Hello, everyone. Welcome back.
Thank you so, so much for joining me.
So I have a bit of a weird one today.
I don't usually go into a video set up
to discover if a product is the worst.
Oh, actually, maybe I do.
The worst product of anything.
But this was gifted to me.
And I have heard... do you know what, I haven't even looked
online, any reviews, but I have heard from
my peers nothing but terrible, terrible things.
So I want to kind of put
you know, I will decide for myself.
I'm a good person.
I want to decide, is this palette
really the worst palette in the world?
And this is... what's this called?
The Wildflower palette from Laura Mercier.
Now, listen, let's do a little bit of a close up here.
So this is the palette on the outside. Very cute.
Now, take a look at these shades.
These first few, I think up to
about here, all look like beige dust.
I assume they're all going to come out just white.
And then we have a few of
the darker shades on the outside here.
Now, why is that a bad thing?
Here's why I feel it's like a negative thing, right.
Depending on skin tone.
These four, actually, these four, five here are
going to come out pretty much the same.
Actually, you know what?
There's one,
there's two, there's
there's three, and there's four.
And then five is a little bit more of a pink shimmer.
Those are five different shades in this palette.
Excuse me, please.
They're a little bit different, these ones.
So that's good.
Not drastically in any way.
And of course, the deeper ones
are going to come out deeper.
So we have five shades that are completely the same.
Three shades that are verging on very similar but not
completely different, and then four shades that are a bit
darker, that are a little bit more usable.
Now, believe it or not, some of those
shades I showed you were also different finishes.
There's one which is completely matte and then one
which has more of a shimmer to it.
So you're basically getting eight shades really.
Let's be real.
You can take away these...
Wait. 1,2,3,4... wait, maths in my head.
1,2,3,4,5,6,7. Yeah.
And then all these look the same.
So you're getting eight shades
with any difference to them.
Now, I want you to guess, don't cheat,
guess how much this was?
This palette, Laura Mercier, which is, by the way,
a brand I really, really like.
Nothing against them, apart from calling one
of their products the worst ever.
I haven't tried it yet.
We don't know.
Guess how much?
$55.
Now, Laura Mercier, that price point
I'm not, like, overly baffled with.
But $55
for this?
I'm embarrassed, and I'm not even involved in it.
So let's give it a go.
Let's see how it is.
Let's start off with...
You know what?
I want to try this shade on
one eye and one on the other
and just see if we can tell a difference.
My eyelids are crusty today.
I do not know what's going on.
So, let's go.
They do have names, but I'm just
going to call it White One.
Let's go in to White One.
Tap off some of that excess, because that's dusty.
I feel like I have...
I mean, it's definitely... the color is definitely there.
Let me go to this pink, White Two.
Look, I got, I had a crease on my eyelid.
That's what happens when you run out of that Sigma Eye Primer.
Sigma wouldn't be doing that.
So this just looks like a
less pigmented version of this.
I am building it up quite
intensely, like in my reviews
I'm trying to get the product to work as much as I can.
There's a very subtle difference.
It is so subtle, it's not even worth my time.
It's not even like, oh, my God, how subtle.
Let's try a little bit of this shimmery,
like, beigey one on this, on top of this, to
add a bit of sparkle and shine.
Nothing.
I can't even see any shimmer.
Let's try the shimmery pink on top of the pink side.
It's a very subtle difference.
This is very much white, and this is like pink.
To be honest with you,
this is something that would be quite nice
just to brighten up the eye in general.
That's all I think it'd be good for,
because it doesn't really add much color.
Let's go to this purpley shade here and
take that through the socket and just see
if we can get some definition from this.
It definitely comes out a little bit darker than
expected, I think, after using these two.
So that's nice.
Oooo.
Palette's getting spicy.
Not too bad.
Not too bad, to be honest with you.
Let's try this little berry shade right here.
I just tap that on this outside corner.
See, now, this is very just similar
to the shade that we used.
It is a different shade.
That's a fact.
Again, the shades look the same.
So let's take, let's take out... what did we say?
Actually, I'll do that at the end.
And then let's just go ahead and use that darker shade, because why not?
This actually looks quite deep.
Okay, let's do the darker shade under the eye.
I mean, is it the worst palette ever?
No. We do have, like, we got a smoky eye look from it.
Could you do much more than this? Not really.
Let's talk about this again just really quickly.
The shades here.
So, all of these, the same.
All of these are the same.
So we don't include them.
They all look exactly the same on the lid.
This is the same as...
what were we doing?
Oh, I'm holding it upside down. This isn't the way...
The shimmers as well.
Don't look shimmery in any sense of the word.
These two look the same.
So now we just have two shades.
This actually looks very similar to all of these, so we,
we won't talk about that.
And then these shades look different.
So we have three, four...
five.
This could be a five pan palette.
Very awkward number to put in a palette.
Four around the edge, one in the middle, like Dior do.
Call it a day.
Charge £25.
$25 for a natural eyeshadow palette.
Because it's not anything special.
I mean, I would look at this, and I think,
this is the kind of palette that people look at it being
like, oh, it's nice for your mum or your grandmother.
Whereas actually, mums and grandmothers are doing
a lot more with their makeup than
neutrals and things like that.
Laura Mercier is, I think, a brand for mature
people, but I don't think that's a thing anymore.
Like, people a certain age, you absolutely don't
have to do your makeup a certain way.
And I think this leans too much into it.
You can get a neutral eyeshadow palette, actually, with eyeshadows
that are a lot better quality from somewhere like Beauty
Bay, that are smaller, have more shades, and all of
them are different for, like, less than 20.
That's £55, dollars, is a lot for five
shades, that's $10 or pounds a shade.
That is too much for this.
These are two different colors.
You can see it very subtly, but not enough to
be like, oh, you're wearing a different eyeshadow today.
You know what I mean?
Is it the worst eyeshadow in the world? No.
I don't give it points for formula.
I don't give it points for pigmentation, and
I don't give it points for the price.
And to be honest, you probably don't need
a mirror in there, because you can create
this look with your eyes shut.
Right, I would love to know your
opinion on this palette down below.
Palettes like this, is £55 or dollars a price
point you would pay for something very, very basic.
Let me know below.
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