Making Up the Midwest: Review & Swatchfest: Jesse's Girl Eye Color Collection in the Eyes Have It

Wednesday, November 7, 2012

Review & Swatchfest: Jesse's Girl Eye Color Collection in the Eyes Have It

Jesse's Girl Eye Color Collection in The Eyes Have It

Where has this palette been all my life?

Despite being known in the beauty blog and vlogospheres as a wonderfully affordable brand, I don't see Jesse's Girl very much in the midwest due to the lack of Rite Aids. While living in Maryland for a few summers, I had the chance to try a few of their products, but never managed to make my way to their 9 Pan Eye Shadow Compacts. Such. A. Shame.

The palette I had the opportunity to try, The Eyes Have It, is a palette with 9 shadows and a price that trumps my current bargain buy from Wet n Wild. One of four 9 pan palettes, The Eyes Have It is an earthy palette with lots of greens, rusty browns, bronzes, and even a teal. Unlike so many drugstore palettes that try to over extend themselves with lots of shades (some of them subpar) in one palette, I have nothing but good things to say about each of these shadows. While I do wish the spectrum of shades was a little wider (perhaps with a frosty white and a blackened green), the palette can pull of both work appropriate and dramatic looks. Each of the shadows is smooth and evenly pigmented with only to shades being a smidge powdery (the light blues). All of the shades have a satin to shimmer finish, but not so much so that I felt like I needed a matte shade to balance everything out. While glitter-haters will rejoice, matte-lovers might not have much to look forward to with this palette.

For $3.99, there is no reason to not want this palette. If, like me, you are without a nearby Rite Aid, you can purchase this and all other items from the collection from the Jesse's Girl Cosmetics website.