Anastasia Beverly Hills Lip Palette Review, Swatches

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Anastasia Beverly Hills Lip Palette Review, Swatches: When you constantly stalk your favourite makeup brand and see that they are having a new lip palette being released, you can feel that major adrenaline rush honey. This is a sign from the Gods and you know you have to get it. The new release I’m talking about is the ‘Anastasia Beverly Hills lip palette Vol 1’. This beauty was released by January 2017. I got my hands on this by march. My sweet sister gifted it to me as a birthday present and boy did this make me happy or what.

Anastasia Beverly Hills Lip Palette Review, Swatches

That being said, let’s move on with the enchanting lippy goodness

About Anastasia Beverly Hills Lip Palette

An 18-well professional lip palette with shades ranging from primaries and neutrals to bold brights. Use Anastasia Beverly Hills Lip Palette to create an endless array of lip looks by mixing and customizing highly pigmented, long-wearing matte shades.

Includes mixing plate and double-ended lip brush and spatula
Bold primary colors to mix, layer and customize
Wear alone or mixed together

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How to use Anastasia Beverly Hills Lip Palette

Well, you can either use the colors directly on your lips or scoop out a few colors from the palette on to the mixing plate using the spatula end and mix with the brush end

Suggested Usage by ABH

White (Primary 1): add to lip color to lighten and enhance your lips.
Black (Primary 2): add to lip color to deepen and contour the lips.
Red (Primary 3): add to lip color to warm shade.
Yellow (Primary 4): add to neutralize berry lip colors or to warm, haute pink lip shades.
Blue (Primary 5): add to lip color to cool or neutralize peachy coral lip colors.

Price of Anastasia Beverly Hills Lip Palette

$ 48.00 in USA
C$ 62.00 in Canada
£ 55.00 in UK & Scotland
€ 54.95 in Europe, France, & Germany
A$ 104.00 in Australia
NZ$ 130.00 in New Zealand
S$ 69.43 in Singapore

Anastasia Beverly Hills Lip Palette Review, Swatch

In Detail Anastasia Beverly Hills Lip Palette Review, Swatches and My Experience

Outer Packaging

The acrylic palette comes packed in a matte black cardboard carton with the name of the palette and quantity written in silver metallic fonts and the company name written in a copper gold metallic font.

  • On the backside of the carton are the description, ingredients, a few extra details and an image of the colors present in the actual palette.
  • On opening this carton, you will find the mixing plate and the palette.
  • The palette has the top cover transparent so as to view the shades present.
  • The palette made of sturdy matte black casing which gives it a classy and refined look.

Inner contents

Inside the palette is a thin plastic leaf with the shade numbers printed on them. The palette has a brush slot, where the brush is kept. The brush is dual ended with a spatula on one end and a brush on the other end with a small cylindrical casing. The lip palette has 18 colors out of which 5 are primary colors. The shades present, range from nudes, mauves, reds to berry tones.

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My experience

The best part about owning this palette is that you are not limited to only 18 shades. You can create your own customised color by mixer 2 or more colors. On a general note, I’ve never been a fan of the brushes that come alongside palettes. Having said so, the brush in this palette is really good. The spatula is shaped well and is of good quality plastic and the bristles of the brush are soft and apply the product well. The mixing plate is sturdy as well. Overall, the brand has put in good effort on the packaging of product.

Now, moving on to the lip colors. They have a nice formula which easily glides on the lips. It has a creamy matte finish. The colors take some time to set enabling easy blending in case you want to adjust the color on your lips.

The lipstick stays on for a good 5 to 6 hours after which my lips started feeling a bit dry. Once they set they don’t bleed or smudge. They do transfer slightly. Layering too much of the product gives a very tacky finish. It creases and ends up looking like a total mess.

The color fades when you eat. When you eat something oily it fades in the center but almost all the lipsticks do that.

Now, I did notice patchiness in Primary 1 (white), Primary 4 (yellow) and Shade 7 (vibrant coral), that is in case you use them individually. Apart from that, all the other colors have amazing pigmentation and apply like a dream.

More Photos, Swatches

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Anastasia Beverly Hills Lip Palette Review, Swatches bottom row primary colours

Is this palette a must have?

Honestly, no, when I got this palette I thought I wouldn’t be getting anymore lipsticks but I was wrong. This palette is best used if you are a professional Makeup artist. Then again, folks like us can use it too but I doubt that the palette will reach its full usage potential.

Do I use the palette very often?

Nope, when I got the palette I was super excited on the idea of having so many colors to play with but eventually the palette grew out of me. You can probably see from the pictures how much I’ve used it. I then just got lazy with the cleaning process of the brush and mixing palette and started looking for ‘shortcuts’ and splurged more on lipsticks of the colors I want.

However, I do reach out to this palette every once in a while.

Any other reason for not using it so often?

Yes, there is. When I use a color from this palette and require a touch up anytime in the day, I’d have to carry this palette and the mixing plate and it gets messier if I applied a customized color. I’d have to keep mixing till I get the perfect shade which I created before and in case that perfect shade doesn’t turn up right, I’d probably have to keep adding and mixing or just rub of the color from my lips. Retouch the foundation, go about with the lip liner and then with the lipstick. All this is just too much of a hasle for me

When do I use this palette with no doubts in my mind?

Well, I’d say the best time I made use of this palette was when I was on a long travel vacation. I didn’t have to take a number of lipsticks with me. This palette was more than enough. I was able to manage with its staying power and the palette saved up space in my travel bag (since I already had too many things to carry).

This palette retails for 48$ which comes close to the standard palette pricing of the brand. So, you are actually paying for 2.66$ for a lip color, which is kind of relieving. The NET WT. is 0.03 oz./0.8 g each

Anastasia Beverly Hills Lip Palette Review, Swatches creating custom shade

Anastasia Beverly Hills Lip Palette Review, Swatches custom shade

Pros of Anastasia Beverly Hills Lip Palette

  1. Amazing shade range
  2. Customisable
  3. Stays for a good 5 or 6 hours
  4. Doesn’t try your lips for quite a while
  5. No bleed or smudge issues
  6. Colors blend well which enables easy mixing

Cons of Anastasia Beverly Hills Lip Palette

  1. Certainly not travel friendly (in terms of day to day life).
  2. Patchiness on the lighter shades.
  3. Layering too much of the product makes lips look tacky.
  4. No mirror

MBF Rating

4.3/5

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