Maybelline The Burgundy Bar Reviews

This is a really pretty palette, with some stunning shades and super versatile colour palette! The range of colours is really nice and means you're able to create a range of looks with this one palette, however I found that there was a bit of a performance difference between shades - the metallics are *stunning* and perform really well, whereas the matte shades are a little dry and patchy, and not as smooth and creamy as I might like them to be (and as the metallic shades are!). Overall a really nice palette, that I would absolutely purchase and recommend to a friend!

Thank you for allowing me to review this product BR.

I was crazy excited to be trying this eyeshadow palette because all the colours are me to a T! What beautiful shades!

This palette has twelve gorgeous shades that you can wear during the day right through into the night. Some are matte and some are shimmer . The Perfect Combination.

These eyeshadows have amazing staying power and no fall out at all. All of the colours blend in beautifully together and I've received so many compliments since trialing this palette.

You only need a small amount as the pigment is strong. I would highly recommend an will definitely purchase this palette again as I love the shades and it's made me also want to try and more Maybelline eyeshadows.

I like this one more than the blushed nuse one they made I do like reds and purples. I am not really into dark purple but this one has some nice red but it does not look very foiled once on the lid and can get patchy. Again though the shimmers / pearl shades are not impactful enough I like ones that do not show up the wrinkles on my eye lids - this happens with some certain formulas and when I have to pack them on the lid with layers. The packaging is really budget for the full price it is a bit steep. There are only two mattes they are ok. There is fall out and the pearls feel quite buttery but it is another beginner thing to play with. There is a nice goldy kind of shade and white that swatches nice but the plum purple is lacking and so are alot of the others in term of luster. All in all it is not bad you can get some nice soft looks but I like my pigments better

I've used the Nudes and Blushed Nudes palettes from Maybelline before, and liked them, so was pleased to get this to trial.

Unfortunately, there are a couple of negatives, which I'll present first up:

- palette arrived broken. Two of the 12 shadow blocks had entirely escaped their pans, and one was snapped in half. Given that the package was bubble wrapped, this points towards a manufacturing flaw with the palette itself as one probable reason. - title is misleading. Of the 12 shades, ONE is any form of colour that could be called burgundy. It's more a copper/gold/brown shimmer palette with a couple of statement shades in burgundy, brick red and darker brown.

All that said, the colours are gorgeous. They have a good amount of pigment without being too much, and the shimmer is great - again, just enough for a shimmer effect without looking like a disco ball. There's a time and place for disco ball eyes, but not 'every day in a professional workplace', so this palette is a great every day one.

The pans are big but very shallow, which may have been a reason for them to not hold the shadows in transit. There are some really similar shades in the 12; personally I feel this could be kept to 6-8 shades without compromising anything.

I've been using 3-4 shades per day, and using darker ones as liner, accent and crease, with softer shades on the lid and the shimmerier ones on a damp brush as a pop of xmas sparkle. Every day I have tried a different combo but they've all come out looking similar. The shadows blend out well and wear beautifully - I do always add an 'insurance layer' of setting spray, but at the end of the day they are still intact and looking good.

The packaging is terrible imo - cheap looking, and the burgundy coloured plastic just highlights the lack of burgundy shades. The accompanying brush is the usual waste of time as a freebie - a sponge applicator that picks up too much product but is hard to use for application, and a brush that's too soft and lacking in shape or purpose.

All that said, I wondered when I received this palette if I'd use it much after trial, and can safely say that it's so easy to use to get a really nice look for a work, shopping etc day that I'll keep using it - with my own brushes - but that I can't take it away for fear that it will break.

The eye shadows has 10 shimmery shadows and as well as two matte shades which help to make the palette very versatile. I found that I could do a whole eye look with just this palette alone. The palette is actually much more neutral-toned than I expected and there is a good guide on the back of the palette which breaks down the shadows into quads, trios and duos to create a number of different looks.

The formula of the shadows in this palette are soft and buttery and blend really easily. They swatched really well on the back of my hand and they had really good pigmentation, with the matte dark brown being an exception as it was a little chalky. I found that the colours lost some intensity once I applied it onto the eyelids using a eyeshadow brush and the shimmery metallic sheen was not as apparent. However, the colour payout and metallic sheen improved when I tried using my finger to pat on the eyeshadow.

There was also a little fall out during application and the shadows did fade by the end of the day regardless of whether I used primer or not. Regardless, I feel that the colours in this palette are really beautiful and the pigmentation and application was good.

The palette did also comes with a double-ended eyeshadow brush, which was the only thing I didn't like. The bristles of the brush end were frayed and the other end was a sponge applicator tip which wasn't very useful.

This was my fav product i have trialled in the Maybelline range the past week. With 12 shades to choose from I was spoilt for choice and fell in love with the rose golds to wear.

Its a warm coloured palette so great for those with a bit of colour in their skin ;)

Easy to apply as per most Maybelline products which is fab! I found it lasted really well when wearing too.

There are according to the back of the Palette 13 Looks you can create but I reckon we could create more than that with the colours of the Palette. It even has a great diagram on the back for those not so great at doing make up.

I used it most days to do duo looks depending on what i was wearing and going for the day.

Defnitely a worthwhile purchase especially if you want to add a lil warm glow and rose gold to your make up daily.

I found it great to wear and didn't really smudge if i rubbed my eyes which happens at times due to my contacts.

Now lets look at these exquisite colours for a second! so perfect for the christmas season! My pallet arrived with a few shades that had fallen out of the pallet, courier error i would imagine but were easy enough to push back into the pallet.

There are a few matte shades which i just ADORE! however i am a matte girl and despise shades that have too much SPARKLE unless they are for precised placing in the centre of the lid and inner corners. This pallet had a few too many shimmering shades for my liking but i love the colour schemes anyway.

They are pigmented to an acceptable level however using a bit of fix plus would up the anti on these just a bit more. Overall, great for festive events and glam nights out, not so much the office :P

The eyeshadows in this palette are a really high quality for the price with very minimal, if any fall out when used. I don't usually have big expectations for palettes in the lower-medium price range but this one really was a surprise. I felt personally this palette wasn't far off the same quality as my Urban Decay ones. All eyeshadows lasted super well throughout the day although I always use a primer underneath each time so I am unsure how they wear alone. There are two matte shades and the rest shimmers which personally I really loved! One shade did get hard pan after a couple of uses but it still seems to be fine to use and another eyeshadow pan lifted out of the palette and broke so perhaps the packaging could be better? Overall though the eyeshadow colours are so amazingly beautiful and I know I will get use from every shade. For the price I definitely recommend picking this one up!

Maybelline's Burgundy Bar is a 12 shade palette, with 10 shimmer shades and 2 matte shades (1 light, 1 dark). Of those 12 shades, 2 are shades of burgundy (1 purple, 1 red based) while the rest are varying shades of beige through to brown. Personally, I love the shimmer with the nod to matte base shades (though perhaps there should have been 4) but am disappointed there isn't at least one more burgundy shade. It really feels like a nude palette with a pop of burgundy.

To more positive things, the shades blend beautifully and the shimmer looks lovely. They last all day with only a small amount of fallout and have a decent pigment which is buildable. Despite other let downs of the product, it looks good on which is the most important thing.

The packaging is cheap plastic and the supplied applicator needs some work. I also had a whole shade sliding around the palette instead of in it's pan. I like the burgundy color of the packaging, it makes it stand out. I just wish there was a little more burgundy and a little less brown in the palette itself. I also really liked the suggested shade combinations on the back of the palette.

All in all, the shadows were really nice, but the packaging and branding set an expectation that it perhaps couldn't meet.

This is an oldie in my make up bag abut one I still reach for often. I think maybelline have really nailed their eyeshadow formulas and there’s not a lot of pallets that I find myself hitting the bottom of the pan and this is one of them. The is a lovely mix of shimmers with a few mattes in there to balance it out and the red burgundy colours are highly pigmented and blend out great. I’m stoked they still continue to make this one as my favourite all time pallet the nudes has been discontinued. It blends out lovely and the colours are really pigmented and compliment each other well. I’ve created some stunning looks with this pallet and will continue to repurchase.