 Hey guys, what is up? Welcome to my channel. For today's video, we are going to be testing out the Shantakai Safari Collection. Kind of my first dive into the new Shantakai collections. And yeah, if you want to see my thoughts on that, see me try them on. All of it, I did a full face with the palette, then just keep watching. So ever since I made that order from Shantakai for Sylvie's birthday where it was like an insane discount off of Shantakai, now I am intrigued by everything that Shantakai comes out with. So they recently came out with a Safari collection and I ordered it. I actually got this in the mail almost two weeks ago, like right when they had a presale. Then I got married and went away and work started and time got away from me. So this is later than I wanted it to be. But I certainly feel like sitting and playing. Currently, this collection is available on the Shantakai website, Net-A-Porter, Blue Mercury and Neiman's. The eye trio is currently sold out on Shantakai. So I will put the links to the other stores down below for you guys. But we're going to first start off with the Safari Collection eye trio. Now this guy is $75. It's a lot of money. I was wondering earlier why I didn't feature Shantakai so much in my channel. And this reminded me why. So you're getting seven grams of product in here. There are three shades and online it's described as an elephant inspired trio of Safari shades. They chose a color palette that reflected the African landscape at sunset and the soft taupe tones of an elephant's hide. These highly wearable suede textured neutral eye shine shades were chosen to complement all skin tones and give a natural defined look to the eye. One thing that I do like that they disclosed on their website because some brands don't disclose this, but it says in the description each shade is embossed with an elephant and embellished with a shimmering tonal overspray. So this does have an overspray in it. If you aren't aware of Shantakai, for the majority of their products, usually they'll give back in some sort of way, mostly to animals. So obviously this does have kind of a charitable component to it. So let's take a look at the packaging. It is in a plastic component. Honestly, for $75, I would have liked something a little bit more lux, but that's okay. It's really cute on the front. If you're an animal person, you can't help, but love it. It's a photo of an elephant. It just says Shantakai details on the back. We are made in Italy, 36 months shelf life, cruelty free. That covers it. All right. So immediately one thing that I noticed about this palette that I didn't like is when I got it, these elephants were all going different directions and it just was not aesthetically pleasing to me because these pans, they're not part of the component. They're individual tans sitting in a magnet, I believe, but they're loosely in there. So maybe they would be easy to get out if you want to put them in a palette, but I don't like that. I bought this as a trio and these elephants just move. Like I can take my fingers and just twist it like that. It just does not feel secure. And also this middle shade right here. The actual product itself was sticking out of the metal pan that it sits in and I had to press it in, which is why there's a little bit of a gas here because it wasn't fully in. So I don't know. The packaging of this just feels very unstable, a little bit cheap. I'm sorry, but that is what is going on with that. That being said, let's dig into the product. Now I have worn this product once. If you check out my Rare Beauty review, I had this gold all over my lid. So if you want to see how it looks, check out that video. But in here you are getting three shades. You have Selling Key, which is a burnished gold shade. You have Red Earth, which is a strong copper. And then Nanu, which is a soft taupe. And you guys know I'm eyeing this taupe color. Come on in, get a little closer. I'm taking some Rare Beauty concealer, which I trashed yesterday. I did not like it, but you know, we're giving it a second wear today. And I'm putting that all over my lid just to be the base. Now one thing with Shantikai that you have to accept for you even purchase is that they're not fully packed pigmented formulas. It's about soft, sophisticated finishes on the eye. If you're not about that life, then you're going to be disappointed because you're not going to get a metallic, foiled, pigmented, creamy look on the eye. That's not what this brand is known for. Once you get those expectations out of there, you really learn to kind of appreciate the product more. So like I said, you do have the overspray on the elephants. What I did yesterday was I put the outside all over my lid and then I took some of the overspray and put it all over my lid for a little bit more of a metallic finish and the overspray lasted like it's still there. So you might actually get a couple uses out of the overspray or you could just kind of wipe it off because really that's not part of the palette, which I personally find a little bit annoying. So I'm going to take the outside of red earth. I'm just using the brush that the palette came with. And I'm going to apply this to the outer half of my lid. Actually, this is quite pigmented. I don't really like this brush. Wow, but that kind of packed on more color than I was expecting. Now, this does say it's a palette made for all skin tones. And I mean, if you have a deeper complexion, this palette isn't going to probably give you a full look on your complexion. But I do think the tones would compliment even a deep complexion. They may not be a defining shade or you may not be able to use it in the way that I'm using it. But I really do feel like these shades can be complimentary to a deeper skin tone. Wow. I'm actually really impressed with how this shade just blended out in the color that it deposited. The shadow really traveled as I blended it very smoothly. I'm going to do that again. And it does have a soft shimmer to it. But because it's that very soft, sophisticated formula, do not be scared to use it in the crease. Most times for more mature lids, if you have a more mature lid anyways, this type of finish is going to be more flattering because a matte shadow can really dry out the way that your eyelids look. So having a little bit of a sheen is not the worst thing in the world. So this one I applied less product. You can kind of see it's a little bit more toned down. I'm not going to give the gold a ton of love today because like I said, I just use it everywhere all over my eyelid yesterday. It's a very soft gold and it's very pretty. It did take a touch of building up, but I really liked it and it lasts it all day. I had too much fun with that red and now it's everywhere all over my eye. And now I'm going to take the taupe shade and I'm just going to take it on my finger. I'm going to put this all over my lid. I'm going to leave a little bit of space for the gold. See, I love this type of taupe shade. It's cooler. I think it's fun. It still plays very well with the warm shade. Don't be afraid to mix cool and warm. You guys can see you're not going to get anything super metallic with it. It's just a taupe wash. What I like about this palette is I feel like you can definitely use it as an all over wash palette. No matter what color you use, it's going to look good as kind of a single eye shadow look, having that as the only shadow. So if you're into that type of makeup, this is perfect for it. I'm going to take a little bit of the gold now. I'm going to pop this in the inner corner. Now this isn't super bright, high lady, but I'm just going to add an extra dimension here. You can see as I'm using them, like twisting and turning. Super annoying. I'm going to take the taupe shade and I'm going to use that just to give me some definition around my lower lash line. And just for the fun of it, I figured I could try and use this as a face palette as well. Why not? So I'm taking a brush that doesn't have a lot of density. This is the Luxy 522. I'm going to pat it in the red copper shade because I have a pretty light skin tone. So this could go very bad. What I don't like that I just did though is because it has that overspray, I'm getting the overspray on my cheek. But you know what, you guys? Once the overspray is off and if something happens, this color works as a blush. Like I said, could do without the overspray. I wouldn't say it's super flattering on my skin tone. I think maybe if you have like a medium skin tone, even deep, potentially. Can't really speak on that personally. This could work as a blush. The overspray is really throwing it off though. I would admit don't like the overspray. I think that the gold is definitely going to be too deep as a highlighter on my skin tone, but starting off with the medium skin tone, I think this would be actually a very nice soft highlight on you. I'm just going to put like a touch. I mean, it just barely works on me. I don't mind it. Like I said, if an emergency happened and I only had this palette, I could certainly make it work. Not ideal. Not my favorite colors on my face, but not bad. So I'm going to finish liner and lashes and then we'll talk about the lips and then my final thoughts on this. All right. So we're going to move into the lip products that came out in this collection. So they came out with three lip veils. Like I said, I'm a noob. It's a shoddy guy. So I've never personally tried this formula, but it's an intensely hydrating and luminous lip veil enriched with sustainable, fair, wild, certified organic olaba oil to leave the lips luxuriously soft and smooth. There's their shades. I only got one because it's $48. These are made in Italy. They have a 24 month shelf life, which is a lot for a lip product. 2.5 grams of product. So the other shades was Plumeria, which I should have gone. I wish I got that. That's a pale pool plum and then I didn't get Acacia, which is a Tony Rose. I ended up with this looks like the middle shade. This is Tamarind, which is a warm cinnamon brown. I thought this would be gorgeous for fall. The packaging is super cute. Again, it has a little elephant on here and then it's a magnetic closure. So let's just put this on. Has quite a lot of pigmentation. You could definitely blend it out to get a sheer layer. I definitely wish I got the lighter shade though. This is gorgeous for fall and it definitely pairs very well with the palette. Don't love the shape of this. I feel like my lips are too tiny. I think that Tamarind and Acacia actually would be very nice on the deeper complexions. I feel like this line and correct me if I'm wrong because obviously I can't speak from personal experience, but I feel like this collection really does kind of cater to different complexions. So here is what everything is looking like up close. Just a really simple natural look of course with the deeper lip. So nice for fall and the texture of this. It does feel very soft and moisturizing. I think you probably would want a lip liner underneath because I can see this traveling as the day goes on. But it's very comfortable. I really like this formula. Final thoughts. So we'll start off with the eye trio. Now I can't deny the quality of this. If you like the Shanta Guy formula, you love the soft look. You're looking for like kind of a single wash of color that you can throw on and run out the door. I think that this is very nice. Now do I think it's worth $75? I'm not going to encourage anybody to spend $75 on an eye trio given just I don't like how insecure these shades feel. Mine kind of came broken and it's just three shades for $75 which is pricey. But if this is what you're looking for in the type of shadow that you're looking for, it's nice. So you have to make that decision on your own whether or not you think it's for you. I do like a formula like this every now and then. Now does it make me want to continue to buy every single eyeshadow palette that Shanta Guy comes out with? Not my style. Nice to own it, but I don't want to own every single one if it's going to be $75. And then the lip fails. I do really like obviously we've only had it on for about five minutes now, but it's a very nice formula. It's very comfortable. It's a nice color to throw on again, $48. But I do like it. I feel like if I got some colors that were more me, I could justify the price more like even though I like this color, it's not a me color. It's not an everyday color that I really would grab for a ton though. I'm going to make an effort this fall because it's a perfect fall color and I spent $48 on it. So overall these are good, but only get them if you really want them. You don't need to run out and fight some people to pick this up. So that's all I have for today's video. I hope you guys enjoyed it and I hope you found it helpful. If you aren't subscribed to my channel already, I would love it if you would consider taking the time to do so and I'll see you guys in the next one. Bye.