BareMinerals 'The colour extravaganza' review and swatches

I bought this at the same time as the soft and smokey palette but wanted to play around with it a little more before I post about it on here. RRP for this product but I paid £19.99.  This palette is a mixture of matte and shimmer shades made in threes for easy use eye looks, it comes with a little booklet as well with what colours to use where and possible looks you could create. 

Outer box

Its also got a handy little pull out section which houses three of the shadows meaning they are much easier to carry around, perfect for a girl on the go like myself or so I thought. Every pans can be popped in and out with ease and they can are good size pans 

The packaging of the case is very chic and classy with just a simple pin strips look to it and can see the outline in the photo of the pop out section of the casing.

Now I originally swatches these on my hand and was amazed the pigmentation of some shades were immense and I thought that this was going to be an amazing palette. 

top to bottom - Chart topper, Admire, Couture

 These colours are all greens and I thought it would make a lovely earthy looking eye, the pigmentation looked great and then I put them on my eye and they just blended to one colour, it didn't matter how much of the shadows I put on they just combined into one colour, so I was slightly disappointed with the first set. 

top to bottom - pizzazz, bewilder, connoisseur

 Next I went onto the golds, and again had the same issue I mean look at the pigmentation on Connoisseur, it was amazing and then it went to nothing on the actual eye. You can't even really see the colours. 

I'm not going to bother showing the other two looks because exactly the same happens with all the sets, the purple just blends into the middle colour which is Elixir and the the pinks just go to literally nothing but a tiny but of glitter. I'll put the swatches below just to demonstrate the way the colours should look. 

top to bottom - Hard to get, Fantasy, Stiletto 

Top to bottom - Shiver, Elixir, mystify

All in all this was a complete blow out of a palette, I honestly can just see this sitting at the bottom of a draw and collecting dust. It's one of the most disappointing palettes I have ever purchased.