CARGO Colour Eye Shadow Palette in London, $28.00 CDN @ Sears.ca
Reason for Purchase
I am a big fan of CARGO products; I have some of their eye shadow singles (in the round silver pans, packaged the same way as their blushes) and wanted to try out a palette (or five - yeah...I bought five of them...).
Out of all 5 palettes that I bought, this one was the one I was looking forward to using the most because of the purple and olive shades in the palette.
Notable Features
This is a quad palette.
Like all CARGO products, this palette is named after a real place: London, England.
Packaging
This palette is exactly the same size as a MAC Pro Palette x 4. It’s made of a clear resin-type plastic. The lid of the palette has an funky pop-art print set inside of it. Here is what it looks like:
The lid to the palette snaps shut; there is no magnetic closure like the MAC palette.
Once you open the palette, you will see a square mirror set inside the lid. The four shadows are square and identical in size - they are set in their own pans, but they’re squished right up against each other inside the palette. There is no ‘frame’ around the eye shadows.
Experience Using Product
You get four complimentary colors inside this palette: a deep espresso brown with a smidge of shimmer, a shimmery yellow-champagne, a shimmery eggplant purple, and a deep olive. Here is what the shadows look like:
and here is a swatch:
The espresso brown color is very pigmented. It makes a great liner color, and it’s also good if you want to create a more dramatic look and put some of it in your crease.
The yellow-champagne color is a great lid color; in the pan it looks obnoxiously shimmery, but it doesn’t end up looking that way once it is on your lid.
The eggplant purple looks really dark and like it would be very easy to over-do, but it actually goes on very sheerly. You can easily build this color to whatever level of intensity you want.
The olive color in the bottom right corner looks very intense and deep, but it also applies very sheer. It’s a buildable color that looks great layered over the champagne shade (in the crease or just as a wash of color).
Would I Re-Purchase, Recommend, or Reject
I felt a little let down when I used this palette for the first time. I was really looking forward to using it and I had high hopes for it - but the palette didn’t quite meet expectations. I wish the purple and olive shadows were more pigmented. I do like this palette, but I just wish those two colors were more intense than they are.
The palette is still pretty neutral; the purple and olive shades make nice accent colors.
If you are interested in this palette, I would recommend trying to swatch it first.
To learn more about this palette, you can visit the CARGO website (you can also shop from their site! - USA or Canada only) or the Sears website.
