People who've been inexplicably following my exploits for a while will have heard me rave about the Sleek iDivine palettes before. Really, the only fault these palettes have is the fact that they have a pretentious, stupid 'i' in front of the name; other than that, they are perfect. 12 highly pigmented mineral-based eyeshadows in a neat little mirrored palette for £4.99? Do want.
It is no surprise to me, therefore, that Sleek would make the first neon make-up I have discovered which is actually neon. Introducing the Sleek iDivine Acid Palette.
Shot of the colours in the Sleek iDivine Acid palette (£4.99 at Superdrug).
I know it looks over-exposed, but that's really how it looks. Really.
Looking so bright in the case isn't such a big achievement though, I know my StarGazer neon eyeshadows looked bright in the packet, and disappeared to sheer crap when I applied them, even over primer. So look below for the swatches - on bare skin, no less, no primer, nada.
Swatches. All dry, no primer, or base, natural light without flash.
So admittedly, the white barely shows up, although honestly I think that has more to do with me being white and thus a startling lack of contrast than it does the product's lack of pigmentation.
I'll be reviewing it properly soon, but having had a play with it today I can safely say I will be as, if not more, impressed with this as I was with its predecessors. All that remains is to figure out how to pull off such eye-watering combinations.
Check out the other Sleek iDivine Palette reviews: Chaos, Storm and Original and bonus points if you get the title reference.
27 comments:
Gorgeous! Wish could get that palette here :) I should check ebay.
30 June 2009 03:39OMG Ana I waaaaaaaaaaaaaant!!! I NEED a palette like that in my life--my existence won't be complete without it! And you know how obsessive I can get when I want something =X.
30 June 2009 22:57this is one scary lookoing palette but i DIG the colours!
1 July 2009 21:24@ Phyrra - You know where I am if you want something ferrying, love!
1 July 2009 21:25@Jen - Hahaha, I want to see you with this palette as much as you do, it's like my mission to see you with some INSANELY bold looks. Let's see what I can do =D
1 July 2009 21:26@jojoba - Tell me about it! As someone who loves bold looks, this is a bit much even for me. I hope I can find some wearable looks that utilize it without looking silly.
1 July 2009 21:27I think I should wear that neon yellow and seriously hot pink to meet with clients =P. I'll light up the whole office--literally =D
1 July 2009 21:52Hahaha. If anyone asks about it, you can say you forgot your eyeshadow and had to improvise at your desk with your highlighter marker pens.
1 July 2009 22:11LOL Ana my work is so staid and stuffy that we only have yellow highlighters =P
1 July 2009 22:14Umg! I'd go mad in a place like that. I want to work somewhere where it's OK for me to have writing and doodles all the way up my arm on a daily basis.
1 July 2009 22:21^^ although knowing my boss, he might not even notice the crazy makeup. i think it'd probably be more of a "hmmmm jennifer are you alright?" and i'd say "yes, why?"--and of course his response would be "well i thought you had an eye infection" =P
1 July 2009 22:33what more can i expect from the man who tells me that i'm looking refreshed on the day that i'm at my most haggard, being horribly jet-lagged and not having slept in 2 weeks LOL.
Oh, men don't notice anything. Except Alex, who oddly notices when I've plucked my eyebrows, and compliments my make-up. He compliments everything I do/am/associate loosely with, though.
1 July 2009 22:41You do get odd compliments sometimes though, do you? Like you can spend hours on your hair, make-up etc some days, and others when you rush out of the house with a ponytail and some roughly slapped on foundation and mascara, someone tells you how nice you look, and you're like "Er, right, why do I bother?"
Everyone at work expresses how much nicer I look when I do natural looks, ahaha. I don't do bold and bright to look beautiful though, I do it because I like doing art on my face!
wow, the colors are gorgeous!! I so want this palette, hope I can find it on ebay.
2 July 2009 11:21Tell me about it Gio! It's sooooo bright, so rare to see in dry eyeshadow.
2 July 2009 12:02It is of course, from the simpsons episode where they make the Radioactive Man movie in Springfield :)
2 July 2009 17:52Totally with you on the "why do I bother" thing lol. It seems that the days that I put the least effort into things are the days I get the most compliments. I guess effortless really is the way to go :)
3 July 2009 02:05Thank you, thank you, thank you Ana. I saw this on their site a few weeks ago and was waiting for a review. :O) Have I told you how happy I am to see you back. I just wished they shipped here. They keep saying their coming. I got my Jewels palette from another site that sales all of Sleeks items, even the individual, eye, cheek, etc. But they didn't have the Acid palette yet. What I do like about Sleek's official site, is the "sales/specials" they seem to have monthly for the palettes, or other make up.
3 July 2009 13:27LOL Jen and Ana, that was soooooooo funny.
3 July 2009 13:28oh.my.friggin.god the yellow in that is INSANE. And the blue on the end, AND THE PINK! I wish we had these here.
9 January 2010 06:13Yeah I'm replying to an old post but I havez nada else to do so blogsploration it is! :D
Ooh, that yellow is like the perfect green-tinted bright bright yellow I've been searching for all my liiiife....
10 January 2010 07:22AxS the yellow looks bright, buuuut it doesn't show up that well on the lid (NO neon yellow does, it's like impossible) although I've used it as a highlighter with nice results. I'll try doing another look with this palette to demonstrate it sometime.
10 January 2010 16:37It's been made permanent now so it's actually readily available. Plus, oooh, you can win one =P
It's a very pretty highlighter-pen type yellow, Belinda (have you entered the giveaway?) also check out Aromaleigh's Atomic.
10 January 2010 16:38Downside is that neon yellows are hard to make show up, but really great with a little work.
Do you know if the bright colours glow in uv lights? I know the star gaze eyeshadows do. Thanks
9 February 2010 00:22they actually do light up under uV-lighting. On halloween i used the neon pink as a blusher and at the party everyone was laughing: 'your cheeks are glowing'. So i suppose the other neon colors will glow as well.
22 November 2010 08:44What are the ingredients of this palette?
8 February 2011 19:13I read, while going through some MMU-related stuff and all those that sell soap dyes as eye-shadows, that no neon pigment is approved for use around the eyes, so... Is this a European thing, then? We can use those pigments that the US can't (around the eyes), considering I read it on a US blog and they were referencing their agency?
Or Sleek is using some other... thing to make those neons?
@Ana - There's no special ingredient in them, the neon ingredient which is not approved for use around the eyes by the US FDA is approved for use around the eyes in Europe. Since they're manufactured and sold in Europe, the Acid palettes are legal here.
8 February 2011 22:45They're not the soap dyes though, those aren't approved for use anywhere on the face. There are face-approved neons which are not eye-approved in the US but are approved in the EU.
I'd tell you what the ingredients were but my palette is alll the waaay in the other roooom and it's such a long list >:
Ah, that explains it.
8 February 2011 22:57Thanks!
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