For the upcoming months I decided to focus on my single eye shadows. Among these included my Pixi by Petra Mesmerizing Mineral Palette in Aquamarine Dream. It was the first palette that I depoted so the shades are all broken up but I don’t think this has any affect on the performance. I used this Pixi palette, along with some of my other shadows, for a week and here are my thoughts on why I stopped.
Pigmentation isn’t great. I’m not a huge fan of mineral shadows so I wasn’t surprised when they didn’t really show up. When they’re wet they’re nicer and I liked the lighter, shimmery shades significantly better.
The darker shades were patchy. When I was trying to build up the darker shades they didn’t apply evenly and seemed to skip on my eyelid. I always use primer so this was surprising.
They tinted my lid. Despite the primer and setting shade I noticed that these shadows left my lid tinted after I removed my makeup. It’s more noticeable with the darker shades. Not cool.
Good for subtle eye looks. I’m going to go out on a limb and say that because these aren’t super pigmented colors they’d be good for a subtle look. Maybe someone who doesn’t like a very obvious eyeshadows but wants some color would enjoy this palette better than I did.
Like I mentioned, I used them for a week. I threw out the shades that I disliked the most and ended up keeping two. They are the first and either the second or shade. I can’t tell from comparing my picture and theirs but either way they’re both from the lighter shade selection. I kept these two because they looked the best wet.
Aquamarine Dream picture via Amazon.
