Baby, you'll be famous...

I'm a sucker for a palette, especially one that is descibed as 'Complete Face Kit'. Famous by Sue Moxley is a brand that I ordinarily walk past in Superdrug. Afterall, bewitching, alluring and titillating are adjectives in which I want make up to create.  Famous, on the other hand,  is not something I desire. Nor does the name Sue Moxley entice me to buy as I do not read the particular newspaper she writes a beauty segment for. However, back to my original point: I'm a sucker for palettes and this little beauty caught my eye in Superdrug today. Opened up, it looks like this:

 

From my left we have the handy sized  wide-screen mirror, to the six lip gloss shades ranging from frosty pink to scarlet red.  The girly shades are lovely and there should be one to suit every skin tone however the consistency of them leaves a lot to be desired as does the staying power of the product.  

 The mid section is where it really goes pete tong, it contains from bottom highlighter, bronzer, then blush and to its right three miniature sized brushes.The highlighter barely gives any coverage which is in sharp contrast to the brash orange tinted shade of bronzer that was too harsh on my paley waley Scottish skin. The blusher again did not suit my skin tone, but its consistency and pigmentation was satisfactory. The brushes received the destiny of all my other brushes from drug store palettes: tossed in the bin. Does cheap and useless ring any bells? 

However, the shining light, the palettes resurrection, lies in its piece de resistance, the 18 highly pigmentated

eye-shadows in a variety of rainbow colours on offer.   

 

Experimenting with the colours today I attempted to create a look I had seen in Look magazine pre Christmas that merges 3 metallic colours to give a dramatic party look. I used the metallic gold and browns in the middle row and the two silver shades in the bottom left to create this look: 

I may have missed the boat with this look and will recreate it in oh what it it now 332 days until Christmas. I am eagerly awaiting spring/summer and I think the green shades of this palette will enable me to create great on trend looks. However, for the time being I'm going to rock the Gothic trend of autumn/winter 2010 for as long as I can drag out. 

So, overall this product reminds me of the cheap palettes that you used to get in your stockings at Christmas when you were twelve. It's not the ultimate or complete face kit for me as I would not wear this variety on colours on a day to day basis and they are not long wearing enough for my liking. However, it was only twelve pounds and the variety of colours mean an endless about of time creating fun, experimental looks.  

Anybody else tried Famous by Sue Moxley? 

xxx