Ben Nye Eyeshadow

My first review is on Ben Nye eyeshadows, as I said all are extremely pigmented, and all will give you anywhere from 200-400 uses. There are 3 types of dry shadow: Pressed Eyeshadow, which are matte colours; Lumiere Eyeshadow, which has a shimmer; and Pearl Sheen Eyeshadow, which go on very velvety and smooth, used mainly for dramatic crease contours. I love all their shadows, and they are very easy to blend also, where most matte eyeshadows are much harder to blend, Ben Nye's are much easier. The finer the pigment is milled, the more uses you get, and the easier to blend too. I have the 12 colour Lumiere palette, the ES91 palette which are 8 pressed shadows, and the ES95 palette, also pressed shadows along with some powder blushes. The palettes are also available empty to fill with your own selections, and although the Lumiere shadows are a bit different in shape, you can order them in the wider form to fit the ES palettes too, so you could have a 12 colour palette containing both matte, Lumiere and blushers. I do not believe the pearl sheen shadows are available as refils, only singles. And though they are smaller, you need much less of them, so you still get just as many applications.

Above are pictures of the Lumiere 12 colour palette, in the tin case, the ES91 and ES95 palettes featuring pressed shadows and blushes, and some single pearl sheen shadows.