Review, Swatches | Tarte Gilded Glamour Amazonian Clay Eyeshadow Wardrobe

Tarte came out with this limited edition set for last year’s holiday season and it is still available and for sale on most places, so I feel a review is due. Or maybe you don’t care about what I think of it and are here just for the swatches. Totally legitimate. Whatever it is, I hope this is still useful to someone out there.

Because testing and swatching 36 eyeshadows is quite an undertaking… and I prefer to waste time in other ways. I still have one last season of the first Gossip Girl to watch (god that show is TERRIBLE).

The Gilded Glamour Wardrobe is made up of two palettes: Gilded, with a warm brown and rose colour story, and Glamour, a cooler toned palette with muted colours.

The Gilded Palette Swatches

The Glamour Palette Swatches

Gilded & Glamour Review

I’m reviewing the palettes together because I’ve had the same experience with both, so I’m pretty confident that the formula is the same for the same finishes across both palettes.

The shimmer eyeshadows are amazing. Most of them are very creamy, super pigmented and swatch very metallic-y. The least intense are Bright Lights from the Gilded palette and Ritzy from the Glamour palette, but even those are easily buildable. The majority of the mattes are also pretty great. The darker mattes are a bit stiffer and harder to blend out (shades Abstract, Industrial, Luxury and Noire), but they are workable. The rose toned and brown mattes are definitely the best: smooth, pigmented, easy to blend out and in with other colours.

All in all, these palettes are easy to work with and you can get very intense looks out of them, even though they have kind of neutral colour stories.

I’ve made multiple looks with both palettes and the eyeshadows never crease. And barely fade. Yes, I always use eyeshadow primer, but a typical creamy metallic eyeshadow tends to crease, even if slightly, after wearing it for over 10 hours, and these didn’t. At all. Pretty amazing.

Each eyeshadow contains 0,85 grams of product (I would say a full sized individual eyeshadow is between1,3-1,5 grams), so it’s a decent amount for an eyeshadow in a palette. Both compacts have a mirror inside and the lid and the outside packaging is slightly different so it won’t be such a pain to find which one you want to use.

If these weren’t sold in a set, I would be complaining about Glamour’s colour story, because I think it would be hard to create cohesive looks with some of the colours using this palette alone, but paired with Gilded you are covered. Definitely a huge bang for your buck (this is currently 28€ at Tarte’s website) and if you like the shades, go for it, you won’t be disappointed.