Brutal Review: Hard Candy: Birthday Suit Palette

Hey guys! So today I thought I’d talk about the Hard Candy Birthday Suit palette -the first in the line of many of my cruelty free “drugstore” impulse buys. Hard candy is a cruelty free makeup line carried exclusively at Walmart- I haven’t tried much of their stuff so I thought I’d go for it… 

There was a period of like 3 days a couple weeks ago when I decided I was in to neutrals… and I was attempting to survive yet another shopping trip to Walmart with a toddler- so I ended up with this guy lol 

  I was totally suckered in by the studs on the side 

It’s painfully basic- but I guess that’s what I was going for that day lol…. It has 10 decent sized shadows. The colors vary in texture- it seemed like the darker ones were pretty dry/ powdery. The lighter ones feel similar in texture to my urban decay naked basics- very “buttery” as they say… Just not as hardcore mushy as the urban decay shadows…. I’m honestly not a fan of that texture- it feels creepy- mushy and I feel like it tends to muddy up more easily than a firmer texture shadow- that’s totally personal preference though! Some people love that! 

  
The pigmentation is fairly decent except for that blue- that was super disappointing- and that last shade totally doesn’t show up on me lol. For a palette under $10 I can’t really complain but I’m not super stoked on it either. 

I’m trying out more and more “drug store”/ “low end” things- and there are some truely amazing lines, and truely amazing products but this is pretty overwhelmingly meh…. Id rather spend my money on NYX or ELF. 

Here is a look I came up with using this palette.  I feel like neutrals make me look kinda dead lol