**BEAUTY BAY EYESHADOW PALETTE RANKING**

This is a ranking list of the 13 Beauty Bay Palettes in my collection. Each palette is arranged according to my own personal tastes and preferences, including but not limited to, texture ration within each palette, color story, number of shades, etc. I will regardless of the rank of each palette, in general, Beauty Bay makes an outstanding eyeshadow formula and should be considered if you are looking for something different, affordable, and well-performing.

 

#1 Me, Myself & MMMitchell

This palette was not my first introduction to the Beauty Bay palette formula, it is however my first introduction to a collaboration the brand has with an influencer. I had never heard of Mitchell (since discovering Mitchell and his brand, I have purchased both the "Head in the Clouds" & the "Feet on the Ground" eyeshadow palettes from his brand), but due to my prior experience with the Beauty Bay eyeshadow formula, I decided to give a try.

This palette is absolutely outstanding, and although I do not believe you cannot purchase this from Beauty Bay (not sure, don't quote me), I am certain if you dig enough you might be able to find it on a secondary market. My fascination with with this palette is it’s obvious opposing sides, one laden with cool tone purples, greens  and blues, and the other side overflowing with warm pinks, oranges, reds, and yellows. The color story is not only unique and diverse, but the color combination and subsequent eye looks are numerous.  The formula is different from their initial launch of their own palettes, speaking of the 42 pan palettes I mention later in this ranking. After launching both this palette and the Nikkie Tutorial palette, the formula has improved, although the initial launch of palettes had a very good formula.

#2 Beauty Bay 16 Pan Nude Palette

This is by far, one of my top 3 neutral/nude palettes  I particularly like this palette because it really does exemplify a nude color story, leaning slightly warm and slightly cool with a very, very pigmented black. Mattes blend well and the shimmers are quite notable

#3 Beauty Bay Wilderness Palette

Good God, this palette is stunning. This is Beauty Bay representation of their new formula. This 20 pan palette has a type of diversity that is not only unique to the brand but unique compared to most brands. You have blues and greens, which provide a myriad of color combinations, as well reds and orangey earthy tones, providing an equal amount of creative color stories. Each shade is able to play friendly with any other shade in the collection and the different types of eye looks are endless.

#4 Beauty Bay Book of Magic

If you are into beautiful purple/bluish color stories, then this one is for you. It's a beautiful bright yet, sultry palette, perfect for both eccentric day looks and sexy evening looks.

#5 EYN Fiery 16 Pan Palette

I am not a warm-toned person. They are just not my colors, however, when I want a beautiful bright orangish, reddish, mustard vibe, this is the very first palette that I go for. Hands down, this is an amazing palette that blends well with vibrant shimmer/metallic shades that layer on the lid with ease.

#6 Bright 16 Pan Palette

This is a great little palette to take with you if you are traveling. It does have some basic neutrals if you want to make a subtle look, but if you want something flashy, this is a great palette.

#7 Fiery 2.0 42 Pan Palette

This is an amazing palette. I am not a warm-toned person at all, but this has a great span of warm tones, basic neutrals, and pink tones. Ir is a very large palette, so it is not recommended for travel, but I think it would be great for a makeup artist or if you just happen to like large palettes.

#8 Sunset Horizon

This is a very cute palette and I believe it is the first 20 pan palette from Beauty Bay. It has everything you need. It has fantastic mattes and shimmers, neutrals, cool tones, warm tones, and it's perfect for every occasion. 

#9 Beauty Bay X Nikki Tutorials

This is very similar to the palette above except it is just a little expanded. It's not necessary travel friendly, or beginner friendly either, so that's why it's a little look. Still yet, it's a fantasitc palette that is well loved, and well used. 

#10 New Romantics

Again, another lovely palette, but it's just not my particular color story, however it does provide similar opportunities as the Fiery 2.0. I do not particularly care for the formula as much as I do my normal experience. Perhaps I got a "bad" batch because the quality was not as top notch as I have experienced with Beauty Bay.

#11 Bright 42 Pan Palette

The are a couple of reasons that this is further down on the list. First is the pure size. 42 pans is quite big and I am not likely to use it as often. Seconly, I have several, several, several bright palettes in my collection at this point with equally excellent quality. Last is that because of the pan size it would take a long time to ever hit pan. With all that being said, the quality is outrageously wonderful and the arrary of colors is perfect.

#12 Evolve 

I truly do like this palette. It is very reminsent of the ABH Subsulture Palette. It is very beautiful, however, I really wish it was condenssed significantly. If it was a 12 pan palette I would really, really dig it a lot. It's just way too big for the shade range and the amount of looks one is able to achieve. 

#13 Identity 

This is by far my keast favorite palette. I'm not a fan of the color story in the slightest, and I don't really understand it either. I will say the quality is consistent with the other Beauty Bay palettes I have tried!

***ULTA MINI HAUL***

 

⭐★⭐BEAUTY BAY EYESHADOW PALETTES ⭐★⭐MINI REVIEW

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MINI REVIEW

Company Profile

Beauty Bay is a UK website that sells all sorts of beauty products from various brands and companies, including their own, and ships them all over the world. Until recent years they only sold products from other brands, however, over the past few years, they have entered the market with their own beauty products. Beauty Bay is making an especially impressive impact from skincare to makeup with its widely reviewed eyeshadow palettes. Not only have they appeared on the scene with their own palettes, but have introduced well-liked and respected collaborations with influencers such as MMMitchel and Nikkie Tutorials! Both beauty influencers are hot, innovative, veteran content creators that have a very strong and devout following. Let's take a look at my experience with the 13 Beauty Bay Eyeshadow Palettes I personally own, shall we? 

"BEAUTY BAY’s mantra is to share our beauty obsessions with the world. Founded by two of life’s rebels who had no formal training, just a tonne of passion, we started out as a fragrance retailer and quickly discovered a whole universe of beauty just waiting to be unleashed."

Price/Purchase Process/Marketing

The first Beauty Bay palette that caught my was, of course, their 42 Color Brights Palette. Of course, that would be the first one, right? I ordered that particular palette, along with a couple of other items from Beauty Bay to get free shipping, but also because I was curious about the brand's transition from just a website that provided other brands' beauty products into a brand introducing their own beauty products.

Packaging

Except for the MMMitchiell & Nikkie Tutorials collaborations, the Beauty Bay brand's packaging is quite simple, compromising recycled cardboard, with equally simple wording with a splash of color here and there! The early Beauty Bay palettes, featuring a variety of both all matte, all shimmer as well as a combination of both, rely on neutral and bright shade combinations. As Beauty Brand launched additional palettes, especially after the success of Mitchell and Nikie's palettes, the color story took on a more interesting and diverse color wheel which drew in more business and set the brand apart from a distributor into a fully recognized brand of its own. 

Comparable Brands

Certain people will throw out the most common and equivocally irritating comparison of Beauty and Morphe, which is not only ridiculous but unfounded in comparison on any level whatsoever. Even comparing Beauty Bay to a more appealing brand, such as BH Cosmetics, is not an accurate juxtaposition of the two brands.

Let's start with the asinine comparison of Morphe. Excuse me as I sigh heavily with irritation, disgust, and an astounding eye roll likened to a teenager communicating with their parental until....I digress. First and foremost, well, no, let's just get right to it - Morphe has subpar quality, lack the most basic sense of originality, have color stories that are seen over and over and over again throughout the industry, SOMETIMES within their on damn brand and they are most certainly not a distributor. They sell makeup made by YouTubers. That's not a damn distributorship, ok? They remake the same palettes with the same shades, in different ways, with different palette names, which are always a lazy toss off of a previous palette, or a name so obvious it's simply pathetic, throw an 18, 25, 35, or 39 in front of it and call it a miracle. All tea, and tones of shade. Moving onto a different brand that is comparable in a different way.

BH Cosmetics, like Morphe, is not a distributor - at least not in any way that Beauty Bay is, however, BH Cosmetics is definitely comparable in terms of quality. I was super pissed when I missed the initial Sweet Shoppe launch, but when the relaunch came around, baby, I was on it! Beauty Bay and BH Cosmetics (along with LA Girl) are my top picks in terms of quality, affordability, performance, pigmentation, and just generally everything that life should be made of when you're on a budget. Not a huge Colourpop fan, not at all, but the aforementioned are remarkable. The only two major differences are that BH Cosmetics is not a distributorship, and Beauty Bay Eyeshadow Palettes are not as well known because of their recent arrival over the last several years and their more active role as a distributorship.

Pigmentation/Color Payoff/Performance

When I first purchased a Beauty Bay, it really was in an effort to basically get free priority shipping and I thought to myself, “treat yourself girl, give it a try” and so I did exactly did that. I was extremely overwhelmed. I have a  problem when other beauty influencers use their brand to “tell their truth” when these platforms are designed for brand owners’ fuck ups, it’s designed to sell makeup. I am not saying that they don’t relate, but to use your platform, a platform that is closely watched and imitated by millions of impressionable young men and women, in order to propel your personal agenda is irresponsible and wildly inappropriate abuse of inflicting influence and power.

All the being said, I have yet to see Beauty Bat wrapped up in such deplorable acts of desperation in order to gain or expand their customer/fan base.

Overall Product Presentation

By now, my beauty influencers using platforms such as Youtube have become hip to Beauty Bay's products and it's about damn time. I don't know which influencers receive PR from Beauty Bay, but I am certain that my love affair with Beauty Bay began before the first PR package was ever sent out. Their initial launch of palettes was simple, yet maintained excellent quality. Now, that color stories are changing and evolving, becoming more creative over time, the quality has continually improved helping the brand earn a much-deserved spot in the beauty community. 

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