NUBAN BEAUTY INTENSIFY PALETTE REVIEW AND SWATCHES

June 22, 2017 Unknown 2 Comments

Hello beauties,

So I recently ordered some items from Nuban beauty and I thought to share.

This post is on the intensify eye shadow palette I ordered from the site and I can tell you that from the moment I saw the promotional pictures on Instagram I instantly fell in love, funny enough I didn’t see the promo pictures for this particular palette it was their obsession palette I was going to get till I saw this palette on their website. This palette looked to me like more of a wearable everyday palette because the range of shades has more of neutral warm tones of browns and oranges, whereas the obsession palette had more of fun colours like blues, yellows and greens and this was what prompted my decision for this palette. Now even though I wanted to get the two I wanted to really check out this palette first and if it was a hit go back for the obsession palette because that palette as well looked beautiful. Point to note this is my first time trying Nuban beauty even though I’m aware they’ve been around for a long time and its co-CEO is the makeup maestro herself jane ogu of flawlessfacesbyjane

PACKAGING

One word BEAUTIFUL, can you see I had to write the beautiful in caps locks well that is because it is truly beautiful. This is hands down the best packaging I’ve seen for a Nigerian owned brand, they surely worked on this one well. This palette packaging just oozes style and class and their packaging can even be compared to what we see from foreign brands so for that I have to truly commend them. I just love the fact that they thought to do something extra for their packaging. The palette came much secured, it was wrapped in bubble wraps and the palette itself was sealed in a transparent nylon; talk about secured right!!! The bubble wrap is to save you from any story from the gods kind of stories about the eye shadow breaking on transit, in essence one word again SECURED. The eyeshadow palette comes with a slip out cartoon cover with the branding and product information on the back of the cartoon. The palette itself is also made of cartoon material. The palette comes with a mirror and a dual ended eyeshadow brush.

PRODUCT DESCRIPTION

I will start this with the palette size. The palette is quite large I actually found myself having to rearrange my makeup storage to make room for it. The palette also comes with a large sized mirror to fit about 80% of the entire palette like!!!! So nice right, I love me some large mirror.

Now moving to the eye shadows in the palette, the palette comes with 25 various eye shadow shades with individual names ranging from oranges to browns to pinks to purples to gold to copper. The colour range in this palette leans to more of warm toned neutrals with oranges, pinks, champagne gold, silvers and much more. I love the shade range though; it is versatile enough to create various looks. There aren’t much of vivid neon bright colours in this palette. The texture of this palette ranges from mattes to shimmer to satin. The palette contains 7 matte shades and 18 shimmer shades.

APPLICATION

The application and colour payoff of these eye shadows are quite impressive, but wait what I am actually saying is that it’s AMAZE-BALLS!!!(Amazing) The matte eye shadows are so smooth, soft to touch and very finely milled. They apply with intense colour payoff and blend out very well. The shimmer eye shadows are just as smooth, soft to touch and very finely milled.

Top 2 rows (L-R): kamisi, ivie, kaira, funmi, amaka, neso,lola, mngu, ene ,muna

Third and fourth row( L-R): Dana, Zainab, Zara, Nma, Chisom,Obong, Binta,Fatima,Oluchi,Kayria

Fifth row (L-R):Nica, Ekaette,Laide,Lamide,Ronke

PRICE

This palette retails for N13000 and it is available for purchase on their website here.

MY VERDICT

I LOVE this palette talk about quality and affordability all in one. The eyeshadows are great; the colour payoff, the smoothness, the blend-ability (made up word) of these eyeshadows are AMAZE-BALLS. I would definitely recommend this to anyone; my only drawback to this palette is the number of matte shades. I would have preferred more matte shades other than that the palette is a major WIN.