Hard Candy Top Ten Trendsetter Eyeshadow Palette Review & Swatches

With mattes being a thing this season I thought I’d grab up the Hard Candy Top Ten Trendsetter Eyeshadow Palette ($6) in Birthday Suit on my last trip to the Evil Empire cough cough Walmart!

Because this one is all matte all the time.

Take a peek!

I have one of the original Top Ten Eyeshadow Palettes and I’m really not sure if there is any difference between that palette and the newer Trendsetter ones aside from packaging. As my palette doesn’t have the bit of leather overlay with the metallic spiky design! Mine came in a lace edged plastic compact and the newer Trendsetter Palettes have a the leather accents. The packaging is pretty lightweight and a little flimsy. The leather is on mine is already peeling up and off! Not a cool look (see pic below).

Hard Candy Top Ten Trendsetter Eyeshadow Palette in Birthday Suit includes 10 matte, neutral shades of eyeshadow. I don’t typically navigate towards matte eyeshadow for myself as I’m a shimmer lover but lately I like the softness of a matte eyeshadow and this palette was so cheap I decided to give it a whirl.

The color selection doesn’t have a lot of rhythm or reason as it’s a mismatch of shades but it also has a lot of universally friendly mattes that you’ll likely make a good deal of use out of. There’s creams here, navy, taupes, lilacs, etc…It sadly lacks a lot of browns! I think if they included more browns it would make for a far more interesting selection of shades and something you’d likely reach for daily. But I digress, there are some shades in here that I’d likely use quite often! Many of the creamy colors make excellent highbrow highlighters and it also contains one of my favorite mattes which is a brownish orange that works excellent on my skin tone (I’m wearing it sheered out on my eyes below along with one of the creams from this palette!).

Hard Candy Top Ten Trendsetter Eyeshadow Palette

Hard Candy Top Ten Trendsetter Eyeshadow Palette

Hard Candy Top Ten Trendsetter Eyeshadow Palette

Hard Candy Top Ten Trendsetter Eyeshadow Palette Swatches

Hard Candy Top Ten Trendsetter Eyeshadow Palette Swatches

These have soft, sheer color pay off but build easily enough. They are powdery (you can see in my pic below how they kick up a good deal of powder) but also have a level of soft, silkiness which blends easily onto my lids. No chalkiness or dryness here! This is a nice palette for those of us that are a bit scared of matte eyeshadows as these are very easy to use and wear. Even without primer I didn’t experience creasing or fading with these shades. They wore quite nicely. For some reason the palette kinda reminds me of the It Cosmetics Naturally Pretty Eyeshadow Palette.

At $6 bucks this is a nice budget pick up! It’s not going to blow up your beauty world but it does offer soft, easy to use mattes for daily eye looks. I imagine it’ll be something you might pick up quite often whether you’re using it alone or using some of the shades to accent another eye look!

I liked it and thought it was a nice little cheap thrill.

You can get the Hard Candy Top Ten Trendsetter Eyeshadow Palette exclusively at Walmart and Walmart.com.

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