Monday, August 12, 2013

Lorac Downtown Drama Eyeshadow Palette


Swatches & Review

Lorac Cosmetics Downtown Drama is the second palette that is also exclusive to Nordstrom Rack locations. Unlike Uptown Allure, the shades in Downtown Drama are supposed to be cool, while Uptown Allure has warm eyeshadow shades.


Downtown Drama's palette is in a silver packaging.


There are five shades in this palette and each shade contains 0.06 oz of product.


The eyeshadows in this palette does not have names so I will go from left to right.
1) Frosty White: This was smooth, but it was powdery when being applied, so there is a bit of fallout with this.
2) Frosty Silver: This was smooth and pigmented.
3) Shimmery Cool Grey: This is a cool grey and was the most pigmented shade in the whole palette.
4) Lavender: This shade has a matte finish, but it was very dry and chalky, so it does not apply as vibrant as the shade in the pan.
5) Dark Grey: This also has a matte finish & was also dry. I feel like this applies kind of patchy, which is disappointing.

I purchased this palette mainly for the two matte shades because I do not have much of matte lavender shades, or grey so I was hoping that they would be better, but they were disappointing because they were the only shades that were dry and chalky. Although mattes are known to be dry and chalky, I have tried many matte shades that are smooth, such as the ones in their Pro Palette so these were definitely disappointing. I feel like the two best shades in this palette are numbers two and three because they are pigmented and easy to apply. Although this is priced at $12, I feel like if I were to choose between this and Uptown Allure, I would choose that because the quality for Downtown Drama is not really there like it was for Uptown Allure. Skip!

Have you seen the two Nordstrom Rack exclusive palettes from Lorac yet? Have you picked one up?

4 comments:

  1. Sadly we don't have Lorac in Europe :<
    I would loveeee to get my hands on a Lorac Pro palette. It looks like a neutral heaven for me!

    This palette doesn't do a thing for me...The only shade I like is the lavender one, maybe it's because I prefer more brown shadows instead of grey ones...

    Please take care,
    kisuu*

    http://www.beauty-with-love.blogspot.com

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    1. This palette was alright compared to the other ones I have tried from Lorac. If you have UD Naked palettes, you probably would not need the Pro Palettes though :)

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  2. Darn it! The dark gray looks so dark and matte and promising in the pan!

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    1. Was pretty disappointed, I hate when this happens D: same with the lavender.

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