The NYC Individual Eyes Compact in Dark Shadows ($4.99) was one of the items I received in my Influenster VoxBox follow the link to see my unboxing video. I love NYC products, they make great quality cosmetics for drugstore prices. I already owned 2 other Individual Eyes compacts (Union Square and Central Park) that I purchased on my own. The palettes come with 4 complimentary colors and their own primer and illuminator. They are a frequent go to for me because I like to stay in bed as long as possible in the morning and having everything I need for a variety of eye looks in one compact saves me a lot of time (these work well for travel too). The custom compacts are also great if you are a smokey eye beginner because the insert clearly labels what colors are meant for your lid and which are for contouring in your crease.
Breaking it down:
The Primer - I am a brown girl and my eyelids are a darker complexion than the rest of my skin, so even when I'm not wearing make-up it looks like I have on brown eyeshadow. As a result I always wear a primer under my eyeshadow so that the color stays truer to the package color. I really only use drugstore primers and this is as good as any of the others I've tried. It evens out the color of my eyelids and helps keep my shadow in place all day.
The Illuminator - Like the primer the illuminator is as good as any other drugstore illuminator. I pop a tiny bit of the white shimmer onto the inner corner of each eye just to keep them bright, especially when using smokey colors.
The Quad - NYC eye colors are VERY PIGMENTED. I love this because it doesn't take much product to get great color on the eye, especially when used in conjunction with the primer. Sometimes inexpensive eyeshadows can contain so little pigment that I have problems getting them to show up on my skin tone even with a primer. That is never the case with NYC. Usually with NYC eye shadows I have to make sure to use a light touch and build up color in order to get the natural look I like, otherwise it's easy to end up with too much color on.
The colors in this particular compact were much darker than I am used to wearing, but are great for a night time smokey look. All for colors are shimmery with the heaviest sparkle being in the darkest black color. Again it is really easy to go overboard with this palette so tread lightly, but if you are going out for a night on the town and don't want to spend a lot on your smokey eye this is definitely the way to go.
Full Disclosure: I received this product free from Influenster and NYC for the purpose of review.
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