A Review Of The Kardashian Beauty Touch Tones Gradient Eyeshadow Palette In Silhouette And A Giveaway

I'm going to let you into a little secret, I have never ever watched an episode of Keeping Up With The Kardashians. I'm just not a fan of reality television and  the so called celebrities that it produces. That said it's impossible to not know who the Kardashians et al are, they're everywhere at the moment, putting their name to everything from clothing lines for Dorothy Perkins and Lipsy, to fragrance and now make up.

Every celebrity from A list, to Z list seems to have produced a fragrance, and I have to say I love the original Kim Kardashian fragrance, it's a fab budget dupe from the classic French fragrance Fracas, but when I heard they were producing a make up line I have to be honest and say I wasn't sure.

Well I wasn't sure until I saw some pictures then I fell in love. After Christmas I treated myself to a couple Kardashian Beauty palettes just to try the range out, and I have to say neither disappointed. I'm going to review the Khloe Kardazzle palette in a future post but first up I'm going to review the Kardashian Beauty Touch Tones Gradient Shadow Palette in Silhouette.

Touch Tones Gradients are a range of three different eyeshadow palette, featuring a  number of eyeshadow shades that go from light to dark. The palette I chose, Silhouette contains a combination of greys, silvers and blues.

The palette contains two, matte, nude highlighting shades. The don't show up to well in the swatches but in real life they can be used alongside the other shades to either brighten or highlight, or on their own to give the eyelid a clean fresh look.

The rest of the shades range from light to dark and contain a pale silver grey, a darker silver grey, a mid blue, a darker blue grey and a dark navy blue. The pigmentation on all of these shades is superb, they are in a satin finish but they do all contain a little bit of shimmer so you can get a little bit of fallout.

The last shade in the palette is an intense sparkle shadow which features lots of silver, and white shimmer and glitter. You do get quite a bit of fallout with this shade but it gives a real evening, glamour look to the eyes.

This palette isn't all about heavy smokey eyes though, it's actually surprisingly versatile. Here are 4 different looks that I've created with it - first up a more subtle grey. silver look, perfect for daytime.

This look was created using the lightest highlight shade, and the two palest silver grey shades. I used the highlight on the brow bone, the lighter shade all over the lid and the darker shade in the crease.

Next a more traditional smokey grey, silver eye.

Again I used the lightest highlight shade. I then used the second silver, grey shade all over the lid, before packing a little bit of the darkest grey into the crease. It's a little bit more dramatic but it's still quite subtle. You could of course create a stronger look by using a lot more of the darker shade.

The final looks that I created are about blue, you can't see it too well in some of these pictures but this palette contains two blue based shades x

For this slightly smudgy look I used the darker of the highlight shades. I also used the lighter smokey blue shade all over the lid, with the darker shades smudged along the lash line and in the crease.

I love the smudgy blue look but if you wanted to glam it up and take it even further you can do by adding just a touch of the intense sparkle shadow as I've done here x

I have to say I like this palette way more than I expected too. I'm a bit scared of smokey eyes and dark greys and blues but I really enjoyed playing with this palette. You can use it to produce everything for a subtle grey / silver look to some dark, smokey and super sparkly. I also really enjoyed using the two matte highlight shades. I don't think that I'd ever used a matte shade for a highlight before but I can really see the benefit. It's a lot more subtle than using a shimmery shade, and it really gives a nice bright, clean look to the high.

If your not a fan of fallout this palette probably isn't for you. The shimmer shades are very pigmented and do contain a bit of sparkle so it's inevitable that you do get the odd stray bit of powder and the odd smear. The intense sparkle shadow is also very glittery, and can result in quite a bit of fallout.

These palettes are priced from around £11.95, and as much as I like this one I do think that it's a little bit overpriced, and whilst the product is decent, the packing is quite basic, so I really think you are paying a bit for the Kardashian name. That said I have enjoyed using it and I would definitely consider buying the other 2 Touch Tone palettes if they were reduced or on special offer. The official Kardashian Beauty stockist in the UK is feel unique but you can also find some of the range at HQ Hair and Amazon.

When I bought my palette way back in January I also picked one up to giveaway to one of you guys. So if you'd like to get your hands one , then all you have to do is fill in the form below. This giveaway is open worldwide and will end on Tuesday 1st April 2014.

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Thanks for reading and good luck x