BH Cosmetics 88 Color Matte Eyeshadow Palette Review and Swatches

I purchased this BH Cosmetics palette around Christmas time and wanted to review it for you all today! 

I picked this palette up when BH was having a "spend $25 get free shipping" deal. I think I paid around $11 for it because it was reduced from it's normal $18.95 price. BH Cosmetics is great about sales and often has the 88 color eyeshadow palettes on sale for $8.88. 

Now onto the palette. 

The packaging is black, shiny plastic. It does show fingerprints and dirt, which is a down side, but it can easily be wiped down with a towel. The plastic case feels pretty sturdy, although I wouldn't feel as safe traveling with it as I would with a sturdier palette.

You can see from the picture above that this palette is quite large. I compared it to the Naked palette because most people are familiar with it, even if they don't own it.

The palette comes with a mirror, which is a decent size, and two dual-sided sponge tip applicators. The eyeshadows are spaced enough apart that fallout from one doesn't get into another and they are close enough together that the packaging isn't too bulky.

In this palette you get a nice range of colors from light and dark neutrals to fun pops of color. I feel that this palette truly does have a rainbow of shadows. I think there could have been more oranges and yellow instead of so many blues, but overall it's a good mix.

The shadows themselves are quite small though. They are about half the size of a Naked palette eyeshadow and are about the size of my finger tip. I don't find them too small that I can't use a brush in them, so I don't mind. Although, if you really love a shade in this palette you might run out quickly.

From all of the photos (especially the one above) you may have noticed that not all of the shades in this "matte" palette are matte. You can see above that the two silver shades are slightly metallic where as the two browns underneath are completely matte. I don't mind that not all of the shades are matte but I just wanted to let you know.

Onto the swatches! 

 These are random swatches from every row of the palette.

You can see that some colors have very little pigment and some are a bit patchy. A few of the shadows above are slightly metallic where as the black is just matte. 

The bright colors in this palette are very pigmented compared to the neutrals.  

These particular pink and turquoise colors are very patchy unlike the other bright colors in the picture above this one.

Overall, the pigmentation is very hit or miss. Generally the colorful shadows are more pigmented while the neutrals are more sheer. 

Besides the pigmentation, the other issue I have with this palette is that the shadows are not glued in well. When I received the package I had a shadow that was loose. I just glued it back in, but over time, two other shadows fell out.

As far as product amount goes, you get 2.42 oz/68.5 g for around $11. In comparison with the Urban Decay Naked palette contains 0.6 oz/15.6 g. You get more than 4 times the product in the BH Cosmetics palette for about a 5th of the price. 

I would say, overall, that the BH Cosmetics palette is good deal. For the price, you are getting a wide range of colors in two finishes (matte and metallic) that are decently pigmented. They are not the best eyeshadows but you get what you pay for. If you want to experiment with color while not breaking the bank, then I would recommend this palette. If you want highly pigmented colors, then I would recommend something else, but this BH Cosmetics 88 Matte palette isn't bad.

Pros:

- Inexpensive

- Good value for money

- Lots of colors

Pro/Con:

- Not all the colors are matte

Cons:

- Packaging gets dirty fast

- Some shadows fall out

- Not highly pigmented

- Some shades are chalky

- Too large to travel with

Hope you liked my review! Leave a comment down below if you have tried this palette and let me know your thoughts.

~ Haley