REVIEW/SWATCHES: Smashbox Full Exposure Palette!

Hey everyone!

I'm back with a review of a makeup palette! Okay, let me start off with the disclaimer than I have never tried any Smashbox products before I bought this palette from Ulta a few weeks ago, but I've been seeing so many people talk about it that I knew I had to just run out and pick it up for myself! So, let's get started!!

The packaging for this palette is absolutely gorgeous! I love the matte black finish with the color-changing words when the light hits it. It makes it look super fancy and pretty. This palette comes with a deluxe sample of the Full Exposure Mascara, a double ended brush for mattes/shimmers, and 14 eyeshadows, half matte, half shimmer. The brush is extremely soft to the touch; though, I haven't tried it out because I have other brushes that I use, so I don't know if the claims for either end  (matte or shimmer) really work that well.

As you can see, the brush fits nicely inside of the palette for easy storage. The top row is shimmers, ranging in colors from light to dark, as well as the bottom row of mattes from generally lighter to dark. The way the palette is set up, it seems as though the shimmer above the matte in the bottom row would complement each other nicely if you were to layer the shades! It also has a generous mirror. This palette is another nude palette that any girl who loves nudes would surely enjoy!

Here are the swatches of the eyeshadows! Click on the pictures for more of a close up look! The left picture is shimmers and the right is mattes! I really loved how butter and smooth the shadows went on, but I wasn't extremely impressed with the pigmentation, in comparison to the other high end palettes that I own.

Overall, I do like this palette but I don't see myself ever reaching for it since I bought it on a whim and have been loving my Naked palettes so much more. With that being said, I am actually going to be gifting this one to a friend of mine in a beauty care package that I'm putting together for her with some of my holy grail beauty products.

Are you guys excited to buy this palette? Have you already bought it? Any palettes I need to look into?
Let me know!!

See ya!
xoxo Jennifer