Maybelline Color Tattoo - 70 Barely Branded

My holiday to America resulted a lot of shopping - a lot. I absolutely loved hitting CVS and leaving with a bunch of stuff I definitely didn't need. Well, actually it turns out I did need one of these babies - the Maybelline Color Tattoo 24hr eyeshadow in the shade Barely Branded.

It's a gorgeous, shimmery cream shade with a really soft texture. I've used it in a number of ways but my favourites are to highlight my inner corner and underneath my brow bone. It goes really well with a shimmery bronze in either powder or cream form. There's a shade in the UK called On and on Bronze that I LOVE and have previously reviewed here (click!) and I love using it with a Liz Earle bronze too.

Overall just like the other shades I really like this product. It's easy to apply and to remove as well as being really versatile.

Yay for more Maybelline joy :)

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Maybelline Color Tattoo 24hr - Eternal Gold

A couple of weeks ago I reviewed the Maybelline Color Tattoo 24hr eye shadow pot in the shade On and on Bronze (you can read it here, click!). 

I'm bringing you this shade just as a comparison rather than a full review because I noticed a stark difference between the two products and it's not just their colour.

As you can see this shade is a vibrant, metallic gold. It's the same texture as my other pot and the pigmentation and buildability is on par with it but I noticed that it creases much quicker and much more than the bronze shade. It's an absolutely beautiful shade in the pot but when I applied it it seemed to have so many more sparkly particles - does that make sense? It looked grainy and as if it had separated slightly which doesn't occur with On and on Bronze.

Due to this little difficulty I will probably be using this sparingly or to add a brighter shimmer to my inner corner on slightly above my crease but I can't use it as an all over shadow colour because it's a little too difficult to work with. Has anyone had the same experience with this shade or any of the others? Let me know in the comments!