This past week I caught the depotting bug and decided to condense some of my eye shadow palettes. I managed to depot three palettes into a Z-palette and I think it turned out pretty good (before and after below!). Except for my Pixi shadows ... those ended poorly. I managed to save them (mostly) but they’re consigned to little plastic containers instead of being properly displayed in a Z-palette.
Since I’m currently working on panning my Chocolate Bar palette I decided not to depot any of those. The poor depotting attempt on Gilded Ganache helped as well. During the process I realized I didn’t want to take up space with shadows that I was hoping would be used up in several months.
I’ve definitely found new ways to enjoy the Too Faced Cat Eyes Palette. I bought it before my collection was as large as it currently is. If I didn’t own it now would I still buy it? I don’t think so. My favorite shade was Kitty Glitter which I would never have thought but for the most part I think I have other shades that achieve a similar look.
I forgot to take a picture of my progress in August but I included one I took today. I am planning on switching palettes to something else. Probably my Lorac Pro Palette 2 but I’m not certain, as usual.
Despite having a drawer full of options, for the past month I’ve been solely using my Too Faced Cat Eyes palette. Having spent such quality time with the shades, an so little with the others, I thought I’d just dedicate however time I want to the palette before moving on.
Over all I found the shades to be a little limiting and difficult to create an entire look using just this palette. I think they’re best as complimentary shades with other palettes or singles. I did challenge myself to use just this palette though to see what I can come up with. My go-to look has been the following:
Meow – all over the lid to set my primer
Tiger’s Eye – crease
Panther – lower crease, outer 3rd of the lid, and bottom lash
Kitty Glitter – lid
Thoughts
Purr -- I use this as a brow highlight but since I use very little of it, there’s not much progress. I might use it as an inner eye highlight too. It’s pretty subtle.
Tiger’s Eye -- when you look at it you can see it has a little but of shimmer to it. However, that doesn’t come out unless you foil the shadow. It works okay as a crease shade because the glitter isn’t noticeable, at all.
Leopard -- the eyeliner companion to Tiger’s Eye. Once you get it wet and apply it, it’s basically a brown and you can’t even see the shimmer/glitter that’s visible in the pan.
Meow- The middle of the big pan shades that I use it to set my primer with so it gets plenty of use.
Pussy cat -- I wish Pussy Cat was more true to how it looks in the palette. You really have to work at building it up and even then I always end up foiling it.
Jungle Love -- the shade that drew me to this palette. Not going to lie, it’s kind of a disappointment. Like Leopard, once you get it wet there’s no glitter/shimmer effect. Since it’s darker than Leopard, it looks like a charcoal liner instead of purple.
Kitten -- I don’t really use kitten except for maybe the occasional inner eye highlight.
Kitty Glitter -- My favorite shade! Upon first glance I didn’t think I’d use it because an icy blue shade is not what I gravitate toward. After using it I absolutely LOVE it. The best part is I don’t think I have a similar shade among my collection so it’s unique. The sad part it when I run out I’ll be tasked to find a dupe.
Panther -- The black. It’s okay. It’s not super opaque which can be nice because you can build it up but I have difficulty blending it more times than not. I actually threw this shade out because 1- I have better blacks and 2- I have a ton of black eyeliners that I can instead.
The Liners
The big drawer of this palette is the ability to use Leopard, Jungle Love, and Panther as wet/dry eyeliners. What I found was that they form a coating after they dry. Now, maybe it was my technique in application (wet brush and then dip into shadow) but I thought it was odd. I had to “crack” the coating and then chip away at it to get to the shadows underneath. I’ve done the same technique to the others shadows and they haven’t developed some kind of coating so maybe it’s the formula? I don’t know.
I did also notice that when I use these wet/dry shades are eyeliners they tend to transfer. It’s not pretty.
I moved the shadows back into my Z Palette because I was traveling and needed my traveling makeup case back!
I decided to focus on my single eyeshadows but when I was reorganizing them I realized I needed to bring in another palette to help round out the shadows. So I decided the Too Faced Cat Eyes palette will do. Ironically, I moved them from my Z Palette back into their original case which had been holding a bronzer and some blushes. I’ll also be using some BareMinerals blushes and my the Balm highlighter.
Blushes
Cat Eyes and Highlighter
Random assortment of shadows (yes, there is a Too Faced blush in there but I like it better as a shadow)
Top row (left to right): NYX pressed pigment (broken during depot), pieces of Leopard from the Cat Eyes palette (broken during depot), Too Faced blush in Justify my Love, iEnvy eye liner, Revlon cream shadow in #760, NYX cream shadow (purple, purchased on sale and I can’t find it on the website).
Second row: These six bottom left shades are from the Pixi by Petra Mesmerizing Mineral palette in Aquamarine Dream, BareMinerals eyeliner, NYX cream shadow (blue, purchased on sale and I can’t find it on the website).
Third row: BareMinerals loose pigment in Bahamas, Sephora matte shadow in Red Carpet, depotted NYX jumbo pencil in Yogurt and then Cottage Cheese.
Fourth row: pieces of Benefit’s Hulu bronzer (broken during depot), Pixi Fairy Dust in Silver Glow, depotted NYX jumbo pencil in Milk, NYX jumbo pencils in Purple Velvet and Strawberry Milk (being held).
I tried to keep the cream shadows on the right and the loose and pressed shadows on the right. If you didn’t notice most of the pressed shadows are broken from when I depotted them. You can also see the holes in the Too Faced blush where I tried to depot that but gave up.
I’ve been playing around with this lot for a week and am excited for the upcoming months!
