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Masquerade by Juvia’s Place

A Review

By Heeta JoshiPublished 6 years ago 5 min read
Top Story - July 2018
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Disclaimer: This might be a bit long! I take no responsibility for your hurt sentiments, except to say it was unintentional. I paid with my hard earned money, hence the opinion. I ordered this in September, 2017. Wow, almost a year. So I have an in-depth experience with this one. I am a tan medium skin shade with a pale undertone and oily skin.

I paid $37.73 USD (including shipping at $14.73 USD). As per my email (that I just checked recently for prices), I got the palette in eight days. I remember that not being true. I know for a fact it took at least three weeks, if not more, after I ordered it to get to my place. So I am kind of stumped at the moment what the hell is going on with USPS or JP. But from experience I really do not like USPS, so I’ll give JP a benefit of doubt on this one. I usually only order from trusted and experienced brands, so I am not in the habit of tracking my purchases. But I did track this one eagerly because it was a $50 CAD purchase, approximately. And generally, I have a sharp memory, when it comes to these things.

On a different note, as a private (non-business) customer who sells a lot of things online (including makeup), $14.73 USD for shipping is high. I sold a similar palette from Canada, shipped to a European country and it cost me $9 USD for shipping. I hope you get my drift. Now let’s move on to the palette itself.

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Let’s start with the actual reason I bought the palette. I fell in love with it the way the design looked online. Yes I am a whore for pretty packaging. To me it is important. And I firmly believe that both the inside and the outside should reflect a palette’s price point. I do not like compromising on either. I still think it’s a beautiful palette overall, but I would just tweak a few things after seeing it with my own naked eyes.

  1. The title of the palette looks lost in their African women art (which I do adore). But I would’ve made the height of the three triplets a little shorter so the title could go underneath. Furthermore, the word “place” missing from the title is annoying and lazy.
  2. I like that there’s no mirror on the inside, because it would’ve been unnecessarily heavy. And a palette this big is not travel friendly on a daily basis. Though I wish that the inside part would've had a different design. I bought the bigger palette because at the time I did not see the sense for paying that high a shipping price for the mini version that was essentially the same value as the shipping cost.
  3. The palette information such as weight, ingredients, expiration time, and location of manufacture are not on the palette itself which it should be for any brand.
  4. I would not say it’s cheap cardboard, it’s pretty nice, but nothing to rave about.
  5. Personally, I would have preferred more (even if neutral) shimmers than the brown mattes. But to each their own.

Now onto the positives:

The eyeshadows are excellent quality. Amazing performance on all angles. The quality of it is just as good as any eyeshadow palette I’ve bought at Sephora, and even better than some. Considering the price and size of the palette itself? Super impressed. Listed below is a short description of each shadow.

  • Chi: It’s a super soft, buttery shimmery gorgeous midnight blue.
  • Mali: Again just as soft and buttery green. Right off the bat not as pigmented as it seems in the pan when swatched, but a buildable shade nonetheless.
  • Dalia: A gorgeous sea blue shimmer that is extremely pigmented!
  • Zola: A light almost baby blue with a greyish undertone. Super pigment.
  • Makeda: Gorgeous purple with similar properties as chi. I wouldn’t say my Pat McGrath’s deep purple in the mini palette is any better, at least when swatching. The top being JP (nearest to my ring) and bottom being PM.
  • Zobo: A deep magenta matte shade.
  • Calabar: Looks like a dark bronze but swatches almost like a deep red metallic on my skin. But the same great quality so far.
  • Bori: Dry but not chalky. A hot pink matte with glitter in it. For it not being my favourite kind of a thing (glitter in mattes), I really like it.
  • Giza: Swatches like a white shimmer. So pretty!
  • Burkina: A matte brown on the caramel (?) side. Not my favourite with swatch pigment, but buildable.
  • Cairo: Such a pretty darkish orange matte even with the glitter. Not as dry as Giza, a plus for many.
  • Ada: A reddish-orange brown (not the most common neutral colour), plus stellar quality on this one. So I’m happy with it.
  • Dania: OMG. One touch and the pigment is mind blowing! Be careful with this one, you want to build it up. A champagne shimmer with peachy undertones.
  • Zulu: Almost like a burnt orange with brown undertones. It’s aight with swatch pigment, but super buildable.
  • Fulani: Just your regular deep brown. You have to build it though.

Out of 16, I absolutely adore 13. You do the math.

Some Neutral Notes (I don’t mind, but people may):

  1. It can stain your eyes.
  2. It is a large palette with large pans, however a smaller version is available.

Conclusion: I love this palette and I am so glad that I opened it up again to use since the last week or so. It has convinced me that I do not need the Natasha Denona’s mini Lila palette, which I was going to pick up as a companion to my Pat Mcgrath’s mini purple palette (I am extremely bad with names, so good with remembering everything but this). I bought and used ND’s mini sunset palette and after a problematic first few days, I found it to be a stellar product, especially for those who do makeup on the go often (raises hand). The only reason I sold ND was because I have too many neutral palettes and her packaging is just not as user friendly for me. I do think that JP’s palettes will give you so much more bang for your buck if you're looking for a palette on a budget with everything in it, JP. If you want satisfaction and your money’s worth, JP. Be vary or careful of the shipping though, stay on top of it. Last but not the least, I do not see myself buying another palette from JP, unless:

  1. JP finally puts a stop to the pop of colours syndrome in a predominantly warm/neutral palette.
  2. They start selling single shadows.

Au revoir mes amis!

XOXO

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Heeta Joshi

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