Revlon Photoready Eye Contour Kit Reviews

I have the "Impressionist" eye contour kit which consists of neutral browns and champagne shades with one pale pink eyeshadow in the kit. The kit helpfully includes easy-to-follow instructions to create an eyeshadow look using all of the shades (which are numbered to make it easy to follow) for both hooded and non-hooded eyes. The kit also includes 2 foam applicators which I think are a bit wasteful. Foam applicators are rubbish at applying shadows when the instructions for the kit requires blending of the eyshadows along the browbone which just can't be achieved with foam applicators which are designed for packing on eyeshadow colour. I think the applicators could have been left out as they are a bit rubbish and it seems wasteful to include them. The instructions are great and I was able to create a really nice eyeshadow look following them. I think this is great for beginners as all of the shades in the "Impressionist" kit are neutral and quite subtle so they are forgiving of any errors and easy to blend out. I loved the eyeshadow look I created following the instructions which was quite subtle, yet glamorous. My main issue is all of the shades are shimmers; there is no matte included to use as a base shade so to complete the eyelook properly I prepped my eyes with a matte brown from another palette as it's pretty normal to not use a shimmer shadow as a base! I found all the shades apart from the pink shade were easy to blend and had a pretty finish. The pink shade was included as a tiny square so it was hard to get product on the brush and it just didn't seem to go with the rest of the colours at all, so I avoid using this shade. I found the wear-time of these wasn't great. Despite using my own eyelid primer, and setting spray, my beautiful eyeshadow look was pretty much half gone by midday! I see other reviewers have said this included an eyeshadow primer, it wasn't super obvious on mine which one the primer is as all colours included were shimmery, so maybe this is something the kit could make clearer. All in all, this is pretty and nice to help beginners create an eyeshadow look but this is a bit pricy and I just don't find it wears well throughout the day or has the staying power I would like (especially compared to cheaper eyeshadow palettes and kits I own). I would recommend giving it a go if its on sale and you aren't planning to wear eyeshadow all day and just to an event, but if you want long-wearing dramatic eyeshadow I don't think this is the kit that will achieve that.

The only shadow I loved in this 'kit' was the sparkly one, and I don't think it's worth it to buy it for one shadow. The other eyeshadows are fine quality, but i have a lot of other products I like way more. If you're really drawn in by a particular colour story, then I'd say to buy it because you might like it, but otherwise I wouldn't recommend.