Makeup Revolution’s products can be hit-or-miss. I’ve tried their mascaras (miss), their eyeliners (mixed bag), their blush palettes and highlight palettes (mixed bag), their Colour Books (hit), their their Forever Flawless palettes (hit), and their Maxi Reloaded palettes (hit). The Forever Flawless are good, but they don’t travel well. I was doing my long-commute, staying in hotels twice a week, and I wanted some eyeshadows that would just live in my travel-bag. I wanted something rather inexpensive, and picked up the Provocative and Marvellous Mattes palettes one afternoon in Ulta. They worked fairly well for me: I had a small palette of near-neutrals and a colorful palette, and they both travelled quite easily in a pocket of my duffel. I use the elf C Brush and Smudge Brush, and apply the colors over either Wet n Wild’s Photo Focus Eyeshadow Primer or NYX Cosmetics’ Pigment Primer.

I have about half of these, and I don’t know that I’ll be purchasing too many more. While a few are less versatile than others, I haven’t run across any palettes that are markedly worse than the others that I’ve tried. They are harder-pressed, and can have a little less color payoff than their pressed-pigment palettes…which only makes sense. Most palettes are about 2:1 shimmers to mattes. A few have sparkle-finish shades, but most do not.

Several of these are color-dupes for much more expensive palettes. They are also, quite often, a subset of colors in another Makeup Revolution palette. (That may be a strategy to provide similar color palettes to multiple price-points within the MUR line.) I’ve included a listing all of the Reloaded palettes and the items that they’re a color-dupe of, as well as the MUR items that they’re a color-subset of. If anyone else has any further information to complete this list, leave a comment.

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