Review : The Body Shop 4 step smoky eyes palette

I've tried this out for 2 weeks now and my views have stayed the same as the first day i used it. My first impressions when buying it were that the pigments seemed good but that gold creamy shadow was a bit too cream/silicone like.

 This comes in another colour silver black.

The instructions for how to get their super smokey look are on the back of the pack and are quite easy to follow BUT this look will do nothing for you if you have a hooded eye as the matte shadow on the lid will hide your lid even more and the shimmer on the upper eye will bring out the hooded appearance more. If you have droopy eyes you will probably find that they look more droopy with this heavy look too. 

As i had thought the colours blended well and were decently pigmented. When it came to applying the gold cream sparkle though i was less than impressed. This is far too creamy to put on over shadows and will cause your shadows to congeal and crease. I patted it over the shadow to try to avoid this but to no avail. The shadows creased up on me within about an hour. On trying to blend the shadows out i ended up with lumps of cream and shadow crumbling off my lid together leaving either no colour or a bit of a mess behind. 

What i personally found was that by starting the eye make up application y using the gold cream first in the inner corner and under the eye brow a better result was achieved. But in all honesty this palette would have been much much better if the gold was just a sparkly shadow as the cream takes away from the palette rather than giving it an extra oopmh. I had hoped to love this so much that i would buy the other shade offering but unfortunately found myself disappointed i had bothered with this one.