[review] bad habit athena palette
shop hush ⇾ bad habit athena palette; (huda beauty desert dusk dupe)
Happy New Year! It's been a few months..... I deactivated my instagram and stopped posting here for a few months to focus on schoolwork. Hoping to pick up everything again for 2018. Hopefully I'll update the blog with more posts about my makeup collection and bullet journal for starters :)
This is a palette made by Bad Habit Beauty, and retails for $12 on shophush.com. I bought it off the second restock on their app, which offers free shipping in the US. It is a "dupe" of the Huda Beauty Desert Dusk Palette, which is $65 on Sephora.
outer packaging of the palette
inside of the palette.
Convenient sized mirror, lightweight packaging made of cardboard. Smells pretty plastic (probably the glue) or as my friend put it "like China". I brought it on a trip and it was sturdy enough to survive check-in baggage :)
first 1.5 rows (artificial left, natural right)
last 1.5 rows (artificial left, natural right)
shimmers brush swatches (artificial left, natural right)
mattes brush swatches (artificial left, natural right)
Favorite shades: valour (really into peachy matte colors recently), purity (same color as my skin, good eyeshadow primer setter), epic (light purple shimmer with slight duochrome), medusa (rose gold pink shimmer), cunning (gold with pink shift).
I really love using Daring with glitter glue and blending out with a base of Prize.
The silver-taupey shades also look nice. The purples don't work that well in a look because of how Justice blends out, and Wisdom is not very distinguishable as purple on the eye, but Epic is very pretty (in corner below).
Overall, the palette doesn't really blend out that well; colors such as justice and lore have a tendency to turn muddy which is a shame because they're very vibrant in the swatches. I've used them with my finger in a patting motion to maximize pigment (sponge applicators would also work and be less messy).
This palette is worth $12 to me, because I get to test out this color scheme in different finishes that I don't have. I don't think that Desert Dusk is worth $53 more than this palette, but it's pretty much guaranteed to be easier to work with. I'm not a huge fan of how Huda formulated her foiled shadows, so I'm happy with Bad Habit's alternative.
Labels: bad habit, makeup, review
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i'm em.
currently living in the U.S.
chinese-American. i can speak mandarin semi-fluently~
statistics;
skin color: light/pale
skin type: dry/sensitive
eye color: dark brown
hair color:black/deep brown
hair type/style: thick, slightly wavy. long, with bangs.
height: 170cm/5'7"
clothing size: US: M. CHN: M-XXL
rambles;
i enjoy music in general, the smell of old books, the smell of new books, cracking the spine of a new book open, hilarious things, things that make me cry from sheer emotion, sad fics and dramas, cheesy dramas, baggy sweaters, pretty pictures, having that moment of inspiration before writing a story and being satisfied with the outcome, sleeping, running on no sleep, ice cream cake for birthdays, putting up my christmas tree by myself, cool lemonade, rainy cold days, drizzles on your face, action movies, unlimited amounts of piping! hot noodles and dumplings and wontons, minimalistic furniture, laughing at friends who are shorter than me, having deep conversations with strangers, muted colors, going through color pallets at diy stores, choosing yarn and looking through projects, drinking bubble tea, going to froyo stores, that moment when I finally draw something the way I imagined it, baking tasty sweets, cute stuffed plush toys, the smell of the ocean, fruit, good wuxia drams, some anime, the feeling of collapsing on the mattress after a long day, baggy sweaters, ice cream cake for birthdays, the tranquility of night, pretty pictures, cute cellphone charms, the tranquility of night, funny japanese emoticons, when everything is organized, when everything is disorganized, when my clothes match and don’t make me look like an overgrown middle schooler, when I actually don’t expect a plot twist, when I can’t predict what will happen next, overgrown kittens, energetic puppies, and being able to choose when to laugh.
tv shows;
射雕英雄传, 神雕侠侣, 倚天屠龙记, 笑傲江湖, 纪晓岚, 后宫甄嬛传, 步步惊心, steven universe, gravity falls, sherlock, fresh off the boat, reply 1988, death note, fate/zero, code geass, another, madoka, snk, tokyo ghoul, magi, fma:b, avatar the last airbender, gekkan shoujo nozaki-kun
music;
bastille, coldplay, one republic, imagine dragons, old maroon 5, jhameel, old bigbang, winner, mamamoo, akmu, lee hi, epik high, 10cm, geeks, standing egg, f(x), lim kim, re:plus, jj lin, jay chou, wang leehom, a-lin, foster the people, empire the sun, two door cinema club, gowe
movies;
slumdog millionaire, alice in wonderland, inception, spirited away, howl’s moving castle, princess mononoke, narnia, coraline, pirates of the caribbean, chronicle, up, tangled, hp, el fauno del laberinto
books;
lord of the rings/the hobbit, agatha christie poirot novels, harry potter (1-4), asoiaf, pride and prejudice, catcher in the rye, a tree grows in brooklyn, to kill a mockingbird, animal farm, narnia, the book thief, lord of the flies, anne of green gables,pjo, inkheart
[review] bad habit athena palette 
