I know it's been ages since my last post. Life and work have been hectic. I've been thinking about making a conscious effort to get back into blogging. I've decided to start by sharing some of my current favorites. One of them that has been in constant rotation for me for the past six months (yep, I'm always grabbing this cause it's just that good), is the Too Faced Chocolate Bar Palette.
Now, when this first came out back in winter I thought, "I really don't need another neutral palette. I've got all the Naked Palettes. What could this palette really offer?" Well, this palette blows the Naked Palettes out of the water in my opinion. You get a very versatile mix of mattes and metallics/shimmers. I think every possible shade of matte brown you could need is in this palette. There are two awesome transition colors (milk chocolate and salted caramel) and two darker colors that you can use to deepen the outer v or line with (semi sweet and triple fudge). And the metallic shades are just gorgeous, no fall out and glide on like butter. If you like do warm neutral eye makeup looks, this palette is a must have in my opinion. Now, on to the pics/swatches.
The tin is really cute. Looks like a big chocolate bar palette. I know they've slimmed out the case a bit more recently so it's not as thick as it was originally which could allow it to be somewhat more travel friendly. The only downside to the packaging is that the shadow names are on a plastic slip sheet that sits over the shadows and is removable. It really would have been nice to have the shade names printed below each shadow. I think maybe they thought it would be more like a box of chocolates with the slip sheet (you know how you buy those boxes of chocolates and they have the sheet telling you what is in each one?), but it gets to be a nuisance to have to hold on to it in order to know what the shade names are called.
Shade names are as follows, left to right:
Top row = Gilded Ganache, White Chocolate, Milk Chocolate, Black Forest Truffle, Triple Fudge
Middle row = Salted Caramel, Marzipan (LOVE!), Semi Sweet, Strawberry Bon Bon (probably the most disappointing of the lot), Candied Violet, Amaretto
Bottom row = Hazelnut, Creme Brulee, Haute Chocolate, Cherry Cordial, Champagne Truffle
Ooo I forgot to mention, the shadows smell like cocoa powder. Yes, really you open this palette and you are greeted with the scent of a cup of warm cocoa. I'm sure there is someone out there that is nauseated by this, but I'm not a chocolate fanatic and even I think this smells delicious. Anyways, on to the swatches.
First up, the left side of the palette:
Top row, left to right = Gilden Ganache, Salted Caramel, Hazelnut, White Chocolate
Bottom row, left to right = Marzipan, Creme Brulee, Semi Sweet, Haute Chocolate
Some closeups - first top row, then bottom row
This side of the palette is my most used side. I absolutely love the shade Marzipan. Its a gorgeous pinky peachy champagne shade. I liken this shade to Stila Kitten but soooo much better. For some reason, Stila Kitten just never looked right on me, tended to wash me out. This Marzipan shade though is just gorgeous. If I could buy a large pan of this one, I would. Creme Brulee also makes a fantastic lid shade, such a gorgeous gold. I also adore the Hazelnut color in the crease. Just warms everything up and looks fantastic.
Now on to the right side of the palette:
Top row, left to right = Milk Chocolate, Stawberry Bon Bon, Cherry Cordial, Black Forest Truffle
Bottom row, left to right = Candied Violet, Triple Fudge, Amaretto, Champagne Truffle
Some closeups - first top row, then bottom row
The shades I tend to have used the most on this side of the palette are Milk Chocolate as a crease transition shade, and Amaretto to warm up the crease. I think Strawberry Bon Bon is the most disappointing shade in the palette. It took a while to build it up to the color you see above in the photo. This side of the palette also has two colors that have glitter in them (Black Forest Truffle and Candied Violet). I'm not sure if fallout is an issue on these as I haven't really used them that much.
So overall, I think I've used this palette way more than any of my Naked palettes. I like the ratio of mattes to metallics that this palette provides. While the earlier edition of the palette was a little bulkier, I think with the newer slim design could make this an excellent palette for travel because you really have everything you need to create multiple solid eye looks. You don't need to tote along additional mattes to make it work. If you're on the fence thinking that you have enough neutral shadows, I'd say you should definitely give this a second look. It's honestly my most used palette for the past six months.
Do you own the chocolate bar palette? If not, are you still considering it? Let me know down in the comments below.
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