PR: Profusion Eye Shadows

Hey there! I just wanted to do a review on a product you may be tempted to pick up this gift-giving season, either for yourself or someone else.

A year ago, I picked up three little eye shadow palettes from Walgreens by the brand Profusion. Here's what they look like:

Here's some swatches (since there are no names to identify each set of colors, I'm just calling them 1, 2, and 3):

Palette 1

Check out what the swatches looked like on my fingers before I swatched them on the back of my hand:

Don't they look beautiful and pigmented? Such a disappointment when they're swatched and so flakey :(

Palette 2

Palette 3

All in all, these are not worth the money--and they're not even that expensive. I don't remember exactly how much they were, but I'm thinking they were probably somewhere around $3. While some swatches may look alright, the shadows don't hardly show up on your eyes. The biggest disappoinment to me was the first palette. I recently did a look using a Maybelline Color Tattoo as a base, and the shadows still didn't show up, even the darkest one! Sooo awful. 

The brand seems to have trouble getting matte shadows to show up. There are six shades in each palette, but in the swatches for palettes 1 and 2, you only see 5 swatches. C'est triste, n'est-ce pas? The palette I've had the most luck with is the third palette, but most of the shades have some kind of shimmer.

I don't think that they're selling eye shadow palettes in this form, but they might. I've heard of them selling the shadows in bigger palettes made of cardboard in rectangular shapes. That does solve another problem I have with these particular palettes. The shadows are all in such skinny strips of color, it's difficult to get my brushes in them. I took this picture for comparison:

Look at that! Each strip is barely wider than a Q-tip. 

So if you're looking at anything from Profusion and thinking, "Man, those look like pretty neutrals, and maybe they'll be like the Naked palettes," you should just pass. And really, you can still find cheap things in the drugstore that have way better quality. I know Profusion's been found at Walgreens, as well as Big Lots. If you see it, just save your money and put it towards something better.

I hope your Christmas is merry and bright... and white (if it's possible for your neck of the woods to get snow).

Stacie :)