LA Girl Palette Review

Neon love is my life. I live for bright colours and this Neon Palette packs a punch! You options are limitless with a neon rainbow at your disposal. I went straight for the orange and lime with white corner highlights - Love it! The colours are bright but you can easily blend them out more for a more subtle look. I also love the packaging, its super cute, but seems like it would travel around in my purse well too.... and it had a great little brush which is all I used to do my eye makeup today.

Received this product as part of a trial team, and I must say I was super excited to review it. I chose the smokey palette. With 12 gorgeous shades to mix and match, this is definitely a must have for any girls makeup collection. I like that it has a handy little mirror on the inside of the palette for out and about applications, and it came with a double ended applicator, with a sponge and brush tip (though I did not use this to apply, I used my carousel duo eyeshadow brushes). All the shades are extremely pigmented and quite buildable. They blend together seamlessly which is great for people who haven't quite mastered the smokey eye look yet. I wore this eyeshadow to my course twice this week, and it wore quite well, think it would last alot longer with an eyeshadow primer though. Overall I love this product, I would definitely buy it and I'm probably going to go out and buy the other palettes in this set!

I was coveting the Neons palette *hard* from the moment I first saw it in-store, and then when it came up as a possible BR trial I waited to see if I'd be selected. I wasn't, so I ended up picking up not only the Neons, but the Ultra as well. At $10 each, why not? (Price was at Love My Makeup; have also been seen in the Warehouse for $7.50)

The LA Girl Palettes each feature a crazy 12 eyeshadows, housed in a simple black-gloss stiff cardboard case with a double ended brush (brush/sponge applicator) and a long, thin mirror. They are easy to use designs, with thin strips of each colour in a long thin rectangular case.

The brushes provided are average at best - the sponge is a little hard for my liking, and the brush a little soft, but it does the job in a pinch.

In the Ultra palette, the colours range from bone through a spectrum of pinky-beige tones and purples, with brown and bronze to finish out the set. They are colours that can be blended nicely to create a muted or darker look, both subtly sexy without being over the top. There are no bright shades in this palette, and the shimmery options are faintly shimmery, not over the top. It's a very pretty neutral set tending towards the purples, and looks great with my hazel eyes.

The Neons are, as expected, BRIGHT. There is a shimmery white and silver to highlight and soften, and a charcoal for features, but the other 9 shades are bright, screaming neons. Pigmentation is okay - not exceptional, but you can definitely see the colours loud and clear on your eyes. You have options for complementary colours, clashing colours, or a myriad of other options - creativity is key! I use this set to do a mottled eye fairly often and it always works using this product.

The shadows last through a full day on my eyelids (note: I do use a setting spray as well but even when I haven't I have been happy with the lasting time) and maintain impact right throughout the day as well. They can be blended or built up to achieve the desired effect, and even used with a slightly damp brush to get even more impact.

For the price, I can't fault the sets at all, but whether or not I'd recommend them depends on how makeup savvy the person was - sometimes people don't need a 12 colour palette, especially if they're happy with what they are rocking - I like to use all the colours all the time but palettes aren't for everyone.

Go instore and play with the 4 options - the smoky and nude palettes are also lovely!

I put my hand up to trial the LA Girl Neon Palette and was so excited to be accepted. I opened it up as soon as it arrived, it comes in packaging that feels like strong shiny cardboard, it doesn't feel overly sturdy but I don't tend to throw my palettes around so that's no biggy. The eyes shadows themselves come in a cool green coloured plastic. There's also a small long mirror on the top half, I don't know how you're meant to use the mirror as it is quite thin. I would most likely only use it if I was desperate and had no other mirrors on me, but it does look nice so there's that.

It also comes with a double ended brush, one end is a thin eye shadow brush the other is your typical eye makeup applicator. At first I didn't think I would bother with the brush at all but gave it a go anyway and was pretty surprised at how much I like the soft brush end. I find it especially good for applying colours to the under eye area and for cut crease looks.

Now getting onto the 12 shimmery eye shadows themselves, the colours look awesome! I was a bit disappointed that the 3 reds and pinks didn't actually come out all that bright, they were still nice colours though. On the other hand the blues, purples and greens are super pigmented and what you see is what you get. I love that there is a white, silver and black colour there also, which compliments the other colours quite well. There's hardly any fall our either which is always a bonus. By the end of the day (after 12 hours normally) there's a wee bit of smudging and colour fade but nothing that would make me stop using these eye shadows.

I'm looking forward to trying out the other palettes, will definitely be investing in the Nudes next!

When I first saw these palettes online the person selling them seemed to have trouble getting people to buy them. That paired with the fact that Tati used the Smokey palette and didn't love it, I was totally put off of these. I thought they would never work.

Then she popped one into my order because she knows how much I love eyeshadow palettes. I'd also seen these go out as trials here on BR so I already knew I wanted to try the Ultra palette, if I had to try one.

Overall I'm pretty happy with the palette. I collect eyeshadows so I have a wide range of qualities when it comes to eyeshadows and these are pretty great. Not high end quality, and for the price, who can expect that? But really quite good. The Ultra palette is full of pretty purple toned shades with a few neutrals thrown in. For me personally I do need to grab a matte, mid toned brown to throw in the crease as a transition shade because of the lack of mattes in this particular palette, but overall I do love it. The purples are stunning and it's definitely a cool toned palette and even using it for a pop of purple when using an entirely neutral palette is really fun.

I feel like with this little range there is a palette for everyone, whether you love bright looks, bold looks, neutral looks... I'm psyched to buy more of these honestly. I think for the price, you're getting pretty wonderful quality. I am intent on owning all four.

I purchased the nude palette from The Warehouse for incredibly cheap. I love palettes so thought I would give it a go. The colours are beautiful and the packaging is lovely too but my first impression of the product is you get what you pay for. The eyeshadows are quite chalky and hard to work with. The colour pay off isnt great either and you do need to spend some time getting a decent colour pay off. They stay on reasonably well during the day but this could be the result of a good primer! Im also certain that there are two colours in mine which are identical...

I have the nude in this colours it’s a fave of mine because some of the colours are especially good for when you are going out and you want to jazz your eyes up a bit more then usual. A little sparkle but still natural with out being over the top is the reason why I love this one. Good product lasts the night and supper easy to use. Also great not to wake with sore eyes too perfect

I was lucky to review the L.A.Girl Palette Ultra. It is the perfect palette choice for me, because it has gorgeous purple tones. And did you know that no matter what eye colour you have purple works great to emphasize it? Yep, this is so true! I really liked that there are at least three colours of one colour scale in the palette. The range goes from pinks to greyish blue, purple and to brown. All the colours are shimmery why I substituted my base after a few times with another matte eye shadow. They are very soft and powdery but fortunately the colours do not seem to fall off when applying and afterwards. The single shades have a different consistency. Some are more pigmented and easier to blend than others. The packaging is not the highest quality, but a double-ended makeup brush is included that has a synthetic bristle flat brush on one end and a sponge-tip applicator on the other that is very good for applying. All in all I think this palette is a really good choice if you like shimmery colours. You get a lot for the relatively small price.

I am so happy with the La girl Ultra palette! The pigmentation is really good, much better than most palettes in this price range. The colours are lovely, quite unique and a good mix of matte and shimmer. The shadows are creamy and blend fairly easily. One criticism I have is that without a primer (I use Urban decay primer potion) the shadow creases and fades over time. Also some of the colours look quite different in the palette than they do on the skin. I've created several looks with this palette and have loved the result, the quality is great for the price.

I don’t own many palettes and wanted to start building up a bit of a palette collection without breaking the bank.

I’m also not much of an eye shadow wearer but seeing so many beautiful looks on the photo wall I really wanted to start experimenting and getting a bit more creative.

Because this had such a great price tag I couldn’t resist and choose the safest option for me the nudes palette.

I love the beauty brick packaging the cute book which opens up to a beautiful range of shimmery and matte nudes with a double ended brush and mirror on the inside. I didn’t use their brush for applications as I prefer my own shadow brushes but as far as brushes included in palettes go this wasn’t too bad and I would keep this as a spare.

Because I am the most impatient person in the world I couldn’t wait to try it as soon as I received it, I already had my makeup done but as I don’t generally wear eye shadow I put this straight over foundation. I used the matte lighter more natural nudes and the pigmentation was great. It was super smooth and creamy and glided on my eyelids beautifully.

I choose the matte nudes to experiment with first and absolutely loved it. It didn’t sit in my creases or anything like that. The only downside it really had was it didn’t last all day on me but to be honest at that price I’m not terribly concerned !

I have been playing with these ever since !. The shimmers the mattes they are all very highly pigmented and glide on super smoothly. I do use these with a eyeshadow primer to give the shadow some longer stay time and this generally takes me through my work day which is exactly what I’m after. I adore the nude palette really nice shades for my skin tone.

I will be buying more of these – with such an affordable price tag it’s a great way to experiment with colours and looks without breaking the bank but still receiving a good quality product.

I would definitely recommend this to people to try.