Sleek Ultra Matte Palette - V2 Darks

I love matte shadows and I love i-Divine palettes so when I saw that Sleek were releasing two all matte palettes I knew I had to have at least one, although I am still very tempted by the brights too.

The palette consists of 12 matte shadows in a variety of (darker) colours.

I am a big fan of Sleek shadows and in particular their palettes.  The colours in this one are great and I love the fact that all the shadows are matte, sometimes I find shimmery and glittery shadows a bit too bling for daily work wear. 

Unfortunately I am finding the formula a little difficult to work with so far.  The shadows seem to go a bit muddy if you blend them too much and being darker colours they do need blending.

I've only used the palette a couple of times so far so i am hoping it's more to do with my cack handed, rushed attempts than the quality of the product as I really like the colours and think I could get a lot of use out of the palette.

Sunset

A couple of snaps of the iDivine Sunset palette from Sleek, which obviously I couldn't resist when I saw it.







Another collection of really wearable shades for a bargain price!

Famous last words

I popped into Superdrug today, to check if the new Sleek stand was in, one of the SAs told me last week they were expecting a new one, and see if I could have a closer look at the Sunset iDivine palette. Sadly, no new stand and no Sunset.

However! They did have one Graphite palette randomly sitting in with the other mainstay palettes, so I had to have a quick look, for research purposes obviously, since I wasn't intending on buying Graphite, the colours appearing to not really be my kind of thing in the online shots I'd seen, needless to say, despite the fact I am not a big grey fan, I had to have it.

There are several grey tones and another black which I probably won't use that much, however what really sold me on it was the fact that it incorporates 3 stunning purple blue shades and has two nice light colours too.

It was really hard to get them to show up in photos for some reason, I suspect my camera is misbehaving, but the photo will give you a rough idea:







There is a grey blue with an obvious holographic sparkle, which should be fairly wow once it's on, a purple with sparkle and a slightly less sparkly blue purple which looks a bit like the colour of a Dairy milk wrapper to me, along with a pure, sparkly white and a gorgeous chiffon pink shade.

So despite the fact there are 4 very similar greys which I don't think I'll get much use out of, for under £5 I couldn't leave it on the shelf.

More iDivine palettes!

Yes, more!

Two in fact, a new mainstay, Sunset and a new limited edition Graphite, both should be in shops round about now (Graphite launches the 28th October, I'm not too sure about Sunset, I think it should be out right now though).

I want to see them in person before I decide whether I really need them both, I'm not great at smokey eyes and don't tend to wear much dark grey or black - I'd rather use navy or a dark forest green or brown to do my dark smokey looks - so I'm not sure how much use I would make out of the Graphite, it does look fantastic if that's your sort of look though.



Sunset looks, for me, more adaptable, lots of lovely bronzey colours and a couple of brights too, so I think I will probably be adding it to my collection.





The lighter colours look particularly gorgeous!



So, more goodies to look out for soon.

iDivine - Neon Re-release!

Most excellent news! The lovely Sleek Make Up people have announced on Facebook / Twitter are going to re-release their limited edition Neon iDivine palette from the summer.



I missed it first time around, and still regret not picking it up when I saw it, so I am delighted to be getting another chance! Hopefully it should be in Superdrug stores very soon!

Sleek iDivine Palettes

I found Sleek MakeUP a while back, rather by accident. Superdrug started stocking their products and I spotted a cheap and brightly coloured eyeshadow palette so thought I would give it a go.

It was this one, the original palette;




For under £5 you really can't go wrong, long lasting, bright colours that last really well and are very blendable too.

Best of all Sleek bring out Limited Edition palettes regularly which are the same quality and price but different themes, and therefor colours.

The most recent being Curious, shown below:







The previous edition, Safari, was also lovely and a touch more bold but still wearable, Neon. I'm still gutted I missed out on getting my Neon palette, but I suppose 3 will do for now.

I can't recommend these palettes highly enough, they're great quality, great colours and best of all a great price.

Everyone should have one, at least!