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⭐★⭐BEAUTY BAY EYESHADOW PALETTES ⭐★⭐

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.