Coastal Scents Go Platte- Cairo- Review/Swatch

Hello lovely people,

I’m going to briefly review another small palette that I have from the GO Palette collection from Coastal Scents, The Go Palette Cairo.I was actually looking for a palette which would have mostly darker shades and a mix of matte and satin finish eyeshadows for evening wear and somehow I stumbled upon this one. It has 12 eyeshadow colors and a mirror, I wish there was a sponge tip applicator too, but that's okay, I can do without that!

Here are some pictures and swatches of the same.

 

The casing is tiny, about the same size as the MAC studio fix carton.

There is a complete ingredient list on the cover

 

 

The shadows are really tiny, see !

The shade description is given below

      Here is the shade description chart from the coastal scents website.

Shade No:	Color	Finish	Application
1	Powder White	Matte	Sheer
2	Silvery Pale Gold	Satin	Opaque
3	Silk Brown	Satin	Semi Opaque
4	Gunmetal	Satin-matte	Opaque
5	Cool Silver Syteel	Shimmer	Opaque
6	Autumn Gold	Satin	Opaque
7	Strawbwerry chocolate	Satin	Opaque
8	Deep coal	Satin	Opaque
9	Suede beige	matte	Opaque
10	Pale honey	matte	Opaque
11	Dark brown	matte	Opaque
12	black	matte	Opaque

The swatches: row wise

Price: $8.95 for 12 eyeshadow colors

The wow! factors:

•  Good shade selection , it has colors for lids, highlighting and crease(for which I prefer matte finish colors) 
•  Has a mix of matte, shimmer and satin finish eyeshadows
• Easy on pocket, great for beginners
• Travel friendly casing, fits easily in handbag and sturdy enough

The  uh-oh! factors

• Pigmentation of colors is not even, the white is way to chalky to be used, the dark brown and black have superb pigmentation, and rest of the colors are just okay-ish
• The shadows don’t show up without a primer
• Staying power is about 2-3 hrs after which they just fade away
• Shimmer shades have a little fallout
• Other than this I don’t think there is anything that I dislike about this palette, what more can we expect at such a price!!

No, I won’t buy it again!!  I’d rather invest in a single eyeshadow that would have nice pigmentation and staying power, even without a base.