There hasn't been a makeup product that has got me so entirely excited as Freedom's #ProArtist refillable palette in the longest time! I spent so long perusing the shades and filled up several baskets of shades before I actually bit the bullet and clicked proceed to checkout.
A custom palette from a budget beauty brand is something I've been looking for ever since the Fashionista palettes, and these are miles above this. I've spent ours perusing Mac's shades for a palette that is all mine, but I could never face spending that money. Freedom offer the perfect solution. There are a range of face and eyeshadows (I of course needed both in my palette), the face products being £3 and the eyeshadow shades at £2 each. Along with the palette itself, this cost me £38.00, which does rival the prices of higher end brands but I was more than willing to pay that for a palette full of my perfect shades.
The palette is pretty large and will fit 18 eyeshadows or 8 face products, so its pretty large. It comes in shiny, sturdy black packaging. I will say that it does scratch easily and I don't really like the white writing on the top of it, but that's only a small complaint when I love everything inside. The entire lid is a mirror, so when filled with your favourite shades this is the perfect palette to travel with. The whole bottom of the palette is magnetic like a Z Palette, and at £5 it's a fraction of the price. This would be a perfect alternative for the Z Palette for anything that likes depotting all of their favourite panned products, or wants to store their custom shades from other brands all in one place.
I picked up the contour shade #3 as it was the palest of the bunch. I usually have to use a really light hand with contour because of my pale skin, but with this one I don't have to be as careful. I have also been using this as an eyeshadow as its the perfect transition colour, and I also really like it over the lid with the red eyeshadows in the crease.
I also chose the banana powder in 01 as I've been using a yellow concealer under my eyes, I really like the effect and I wanted to add to that with this powder. I have to say that I don't think this does much for colour correction, but it is a nice, light powder that is great for setting my under-eye area.
I really struggled to chose from the 3 highlight options as they are all gorgeous, I finally decided upon the shade 03. This is a gold toned highlight that is super shimmery, but not full of chunky glitter. This would be a great highlight for someone that wants a really eye-catching highlight that packs punch. I personally like a more subtle highlight and with my pale skin I think I should have chose a more pink toned shade. I really want to have a bit more of a play with this so I can find a way to work with it, but I do love an in-your-face highlighter when I'm going on nights out and I'll be sure to reach for this.
To finish of the face shades I got the blush in shade 01. This is the lightest blush colour, and so it looks great on my pale skin. Its a candyfloss pink shade that I think will look great as a spring blush colour,
The first shade is a light shimmery pink in Shimmer 03, I picked this shade as I thought it would be the perfect inner corner highlight for the pink and purple shades, which it totally is!
Shimmer #09 is a light shimmery brown, which I think will go with any of the other shades in this palette and in my collection. I've used this one most since I bought this palette because its a great all over shadow, that makes your eyes look 'done' with minimal effort.
I'm a big lover of smokey eyes, so 08 was a shade I needed in my palette. This is a shimmery steel grey that would look great blended with a matte black shadow and looks amazing with the darker purples that I picked.
The next two shades are 09 which is a brick red, and matte 10 a burgundy red. I've been seeing these kind of shades everywhere for the past year, but I really didn't have any my collection. I've nearly bought a few palettes just for shades like these, finding these shades saved me from buying an entire palette for only a couple of shadows (just another thing I found great about this custom palette). I tend to use 10 as an outer corner and crease colour and then 09 to blend the colour out as a transition shade. This is a nice change from brown without using crazy colours.
The next colour looks a little crazy, this 05 and its actually a shade I have been looking for some time. This is a bright shimmery purple, which reminds be of a pencil we had in primary school that was dubbed 'special purple' (please someone say you know what this is). I like wearing purple in the crease with cool taupe shades, so I tend to focus on my outer V and then blend it out with a little of this shade to lighten up the colour.
The next shade is another I've been hunting down, this 01. I really like using dark purple as an alternative to a smokey eye, but I have bought so many that look purple in the pan and then transfer onto the eyes as a muddy dark colour. This doesn't do this, its dark enough that it is almost black, but the gorgeous purple shimmer shines through.
The last shade I chose is matte 04, this is a dark matte purple, which is lightly lighter that 01. I've been using this in the outer V along with the lighter purple and to sort of blend out 01 when I'm wearing it on the lid. I really like it as its a true purple, which I think is gorgeous.
I should also add that each of the individual pans have the shade number on the bottom, which I think is really handy and has been a total god-send while I've been writing this post.
Let me know if you have your own Freedom #ProArtist Palette or what shades you'd pick if you had one?
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