Stila Eyes Are The Window Shadow Palette – Spirit Review, Swatches

Hello Everyone,

This review will be on the Stila Eyes are the window Eye shadow palette. This palette comes in 4 variation which are Mind, Body, Soul and Spirit. This review is on the Spirit palette.

About The Product:

A luxurious palette with 12 eye shadows, curated to illuminate the wearer’s inner beauty.

What it does:

Inspired by the spiritual notion that true beauty is revealed from within, stila created endless looks with this Eyes Are The Window™ Shadow Palette. These carefully curated palettes mirror an aspect of inner beauty: Mind, Body, Spirit, Soul. Each palette inculdes 12 luxe eye shadows that range from calming, soft shades to smoky hues that can be mixed and matched and worn wet or dry. Encased in exquisite, jewelry-inspired compacts—a blend of rose, yellow, and white golds—this shadow palette includes a look book curated by Sarah Lucero, stila’s Global Executive Director of Creative Artistry.

Ingredients:

Price : $49 for for 12 x 0.51 oz Eye shadows

My Experience with Stila Eyes Are The Window Shadow Palette – Spirit:

Packaging:

Exceptionally beautiful packaging. It has a rose gold case with a mirror finish,clear enough to see your reflection in it clearly. It closes securely and has a very good-sized mirror inside. There is no applicator provided. It does attract fingerprints a lot.

It has a clear protective covering inside with a different quote in it for each variation of the palette related to the theme. The Spirit palette has the quote “Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art” – Leonardo da Vinci. Some people may throw this protective layer but I instead have found an ingenious use for it. I use it by holding it under it my eye when I am blending eye shadows which helps prevent any fall out on my face and also it gives me a sharp cat eye like edge with my eye shadows.

Shades , Texture &Pigmentation:

This palette consists of 12 shades. Most of them are metallic/frosty finish with a couple of mattes thrown in. Some people may find only 2 matte eye shadows in a palette not enough; but I do think that the 2 colors which are matte- Puppy (soft brown crease shade) and Chinois (pale creamy white –highlight shade) are good enough to work with and complement most looks I create with this palette.

The texture of these shadows is very smooth, soft and blend able. Even the lighter shades have good pigmentation and show up on my skin. The texture of the shimmery shades is much more smoother and are super pigmented than the mattes which are a little bit lacking in pigmentation when compared to the shimmery shadows and are slight bit powdery but they are still easy to work with and do not look chalky on the eyes.

This palette has both mix of warm and cool shadows. Row 1 & 2 has mostly warm shades while the Row 4 has mostly cool shades. The breakdowns of the shades are as follows.

Row 1

Kitten– High metallic finish, Champagne gold. This shade is actually the best seller as an individual eye show in the Stila brand.
Puppy– Soft brown shade. Quite neutral in undertone. Works great as a crease shade when paired with most looks.
Pigalle– My favorite shade in the whole palette. A very deep rich rusty red with a hint of cranberry tone to it. It has slight shimmer but it is very subtle and hardly notable.

Row 2

Oasis– A shimmery finish pale gold shade.
Jezebel– A burnt copper shade. It has hints of peachy undertone to it. Very beautiful as an all over lid shade
Barefoot– A very warm brown. Has slight bit of shimmer, not very notable.

Row 3

Wheat– As the name implies it is wheat shade. It has shimmery metallic finish
Golightly– A bronzy brown. Also with a metallic finish
Espresso– A deep grey. Mostly matte finish with hints of shimmer.

Row 4

Chinois– A matte pale creamy white. Works great to highlight brow bone and inner corner.
Slate– A high frosty finish grey with hints of lavender purple undertone.
Pewter– A high metallic finish deep grey with royal blue undertone to it.
These shadows have a very good staying power about 6-7 hours without creasing and with minimal fading. These shadows do work best used upon a primer which helps it show up with full intensity.

Overall I do love this palette very much. The quality of the shadows and pigmentation is very good. They do not crease on me provided I use a primer. There is a good mix of warm and cool shades and the packaging is absolutely gorgeous. There is a lack of more matte shades but apart from that everything about this palette is perfect. I will recommend this to all.

In the EOTDs
Look 1 created using Slate, Pewter, Espresso and Chinois
Look 2 created using Golightly, Wheat, Espresso and Pigalle
Look 3 created using Jezebel, Barefoot, Pigalle, Puppy and oasis.

Pros of Stila Eyes Are The Window Shadow Palette – Spirit:

• Soft, Smooth and blend-able shadows
• Good mix of warm and cool shades
• There is very little fallout from the shimmer shades.
• Good shades selection
• Shadows do not crease on me.
• Beautiful packaging

Cons of Stila Eyes Are The Window Shadow Palette – Spirit:

• Lack of more matte shades.

IMBB Rating : 4.8/5

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