Thursday, October 29, 2020

Hot Topic The Nightmare Before Christmas Love Is Eternal Eyeshadow Palette A.K.A. I Tried Hot Topic Makeup So You Don't Have To

Hot Topic has some really cute Nightmare Before Christmas products, so I was buying some decor and costume items, I saw this eyeshadow palette and it was pretty cute so I snuck it to give it a try! 

Hot Topic The Nightmare Before Christmas Love Is Eternal Eyeshadow Palette
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I will be honest, this isn't an easy blog post to write - I typically review and talk about products that I really enjoy here, but sometimes there is just something that's really not good and I think I should share so you can avoid making the same mistake! (I know there is some really cute looking palettes at Hot Topic, so I think you should see their quality before you think about picking them up for gifts or anything!)
But first, I will share a little bit about the palette: 

Hot Topic The Nightmare Before Christmas Love Is Eternal Eyeshadow Palette

Hot Topic The Nightmare Before Christmas Jack & Sally Love is Eternal Eyeshadow Palette ~ $16.90 US. Jack and Sally's love is eternal just like your love of makeup. This eyeshadow palette will be sure to give you the perfect spooky, smokey eye. There are 5 shimmery and 7 matte shades, each with their own The Nightmare Before Christmas-inspired name.

The shades in this palette were super cute - I loved the shade range and the colour combination and the mixture of mattes and shimmers. 

Hot Topic The Nightmare Before Christmas Love Is Eternal Eyeshadow Palette

Undying Love ~ purple shimmer
Ghoulish Feelings ~ blue shimmer 
Mischief ~ champagne shimmer 
Misfit Love ~ matte rust brown 

Hot Topic The Nightmare Before Christmas Love Is Eternal Eyeshadow Palette

Madness ~ medium matte fuchsia 
Goodbye Jack ~ matte orange
Aren't You Scared ~ medium plum purple matte
Doll Face ~ teal matte 

Hot Topic The Nightmare Before Christmas Love Is Eternal Eyeshadow Palette

Scary Teddy ~ purple taupe matte 
It's Ours ~ deep purple grey shimmer 
Dr. Finkelstein ~ white silver shimmer 
Master Of Freight ~ matte black

I was a little worried about the pigmentation after swatching, these are really on the light side; but, I still gave this palette a fair shot as sometimes light shadows can be blended and built up, swatches are not always everything. 

Hot Topic The Nightmare Before Christmas Love Is Eternal Eyeshadow Palette

But, with this palette the swatches were a pretty good indicator that this palette was not good. I used an eyeshadow primer and I could barely get pigmentation. I tried blending, patting them on, building them up, using a finger to apply the shimmers - it was all bad. Nothing I did could make these shadow look good on the eyes. These basically didn't apply or lifted off and it was probably the worst eyeshadow I've ever used. 

I had pretty low expectations for this palette, but I thought I would at least be able to pull a lightly pigmented look off. But, they wouldn't even apply. I wouldn't even buy these palettes as play makeup, this was awful.

Hot Topic The Nightmare Before Christmas Love Is Eternal Eyeshadow Palette

I have to apologize that this is such a negative review - I just think you need to be forewarned to stay far away from this eyeshadow formula! 

3 comments :

  1. Too bad this palette didn't work out - the colors could have been awesome!
    Jenna ♥
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    1. I agree with Jenna. The color story is really nice but they need to work on pigmentation.

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    2. So bummed about the formula - too bad!

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