Sugarpill Burning Heart and Sweetheart

Pre-post alert! Sugarpill is having a sale, today (Monday Feb 17) only on most of their website. I picked mine up from Beautylish but 20% off is a pretty great deal, especially given that these are already well-priced! 

Hello folks! Sorry for the disappearance, my computer crashed and then when I replaced it I lost the font I had been using on my photos, which I had picked up on a specific kind of license and ... okay, boring. Moving on!

While I was away, I picked up these wonderfully pigmented Sugarpill palettes. They're so wonderful, in fact, that I have the remaining two Sugarpill palettes on the way. I didn't swatch because there are lots and lots of swatches of these available but what you don't see much of are looks that someone actually wore outside of their makeup application area. So that's what I have for you today after some product photos.

Sugarpill Sweethart (left) and Burning Heart (right)

After the jump, more product photos, two Burning Heart looks, one Sweetheart look, and my Valentine's flowers. 

The packaging on these is pretty solid - cardboard packaging that has a magnetic closure and a decently-sized mirror. Each of those pans is a little bigger than a half-dollar and contains 0.14 ounces of product. Sugarpill sells single shadows for $12 each and these palettes for $34. They only sell two single pressed shadows that don't come in palettes (Bulletproof, a matte black, and @#$%!, a shimmery red.)

Sugarpill Burning Heart Palette
Flamepoint (orange,) Buttercupcake (yellow,) Poison Plum (purple,) Love+ (red)

Sugarpill Sweetheart Palette

Dollipop (pink,) Afterparty (blue,) Midori (green,) Tako (matte white)

But you know all of that stuff, right? I mean, all of those bright, matte colors are great but... what do you do with them on a Wednesday, amirite?

These are surprisingly wearable. You can make the colors more vibrant with a white cream base (NYX pencil in Milk, for example) or darker and smokier with a black pencil base. One word of warning: the red and pink shades might stain a bit if you don't use a base - Urban Decay's Primer Potion worked just fine to keep this from happening. Okay, two words of warning: those same red and pink shades have some fallout at application - be prepared to clean it up once you are done. 

My Valentine's Day look was Burning Heart over a black pencil base:

That's lovely close-up but what does it actually look like? 

See? Surprisingly wearable. 

(The lipstick is MAC's Studded Kiss from the Punk Couture collection.)

Burning Heart over Urban Decay's Primer Potion looks like so:

Full face:

Sorry, no natural light in Seattle on that day. 

Sweetheart was scarier for me, as it contains some serious secretary-from-the-Drew-Carey-Show shades, right? 

How is this blue shadow so amazing?

(Lipstick is MAC's Show Orchid)

The diffused light photo didn't quite do the vibrancy justice and while I was out for the day, I encountered this coordinating wall, so have a second photo:

You can tell it's the end of the day because my hair fell over. :P 

So, long post short? The fallout and staining on the pink/red shades isn't enough of an issue for me to say these are anything short of amazing. I look forward to getting Cold Chemistry and Heartbreaker in my hands to see if the whole line is this great. I'm not much on loose shadows, but I hear that the Electrocutes have some fallout issues (as in: they are pretty much matte once you're done applying them and they're shimmers) but that the other loose shadows are great.

Ending this one with the Valentine's flowers my spouse got me because my cats and child actually didn't knock them over by photo time! :D