Zoeva Caramel Melange | Review and Swatches

If you know me then you'll know one of my favourite brands for eyeshadow is Zoeva. They're super affordable, great quality and available in beautiful shades. I've been loving this palette Caramel Melange all month and it's so pretty, it contains a mix of shimmer and matte shades, some neutral and brighter colours. I'm loving this and I'm hoping you'll love it too, this hopefully isn't the only Zoeva palette review I'll do in the next month or so. 

   

As far as I'm aware you can only order these palettes online, I bought them on the Zoeva website. They're so affordable, coming from the broke student. I knew I was going to love this palette as I'd already loved the Cocoa Blends palette from them. I could honestly just look at the packaging and shades all day. The packaging on this palette is dark brown with a gold block design, it's very similar to the Cocoa Blends one that I mix them up from time to time. 

It contains the shades, Wax Paper, Universal Delight, Aftertaste, Alchemy, Start Soft, and Finish Sensual, which are matte shadows. Also 182degrees, Liquid Center, Almost Burnt, and Edible Gem, which are shimmers. There's a mix of neutral colours and more vibrant ones. There's white, a variety of browns, reds, golds and purples. My most worn shades are Start Soft and Liquid Center. Start Soft is a brown shade with deeper red undertones and Liquid Center is a lighter brown shade with gold tones, which contain glitter, these shades go so well together. Two of my favourite shades, and the ones that make the palette stand out are Almost Burnt and Aftertaste. Almost Burnt is a deep pure gold which I love, it's so pigmented and leaves a great colour and shimmer. Aftertaste is the most beautiful vibrant red I've seen, it's slightly pink and brown which makes it still natural enough on the eyes. 

The swatches above are with and without flash in the order  Wax Paper, Universal Delight, Aftertaste, 182degrees, Liquid Center, Alchemy, Start Soft, Finish Sensual, Almost Burnt, and Edible Gem.

These shadows have really good pigmentation and colour payoff. They're all just such pretty shades and look so perfect altogether. Has anyone ever tried this palette or any other Zoeva products?

Zoeva: Cocoa Blends Eyeshadow Palette

I came across this palette while reading blogs a little while ago and I knew straight away that I had to buy it. It's like the palette I'd been looking for for a while. It's such a perfect Autumnal palette, I love that word so much and it's probably colour-wise my favourite palette I own, not that I own that many. The palette contains purples reds and variations of brown which is great to have if you're going to buy more autumn themed clothes as it gets colder out.

     

 The palette contains ten colours and they're all very autumnal colours and they're all so pretty and easily wearable. It doesn't come with a mirror which is a shame but I'm still really obsessed with it. It cost me about twenty six euro with postage so depending on where you live it could cost more or less, either way it's really reasonable.

The colours swatched above are the first five colours in the palette in the top row. The shades are very nude and neutral. The first two are very pale and subtle, the middle one is my favourite and it's a red and the last two are similar browns, one matte and one shimmer. 

This swatch is of the second row, in reverse order to what they should be. This row has shimmery gold, which is gorgeous, more matte browns, a shimmery purple and black. I really like every colour but the only problem I have with them is that they don't blend the best. It takes a little bit longer to blend it out across your lid than other shadows I have, I think it's because they are pigmented really nicely.

My favourite shade on the whole palette and the colour that really sold this palette for me was Warm Notes. It's a deep sparkly burgundy red, on it kind of looks like a brown but with more colour. I thought this shade would look super good in the winter especially because I wear shades like this on my lips all the time it's about time I wear it on my eyes.

Another two colours I've been loving are Subtle Blends and Infusion. Subtle blends is a really flattering shimmery gold and Infusion is a black with gold glitter infused in it, I love it.

All the shades in the palette are so easy to wear and I'll most likely have them on in some variation all throughout autumn and winter. 

Anyone tried any other Zoeva products before and love them?