Hi guys! Today I will be reviewing the new limited edition Clover palette by Too Faced. I ordered it as soon as it launched on their website as I believe it will only be sold there and not in stores and as I live in the U.K. I had to wait longer for delivery. I only just received it this morning and I had to do a review and swatches!
Outer cardboard packaging.
Actual palette (front and back).
The packaging on this palette is soooo cute! Clover being the main attraction with the rest of his buddies. You have a few familiar characters like the peach from the sweet peach collection as well as the slice of bread from the PB&J palette. All the characters are raised and the palette itself is the standard tin packaging from Too Faced with a magnetic closure. I do wish Too Faced would create palettes with a snap shut closure as it gives me anxiety thinking a palette hasn’t been shut properly! The sound of something snapping shut is so satisfying as well!
As I am reviewing this palette I have a cold and a stuffy nose. Why am I telling you this? Because I had heard (unofficially) this palette would be scented but I can not confirm this as true or false since I can not smell a thing!
On to the inside of the palette….
You have a large mirror which I think is considerably larger than the mirrors in the chocolate bar palettes and sweet peach palette. I wouldn’t use those mirrors to do my makeup but I would use this one!
The colours in the palette are beautiful! It’s not a neutral palette as many of us will have more than enough neutral palettes in our collection (how many matte brown shades do we need?) and let’s be honest the market is currently oversaturated with warm toned palettes such as the Urban decay naked heat, tartelette toasted, morphe palettes, viseart warm mattes, the very popular ABH modern renaissance palette, need I go on? This palette has quite a few pops of colour but it’s not completely unwearable and the change is refreshing!
Now on to the swatches (sorry for the weird angles!)…..
Top row (L-R): puppy eyes, lucky clover, chihuahua, fur baby, #SaveThemAll and spoiled.
Puppy eyes: shimmery white with glitter. This shade is not very pigmented and was quite the disappointment! It leaves the faintest white pigment with tonnes of glitter. I would have preferred a matte white to set my base and to highlight my brow bone with.
Lucky clover: I can’t seem to tell if this green shade is a satin or a matte! It seems like a weird hybrid! Again not overly pigmented and provides a sheer wash of colour (it had to be swatched 3 times for it to show up!).
Chihuahua: matte light brown. Now this is the smooth, buttery formula I am used to from Too Faced mattes! It’s pigmented but blends out beautifully and is perfect as a transition colour.
Fur baby: matte brown. Again, very impressed with this shade much like chihuahua. Pigmented, smooth and buttery! Good colour for the crease.
#SaveThemAll: shimmery chocolate brown with gold specks of glitter. Expect major fallout with this shade! Although it is pigmented, it feels very gritty and requires a bit more work to blend out.
Spoiled: shimmery aqua almost a duochrome with gold. Pigmentation of this shade is ok, I would use it as a lid shade as well as under my lower lash line. Not a bad shade but it didn’t wow me like I thought it would.
Middle row (L-R): I ruff you, paw print, ruh roh, love is love, wet kisses and woof.
This row has better pigmentation (bar one shade) than the top row.
I ruff you: satin baby pink. Could be used to highlight inner corner and even your brow bone as when it’s blended out it looks white with a hint of pink. Again, decent pigmentation.
Paw Print: matte taupe purple. Initially when searching it felt very rough and dry and I was hardly getting any pigmentation and I was not happy as that is a good transition/crease shade for a cool toned look. However, swatching it now it feels less dry and slightly smoother so it may have just been the top layer that was difficult. I think the more I get into that shade the better it will be but right now I don’t totally hate it.
Ruh roh: shimmery dark cranberry. I really like the pigmentation of this shade! It’s not a very smooth shade but it’s very pigmented and easy to blend. Excellent lid colour for a fall/autumn eye look!
Love is love: matte pink. This shade is not overly pigmented but in a good way. Although it is bright it can be used as a transition shade to warm up your eye look. If you wanted to use it as an all over lid shade you can definitely build it up by packing it on and layering it.
Wet kisses: a colour quite hard to describe! I would say it is a shimmery tangerine salmon or a very warm copper shade with pink tones. However you would describe it, we can all agree on how stunning it is! Quite possibly my favourite shade and formula. Soft and buttery feeling and so pigmented! It would pair perfectly with ruh roh for a halo eye!
Woof: matte charcoal. This shade is not black, it is a pigmented charcoal/dark grey. It could still function as a black shadow to line your lashes or smoke out your lower lash line or deepen the outer v, it just wouldn’t be as intense. Also, it is one of the more drier mattes in the palette, nothing like chihuahua or fur baby which are buttery.
Bottom row (L-R): cuteness overload, best friends, cuddle buddy, daddies❤️me, TF mascot and good boy.
Cuteness overload: shimmery pink. Good pigmentation, nice colour and easy to blend. Would be a great lid shade or inner corner highlight. I like it but it’s the kind of shade you find in a lot of palettes.
Best friends: blue brown duo chrome. An exact dupe for MAC’s blue brown pigment! Very good pigmentation, great lid shade.
Cuddle buddy: matte chocolate brown. The most pigmented matte in the palette. I expected it to have the exact same formula as chihuahua and fur baby and feel just as soft and buttery as they do but again this is on the more drier side and swatching it I can feel it’s a little scratchy almost. It also requires a bit more work to blend. However, it’s good for deepening up the crease or even using as a crease shade for deeper skin tones.
Daddies❤️me: matte cranberry. Just like love is love, this shade is not that pigmented. However, unlike love is love it requires a bit more work to blend out. It would be great in the crease for either a cool or warm toned look.
TF mascot: shimmery purple. I think Too Faced has used the exact same purple that was in the PB&J palette (and that’s not a bad thing). I quite like how this shade is bright yet quite sheer as well.
Good boy: matte yellow with micro glitter. It’s hard to find a good yellow but I think with a good primer this shade has real potential. I’m excited to use this on my lids!
My thoughts on this palette….
Packaging: I adore the packaging and the design on this palette it’s just so stinking cute!!! However it might be a bit too cutesy for some who may think it looks more like children’s makeup rather than something from a high end brand. I still give it a 9/10.
Shade range: I love the colours in the palette as it’s not too warm and not too cool; it’s not full of boring neutral shades and has some great pops of colour but you do have your everyday staple shades e.g. transition/crease shades so you wouldn’t have to use another palette alongside it. You can create simple everyday neutral looks as well as more fun and colourful looks so I think it caters to a lot of people and for that I give it 8/10.
Pigmentation: I think this category lets the palette down slightly as some colours are just not that pigmented (puppy eyes and lucky clover, I’m looking at you!) and I think a lot of the colours could do with having stronger pigmentation but that’s not to say it’s a completely unusable palette, I give it a 6/10.
Who do I think this palette is for?
- Beginners who don’t want really pigmented shadows.
- Makeup fanatics who collect palettes.
- Lovers of Too Faced.
This palette is limited edition (boo!) so if you like the look of it snap it up here on the Too Faced website before it sells out! Too Faced are donating $250,000 to Best Friends Animal Society which I think is absolutely awesome!
Hope you enjoyed,
See you soon!
Sadiyah xx
I have another palette from Colourpop and that one seems to have better pigmentation but that’s not to say this one is terrible. The only colours I had to search a few times were the white shade in the top row and the shimmery purple in the second row.
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