Not loving this palette

This palette caught my eye because the shades looked really pretty and easy to wear. The top row of the palette are all mattes and the bottom are satins, with 12 shades in all. I have now used the palette several times with different combinations, so here are my thoughts.

All of the shades without exception work better over primer. You get a much better colour payoff over primer and they do not have as much fallout either. The mattes are much better than the satins as they have much more pigmentation and blend really nicely. In my opinion, the satins are definitely inferior to the mattes. The colour payoff is much less and there is more fallout. They blend okay, but I'm really not enjoying these shadows. When I wore them the mattes lasted about 6 hours before creasing and fading over primer and the satins about 5 hours.

So, my thoughts on the palette are that I like the matte row and would buy them, but I an not in love with the bottom row of satins. They just don't have the pigmentation or the lasting power that I want to see from a palette costing $65 CND.