 have potentially what is going to be the most beautiful palette for swatch and sip of the entire year is the D'nesa Myricks Lightwork Volume 4 Palette. Last year's was insane so I absolutely, positively had to get my hands on this palette but before we get into it, welcome to swatch and sip. If you don't know what we do at swatch and sip, we sit here, we sip our drinks. So pause right now if you don't have yours. I made myself a lovely iced coffee for the morning. It's actually like 11 and I've been holding off on my drink for this video and I was starting to get a headache so, mmm, I needed that. And then we swatch beautiful eyeshadows and just enjoyed the shifts and glimmers for what they are. This is what gives me joy in makeup so let's go ahead and do it. So D'nesa Myricks just launched her Lightwork Volume 4, obviously it's the fourth one but it's the second one that is of a multi-chrome, multi-shift, multi-dimensional eyeshadow palette and last year's I thought was so fun so I definitely wanted to pick up this one now. The catch with these is they are $125, yes the same price as Pat McGrath so it better be a good right and last year's I kind of argued that it really wasn't worth the money but I take that back. I mean multi-chromes are expensive to formulate. At the end of the day I feel like it was just a really great starter multi-chrome palette and this looks different, it looks amped up. I'm excited to talk about it because I've played with all of the formulas on my eyes today and I have to tell you I hate to start this off negatively but I have met my match when it comes to this palette. I had some difficulties applying it, I don't see it as the everyday person kind of palette because I find myself to be pretty experienced with makeup and I kind of struggled with this, I looked up ways to apply it. So this is a palette that I do not feel comfortable reviewing, I haven't gotten a full handle on it which is why we're gonna do a swatch and sip. I'm going to spend more time kind of figuring out how it works best for me but I'll share my experience with it as a beginner but I just don't see it being very good for beginners for makeup. I'll get started with that, I'll talk about that more as we get into it. So the palette comes in this packaging right here, it has a 12 month shelf life and is made in China. On the back you are going to have all of the names here and when you open it it is gonna come with a sleeve that directs you to exactly what the formulas are, not the names of the palette which I like and then boom, here are the colors. I feel like this is great because I feel like it's so different from last years but obviously it's the same concept and I feel like when it comes to multi-chrome shifty shades, how different can you get, you know, they all eventually can have the same shifts. So I actually feel happy this one is a little bit more dual toned and deeper, I feel like it's a little better for the fall time but let's go adding it into it. So here are the formulas, there's two different formulas along the top and bottom, most of them are gonna be velvet chromes. So these four right here are velvet chromes and then this one and then these three are velvet chromes and then the next formula is glass metallics which is gonna be angels and divinity. Then we have two aqua chromes which need to be activated with water and then two pressed chrome flakes. Let's go ahead and swatch all of the velvet chromes to begin with, I think that's the more classic formula here and it's my personal favorite so sit real quick. So we're gonna go in with trance nirvana, my nails aren't dirty, it's just from playing with this palette before filming, six cents and out of body which I know is gonna be insane. So sometimes it's easier to look at them and their shifts on the fingers so take note if you are interested in any of these shades, this has a green blue shift, I mean it's difficult to describe the ships, you're gonna have to let your eyes do the talking here, this has a purple blue shift, are we ready? So we have trance, there you can see that shift pretty intense, nirvana which I'm excited about because this is gonna be one of the more wearable shades so if you're intimidated by multi chromes and duo chromes, this is one that you might be able to get work for you. I saw a pretty cool look on denessa myrick's instagram page which was very wearable that utilized this shade then we have six cents which also could translate into something wearable right, this one is really gorgeous, it's gonna be gorgeous for brightening the eyelid then we have out of body which I feel like I have a few shades that are like this shade but dang it is gorgeous and you can see just how thick pigmented they are swatching, beautiful beautiful quality here, then we have zen skipping this one, trippy escapism and I literally skip the finger for what but then we're gonna go into awakening which I actually have all over my eyelid so I'm really excited to use zen, I think this is gonna be great for fall and this shade can like swatch the whole way down my arm, that's impressive then we're gonna get into trippy right which has kind of a sexual terrestrial from pat McGrath vibe so pretty escapism oh my gosh yes I mean you can see all the shifts just right here the way that my arm is angled and then I have awakening which you'll see in my tutorial I did use that all over the lid and that's stunning so all of these have so much coverage and pigment to them this is absolutely a beautiful formula if you were to buy these shades individually from an indie brand there would be like $20 each so that's why I think these are great for a multi-chrome beginners collection if you have a lot from the indie brands I'm not gonna lie the indie brands carry more glimmer shimmers they're a little bit better quality but the denesemirex is a great base for sure and I didn't even show you my finger like look what's left over and then we're gonna get into the glass metallics which are going to be divinity which I haven't swatched yet and then angels which I use on the inner corner both are so pretty right so these are gonna be more kind of topery but they still carry a big base to them so this is that divinity shade as you can see it does not have the coverage of the other formula but still is gonna look gorgeous and then angels is the perfect highlight shade in this palette it's not as smooth looking as these guys up top these will absolutely be holding their own weight right I mean this right here sells the palette look at this the next four shades you're gonna see me kind of struggle with but wow okay we've got to talk about the next shades I want to do the pressed chrome flakes next I do have one of the press chrome flakes on my eyelid I'm really not a fan of these I find these messy and hard to use so if you just go like this you're really not gonna get much and it's gonna swatch really patchy so the best way to use these and I watched your videos you almost have to like warm it up and break the seal which I don't like doing that and anyways when I do that and I'm getting in there I still find it swatches really patchy so this is the shade heaven okay that's the best one I've been able to get so far let's see how this one does that's the best one so far I've really struggled up and oh my gosh it's making a liar out of me because when I've been trying to use this it's been super patchy and difficult and I mean you see how beautiful this looks this literally made a liar out of me okay let's do the other one and then I'll talk about this formula a little more so paradise is what I have on the eyelid right now I'm really gonna get in there you can see we have some flakes falling she's messy and this is what I'm talking about I just I can't get any pickup I gotta dig into it flat against the table I don't know how I got a good one on heaven but I did but I'm struggling with paradise and I was struggling with heaven before so you almost have to like get a literal flake and then spread it out you see it's just not it's not easy to use you guys it looks really gorgeous but you see I literally have to warm it up and push it out and that is super intense and rough for the eyelid I tried to use this on my eyelid and it was tugging and that's just not good for the skin I don't know you really have to take your time and almost warm the product up to get it as creamy as possible and you want it to be creamy so that it applies easily so it seems that I've broken enough of the seal for heaven for it to be creamy but paradise I mean I've gotten in there I've used it I'm just not getting to a creamy part of it I'm making a huge mess okay I really just dug in there I mean it's pretty crazy I'm not gonna lie if you're willing to put up with this have at it in terms of swatch and sip this is satisfying but in terms of application on the eyelid for the everyday person I'm just I'm not in love with it okay let me clean off my disgusting hand now but that looks impressive I mean look what I had to do to get in there it's just it's not an easy to use functional formula you're into editorial looks have at it but I just don't see myself wanting to deal with this really at all and it's getting stuck all up in my fingers sip last formula are the aqua chromes and I'm kind of trying to figure out how much water I need I've been playing with these it's not been impressing me I know they said like two to three drops of water so I'm gonna put a really light spray into one of the shades so I got just a little bit in intuition because at first I definitely applied too much water but the less the better because I feel like it just spreads right on the top layer here and then I have trouble getting a little bit pigment here's what it looks like when I feel like the water is freshly applied it's not that impressive right it's too watery you don't get the pigment what I find is you must need to let the water dry down a little bit so that you can actually pick up the product so it's dried down a little bit this is what it looks like now this just doesn't have the opacity that the velvet chromes have and the catch with this though is once it dries it's not going anywhere but I found this really difficult to apply I tried to do a look where I put down my base shadows and then I used a water activated shade on my eyelid but it was so sticky on my eyelid it was creasy and separated and then I put a chrome flake on top and oh my gosh it was the most awful disastrous creepy creasy look I've ever created so that's why I'm quite dubious of this I'm gonna go ahead into aura now just spraying literally a little a few drops cuz it's not working when I apply too much it just sits kind of on top of the product and see it gets really watery so let me let it dry if you have any tips for me on this palette please help me out it is not often that I am struggling so much with a ballot but here's aura looks pretty it's just not impressive for me I'm so impressed by the velvet chromes that I don't even need this water activated stuff you know but here's the palette I mean this is really impressive this is denessa myricks artistry right here I feel like to love this palette you have to have an artistic mind and be very creative I don't with my boring soft glam kind of looks that's my style makeup this definitely takes me out of my comfort zone that's for certain the best part about these swatches it's just looking at them right so overall I mean like I said this is not a review of this palette because I've got a lot to learn before I feel comfortable giving my thoughts on it but I mean on my first use today I really really struggled with it I don't see it being super easy to work with if you're playing with the middle row for the average user but the outside shades the velvet chromes and the glass metallics are just phenomenal so I'm gonna continue playing this I'll keep you guys updated but I'm a little uncomfortable with this so we will see like I said I'm wearing a couple shades from this palette right now I'm gonna go ahead and take you over to that tutorials you can see a couple of the formulas in action yeah yeah creating these looks have been a struggle I'm on my third eye look and this is the one that I'm just gonna have to wear this ballot definitely has a learning curve I'm gonna use some of a weight why does my finger look like this it has all the chrome flake stuck in here my fingers are gross the chrome flake for messing with it I'm gonna go into awakening and this is not a unique duo chrome multi-chrome whatever it is but I'm gonna put that all over my lid very smooth beautiful application let me blend that in and I use the purple shades from the matte about hue palette from color pop on my eyelid by the way as the base matte shades gonna blend that okay and then I had to do a look with one of the chrome flakes and I'm really struggling with these chrome flakes I know you kind of gotta warm them up almost like break the seal kind of situation but it really tugs on my eyelid to apply it and I just feel like I know there are flakes and they're supposed to look like flakes but it just looks really messy to me it's not my style of makeup that's for sure but I do find these messy and hard to work with and for the editorial gal I mean I think you'll appreciate this more than me oh yeah yeah but I am not I'm not feeling it but that's that's what we gotta do that's all I got you guys it says all I can do to finish off the look I'm gonna go in with angels down here and this one is kind of a more sheer shape it does not look like that based on how I applied it but this is the perfect kind of corner color to finish off any look with this palette and then I'm gonna go back into awakening and I just want to run that over my lower lash line as well just like that to bring in the duo chrome element so buttery smooth that's amazing that's all I'm doing for the look I'm gonna do a liner and that's just all of that and there we have it this is my final look I'm not really in love with it but I definitely want to continue playing with this palette though because I've seen on Denessa Myrick's Instagram some really stunning looks that she's done there's one neutral look I don't know which exactly shade she used but she had like a warm brown in the crease and just one of those in all over the island and it was so beautiful I'm really excited to figure that out if you have any tips for me on the middle row I need them so thanks so much for taking your time hanging out with me so watching some absolutely stunning eyeshadows and if you picked up this palette let me know your thoughts I feel like everybody's in love with it and I'm just not I'm not there I don't have the proper tools I know she recommends like silicone applicators I just don't know that this is my jam anyways it's pretty slouch so I'm happy I could make a video out of it and hang out with you guys I will see you in tomorrow's video bye guys have a good one