 Hey guys, what is up? Welcome to my channel. For today's video I'm going to share with you my newest pick up, the Hooda Beauty Rose Quartz Eyeshadow Palette. Well first of all this launch today you can get it online at Sephora and the Hooda Beauty website or double check but it seems that all of the Sephora's local to me do have this so they might have it in store for you. I forced my husband to take me out to an early lunch just so I could pick this up. That was my excuse but it sounds pretty. I'm so excited. If you want to see my thoughts on this then just keep watching. So today is November 1st which means my membership starts if you don't know what I'm talking about. I'm creating a membership for $2.99. It's called the Beauty Buffs. So if you join you will be a member of the Beauty Buffs and I'm just going to do one monthly tutorial on there. You guys vote. There's going to be member polls and then may or may not be some like giveaway. I don't know. We'll see. It's a fun time. So I just wanted to let you guys know if you were thinking about joining that it starts today. So all you have to do to join is just press the join button underneath this video and it will give you all of the details. You guys know there's nothing to make me giddy like a new eyeshadow palette and these make me excited every year because it's truly only once a year that Huda Beauty it comes out with an 18 pound palette. These are the best. Her 18 pan formulations and so is this 18 pans? 3, 6? Yes. So much better than her nine pans in my opinion and always, always chef's kiss on the color story. So I've been eyeing this when I saw it was at my loco Sephora. I had to scoop it up. It's beautiful. Anyways, ready ho. So let's get into the details of this. Like I said I did pick it up in stores. Here's the thing. I prefer shopping from Huda Beauty online. I feel like the products come very nicely packed and they fulfill orders super quick. However, I do encourage you to just buy this from the Sephora VIP sale no matter what tier you are. Just save yourself a little bit of money 10 to 20 percent. It's worth it because this baby is $67. That's a lot for a palette and they don't often go on sale. The older ones are at this point popping up on sale. But in the last two, three years of these palettes, they don't really go on sale. So get it at a discount while you can. It's worth the risk of shipping or just go to your Sephora store and get your discount. It's free to be a Sephora member. So if you're in the US, this is the Rose Quartz palette. Let me actually turn the light down so you can see the box. It is just a cardboard box. And if you do need to see the back, here is what the ingredients are and all of the information that you might need it to see. Now on the back says Made in Italy. So normally her best formula is Made in Italy. I know it's really dark and so you can see the colors of a palette and it has a 24 month shelf life. So here is what the packaging is going to look like. Absolutely beautiful. Honestly, this is my favorite cover that she's come out with to date. Like Naughty Nude was boring. Mercury Retrograde, not a fan of her eyes personally. New Nude, also her eyes. This looks luxe. It looks, it looks real sexy. I don't really like this. And then here is the back of the palette. Okay, you do have the mirror and here is the color story. And it's a gold toned, leaning, mauvey, purple, beauty-ness. I mean, can you tell I was excited for this palette? You can see that the component itself is kind of see-through. Can you see my hand behind here? But these are the colors. See, so like I said, it is $67. There's a matte finish, shimmer finish, metallic finish. And then we do have, we do have this one right here, which is weird. This product is vegan and cruelty free. It says that this palette offers 18 rosy tints and earthy shades across five different textures. We're going to get three high shine, buttery metallics, three pearly soft shine metallics, three quartz inspired multi-shimmer marble creams, and one pearl gloss hybrid. So while my lights are dim, I'm just going to go straight in and do the swatches for you. So we're going to start off with quartz. Ooh, that feels really good. Aura and gratitude. So these are all, why not all matte shades? This is what they look like up close. So quartz is a shimmery copper cream marble. So it's that marble shade, but it does have a nice soft shimmer to it. Aura is a earth brown matte, and then gratitude is a latte brown matte. Definitely leans a little bit pinky. Cosmic love, empowered and joy. Oh my gosh. Look at that. Cosmic love is a shimmery plum pink and purple cream marble. Oh my gosh. I am speechless. Empowered is a dark metal powder metallic. And then joy is a rose glow powder metallic. Okay, this should be interesting. We have precious energized. They feel so good. Okay, love stone. Here we go. So we have precious, a deep cool brown matte. Then we have blissful, a silver green creamy metallic. And then love stone, a white holographic and pink hybrid gloss. Cherish blissful and happiness. We have a cold pink matte, a silver green creamy metallic, and a bright pink matte. Mantra, serenity and abundance. This is a beautiful taupe. So we have a carbon gray matte that swatched really nice. A soft pink matte kind of has a little bit of plum to it if you ask me. And a dusty purple powder metallic. These powder metallics are an awesome formulation. I'm very happy. Final three, we have moon magic, radiate and self love. Some of these shades are just so eye catching. A blue and pink holographic cream, a taupe brown matte, and then a white and pink shimmery cream marble. And here are all of the shades. I mean, this palette looks beautiful with the exception of this weirdo right here. They are just beautiful. They swatch so nice. This is exactly what I was expecting the swatches to be like. So without further ado, I'm going to do this eye and then I'll be back to do this eye with you. Okay, if you get this palette, you have to do a look that's like this. I'm in love, in love. Okay, let me show you how I did it. Now, actually, you know what I'm going to do? I did get kind of a lot of fallout. So I'm going to take my Huda Beauty powder, which by the way, this is a recommendation for the Sephora sale that I have. It's the Easy Bake Loose Powder. It's my all time favorite powder. Well, except for the La Mer powder, but the La Mer powder is like $100, so this is my favorite powder price wise. So I have a little extra powder because I did get fallout from this and I'll tell you who, what, what, where, why. So I'm going to take my BK Up Beauty 202 brush and we're going into cherish. This is a very, very light pink and especially if you have like a medium to deep skin tone, it's going to be even more highlighting on you. For me, you can see it's quite pink, but I mean, I have a pink look on my eye. You can see it kind of just finishes up and brightens the area and then I'm just going to swirl a little bit in my inner corner. Very simple, very light. Refer number one brush and we're going into radiate. I'm going to use this as the inner half of my crease color and then I'm also going to bring it along the lower lash line like so and I'm going to go a tad deeper into its serenity and I'm just going to use the same brush. So this is a little bit more purpley. Honestly, these two shades, I find that they pull on this skin quite close. Like the palette could have done without having a both of these because you can see they're slightly different, but they're also like the same. So these two are a bit redundant, but they're so beautiful and they're so soft and blendable. I can't even complain because they just, they look so good. I'm using an elf $1 blending brush and we're going into mantra. This shade in credible, you guys. Colors like these can go so bad so quickly and not be blendable and be hard to work out. This color is so blendable and easy to work with. If you're a beginner with blending, like this is top notch quality. For a purple base, you don't come across shades that blend like this. So I'm honestly extremely impressed with this shade. It is this good for like no reason. For me to be happy with this shade, it did not need to blend as good as it does and it blends so good and you can kind of see I'm winging it out a little bit. I actually didn't do that over here, but I want to try it out to see if I prefer it. And then I actually want the lower lash line to be pretty smoky. I'm going to put a dark plum liner in my waterline. So I'm bringing it across the whole lower lash line. I can't beat this brush for a dollar. Look at that. I'm going to just blend the edges a little bit. Okay, so this is where things did get a little messy. I don't most recommend you use your fingers for all of the shimmer shades in here because they do get a little bit flaky, but I did want to just show you. So I'm going to use just this morphe shader brush and we're going into empowered. This is one that really has a lot of fallouts and makes a mess and you really don't want the shade to make a mess. I don't know if you can see but there's like purple particles everywhere because of the shade and it's a dark purple. So a finger applies this best. You can see I'm getting fallout. I'm going to get it on the tip of my shader brush and I want it to go right over the crease. This is why I said to apply a layer of powder down first and you won't get much fallout if you just use a finger and aren't stubborn like me. Pretty but messy. I'm just going to leave the fallout there until we're done with the other shimmer shades because work will need to be done with that as well. I'm going to go into a cosmic love. This shade, it's insane. This, I'm just putting it at the center of my lid. I'm still leaving the inner third bare but you can see we're building this galactic shimmery look and it's the perfect way to go from deep to light. I'm going to take a little bit of blissful. This looks more blue in person I would say. It is beautiful and I'm just taking a little bit and I'm putting it the inner quarter. We still have a quarter left. Okay this is a magical shade. This is moon magic and this is going to change everything in this look. It has a blue shift to it and I'm kind of just covering blissful all the way to the center of my lid so that the blue is going to pop against the middle shade and this makes the look. You can't tell me that this does not make the look because it makes the look. I'm taking the tip of an Esum W21 and we're going to go back into moon magic just because this is one of my favorite shades in this palette. It's literally a transformative shade. Absolutely beautiful. Last and final step I'm taking self-flub and using that as the inner corner color. I'm just using a morphe pencil brush just to add a little bit of glow and then underneath the eyebrow. I am going to finish the rest of my look and I will give you my final thoughts and comparisons. So here is the final look with lashes and all that notable product. I use the Huda Beauty Cheeky Vegan Blush Powder in Caring Coral and then on top I use the Flower Beauty Pyramids Cheek Colors, the highlights and these are perfect for the look. What a combo. Then on my lips I have the Huda Beauty Lipstick in Honey Bun. I probably could have gone with something a little bit cooler but anyways. So love this look. It is absolutely gorgeous. Love this palette. Getting into the more finer details of the palette. I immediately thought of Mercury Retrograde which was the palette from two years ago when this came out. I thought that they looked very similar. So here is Rose Quartz and then I'm going to put Mercury Retrograde next to it on camera. They look quite close and honestly I did swatch them side by side on my arms. So on the swatches right here you will see at the bottom is Rose Quartz and then the top are the closest shades I could find from Mercury Retrograde. So there's a number of shades that are definitely close. The Mercury Retrograde has a lot more different colors like there's blues, there's some different textures. Overall I think Mercury Retrograde is a little bit more fun of a palette in terms of having more colors. I think where the Rose Quartz stands out to me is that it has more options in depth. With Mercury Retrograde you had options for depth but I feel like there's even more options in the Rose Quartz and I think a lot of you will prefer that. Now do I think you need one over the other? If you have Mercury Retrograde I wouldn't say Rose Quartz is a must have. However I am happy to have both because I love them both and I can see myself pairing both together. If we could pull some of the blues from Mercury Retrograde into my Rose Quartz looks I think that they will definitely pair well together. So while there's a lot of similarities if you like the mauve purpley pinky tones in the Mercury Retrograde the Rose Quartz has those. The Rose Quartz just has more options within that color family. In terms of what I prefer I mean I'm not gonna lie I'm liking the Rose Quartz. I like how Mercury Retrograde has those fun blue pops and some glitter shades but I think in terms of what I would use more I would be more inclined to use Rose Quartz and Mercury Retrograde is my favorite hood of palettes and this is giving it a run for its money. So this one is so good but they are quite close. I definitely would like to have seen Hooda stay away from these mauve purple warm tones that she does a lot but I'm not complaining it's a really good palette. And then I'm just gonna show you Rose Quartz next to new nudes. This is a few years old but again you can see she really likes the purpley pinky tones. Rose Quartz is definitely much more cool so if you have new nudes I definitely think that these two make sense to have both. Rose Quartz is definitely the bridge between new nude and mercury retrograde. In terms of last year naughty nudes this is different if you ask me from Rose Quartz as well. Naughty nudes is deeper and it has a lot more warm tones so these two are not similar at all. Now one of the formulas that I didn't use that I know a lot of you are going to ask about is our little gel friend that's popped very close to the center. I took my um check it off because the yellow plaid was not vibing with this look. You guys honestly I'm just not a fan of this formula. I heard that the highlight version of this was pretty good but I don't like gloss on the eyes. It does crease this oil crease um it works good I would say as a base but for me this just isn't useful to me. I don't like it but when I do use it I use it as a base to put a powder over top so if you are using one of the more I don't know flaky shades it's going to grab on better and it also is going to help with the metallicness of it so I mean you can make it work but just know it is going to probably crease on your eyelids and it works best as a base in my opinion so I just didn't feel they'd need to use it for this look because it's just one of those colors that I never reach for and I do find to be a bit unnecessary in the palette so that's why I didn't use that one but let me back out. I did not do my hair today because I'm getting a haircut tomorrow and I'm just kind of letting it be but anyways final thoughts on this palette I really really love it with the exception of the gel shade there is not a dud in here and I'm not even saying the gel is a dud it's just not to my taste. The only thing I would say with application of these shades is that especially when you get towards and you'll feel it there's a few flakier formulas like this shade empowered is kind of a mess cosmic love and moon magic are a little bit more flaky so I do suggest using a finger to apply them or not doing your face makeup first. I love this, mattes are blendable, metallics are really shiny and gorgeous and multi-dimensional. Once again Huda Beauty has done it with this palette it is awesome. Every year she comes out with these. Every year I absolutely love them so big thumbs up in terms of whether or not I recommend you buy this. I would wait till this Sephora VIB sale if you are able to shop it just because it is a pricey palette. I do think it's worth it but it's especially worth it if you can get it at a discount and that's the best time to pick it up. So I hope you guys enjoyed this video and you found it helpful. If you want to subscribe to my channel already I would love it if you would get that or taking the time to do so and I will see you all in the next one. Bye guys, have a good one.