 you all know what time it is look what i got my hands on today and let me tell you my dedication i walked to fedex in the rain to pick this up because my apartment building sometimes takes a while to let me know when i have a package so i had it sent to fedex so i would be notified asap walked my booty in the rain now my hair looks like this but in terms of fixing it we don't have time for that we need to put this on our eyes before we do that quick housekeeping i applied for sephora squad again this year third time's charm right if you don't know what sephora squad is it's basically an opportunity for a long-term contract and partnership with sephora so i'll be able to receive products that sephora is promoting as well as sephora adds whatever whatever you guys know how much i love sephora and i want to say a huge thank you to those of you who have already wrote a testimonial for me i've been reading all the ones that you guys have sent me as much as i can and i truly truly appreciate it if you have not yet i'm gonna put the link down below if you if you write me a testimonial sharing why you think i would be a good member of sephora squad that is going to help my chances so i would truly truly appreciate it it will be in the description box down below don't want to talk about that too long because we have a business to take care of the pastel palette it actually launched today everywhere sephora beautylish jantosha denona's website full of that good stuff this is her spring launch and to be quite frank i'm excited for it i think it looks really really fine do i think i am going to love it probably not but maybe i will i don't know we will see so this is 65 dollars it is a midi size which i am more than excited about because her last colorful palette was a circle local palette and that was the 125 dollar pan size and it was like way too much product for the color so i feel like she took our feedback and actually listened and put this in a 65 dollar palette because this is a good way to get some pops of color without it being netasha's most expensive price let's take a look at the packaging here i'm actually going to turn the lights down just a little bit so that you can see the true colors you will see that the palette is made in italy and has a 24 month shelf life so let's open her up this is a true first impression okay i'm too excited to open it without you guys but here is the component itself oh my gosh it's so beautiful i love this ombre fade and you'll see the dots here that you can push a needle through to rearrange the shades as you wish in the palette and here is the palette wait let me look at it oh it's so pretty even if it's not a color story i probably would wear very often i must say it is very pleasing to the eyes so i'm excited to swatch this as you can see there are 15 eyeshadows consistency in here we have cream to powders a duo chromes there's two of that creamy mattes then we have some shimmers some metallics good stuff good stuff okay we're just gonna swatch because we need to see how these colors perform because pastels can be a little dicey so we're gonna see if natasha can master that i'm gonna start off with the top row here so we have tool which is a cream to powder and we have illusion which is a duo chrome and then mint frost which is a sparkling metallic here's how they are looking on my fingers look at the duo chrome shade it looks very very fun let's see how they swatch so the cream to powder seems a little sheer okay we have a matte medium lilac in the cream to powder formula and then a duo chrome sparkling pink with golden champagne oh you guys know i'm living for this color okay sign me up for dainty right here that looks stunning we have a mint pastel duo chrome bright turquoise and gold lots of duo chromes in here and then a coral pink with golden peach this isn't the strongest duo chrome from what i'm seeing i don't think duo chromes are natasha specialty or multi chromes normally hers are pretty underwhelming to me i look so pretty though and we have a pastel peach a matte pastel cornflower interesting way to describe the color and then a metallic icy pastel yellow i know that this one is in the topic limoncello so far the swatches are pretty nice honestly they're giving me decent pigment nothing feels too powdery and we have a duo chrome lilac teal interesting ship a matte pastel sky blue and a matte pastel lime so this one was pretty sheer and i actually see that duo chrome here again more subtle but still very pretty okay we have one more shade this is feather which is a pastel lavender pink so let's see pretty sheer not gonna lie so i guess it does seem kind of mixed we'll see how these apply to the eye i think i'm gonna do two different looks on two different eyes since we have quite the array of color families here i yeah these are all of the shades in the pastel palette but i would say across the board seems pretty solid by swatch if this color story looks a little overwhelming to you feel free to rearrange these by color family and i think that would be a little bit more intuitive of how to use the palette like get the blues and greens on one side and the pinks and purples on the other side and i think you might find it easier to create a color story so in terms of the palettes that this reminded me of i just want to do some side by sides for you here is the trio chrome palette and you can see the overall kind of more grungy tone that the trio chrome has i think this might be better yeah compared to the pastel palette i think these would be actually quite complimentary of one another especially when it comes to getting some depth in from the pastel palette i love the trio chrome palette i think it's an undurated palette but this seems almost more grungy when next to the pastel and then of course we have a good old circle loco these two would definitely be great hand in hand using both of these at once because circle loco has the depth i actually really loved circle loco as well i had a lot of fun with it i'm thinking i'm vibing with the more drill tones in circle loco but these are definitely family members and then i did bring out tropic a lot of you guys thought they were similar and there are i believe three shades in tropic or in the pastel palette i'm not so bothered by that because tropics kind of old if i'm being honest and they haven't sold it for a few years now so i'm unhappy with that um yeah i can definitely see some similarities but to me overall they seem very different palettes so we'll see if you do have a tropic palette the repeat shades are going to be limantello right here mint frost and i believe the leanie might be a repeat but it's actually not in the tropic palette but i feel like i've heard that shade before from netasha i could be wrong let's get this on my eyes let's give these pastels a fair chance i'm going to use a brighter base this is the anastasia beperly hills eye primer it's nice and bright which i definitely recommend if you're planning on using a pastels for the spring this will make your life much easier and if my brushes look a little dirty uh they totally are i've been using them for way too long but i'm using my sigma switch to get that powder off okay i want to play with the blues because i feel like pastel blues can go very wrong and powdery very very fast so let's see we have to use brisk because this is a color that usually is terrible in other brands and this is not overly powdery nothing out of the ordinary for netasha denona i normally hate using these kind of shades in the crease but i just need to see the intensity of this and actually it's more sheer oh no that built up fast i take it back so you definitely have some build ability with this we'll see how it wears once i mix in other colors okay now we're gonna go into sky right here and by the way my looks there's a large potential of it not turning out very cute that's because it's more important to me to test out the shades then get a pretty look on my first go but i will definitely turn out some beautiful looks and share the tutorials with you guys with this okay i think you'll benefit from padding instead of swiping but again pretty a good pigment on this as well you can't go into a pastel palette thinking you're gonna get depth because you're not you're gonna need to dig into another palette to like pop a navy in the outer corner for example but in terms of pastel i'm liking how it's behaving okay and then i have to use a bubble right here because it's a cream to powder and this kind of periwinkle shade is very difficult to find a good formulation of and i find it very interesting that she used it in a cream to powder so i'm gonna put it all over the lid and that didn't show up let me try my finger okay no it is showing up it just is like almost the same color as airy let me so here's bubble and here's airy okay yeah so these two shades you can see a subtle tone difference but i couldn't tell a difference between the two because they look the same on the eyelid so it just looks like i have one color on the eyelid that's not very good they're different formulations but i almost prefer this shade in just the creamy matte but this is what we're working with that's fine let's start off with some of mint frost i'm sure this is gonna be good yes it is in the inner corner just using my finger this is the typical really beautiful Natasha Denona shimmer formula if you're not familiar with it it's just great one of the best in the business and that's really all i can say about it and it's placing up beautifully over the matte shades and then i want to use some of aquatic here and let's place that right in the center it has a little less shimmer it's not quite as sparkly as mint frost but it's really beautiful for a simple monochromatic blue eye like this right here with that hint of green from aquatic really pretty really light i don't know if this is like the most flattering eye look on me but i like it let's build up the lower lash line i'm gonna try a different family of colors just to play i need to need to need to test zest right here this is another creamy powder is it yes cream to powder it's a little bit more powdery than her normal creams powder formulation i'm getting some kickback what you don't normally get with this formation but i feel like that's gonna be nice because these shades can normally be quite unpigmented and yeah i mean this is not out of character for a shade like this i cannot name a palette where a shade like this had a huge pop to it so you can see it is a little bit more sheer you might have to use some assistance of a truly white base to get this to show up or even maybe like a mixing medium it's not bad though but just something to note that it's truly like a light light light pastel shade i do kind of like this lime green to blue down here do i want to add depth do i want to do anything i think i'm gonna leave it like this i like this let's move to the other eye we're gonna play more so with the pinks and purples now okay we're gonna start off with some of feather and this is just the normal creamy matte it's just like a lavender pink shade and this is nice all over the eyelid i feel like if you put a darker shade in the crease and this all over the lid it would be beautiful i'm gonna leave the lid relatively empty though for this look and then i want to see if there's a difference between feather and tool so i'm now going to go into tool which is a cream to powder again it has a little bit more fallout than i'm used to for a cream to powder from natasha but it's fine and this is not as close to feather as i thought you can definitely see it's more of a true pink so i'm happy about that whereas feather is a little bit more light like certainly you can blend them together to look a little bit more familiar they definitely aren't as close as arian bubble are i think it's still okay to have them in the same palette but they still are kind of close but it's not bad it really isn't i'm not mad about this one okay so let's see how much depth we can add in with borah this is like the deepest shade in the palette this is a sonia g worker brush that i'm gonna use borah is also a cream to powder she has a lot in this palette so let's see it's definitely not adding that much depth if i'm being honest it looks darker in the pan than it does on the eyelid it's mess free but i was hoping it would give us just a little bit more like i know it's a passed out palette i know that's what we signed up for it would be nice just for a little bit more you know it is buildable though not too too deep but that did add a little bit of something something to the look okay great so that's fine so i'm going to start off with illusion which is the shade that caught my eye most in the promos this is a duo chrome it's a sheer pink peach and i want to see how it looks on my bare lid so i'm just gonna pop this oh that is so pretty i feel like this could work well as a face highlight and it has this like not putty consistency but it's definitely different than her normal shimmer formulation because it doesn't have any powder kickback it's more creamy than anything so it doesn't add too much of like a sparkly shimmer which i was hoping that it would it's similar to the pat macrath putty highlighters they're not necessarily putty but that texture that feel and the look on the skin that's very very smooth and not powdery at all that's how this looks so we're going to go in with duet which is another duo chrome and it's a lilac and teal so let's see this shade does not give me as much oomph as i personally would like you know i wish i had a little bit more glimmers dainty which is this corner shade right here is going to give that to me but i wanted to see how these two looked and they're not as exciting for me they're a little bit more subdued and that's not to say that they're not pretty but if anybody could do something really extra and glittery i know natasha has it in her that's personally a preference though you might not like when the shades are really glittery and in that case this might be for you but to me for my review for my opinion it's just a bit on the subtle side but the look is very pretty no for reviewers sake now that you've seen those two we're gonna go into dainty which is a really glittery sparkly shade and i'm just gonna pop it right here in the center and instantly that's adding the boba boom and the glimmer that i went out of this look really pretty look though i must say so taking a look at the colors i have not yet given a chance we're gonna go into limoncello which is that shade that is already in the tropic palette and i'm just gonna place this on the inner half of the lower lash line of my blue look very pretty this is a very classic natasha donno formula so it's really nice i think you guys will like that i think i've played with everything else except for starlet and bilini and i don't think i need to i think these two are good these are very like normal natasha donno shades so i know they're gonna be beautiful so i'm gonna put more purple on my lower lash line really quickly i'm just gonna kind of rub this brush down here put on some lashes and i will be back to give you guys my final thoughts so here are the final thoughts on the palettes is it a good palette absolutely i think the quality is very very nice i love that the pastels aren't too chalky and they don't blend away that's a big thing that i find with pastels is even if you get a lot of punch and pigment they're so chalky that when you blend and mix other colors they lose the opacity that's not the case with these you can tell that these are high quality pastels they're not going to give you a bam-wam pigment which i know a lot of you asked about they are sheer is a strong word but they're not super pigmented you know what i mean i mean you saw the action on my eyes you can make your judgments on that is it my favorite palette from natasha donno no probably not i don't think i'm going to end up using this as much as my other palettes i say probably because i didn't think i would end up using the trio chrome palette in the circle local palette that much either and i ended up loving those so only time will tell if i end up feeling the same about this palette but i don't think so because i like a little bit depth i feel like if i wanted you a colorful look i could still just climb into my trio chrome and circle logo because there still are pastel shades in those so i don't think you know this was the most necessary palette for me you have to really really like pastels to be sold on this but if you are into pastels i think that you will enjoy this i enjoyed the formulas in here i thought for being a pastel palette it was super easy to work with it's just a matter of if you think you're going to use it or not i got asked about if i think that this palette would work on deeper skin tones obviously i don't have experience in that i haven't tried this on somebody with a deeper skin tone so make sure you keep an eye out for those that do have deeper skin tones i think it will show up i think you know if you use a nice light base you'll get them to show up it's just a matter of if it will be flattering or not and in some cases i think you might just want to go for something deeper like circle loco or trio chrome just for something more flattering i think they'll show up i really do but again don't quote me on that so overall i mean i like the quality of this i think it's good it's not a top recommendation that i have from natasha but i'm gonna have a lot of fun with this it is a palette that is very spring appropriate so i'm going to make an effort to use it let me know if you guys want a full dedicated multiple looks video to where i can really focus on getting pretty looks out of this one one that i'm not so worried about testing the quality and that way i'll be able to update you guys on my final final thoughts so i hope you guys enjoyed this first impressions i appreciate you taking the time out to watch my videos and leaving me a testimonial for sephora squad and with that being said i will catch you guys in the next one bye guys have a good one