Review: Sleek 'Storm' Palette

I'm writing this post sitting down the garden in the sun...absolutely loving the fact it's properly summer weather now in the UK!

I purchased Sleek's i-divine 'Storm' palette several months ago, as it was the one Sleek palette that everyone seemed to love.  You can do neutral or smoky night-out looks with it, and the fact that it's so versatile makes it great value for money in my eyes.  It's also very slim, so great for travelling!

It is mostly shimmers - 9 of these vs 3 matte colours.  Some of the colours are real standouts - insanely well pigmented and without fallout - but all of them are pretty decent regardless.  Nearly all of them are also very soft, with the exception of 'Blackout' - but I actually prefer this compared to the black from the Naked palettes (it's much more intense...)

Top row L-R: Sand storm, Snow storm, Calm before the storm, Thunder Storm, Perfect Storm, FirestormBottom row L-R: Dust storm, Gathering storm, Storm cloud, Electric storm, Eye of the storm, Blackout

On a day to day basis, I don't usually wear a full eyeshadow look.  However, I always use 'Eye of the storm' (mixed in with a little of a reddish brown Kiko shadow) to fill in my brows.  I also work a little of 'Blackout' into my upper lashline to thicken it up a bit before applying mascara.

'Snow storm' is the perfect inner corner highlight colour, and I've also found it to work really well as a more "out there" cheekbone highlight - gorgeous.

The non-neutral colours, I use less regularly, as I'm a bit of a colourphobe when it comes to eyeshadow!  I've found the best way to use these is either blended in the outer corner and/or crease for a night-out, or as a liner (this looks so pretty and subtle!)

They also look amazing used wet.  Just spritz a little of your preferred setting spray (mine's the Urban Decay 'All Nighter' one) on to a brush, pick up the colour and pat onto the eyelid.  I've surprisingly found they also blend better used like this - although most of the colours swatch quite dark, they in reality come up quite sheer on the eye when used as normal.

Here they all are swatched - in the same order as in the palette itself.
You can see that the darker shades have much more colour payoff.

And in direct sunlight...hopefully you can see all that lovely
lovely iridescence going on with the shimmers!

 To sum it up, I think this is a great wallet friendly palette.  There are a couple of very similar shades ('Sand storm' and 'Thunder storm' I'm looking at you), and I wish there was a taupe shade somewhere in there.  In conclusion, I may not repurchase (as I'll be so slow using up the less neutral colours), but I'll definitely be checking out more Sleek palettes in the future.

Sleek i-divine palettes are available from Boots or Superdrug, for £7.99

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