Colourful Wonderful Beautiful

When I first began using this palette I felt I needed more inner corner highlight and more colours to blend into the crease.
After using it for a week, I realized that this is not meant to have them. This palette is meant to be colourful and not follow the basic eyeshadow standard.
This palette is great. I have stepped out of my comfort zone and I made a different look each day this week.
I am very happy with this purchase.

Beautiful palette with lots of pigment

First off, this is a large palette which comes in a black box with gold embossed lettering that measures 25 x 16 cm. It weighs 400g, so not light or travel friendly, but does that matter?

When you open the palette it opens in the centre, so the mirror inside is split in two, which some people might find annoying as it definitely cuts back on the mirror real estate, but each side is still adequate to use and see your full face.

My first observation, after being floored by the amazing colours was that the pans were rather poorly inserted into the palette. Some of the pans were set off centre, sloping etc. I realize this does not affect the quality of the eyeshadows, but it is just an annoying little thing that shouldn’t happen.

Overall the shades performed better over a primer with the few exceptions such as Stigmata that had equal billing for both primed and bare skin. As with other Kat Von D eyeshadows, there are some fallout issues, but nothing too bad and nothing that would put me off using them. The worst cases of fallout were with Absolution, Worship, Chalice, Sanctuary, Rapture and Exorcism.

All the shades had good colour payoff, especially over primer with the exceptions of Absolution and Rapture which had a more sheer finish. All shades latest well and blended beautifully.

Overall, I am very pleased with the palette. I find the Sinner shades to be more appealing and I will probably use these more than the Saint side. I probably have more similar shades in my collection of the Saint side, but they are still really nice shades.

Rapture was the most disappointing shade as it looks so pretty in the palette, but performed poorly. Likewise, Sabbath is also a disappointing black, especially as I like the blacks in other KVD palettes so much. The packaging quality (sloping pans etc) was a little annoying, but not the end of the world.