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[Review] Too Faced – Chocolate Bar Eyeshadow Palette

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I received this as a gift together with Naked Original Palette!  How beautiful right ^__^  One thing for sure is my obsession for eyeshadow palettes just grew stronger and it is literally dangerous to walk into Sephora now LOL XD  So many beautiful eyeshadow palettes there!  I’ve heard good things about this one, so let me do my own review~

Brand:    Too Faced
Product:  Chocolate Bar Eyeshadow Palette
Price:    SGD 69 (or USD 49)
Type:     Eyeshadow Palette
Size:     0.95g x 14 shadows + 2.2g x 2 shadows
Origin:   Made in USA
Website:  Too Faced website
THE PACKAGING

Comes in a pretty pinkish box.  Actual palette is housed in a Chocolate Bar design ~ yum!  I love the glossy chocolate plastic finish – simple and sleek.

Back view~

When you open the Chocolate Bar, the first thing that greets you is the smell of chocolate!  Think this is a first in makeup product history – so innovative 🙂  You also see a mirror of decent size – can fit your eye frame perfectly; and a piece of transparent film with the shade colours imprinted on it.

There is no space for brush. I don’t know about you but my fat fingers can’t do the intricate work of inner/outer corner detail smudging/blending so gotta remember to pack your brushes when you travel.

Taking off that film to show the shadows more clearly 🙂  Don’t understand why they can’t print the shade names below the shadow (like the Naked Palette)?  Make things much easier isn’t it hmm…

THE SHADOWS

“The eye shadows are pigmented with pure, antioxidant-rich cocoa powder and includes 16 matte and shimmer shades of natural browns, delicate pinks and luscious plums.”

Wow cocoa powder!  That explains the wonderful chocolate scent 🙂

There are 2 larger pans (2.2g each) for the highlight shades – White Chocolate and Champagne Truffle.   The rest of the 14 shades are equal size at 0.95g each.

10 shimmer shades. 6 matte shades.  (Wow 6! I’m a sucker for matte stuff)

SHIMMER shades

  • Gilded Ganache – Khaki green with gold tone shimmer.  Love the variety shift from typical browns.
  • Marzipan – Pink, rose gold shimmer shade (love this as a lid colour). Abit like Sin from Naked, but darker.
  • Hazelnut – Coppery brown shimmer shade.  Like milk chocolate ~
  • Creme Brulee – Gold~~ great as centre highlight of the lids
  • Haute Chocolate – Dark brown with gold shimmer.  As fine as dark chocolate~
  • Black Forest Truffle – Another dark brown with deep plum tone and multi-colour shimmers.
  • Candied Violet – Cool purple shade with multi colour shimmer.  Another beautiful change from typical browns.
  • Amaretto – Burgundy with gold shimmer.  (I looooooove burgundy shadows)
  • Cherry Cordial – Plum and brown.  Looks really plumy but swatch appears more brown.
  • Champagne Truffle – Beigy light pink highlight shimmer.  Universal global-must requirement.

MATTE shades

  • White Chocolate – Matte white.  Brightens eyes with just a swipe under eyes or brow bone.
  • Salted Caramel – Deep pink, light coral matte.  Special isn’t it?
  • Milk Chocolate – Middle brown shade.  Kinda in between Naked & Buck in the Naked Palette.  Universal transition shade.
  • Semi-Sweet – Deeper brown than Milk Chocolate, but lighter than Triple Fudge.
  • Triple Fudge – Deep dark brown.  Yum.
  • Strawberry Bon Bon – Light and cool bright pink shade.  Think would be a great brightener or even sweet blush.

There are enough matte shades to create many looks without even touching the shimmer shades, yea?  Gotta try an all-matte look one day!

SWATCHES

LEFT SECTION (3 columns)

The matte shadows can be a little powdery (which means greater tendency for fallouts) and need a couple layers to show the colour more clearly.  Marzipan, Creme Brulee and Haute Chocolate has beeeauutiful shimmer, but the other shimmer shades seem to have lower concentration of shimmer in it.  Not a bad thing I guess lol, but you can see a difference.

RIGHT SECTION (3 columns)

Love the colour of Milk Chocolate and Black Forest Truffle.  Wish Amaretto and Cherry Cordial could have more reddish / burgundy tone – they look more brown when swatched.  Champagne Truffle is just like Virgin in Naked Palette – beautiful beautiful highlight shade.

MY VERDICT

Pros

  • Superb variety and versatility. Can’t even count how many looks can be created with just one palette.
  • High pigmentation on most shades
  • Great value for money.  16 shadows, girls!
  • 6 matte shades!  Love the variety on matte shades alone.
  • Compact and sleek packaging
  • Anti-oxidant cocoa powder based with chocolate smell.  Yum.

Cons

  • Some powdery / less pigmented shades.  Plumy shades don’t look as plum as it appears.
  • Some fallouts when applying.
  • No space for brush.  Gotta pack separately.
  • Flimsy transparent film to know the shade colours

Overall

I feel pros outweigh the cons, and it is no doubt a great palette to have.  If you love brown, warm shades only – Naked Original Palette would be a better pick for you.  If you like some fun to play around with more matte shades or Khaki Green or Violet, then Chocolate Bar will satisfy your needs. 🙂

Sample look with Marzipan all over lid.  Semi-Sweet and Cherry Cordial in the crease and outer corners. Creme Brulee in the centre of lids. Triple fudge to smudge my MAC Pearlglide Intense Eyeliner in #LordItUp (see review here).  Champagne Truffle in inner corners of eye.

And of course wonderful ‘Vintage’ camera filter on the LINE camera app lolxxx.