A couple of days ago I decided it was about time to treat myself to a new Sleek palette. I had a couple in mind that I wanted, however, the biggest Superdrug (and only one that stocks Sleek) in my city barely had any in stock. And those they did have in stock were mostly all damaged :-/ In the end I went with this palette - one of the only ones in perfect condition.
Luckily for me this was actually one that I quite fancied getting :)
I absolutely love the design on the box it came in, wish they did this actually ON the palette itself!
This palette is filled with quite neutral colours although I think the variety of pinks and browns are better than what has become the norm of neutral palettes. I much prefer to have the option of colour - even if it is still a soft, pastel colour as opposed to something brighter.
Here are some swatches, all taken with my iPhone 4 in natural lighting.
From bottom to top:
- Bow - a matte, cream colour that can be used as a highlight shade.
- Organza - a shimmery, light/medium pink
- Ribbon - a matte, barbie pink colour. This comes out quite sheer upon first application but can be built up into a nice colour with as little as two swipes from the pan.
- Gift Basket - a shimmery, light/medium brown colour
- Glitz - a shimmery, metallic blue almost grey colour
- Celebrate - a dark, shimmery brown. This is one of my favourite colours in the palette.
From this row I think I would use Bow on the inner corner to brighten up the eye area then Organza as the lid shade and one of the browns on the outer corner and blended into the crease. Me being me, I would probably go for Celebrate and blend it out quite a lot in order to tone it down within the crease. Going back over the outer corner with a little bit more would add a slight smoke to the eye.
This picture above is my quite poor attempt to show how gorgeous the blue is. I wouldn't go as far as calling this a duo-chrome type shade but in different lights you definitely pick up slightly different colours/shades of blue/grey.
From bottom to top:
- Pamper - A matte, light pink. I feel this is a shade that will need building up should you wish to use it on the lid or anywhere else. I personally would use this as an inner corner highlight.
- Gateau - Another light pink but this time a shimmer. Nothing to say except that it's gorgeous.
- The Mail - A light, matte brown. This would be a perfect lid shade for achieving a "natural" day time look.
- Boxed - A medium, matte brown.
- Wrapped Up - A dark, matte brown.
- Noir - A uniform shade within any palette - the classic matte black shade.
The bottom row contains the majority of matte shades that are all ideal accompaniments to any make up look. Unlike the top row, I don't think I could create an eye look purely from the bottom row. Especially as I don't feel I could wear a purely matte look. I would perhaps pair Gateau and either the medium or dark brown together but it looks
This is my second poor attempt at capturing the different shades of Gateau. Much like the blue, it appears to be different colours in different lighting, giving multiple dimensions to a make up look.
At the moment I don't feel I could pick any fault with this palette until I have given it a bit of a longer trial run and shall probably do a "review: take two" to update on how it fairs. I find sleek to be a very consistent cosmetics brand, particularly with it's line of palettes, something which is a huge selling point to me. I'm very interested in purchasing the curacao palette next to test out the gorgeous looking red eyeshadow - if anybody has a review of this to leave a link to in the comments I would be very interested to see!
As you probably ALL know by now, Sleek is available online at Link and in various retail stores at a price of £6.49.
Disclaimer: I have purchased this palette using my own money and am in no way affiliated with Sleek.
