a great job.

Love It

This product is honestly one of the best drugstore eyeshadow palettes out there. The formula itself is super blendable and pretty pigmented and versatile for its price. The formula and the shades are very comparable to high end matte eyeshadow palettes like tarte. It's also a great travel palette because it has a variety of warm, cool, light, and dark shades for different makeup looks. I have a medium to deep skin tone and even the brown shadows that are very similar to my skin tone showed up really pigmented on the eyes. The pigmentation is not extreme, but is great because it's buildable. I find that the product applies best using an eyeshadow brush because the finger swatches do not show its full potential. You also get quite a bit of product in the palette. I would definitely repurchase this product and would 100% recommend it to any makeup lover out there who wants to look good on a budget!

This was my first eyeshadow palette ever and I feel like it was a good start. Now that I have tried other shadows from other brands, my opinion of it still hasn't worsened too much. It's still a very functional, usable palette, still the only completely matte palette that I own, I'd be quite in a pickle without it. In terms of the looks it gives good pigmentation, I can totally say that it can rival higher priced eyeshadow, and it wouldn't be too much of an exaggeration. The most note worthy thing about the shadows in this palette is they are completely matte. No shimmer, no sheen, no satin, just matte. Compare to NYX matte eyeshadows for example, they always have a slight satin look to them, whereas elf mattes look totally flat, when the light hits them, there's nothing to reflect back. However that's also its problem. While they look good, the experience of applying them isn't the most satisfying. The shadows feel dry, not all of them are chalky dry, but they feel noticeably drier than matte shadows from other brands. Whenever I touch them with a finger or a brush then tap it off, even just lightly, they kick up a powder storm. Some eyeshadows do kick up powder but they hold together and also hold on to the brush well, and I'm not always at risk of inhaling my eyeshadows rather than applying them to my eyes. Luckily, I have never had issue with fallout. I guess we can't have shadows that look matte - aka dry - without the shadows themselves being dry.
The most underwhelming shades for me are the two lightest shades - the pink and the cream - and the two cool toned shades - the grey and the "black"; on either sides of the palette. They are good enough to blend out the edges of the look with though. The "black" shade is not a very pigmented black, it's more like a very greyish one, it's super dry and chalky, very difficult to pick up and doesn't give much impact when applied. It frustrates me so much that it was the main reason why I decided to branch out and buy more palettes just to find a good matte black. The rest of them are nice, workable without me trying too hard, they're great for everyday looks, very neutral, very natural. Frankly it's kinda hard to get a very dramatic look out of them without pulling in shadows from other palettes. Lasting power without a primer is 1 hour, 2 hours and they creased & blended altogether into a brown smudge. I don't blame them, my lids are oily, hooded monolids, nothing lasts without a primer and a good mattifying powder on top which helps lasting power for 6-8 hours easily with minor fading.