 Hey guys, what's up? Welcome to my channel. Really excited for today's review. I got my hands on the Hood of Beauty color block of Sessions eyeshadow palette. These look really interesting. So if you wanna see my thoughts, let's get into it. I wrote about this on my community posts when this came out. I'm gonna be honest, these are very clearly not my style. I wasn't really drawn to them, but I was definitely intrigued by the cake liner that they have in here. And of course, I do want to judge the quality of these color eyeshadows because these can be a great option if you want a certain color story in a smaller palette. That's a little bit more affordable than buying the full big Hood of Beauty palettes because those can be quite pricey. I review all of these regardless of my past experiences with them, so I picked them up. Getting into the details of these, these are $29 each. They're definitely a much more affordable option to try Hood of Beauty palettes. I will say I do notice a difference in the formulas between the obsession palettes and the large palettes. These obsessions palettes can be hit or miss, which is why I review all of them to tell you which ones are hits and which ones are misses. The claim to fame on these guys is they are going to be an insanely, okay? They use the word insanely. Pigmented mini eyeshadow palette featuring nine color blocking hues in dreamy textures for playfully vibrant glam or a subtle pop of color. I'm more of a subtle pop of color kind of girl, but I still like to dig into my colors and have fun on my channel. So these are what the packaging is going to look like. Honestly, I thought it looked a little cheap to me. I'm not a fan of this vibe, but it truly is color block. So for the vibe that they're going for, they certainly reached it. This is actually kind of like a rubbery material. It almost reminds me of my childhood. So this is all gonna feel really rubbery. These palettes are made in China and they have a 24 month shelf life. And here's the back, if you need to take a look. The two colors here, are you ready? This is the blue and green color block obsessions palette right here. So you'll see we have a split pan of metallics here, another metallic. The rest are matte, which I really, really love. I feel like this is the perfect ratio for this kind of color story of shimmers to mattes. And then here is the cake liner. Essentially you wet it and you get a really nice, strong liquid liner. I love that they have this in here and this is so unique. I think Huda does a great job of coming out with really unique and innovative products. So I'm excited. And then the other one that we have here is orange and purple. If you don't know color blocking right now is apparently in for fashion as well. I don't know that much, I love that, but hey. And then here we actually have an extra metallic shade. This is a formula that she has in a few other palettes where it's a couple of colors. And then we have five mattes here and then a purple cake liner. This one for me is a little bit more of my speed because it's purple and I love purple. I am now going to have timestamps for each of the colored palettes with swatches and then followed by a tutorial. And then I will come back to give you my final thoughts on both. We're gonna go ahead and get started with swatching the blue and green color block obsessions palette. I don't know if you can swatch this. If it doesn't swatch well, that's okay. I think it needs to be wet, yeah. This won't give you anything if you swatch it dry. So I will show you this on the eye when we get to that portion of the tutorial. So what I'm looking for in these swatches, it's an insane pigmentation because that's what they said. So here we'll start off with this metallic. We'll get the other one in a moment. These are really pretty kind of aqua colors. Not the creamiest. I wouldn't say underwhelming, but it's not amazing. I think this one swatched pretty good. And there's that one. So even though this is a nine-pan palette, the split shade I really like because it gives you nine eyeshadows and the cake liner. So I'm really liking how the mattes are swatching. And then like I said before, the shimmers aren't all that exciting for me, but I think they'll get the job done, at least based on swatches. And finally, let's get the bottom row. Love the pop of yellow in the center. I think that is such a fun addition. Shades like these always kind of swatch like this so I'm not alarmed, but I'm loving how the mattes are swatching in here. So this is the blue and green and I like it. So let's actually get these on the eyes. For my base for these shadows, I'm going to go ahead and use ABHI primer. I love this for pastel shadows, colored shadows. I feel like it really brings out the intensity of the shadows and they blend very easily over them. So I will be sure to link this base. I highly recommend it for if you're into colored eyeshadows. Okay, so I have a few shadows to try and squeeze on my eyelid. So I'm going to do the best that I can and we're going to start off with this shade right here. I'm using my beloved blinged brushes E3 and I am going to put this just right here, doing a very simple look with a very simple style that I've done before to squeeze those many shades on my eyelid. I like that that has decent pigmentation, not bad at all. It's not super duper neon vibrant. I think this is very nice. Let's start building. We're going into this more greenish shade now and I'm going to put it right next to that, a little bit on top. I have a smaller sized eye. So I'm definitely really pushing at squeezing all of these shadows on one eye. Very happy with that. I think that's doing a good job so far. Okay, now we're going to get into the blues. We're going to transition into more of the blue greens and I'm just going to pat this. I wouldn't call these insanely pigmented but I'm certainly impressed and I think they're not so pigmented to a point where you're almost going to struggle. I think it's a very user friendly level of pigmentation but it still gives a little bit more oomph if that's what you're looking for. Okay, let's start to transition into a smaller brush. Okay, I'm going to go into this one. This shade right here in a lot of palettes is really, really hard to do. Really hard to create something that's easy to blend. And by the way, I do not have any concealer on underneath right now. So if there's fallout, I can clean that up. I'm liking this. I'm not having any issues really. For the fun of it, I'm going to take this shade right here on the first brush that I use that has a bunch of the other colors. I'm going to blend it out here. So I'm keeping that first blue on the outer corner and then I'm using this blue to kind of blend it out. And each of these blues are holding their own. So far, so good you guys. Okay, going back into the smallish brush, I just wiped it off. We're going to go into the darkest shade. This one also has a reputation for being difficult to work with. I'm just going to plop this mostly in the outer V but I'm going to bring it in just a little bit. Let's blend it out. Hey, for $29 and for these types of mattes, usually being very difficult to formulate, very hard to blend, very powdery. I'm experiencing none of that negativity with this palette. Okay, I'm very, very pleased with these mattes. So if you were interested in the mattes, I think you will like this. Let's see how the shimmers do because I was a little bit worried. We're just going to do that light to dark transition again. So I'm going to start off with this bottom metallic. I am using a smore dense brush to make sure I give this a fair chance. And yeah, you know, it definitely is working out. Like I said, by swatch, it certainly wasn't the most overwhelming shade but on the eyelid, because it was a little bit more dry by swatch, it actually adds a little bit more dimension and interest to the look. Okay, then I'm going in with this shade right here. Same brush. Okay, yeah, you can see this one is not applying very nicely with a brush. So that's not so nice. I'm going to use my finger and I'm definitely getting more with a finger, but I don't like this shade. I just feel like you shouldn't have to use a finger to get any color to lay down because I can compromise if it doesn't apply as good with a brush, I'm okay with that as long as you still have that option, but this is unoptional. You must use a finger. So I don't like that, but that's okay. Let me try this last shade with a brush because I feel like the shade in the split pan. Yeah, these are more creamy in the split pan. Awesome, awesome. So the literal only dud minus the cake liner because we haven't tried it yet is going to be this shade right here where you can make it work with a finger. So it really isn't even that much of a dud. That's just the only shade that I've been unhappy about but I'm loving, loving this look for me using the styles of formulas and colors. I have barely any fallout. I'm still going to clean up. It still needs to be taken care of because of the shimmers, but oh my gosh, this is so good. Okay, let me clean up my under eye and put on some concealer and we'll work on the lower lash line. Quickly going to work the lower lash line. I'm doing something very similar to what we did in the crease, just doing the green to blue kind of gradient, okay, finishing off with this. I'm rushing to get these on because I just want to play with the cake liner. Okay, looks good enough to me. I have never used a cake liner before so I don't know if the best way to go about this is to wet the pan. Normally I try and stay away from doing that so I'm going to wet my brush first. I'm using the Sigma Beautybird brush collab. This is the eyebrow brush. I'm just going to wet my brush. I'm using Smashbox primer water that I'm like trying to finish up but I'm like really getting it wet. Let's get into the cake liner and see what happens. Oh yeah, oh, cool. Let's see the swatch here. Okay, that's like legit, lots of color here. Okay, I'm going to put it on. I didn't think this one through. Do I really want to do it this way? Do I want to do a liner and then add an accent? But I feel like I should give it the full try so I'm going to do the full line. But normally I'd probably use a color like this as more of an accent. Wow, oh my gosh, this is awesome. This is a lot of pigment. This is not what I was expecting. This is definitely a really good quality cake liner. I'm interested to see how it dries down because I do have hooded eyelids. So if I open my eyes too soon, it might travel. And for it being such a light color, whoa. I know this brush is also applying this beautifully. See, it has it dried yet on my arm? Not really, I mean a little bit. Okay, just because I'm a little nervous, I'm just gonna fan real fast. I think the cake liner is a hit too. I'm really excited at how well that worked out for me. All right, if you can't tell, I'm vibing with this palette. I really like it. I'm going to move on to the other eye now. This is the orange and purple palette, which I think for me is a little bit more fun. The blue ended up being really cohesive for me and very easy to create a look. So I'm interested to see what I come up with this side. So let's start the swatching process here. So we'll start off with this row of mattes. Oh, ew, this is purple. So I'll give it the benefit of the doubt, but not good. Okay, I like the orange. That purple was hecka dry. And then here's the cake liner, by the way. If you missed it, let's get into the shimmers now. Okay, kind of same feeling as the metallics with the blue palette is how I feel. The orange is a little bit extra shiny, but we'll see on the eyes. And let's get this lavender and this brighter orange and then this shade right here. The orange swatches of this definitely have a little bit more oomph to them, but that's okay because I know purples are harder to formulate. But let's see. And I do feel the exact same way about the shimmers by swatch. But here's a comparison of both if you want to take a look. All right, let's get this on the eye. Okay, so let's start off with the orange side. I'm using this tangerine color. And similar technique is what I'm going to end up doing, you guys. This is just to test the formulas, but I do like the way that this orange shade is going on. Seems nice. This one is a little bit more peachy, so I wanna see if it looks different. And it does, nice. This one definitely has a little bit more warmth to it. One of the things that I look for, I like to put similar colors next to each other in my review because I need to see if they're worthwhile, if they are different enough to justify. And I think we are in this case. Taking a fresh brush, let's test this more lilac-y shade. I'm digging this. This one seems decent as well. I just wanted to get the lighter shades out of the way. I'm gonna pop this reddish orange shade right in between. Awesome. All three of the orange-y shades are holding their own, which is making me happy. So I'm actually, I've decided I'm gonna take more of the lilac kind of fill in the rest of the area. This is not like crazy pigmented, but on me, it's pigmented enough. I don't feel a desire for anything darker. Staying with the same brush, we're going into the darkest purple. This is definitely translating a little lighter in the, oh, how did that happen? Okay. So this isn't giving me that insane pigmentation that they were talking about. I think I wanna go in with a smaller brush to see if I can focus to more of this darkness. The shade is definitely a little messier. Getting a little bit more fallout. It's a little bit more likely to destroy your look if you're too willy-nilly with it. I like the way that it's blending into the orange. So this shade, I'm like not that in love with. It's not as dark as it should be. It's not as impactful to this palette as it should be because this is supposed to carry the depth in the palette and while it's giving me depth, I want a little bit more. It's okay, but I'm not wild by it. I'm very content with everything else and bringing back the orange pops really quickly. I want it peeking out over the top and we'll do just a little bit more of the darkest purple. I just wish it was like a wee bit darker. I think it would be really fun for this look. And then let's work on the eyelid now. We're gonna start off with the orange shade right here. It is a little difficult to get your brush in here. I don't have to say. And I'm gonna put this in our corner of the eyelid. It's a little messy. I'm definitely getting some fallout and it doesn't have as opaque of a base as I would prefer. So I'd suggest if you're using this palette to use the matte oranges in this palette underneath first. Like I should have brought this orange down onto the lid and then put the shimmer on top and that's how you're gonna get actually a base so that you don't see any skin underneath. And then we're going into this shade. Let's see how it looks. So this shade also doesn't have too much of a base and I could tell by just swatch. This one is a little bit more about the glimmer. So both of the shades in the split pan definitely need to have a similar matte shade underneath if you wanna get something impactful. I left my lid pretty blank so it's not giving me as much as it could give me. And then we'll try the more purple shade down here. These are quite messy. I don't think this one is gonna give me much, yeah. This is a shade that's not giving me anything. If I use a brush, you get a little bit more with a finger but I didn't love with it and then let's finish off with this. This one feels a little creamier. I'm gonna use this to actually bring some depth in the outer corner. Definitely a messier palette. I don't know if you guys could see what I'm seeing but it's messier. Wanna get some more of this purple matte out here. The look is really cool though, I'm not gonna lie. I need to spruce it up. Let me clean up the under eye and then we'll work on the lower lash line. I'm gonna start off with the lightest orange. I were just gonna follow up with what we did on top. Truthfully, I actually am refilling this because I tried to do the opposite on the lower lash line like put the orange out here in the purple in the inner corner and it looked awful. So I redid it and we're sticking safe here because it was not cute. Okay, if you missed it, I just took a mixture of these two oranges and then let's get the purples now. I want the lilac to be peeking through and this shade is not giving. I don't really like it. It's kind of hard to work with. I have to keep going back and forth, back and forth when this really should be the most deep shade in the palette, I shouldn't have to keep going back. It's a little patchy. The shame, this is an important shade in this palette but it's not doing it for me. I don't like it. Like see, like what the heck is going on? Why is it like that? I've like added 100 layers of this purple and it's just doesn't like it. Okay, that like messed up the look. Why does that look so bad? What the heck? Literally just messed up the look. That's not quite well blended out here either. Yeah, look at that. What is that? This dark purple is a no. Oh my gosh, it just got worse out of nowhere. If you like the dark purple shade in here and you were planning on using it, think again, this look almost looked good, but not so. Oh yeah, this purple is bad. There is no fixing it. No matter how many times I go in, it's just not, it's not. Something to note. Okay, I'll just accept this for what it is. Let's go into the cake liner. I really like the color of the cake liner in here. It's like a darker purple, not darker than this purple, but hopefully better. Let's see. Oh no, but it still actually pulls really light on the eyelid. So both of the cake liners that they went for are on the lighter side, which I think is super fun. I'm obviously more comfortable with a darker eyeliner. Never do eyeliner this light, but this is putting me out of my comfort zone and this is really fantastic quality. Still looks nice and vibrant on the other eye. So yeah, you don't need to actually use this as like a regular liner. There's a lot of inspiration online of how you can put this on top of a dark liner. You can just do a little line out here. You can do it across the crease. You can do pretty much whatever you wanna do with this eyeliner, which I think is really cool. Really like this. So here's the look. This dark purple really made me mood a little sour. It looks so bad on the outer corner. I'm gonna finish the makeup that I'm wearing and I'll be back to give you guys my final thoughts on this watch. Here is how both of the eyes look with lashes and mascara makes a big difference. I really do love both of the looks I created. Now my final thoughts on these, I actually am very impressed. I'm like these way more than I thought that I was going to. No, I do highly recommend the blue and green over the orange and purple. I feel like the application and everything was a lot more smooth with this. I'm honestly more into the kind of look that you can get with this. I feel like it has a better gradient to it. The purple and orange, what is unfortunate is this shade right here kinda sucks and this is really like the true purple color in this palette. If you were to mesh the orange and purple together. Other than this one, there also is a little bit more shimmers in here and the shimmers here just aren't giving. You know, they're not amazing, they're fine. You can make them work. You can get a shimmer on the eyelid. It's workable but it's not anything exceptional at all really. I don't really recommend this one. If I'm being honest, I just think that purple is really tragic and there's a lot of shimmers and I don't love the shimmers but definitely had a much better experience with the blue and green. I think this one is so fun. But even if you were really, really into with the orange and purple, it's not bad for 29 bucks. I'm not mad at it but you gotta kind of adjust. You know, there's a bit of a learning curve with this one whereas this one I find a little bit easier. So pleasantly surprised though because these were not a launch I was very excited about. I knew I really wasn't gonna like them but I ended up really loving the cake liners. I think it's a really fun launch and I think for the summer a lot of you guys are going to have fun with this if it's your speed. So I hope you guys enjoyed this review and found it helpful. Thank you so much for joining me today and thank you so much for liking this video and being subscribed and I will catch you guys in the next one. Bye guys. Have a good one.