After something of a haiatus on the palette front from Sleek lately (I like their thinking - absence makes the heart grow fonder!), they are back with three new additions to the range - the sunset palette, the graphite palette and a new range of blushers....
I was sent the graphite palette and a blusher from the range which in spite of postal strikes etc, somehow managed to find its way to my door yesterday. Upon hearing that another palette was out (via the magic of twitter), I popped to my nearest Superdrug to investigate and picked up the sunset palette.
As always the Sleek palettes are great value for money at £4.88, each contains 12 shades of mineral based colour, and (Chaos palette aside) are well pigmented - great especially if you like shimmer colours.
The Graphite palette was a massively pleasant surprise when I opened it - the smoky eye is never really out of fashion, but is especially massive this season - This palette is (ahem) "bang on trend" as they say - a great range of greys, black, a metallic blue and two purples (including a rather fab royalish hue), and even includes a couple of great highlighter shades;
Above - Graphite palette (with flash - without flash it was impossible to see the colours with my fabulous camera!)
Above - Swatches from Graphite palette, pictured in same order as shown in the palette above - swatched dry without base, again with flash, which has washed the colour out a little - the colours are more intense in real lifeI was also sent a blusher from the new range - simply called "BLUSH". The range has five shades - Pixie pink, Flushed, Flamingo, Sahara and Coral. I recieved "Flushed", a deep raspberry pink shade;
Blusher fans may recall the recent range released by Barry M, was often criticised for the cheap packaging and not great brush - Sleek have surpassed them on this front - the packaging is externally similar to the palettes, the lid has a decent mirror, and there is no crappy applicator included (now they just need to leave the sponge applicators out of the eye palettes hey? Who's with me?), which is a very positive thing.I checked out the other shades in the range today at superdrug, and loved the look of pixie pink and flamingo - both vivid pinks as the names suggest.
Above - "Flushed" swatched (heavily) on the hand
Above - "Flushed" applied to the cheek... a lot more wearable than it looked, and I like it for this time of year...I have not really used this blusher for long enough to comment on its longevity etc, but it was easy to apply, and easy to blend - it's also a bargain at £3.29 for 8g of product!
I picked up the Sunset Palette today - something a bit different to the usual winter palettes, but in turn, this means the palette will be useable after the party season, and beyond.
As you can see, this one is very pink/red/orange based (sunset colours surprisingly!), together with a blue and a black - again colours are shimmers, and extremely pretty when swatched...
...Although, sadly once again, my camera has managed to wash out a lot of the intensity... The highlighter colours are fairly similar in both palettes, but the two colours on the bottom left are very reminiscent of MAC's Star Violet, the orange and yellow are also very pretty and well pigmented, which sadly this picture fails to communicate.I'd definitely try to check these palettes out before they sell out - even if you don't like all the shades, at £4.88, you can't really go wrong.
As always with mineral based shadows though, these can be a little crumbly and fragile - so take care with them!
Have you picked up any of the new products from Sleek? Don't forget to tell us what you think - it good for people to get different perspectives!
Hope this helped!
MizzWorthy
