I can’t really call this an impulse buy because it actually took a few trips to my local Tomod’s to figure what I would get from Maquillage’s single eyeshadow collection — but, it certainly felt like an random purchase. I was obsessed with finding the perfect single eyeshadow to use on its own — the inspiration came from Beauty Broadcast’s video on her Top 10 Stand-Alone Eyeshadows, so I wanted to see if I could find great single eyeshadows in Japanese drugstores.
Unfortunately, my plan was foiled because the little single eyeshadows from Maquillage did not come with their own little box and they are just in their own container which should be put into a palette case. I discovered this when I bought a shimmery taupe so I went back to get a couple more to fill up the case. The case was quite attractive and sleek so I didn’t mind changing course and building my own palette was fun — yes, I am easily entertained…
In the end, I chose all simmery shades (but to be honest I’m hard pressed to find matte shades in Japanese drugstores) — a pink highlighting shade PK 736 (left), a taupe GY 835 (middle), and a dark brown BR 736 (right) which are extremely pigmented to the point which I think you’d need to be light-handed if you don’t want an overly smokey eye. I love all the shades and the no-brainer combination makes for those busy days when you just need to get out of the friggin’ door and you still look good. But these eyeshadows have so much fallout that I’m thinking I over-payed for something that didn’t perform so well in the end.
However, you can just pat on heavy fallout eyeshadows instead of blending them in a windshield wiper motion, according to Xteener in her video on Smokey Olive Autumn Eyes.
The single shadows were 840JPY each which is pretty affordable but multiply that by three and include the 1050JPY case, this palette cost me 3,570JPY (USD45.90) which is quite pricey for a drugstore item. But I do realize that Japanese drugstores have “high end” and “low end” and Maquillage belongs to the high end part of the spectrum (heck, Maquillage has counters in Singapore).
Here are the swatches for the eyeshadows I got which have very good colour payoff. I especially love the taupe shade in the middle which I have been wearing quite often lately.
For a friend’s wedding, I actually tried using one eyeshadow to do my eyes and I think it came out pretty well in this photo. But there were other snapshots of me with flash and this eyeshadow-till-the brows look was kind of scary and it made me think twice about doing that again.
Here’s a close up of my face with the single eyeshadow look…
Would I purchase Maquillage again for eyeshadows? Definitely not and I would still recommend Esprique for “high end” Japanese drugstore eye makeup as it has better quality eyeshadows at 2940JPY (USD37.80) for a palette. The Esprique Precious line before it was changed to Esprique had a single eyeshadow collection that was sold up till last month but now they are gone (at least from the drugstores in my neighbourhood) and it had some lovely shades but I never got around to trying them.
Do you like doing looks with just one eyeshadow? Have you tried Maquillage eyeshadows? If you have, do tell us what you think!
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