 Hey guys, what is up? Welcome to my channel. For today's video, I am going to be reviewing the brand new Charlotte Tilbury palette for the holidays. So if you want to see that as well as a tutorial and of course some comparisons to her previous palettes, then just keep watching. Hi guys, if you're new here, my name is Morgan. I am a product knowledge enthusiast. I just love knowing anything and everything about all the makeup on the market and sharing my thoughts with you guys and I'm really excited for today's video because this is one of those holiday launches that I look forward to most every year. I believe this is what the fourth or fifth consecutive year that Charlotte Tilbury has launched her instant eye palette. This year's theme is a smokey eyes are forever. I of course had to pick it up. I have all but the very first one that came out to show and compare for you guys today. If you're new here, I do consider myself to be pretty well versed in Charlotte Tilbury. I've tried the majority of her line and have been collecting her eyeshadows for years. So I'm very familiar with her formula, what's going to hit, what's not. This video is a first impressions. I have not put it on my eyes yet. So make sure you stay subscribed to my channel where of course I will update you on my thoughts on the palette as I use it more. But again, like I said, I feel pretty confident doing a first impressions on this just considering how familiar I am with her formula. That being said, let's dive in. This is the Smokey Eyes are forever palette. Now when I ordered for the 48 hour early access, they did have a special bundle where you got a free blending brush. I don't know if they'll have that again, but I think once it actually launches it's just gonna be the palette. It is going to cost you $75. It is going to be available September 23rd if you didn't get your hands on it for that 48 hour early access promotion that they do with all of her launches, which is perfect because then you guys can check the reviews and see if it's actually going to be worth it for you or not. Normally, I don't think it specifies it at the current moment at the website. They say that these are limited edition, but I will say the one from last year is still available so I don't think there's this urgent need for you to buy it as soon as it launches. But let's take a closer look at the packaging here. The box is super cute. I love the black and gold. On the box it says that this palette has an 18 month shelf life and is made in Italy. Love to see it. Now the packaging itself is a lot more simple. It's just a plain black. Black is fine and this is me being really nitpicky, but I would have liked to have seen a little bit more cuteness than rather than just black. Like I wish it matched the box more and played with more of that black and gold because Charlotte Tilbury's brand color is gold. That's what all her packaging is, but anyways that's me being nitpicky, but not my favorite when you compare it to like this one from last year and then the year prior. This one, like this is kind of boring y'all. I can't lie. And then on the back here it's going to give you some information on how to use each of the looks. So the first shade in line you're gonna prime, the second you're gonna enhance, and third you're going to smoke. She does this with all of her instant look palettes and as well as her quads, maybe not that exact configuration, but she likes to advise you on how to use her palette and what looks she intended you to create with them. Of course you're not limited. You can do whatever you want, but I really like that there is that option. So how these palettes work, they do have a nice mirror and they're gonna stay up on their own which is really nice. It's not going to fall. And then here we have our 12 eyeshadow shades. Now how she organizes them in these instant eye palettes. You have one look here, remember one, two, three is the order that is suggested to apply them. The love eyes, the power eyes as a look, the happy eyes and the confident eyes. And most of the time you will find that they are kind of monochromatic. They're gonna go with each other. And I just think it makes it so much easier if you are running late in the morning to just pick a trio that you know is gonna look good. You don't have to think about it. And then days where you're feeling fancier, you have a little bit of extra time of course to do whatever you want with it. I like that. I used to not like that at first but it really has grown on me and has become very very useful. Now this palette in particular is not very heavy in the mattes as I feel like her palettes normally are. There are five pure true matte shades and seven either shimmer or metallic shades. Now one thing that I noticed from this palette, I think one of the formulas has changed a little bit. It's gonna be like this shade and this shade right here. And I believe there's another one probably yeah this one. They're like her lid topper or pop shades but they look like they'd be really creamy. In her previous palettes the shades that had this finish and look in the pan were really wet feeling almost like a cream eyeshadow. These are almost very powdery. They're like a slip slippery powder. It's still really beautiful and you get a lot of impact but I just noticed I haven't felt a formula quite so powdery and dry like this and that's normally comes with a negative connotation of eyeshadows but it's not in this case. It looks really pretty and textured almost like more of a lid topper kind of formula. It's just different than what I've experienced from Charlotte Tilbury. Normally shades that look like those tend to have a wet heavy creamy feeling and there are shades in this palette that do have that like this shade right here is that wet creamy fix formula right here. So they are in there. I just noticed that some of those formulas feel a little bit more dry and lid topery but I'm not saying they're bad. I haven't put them on my eyes yet so we will see. As far as my thoughts on the color story here I'm definitely on board with a lot of you who said that this palette looks similar to all the other palettes she has launched. Yeah it's not that unique. I mean at this point Charlotte Tilbury she doesn't come out with unique color stories. She is lucky her products are really great and her quality is phenomenal. That's what keeps me coming back every year and every good launch but yeah I will agree. I mean we need a little bit more variety Charlotte and this was a great opportunity for her. It doesn't really catch me as a smoky palette either. Of course you have this black that you can incorporate in all of them to make them smoky but it doesn't look like a smoky palette to me. Just it looks like the rest of them. Anyways I will talk more about that when we get into the comparison portion of the video. Let's just go into the standalone quality. I'm gonna get a little bit closer. So normally for my tutorials I like to do one eye off camera so that I can collect my thoughts and come back to you and let you know but because there's 12 shades and these essentially kind of create different looks I'm just gonna do two separate looks on my eyes. It's the best way for me to really test out all of the shadows and the formulas. So I'm just using a little bit of my hourglass concealer. We are going to do this eye first. So first things first I'm going to go into this cream matte shade in the Love Ice Trio. I'm just using an Alomar cosmetics blending brush. I'm gonna concentrate the color underneath the brow bone because that's where I want the highlights and then with whatever is left I'm gonna kind of set the eyelid. Love that there's a cream shade in here. So next I'm going to take from Power Ice this light khaki gray shade. This looks really beautiful. We're not gonna do anything crazy with our looks as they normally don't in my reviews. Just so that I can really test the formulation in a style that I'm very familiar with. I mean this shade is very very pretty. It's a Charlotte Tilbury shade. She does no wrong. Actually let me use the mini eye blender brush that came with this for the next portion. We're gonna stick into confident eyes right here which by the way the layout of this trio is weird. I would think that this would want to be the prime color and then this would be the enhanced color. I don't know about following how this trio looks. That's right I'll bet. Anyways just something that I noticed but we're gonna take this shade right here and this type of shade from Charlotte is usually quite pigment packed. Let's test the blendability of that. Let me wipe my brush off so I don't go too ham here. I mean the proof is in the pudding. You can see for yourself. Very easy to work with. This brush has the shortest handle ever. Really pretty. That took away from this first shade that I used so I'm gonna kind of put it out here. Next also from the confidence eyes trio we're gonna take this kind of pinky mauve-y shade right here. This is the one where I said it felt a little bit drier than a formula that I'm used to from Charlotte and you can see right there it is more powdery. There was a little bit of pickup. I'm sure I'd get some kickback if I didn't tap off my brush but it looks beautiful on the eyelid and it's still applying with a brush just fine. Let me try it with a finger. I did get a little bit of fall out right here. Pretty. It's a little bit softer than I wanted. I thought it would be a little bit more metallic. It's still very pretty though. Then next I'm going to go into love eyes right here at this middle shade which is similar to this one but this one is that creamy consistency so it should give us a little bit more. Yeah you see that gave me more. I prefer this formula more metallic. It's a little bit less messy. Very pretty like a pinky brown kind of eye that we have going on and then also from the love eyes trio we're gonna take this shade and this one is more of that powdery formula that's similar to that first color that we used on the lid but very pretty. I'm using a really concentrated brush which is refer number 23 so it gave me a little bit more metallicness which I like for the purpose of testing this palette out. Let's use this shade right here from power eyes. This is gonna be one of the creamier shimmer shades. It's not quite metallic but it has that creamy feeling to it. Let's run this on the outer half of the lower lash line. Again like I said this is more so for the purpose of testing. That's very pretty. This is very nice quality. I'm going to wipe off my brush and we're gonna go into the black. Let's see how the black behaves. I'm gonna start off with that in the outer third of my lower lash line. That's very pigmented. I definitely expected that from Charlotte Tilbury though. Her mattes tend to be quite intense and then I'm using a rougher 14 brush just so that it's not quite as dense. Blend that to create a smoky eye. So if you're grabbing this palette to get a smoky eye this black is going to do it for you. You only need just a little bit to add that smoke out here. Black is awesome. Really nice quality. Okay final step I'm gonna go back into this shade. We're just gonna put it right in the inner third and actually this shade right here we're gonna use because I haven't used it yet. This is a creamier shade. It's not the dry shade so the dry shade is right here right here and right here like dry. You know what I mean? It doesn't mean it's bad. It's just a different formula. That's really pretty. Okay this is a neat look. I like this look and so far really nice quality. Let's go to the other eye and let's play a little bit more around with the shades that I have not yet used which for the most part it looks like it's gonna be the happy eyes trio. We're gonna create something a little bit more warm. Let's do this look how she envisions us to use it. So we're gonna start off with happy eyes. This is gonna be interesting because this is the powdery formula. I don't know how this is gonna look in the crease and it's very shiny. Now Charlotte Tobri's formula typically works really well in the crease even if it's a shimmer so that's why I'm trusting her on this but this has a lot of glitters in it. In this case I'm not too sure about how much we want to follow her directions because this shade carries glitter. It's holding down well on the eyelid. I do have a little bit of glitter particles so don't apply this type of formula all over the crease if you're not ready to have a little bit of glitter fall out. Like it looks pretty. This shade is really gorgeous dispersed all over the lid but it's so big glittery but that's okay we're gonna enhance the eyes now with this middle shade. It's a very creamy shade. I'm just using my fingers. Now Charlotte Tobri is known for giving you that glowy eye look so that's why she puts shimmers in the crease and says it's okay because that's what she's known for. Glowy eye and my friends this is glowy and then we're gonna finish with the smoke shade which is this kind of reddish shade. That ended up working better than I thought. Like all three did pool together really pretty. Did they not? Just with that touch of the matte in the crease that's gorgeous. I actually really like this look. Interesting I still not sure about the crease shade but in the crease it's a gorgeous look gorgeous gorgeous quality. Like I like this look better than this look. Let's add a little bit of the black. This is the smokey eyes are forever palette after all and then because the greens are not getting their moment we're just going to put this guy on the inner half creating kind of a dual toned look. We'll have the darker shade out here. I like that. The khakis kind of fun pop and then let's add some black to pool two sides together. I believe it's from that first shade we put on the eyes but I have so much fallout and it's glittery fallout. It's sweeping right away just something to keep in mind and I did tap my brush off. So here are the two looks. I'm going to add on the rest of my face and then I will show you the final look. Okay so before I go into my comparisons and final thoughts I do just want to show you the completed look. So this one is really pretty. I love the pinky smokey eye and then of course this warm look is really beautiful. I added the green to the bottom just because those needed some love too but love the looks. Anyways let's get into something very serious comparison. Now like I said before I've collected quite a lot of Charlotte Tilbury palettes and a big talking point on this new release was that it's how similar it is to all of her other eyeshadows. So I'm going to compare a few of the close ones. So up top right here we have the eyes are forever. Right here at the bottom I'm going to put last year's bejewelled eyes to hypnotize and when I saw these I really didn't think they were that similar. Of course you know in those neutral transitional shades there are similarities of course but those are just necessary shades so I swatched them side by side so you could see the difference. So on this arm I have the new forever smokey palette and on this side I have the bejewelled eyes hypnotized compared to the colors that I thought were the closest. So I mean there's a good what do I have eight shades that are similar and you can be the judge of how close you think that they are but I mean there's a number of shades that really are close. We didn't have the green family really in that palette or the black right here but honestly they were a little bit closer than I thought they were going to be. Now I think one of the stand out colors to this palette is the greens and that's definitely not in last year so that might be the selling point for you but as far as the warm tones if you're buying the new palette for the warm tones and you have last years they're in last year's I would say for the most part. Now this one is the juicy one so this is the holiday palette from two years ago so the top is the new one. Bottom one is the starry eyes to hypnotize and I mean you have a green trio, you have a warm base trio, you have a black to create that smoky eye. You don't have a pinky trio really like this but you could argue it's kind of in between these two anyways. These are the ones that I knew you guys really wanted to see compared and it's very interesting. Honestly taking a look I almost feel like this palette should have been the smoky eyes palette. I don't know but right here I have the smoky eyes are forever and right here are the close shades that I could find in the starry eyes to hypnotize and they're super close you guys. Obviously there's slight differences between the colors and you can decide if it's going to be worth it for you. They're very very very very very close honestly. I mean you have the green tones, the warm tones, the reddish tones, the only true color that we're really missing from here is going to be a chocolate brown but probably already have that in your collection I'm going to guess so these are very very close. So I'm not doing side by side swatches of these. I mean it's again a similar situation where there's going to be some transitional and necessary shades that are going to be similar but let's take a look at the pillow talk instant eye palette which is at the bottom. A few of those matte shades are going to be similar. I mean there's definitely some dupes in here however there are just different color stories and the smoky eyes are forever so I'm not going to swatch those. Like I definitely think you could have both of these and be okay and then this one is arguably expired right at this point this is from three years or so ago. These are similar. I'm not going to lie it just doesn't really have that green shade. This is called the stars in your eyes and the stars in your eyes doesn't have a chocolate brown. It leaves a little bit more purple I would say but look at these first two trios aren't they similar and then definitely these two trios are similar. These two shades these are also close. It's those two most recent years that you're most likely to have so I wanted to swatch those and then as far as the green trio which is the power eyes and the smoky eyes forever it did remind me a lot of the green light squad from Charlotte Tilbury so I did do a little bit of a comparison to show you so this is going to be the power eyes and this is the green light squad. Similar vibes you definitely could get a similar look with the three but that's just to kind of show you how they differ and then another trio that I wanted to compare was happy eyes right here which is the warm trio and I wanted to compare that to copper charge which let me just show you really quickly what they look like side by side just so that you can kind of see them side by side next to each other. Here is the happy eyes here is the copper charge pretty similar. These are very popular style kind of warm colors so I think they're going to be easily dupable regardless. Okay I'm going to clean all the swatches off my arms and I will be back to give you my final thoughts. So a question I get asked a lot is are these palettes worth it and I'm going to tell you right now if you are interested in trying the charlotte tulberry formula this is the route to go as much as I love her quads you're getting four shades of not anywhere near the amount of product that you are getting in the instant eyes palette and these are like 50 bucks so if you want to try the charlotte tulberry formulas you want to introduce yourself to her brand these palettes are the way to go they are the best value whether or not you choose to pick up this palette I mean it doesn't really matter I just think as far as value this is what you need to pick up the formulas in here are consistent and I'd argue if not sometimes better than the formulas you find in the quads I do find that the quads can be a little bit inconsistent formula so all around like I have not had a bad instant eye palette from charlotte tulberry so it's a safe bet and it's the best value if you're looking to get started now as far as this palette in particular it's a nice palette it's in line with the rest of her other palettes I like it just as much it's just a matter of the color story and if this is for you because as a charlotte tulberry collector as somebody who owns all of these colors from her already these colors are already in my collection this most definitely was not a need for me but if you don't have these colors in your collection you're not a charlotte tulberry collector I don't think this is a necessary palette it's not a color story that stands out in her line so I would say if you bought the holiday palette two years ago and yours isn't used and abused and you're still fine with using it I definitely do not think you need it this year's palette if you have last year's palette and you're debating on this year's think about that green how bad do you want the green trio if you don't want the green trio and you find yourself mostly reaching towards the warm colors in the palette I don't think you need this year's but it depends on how much you think you're gonna use the green colors and a little bit more neutral shades if you're just getting started with charlotte tulberry your interest in trying your formula you're looking for a good reliable creamy wearable formula I definitely do recommend this so this is like I said great quality from charlotte tulberry not disappointed by that factor at all it's just a matter if you feel like you need these colors or not so that is all I have for today's video I hope you guys enjoyed it and found it helpful if you have any questions don't be afraid to ask in the comments down below even if I can't get to hopefully somebody else will thank you guys so much for being subscribed to my channel and for your continuous support it does not go unnoticed and thank you for liking this video that's all I have for now I will see you guys in the next one bye guys have a good one