The product: Rock and Republic Eye Color in Alloy
The R&R line has already been covered to death on the internet (though by no means is this a bad thing!) so I’m not going to do a really detailed review of their eyeshadows. Needless to say, I think the formula is lovely; finely-milled and neither too hard nor too soft in the pan. If anything, I’d say it falls on the “dry” side of things (er, running on a scale of hard-as-rock to overly-buttery), which I like – there’s very little fallout, you don’t end up with a bunch of pigment dust on the pan, and yet it’s still quite easy to work with and blend.
Alloy is a intensely shimmery shade, verging on the line between yellowy-gold and melon. It does remind me of MAC Melon pigment, and would make a good lid colour or inner-eye hilight (particularly on darker skintones). I’m actually really impressed with it – at $7 (on HauteLook, at least at the moment), I’m very much tempted to pick up another few shades!
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Worth the craze?
Surprisingly, I think so – they’re good eyeshadows, the shade range is great, and the packaging is super-luxe. I’d think twice before paying retail for them, of course, but at $7? Well, it’s rather difficult to go wrong at that price.
Rock & Republic eyeshadow swatches – Alloy
Rock and Republic eye colour packaging
Rock and Republic eye colour ingredients
