This is the newest Juvia’s Place
Palette I have tried. I’m not going to lie; it was the packaging design that
sold me. The packaging for the palettes is always stunning and always reels you
in before the colour story does! It appears that BeautyBay.com no longer stock
this brand, but it looks like there will be a Juvia’s Place UK website at some
point this year.
THE PACKAGING
The packaging is square shaped
cardboard with bright blue, purple and pink colouring and a beautiful African
woman design on the front. It has a magnetic closing and when the lid is lifted
it reveals the nine eyeshadow pans on a bright sky blue background. The
eyeshadow pans are very large circles and the shade names are written in white
under each pan.
THE EYESHADOWS & FORMULA
You get nine 3.6g eyeshadows/pressed
pigments in Matte (M) and Shimmer (S) finishes.
·
Highly Pigmented
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Vegan
·
Cruelty-Free
THE SHADES & SWATCHES
Maasai - deep emerald green (M)
Nzinga - canary yellow (M)
Kahina - cerise pink (M)
Jarawa - fire engine red (M)*
Candace - vibrant violet (M)*
Fanti - bubblegum pink (M)*
Kongo - dodger blue (S)
Karama - slate grey blue (S)
Gola - cerulean blue (M)
The shades marked with an asterisk (*) are Pressed Pigments. According to
USA Law, Pressed Pigments are not intended for use around the immediate eye
area as they can cause temporary staining to the area of skin they are applied
to.
MY THOUGHTS
·
Primer/Base - The eyeshadows are pigmented enough without a primer or base, but I
would always layer one down. I used Too
Faced Shadow Insurance and Too Faced
Glitter Glue.
·
Pigmentation - The pigmentation is
great.
·
Application (wet/dry) - The eyeshadows can
be applied wet or dry. I always use mattes dry, unless I am applying them to my
lower lash line or using them as eyeliner. I sometimes apply metallics/shimmers
wet, but it depends on the formula and whether they contain glitters. Wet application
can max up the pigmentation and help prevent fallout.
·
Blending - They do blend quite well, it took a
little work but only because the shades are so bright and you want them to look
seamless when blended together.
·
Kick-Back - Obviously, there is always going to be
kick-back in your eyeshadow pans as you are disturbing powders. The kick-back
was not a concern or issue for me in this particular palette.
·
Fallout - I only notice slight fallout with the Kongo shade. Applying a good tacky base
can minimise this.
I absolutely love the packaging design and the colour story is very fun
and festival looking. The overall formula is great, I’ve tried a few other
Juvia’s Place Palettes and the formula is consistent. My favourite shades are Maasai and Kongo. The shade Nzinga
doesn’t show up too well on my skin tone, so I had to keep layering it to get some
colour payoff. There’s also a shade in
the Tribe Palette called Maasai,
which is actually a bold lime green yellow shade. I’m not sure why they reused
the shade name. I also wish that Karama
was maybe a lilac, lavender or purple shimmer, just to add a little more
variety as both shimmer shades are blue toned. I did sort of struggle for look
inspiration as the shades are sort of opposing colours. I feel like for the
shades that were included, maybe it should have been a larger palette with more
shades, like a bigger festival edition. I did enjoy the quality of this
palette, but sadly I will not get much use out of it.
You can purchase the JUVIA’S PLACE The Warrior 3 Palette for
$20.00 exclusively from JuviasPlace.com.
| I purchased this palette for £19.96
from BeautyBay.com |
| Swatch Stencil: Stripes 10 Pan by SwatchPerfect.co.uk
|
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