What it is: Marcelle Minerals eyeshadows, in Graphite and Rose Satin.jpg)
About the formula: While I liked how wearable these shadows were, I wasn’t a huge fan of the formula. It’s quite smooth and easy to blend; however, if you’re looking for a bold pop of pigment, you’re looking in the wrong place. These strike me as very “Marcelle;” chic and classy, and appropriate for any age. I like my shadows to deliver a lot of pigment, so these didn’t quite do it for me — but they’re great if you’re not doing a bold eye.
About the shades: Okay, so these really took the cake for me. Graphite is the most gorgeous brown-grey, like a very dark taupe, and Rose Satin is an incredibly pearlescent pink. (Rose Satin actually makes a gorgeous lip gloss! I knew the second I saw it that I had to try it on my lips, so I mixed a tiny bit with some Vaseline in a sample jar and ran downstairs with a lip brush, armed and ready to attack my sister. It’s exactly the low-maintenance lustre that we’ve been looking for!)
About the applicator: This is a godsend for the clumsy (easy to use and hard to make a huge mess with, unlike other loose mineral shadows and pigments,) but it does leave you with fallout on your cheeks/under-eye area. If you’re on the go or in a hurry, you can actually use these spongy tips to “colour in” appropriate areas of your lid with different shades of shadow, then just sweep over it all with a loose blending brush!
About the ingredients:
Mica, bismuth oxychloride. May contain titanium dioxide, iron oxides, ferric ferocyanide, carmine, chromium oxide greens
The verdict? I really like these, but at just under $11 for 0.02oz, I’d skip them if you’re on a budget — they’re not must-haves. However, I really, really, really like Rose Satin! It’s a lovely inner eye hilight, browbone hilight, lip colour, and (if you remember to blend really well,) cheek hilight. (Graphite would be HG for me as well, if only it was a bit more pigmented.)
