Too Faced Hot Buttered Rum Eyeshadow Palette Review & Swatches

Too Faced Hot Buttered Rum Eyeshadow Palette ($25) is a new limited edition palette featuring six eyeshadows in coppery neutrals that launched with the Too Faced Holiday 2019 Collection. The palette is in the vein of some of the mini palettes that Too Faced has launched in the past like the Tickled Peach Eyeshadow Palette that was available with the Holiday 2018 Collection and the Sugar Cookie Eyeshadow Palette which was also part of the same collection as well as the recent Shake Your Palm Palms Eyeshadow Palette that launched for Summer 2019.

Too Faced did a round of these smaller palettes during Black Friday 2016 and you might recall me reviewing them one of which was the Too Faced Matte Chocolate Chip Eyeshadow Palette. They were a horror show sadly as he formula was just really bad. However, since that time they have improved considering. The packaging, the formula, everything has improved thankfully.

As jaded as I am when it comes to Too Faced I have to admit these mini palettes are cute and I do like them. Not only that but also, their Holiday Collection wasn’t too bad this year. So far, it’s one of my favorite mid-range launches.

That’s part of what led me to my purchase of the Too Faced Hot Buttered Rum Eyeshadow Palette.

The Too Faced Hot Butter Rum Eyeshadow Palette is about the size of a business card. It’s slim, portable, easy to store, and has a very generously-sized mirror inside along with eight shadows. Six of the shades are 0.02 oz each and two are 0.03 oz oz each. The Tickled Peach Eyeshadow Palette from last also contained eight shades but it was $26 and six of the shades was 0.02 oz each and two were 0.03 oz. Interesting they reduced the price by a buck.

Too Faced Hot Buttered Rum Palette

The packaging is adorable with a cute cup of hot buttered rum decorating the cover and all the shade names are listed on back. The palette is bulk made in the USA and assembled in Dominican Republic which is the norm for most Too Faced launches lately.

I keep reading and watching reviews telling me all about hot delicious this smells but I smell nothing! Not even the cocoa scent that Too Faced eyeshadows are so well known for. It’s supposed to smell like Hot Buttered Rum but I’m not getting that all and I admit this disappointed me as I really quite like the novelty of scented makeup!

According to the marketing the Hot Buttered Rum Eyeshadow Palette contains eight exclusive matte and metallic shades. Exclusive that’s the key word here. However, that’s not quite true as the shade Buttered Rum seems to be available in the new Extra Spicy Gingerbread Eyeshadow Palette. However, it’s called Butterscotch! The two shades look a lot alike to me! It’s a great shade and could become the next Peanut Butter Eyeshadow that every so dearly loved from the Too Faced Peanut Butter and Jelly Eyeshadow Palette. This is a matte orange-toned butterscotch that’s quite pretty. It’s one of the reasons I purchased the palette.

Too Faced Hot Buttered Rum Eyeshadow Palette Swatcjes (Whipped Cream, Bottoms Up, Born To Rum, Spiked)

Too Faced Hot Buttered Rum Palette Swatches (Vanilla Extra, Warm & Fuzzy, Sin-Ammon, Buttered Rum)

I do think the palette in marketing looks a bit more orange-y and pumpkin spice-like than it is in person. When it arrives I was surprised that I didn’t like it as much as I thought it would simply because I felt like many of the shades I could easily dupe from past Too Faced Palettes as well as other eyeshadows I own. Spiked is one of those matte browns with fine gold shimmer that seems to make an appearance in a lot of Too Faced Eyeshadow Palettes and Born to Rum is a metallic copper that also feels very re-runny. Also, Whipped Cream is a frosty white that always seems popular as a highbrow highlighter in a lot of different palettes.

So, yeah, I guess it wasn’t as orange-toned as I was expecting. The colors looked a little more unique in the promo images. None the less I still quite like it. Both Buttered Rum and Sin-Ammon are too very nice shades and combining the shades together did create some very warm, Fall friendly looks. They are keeping with a “Holiday” theme here calling it Hot Buttered Rum but it can easily pass for a Pumpkin Spice Latte Palette any day of the week! It reeks Fall and it proves my point about how Fall and Holiday Collection seemed to have merge together.

The palette contains four matte shades, one semi-matte shade with fine gold shimmer, one frost, and two metallics. I didn’t struggle with any shade. They all applied and blended well with plenty of pigment and thankfully, very minimal fall out. The mattes are firm but still applied quite nicely! I do wish they were a LITTLE more powdery as I do find mattes that are powdery a little easier to apply and wear by themselves. The metallics were equally as nice with a soft texture that applied and blended well. I wasn’t particularly keen on Whipped Cream as it was a bit too frosty for me but aside from that shade the rest were all great.

All in all, at $25 it’s a fun eyeshadow palette. Granted, it isn’t terribly unique! It has a few shades that are different for sure and that might make it worth a purchase but a lot of the looks you can get from this palette might achieved easily from shades you already own at home. None the less, if you’re looking for a warmer pumpkin spice Fall kind of palette I think you’ll get on well with the Too Faced Hot Buttered Rum Eyeshadow Palette.

Too Faced Hot Buttered Rum Eyeshadow Palette is available now.

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