Make Up Academy (MUA) New Matte Range: Eyeshadow Palette and Lipsticks Swatches and Review

As soon as Make Up Academy (a great affordable cosmetics brand) released their new matte range of products, I was chuffed. It includes a great-looking matte eyeshadow palette, and one cannot have too many matte eyeshadows! So I picked up the aforementioned palette and five matte lipsticks online. I photographed and swatched the products immediately, but I wanted to use them a few times before I gave an eligible review.

New MUA Matte Eyeshadow Palette, £4

To begin with, the matte eyeshadow palette looks really attractive, however, I must have expected a little bit more out of it. It is not as pigmented as any other MUA eyeshadow palette, especially the top row of the lighter colours. The darker colours are alright, easy enough to work with, but the lighter colours are just too sheer and you most definitely need a good primer or some light creamy base for it. However, the range of colours for the palette is great and suitable for both natural and more dramatic looks. The browns serve as great colours for lighter or darker eyebrows as well. Despite the lack of expected pigmentation, I still like this palette very much, as there aren’t an abundance of affordable matte eyeshadow palettes out there.

There are five colours of matte lipsticks to choose from: Pouty Pink, Peachy Keen, Totally Nude, Scarlet Red and Wild Berry. I’ve tried out cheap/affordable matte lipsticks before and I must say I was slightly disappointed in MUA’s range, especially since their other lipsticks are great. It is well known that any matte lipsticks are a bit more difficult to apply and can be well drying on the lips, but these ones are the most difficult ones.

New MUA Matte Lipsticks, £1

 Firstly, the pigmentation in them is definitely not good enough: Scarlet Letter is the only one pigmented enough for an easy application. The others are not as pigmented, but still possible to work with. The hardest and sheerest one I found was Pouty Pink. It feels like rubbing a wax crayon on my lips and putting no colour on. Moreover, Wild Berry looks like a deep aubergine colour in the tube, but it is nothing like it once you put it on your lips because you just don’t get that colour out.  By the time I have enough colour on my lips, they are sore and very dry. So secondly, they are the driest matte lipsticks I’ve ever used, except Scarlet Red. It was easy to swatch them on the skin of my hand, but once you try t wear them on your lips, they are just too drying. However, they are only a pound each and if you’re willing to try them out as well, then give it a go!

I would recommend the matte eyeshadow palette for the price but I might look for other matte lipstick ranges out there as I found it really hard to work with them.

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waigaw

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