Star Palette

I’ve had the benefit of playing with this palette since August and have to say it’s truly incredible! I’m already a huge fan of the Natasha Denona shadow formulas and have been using both of her 28 pan palettes since January. So I was excited to see that she added several new formulas with this palette. The new matte formula is a cream like shadow with no fallout and a stay all day wear time. They sparkle shades are really something to be seen though! They are made with a new ingredient Chroma- Crystals and mixed with crushed diamond pearls to create a depth of sparkle and reflection. This is a pro quality palette but is so user friendly for a makeup lover of any skill level. Anywhere that 3 eyeshadows are in a sequence creates a unique coordinated eye look. The palette contains 18 shadows. 4 Crystal eyeshadows, 2 Duo Chrome eyeshadows, 3 Metallic eyeshadows and 9 Creamy Matte eyeshadows. Important to note is that the palette is also split into a warm and cool side to make eye looks easy to put together. Priced at just over 9.00 a shadow means you are getting superior quality at an affordable price! I 100% think this is not a palette to miss out on!

I love Natasha shadows .. I was so stinking excited to get this. I'm sadly disappointed in the color payoff and the amount of major fallout. I think I might return this product. It's to expensive not to love it.. 💔

Finally it arrived and I couldn't even wait to leave work before applying a few colors at the end of the workday. And then the disappointment...the colors just aren't as pigmented on the eyelid as when swatched. So I thought, once I'm home, do my face over, all will be better. And no, after trying different combinations (as suggested, vertical, horizontal, diagonal or my own) the colors, though VERY beautiful individually and in combination are not very pigmented without layering or a mixing fluid. Second, the shimmer colors pretty much have to be applied as Natasha Denona demonstrates in her video, with your finger. And the glitter ones are like one YouTuber mentioned, almost like loose eye glitter and need a liquid or cream to hold them. The best thing I found was mineral oil (so some type of light eye serum oil would probably work as well). This kept the great color and boosted the pigmentation and adherence. Another positive note though, the color lasted for a while (nearly all day for me). So the obvious issue is due to the price, you don't want to have to REALLY work hard to make a palette work. I expected everything to just flow on smoothly, so it is quite a let down when you have great colors, but can't achieve a pop-eye catching look without doing near pro techniques to achieve it. I'm on day two and even after getting the Urban Decay Moondust palette (to console myself, but the colors are the same), almost getting Too Faced's Christmas palette (a definite one to consider if you prefer paying less, as the glitter-like colors are't bad at all), and getting a GREAT Dior new single Lustrous Smoky Mono called "Fire" that reminds me a lot of Natasha's shimmer/glitter colors, but has a better texture), I'm trying hard to justify keeping the Star Palette.

Lastly, if you don't like fallout, forget this palette! There is a LOT of fallout, in particular the glitter shades.

I decided to keep the palette, but that after some work learning how to work the shimmer and glitter shades and a few combinations of shades (looks) I was able to achieve. I recommend that you review Natasha Denona's detailed video on the Star Palette and even her 28 color palette videos (like the video on the Purple-blue version). She discusses her techniques, brush type needed, etc., and it REALLY helped me. In the end though, I achieve the best pigmentation for the glitter formulas with mineral oil (I'm sure some other oil would do). I raised the rating to a four, but 3 1/2 would have been most appropriate. I raised it due to the beautiful colors and combinations you can achieve. So far this is my go-to palette for the fall and soon winter.

There's nothing like it ,a must have ,i have all yhe latest pallets that i love but i would trade them all for this one lol

I've had the two large 28 pan palettes since they released on Beautylish, and I am a huge fan. Yes, some people find the price to be a bit steep, but then again, Tom Ford shadows are $80 for 4 colors. Natasha is an experienced makeup artist, and she created amazing shadows. I find these colors to be pigmented and easy to work with. People who have swatches with barely visible shadows must be using this differently that I am, because I am getting insane pigmentation out of them. The new Chroma Crystal shadows are stunning to look at, and light up the eyes like no other! Yes, they have fallout, because they're pressed glitter pigments. I use them over a glitter glue and get easily 12-15 hours of wear out of them daily, with no fading. There is only one shade that gives me problems (Galaxia), and with glitter glue, I get that to work as well. I love the layout of the palette, the thought that went into the arrangement of the colors, and the warm and cool sides. I do wish Natasha would have put a light matte brow bone color in the palette, but the lack of one didn't deter me from buying it. So yes, this might be "expensive", but I don't find it to be unreasonably so. If you don't want to spend more than $40-$50 on a palette, perhaps this isn't for you. If you want pigmented, makeup artist designed colors that aren't mass-marketed like every repackaged product out on the market, pick this up and give it a chance. You won't regret it.

I was going into this thinking that I'll hate the mattes and love the shimmers because that's how Denona's palette usually end up for me. However this completely flipped the script - the mattes are beautiful, creamy and easily blending. On the other hand te shimmers were mediocre at best, they kicked off so much fallout than some of her previous shades and the new crystals are a complete disaster as it is like trying to apply loose glitter without any base and hoping it will stay by the will of God. It won't. So you come to a hard choice where this palette has the potential to be amazing if you have other things underneath it - primer, glitter glue, setting spray. However whilst I can justify going the long mile for brands like Morphe or OPVL, for a palette of this price point to be this bad is just ridiculous.

Sooo.. I was so excited when I received this package. I opened it and immediately swatched it. So this is the low down.. The warm side of the palette to me is so much better then the cool side. The warm side has amazing shimmers that are sparklier than anything I have every seen. The mattes on the warm side are super pigmented and so nice to blend..... NOW lets move on to the cool side (sigh) the cool side well just didn't impress me. the only color that I really loved from that side was vega. Its a beautiful baby pink/peach tone and its so pigmented and dense its un real... Then you have the other shades.. :/ GALAXIA and POLARIS are awful. These shades do not stick to the skin, they tend to disintegrate and they seem to maybe work as a topper or in conjunction with a glitter glue. PHOENIX and ELECTRA are also awful mattes, I'm sorry but the pigment of these two is so bad. These are so sheer they look like a wash of color and the fact that its a sheer cranberry makes me sad....I expected so much more SUPERNOVA is also super sheer...... I'm just not at all happy with this side..... NOW WHAT TO DO??? should I keep it because I love the warm side??? but I should be loving the whole entire palette, so I'm torn... for the price of $169.00!!!!! you would think they would be amazing but I am pretty sure I can get better pigment from makeup geek or even Makeup Forever shadows... highly disappointed. I've attached a photo of the cool side swatches!!! let me know what you guys think...

Gorgeous colors and great pigmentation. The chroma crystal shadows work better wet so some work is involved in getting them to look amazing. Definitely no regrets. =)

I added the Star palette to my other two 28 palettes because having worn makeup for years and years and owning just about every well know palette ever made Natasha Denona shadows are simply the best. They apply themselves and are effortless to use. Top notch!