Tarte Rainforest After Dark
Colored Eye & Cheek Palette Review
The rainforest after dark is another of Tarte's circle palettes it states that it includes:
- 6 coloured clay eyeshadows in exclusive shades
- coloured clay blush in unleashed
- coloured clay bronzer in park ave princess
- coloured clay highlighter in champagne
It also states it is formulated without: parabens, mineral oil, phthalates, triclosan, sodium lauryl sulfate, and gluten.
The amount of product the palette contains is as follows:
- Highlighter 0.14 oz
- Bronzer 0.14 oz
- Blush 0.21 oz
- Eyeshadows 0.035 oz
The palette itself is quite large and quite thick as well. I really don't see why it is necessary to make the palette so thick. In this regard I am disappointed the packaging isn't more sleek. However I would not want to give up the full size blush for more sleek packaging. Perhaps because the palette is a circle shape that it feels more bulky then my other square palettes. The palette is made of hard plastic with a jewel on the snake eye slightly raised. The packaging is very pretty and the jewel adds a nice touch to the palette.
Included in the box is a card with two eye looks. The looks are Seductive Sunrise and Afterhours Adventure. The looks are a nice added touch to the palette. Theres also an instagram link on the bottom for @tartecosmetics for people to share their looks which I think is a neat idea. Here are pictures of the card:
The palette comes with a plastic overlay over the shades for the names. Im not crazy about this I prefer the shades to be listed on the actual palette.
The shades are quite hard to read so i will list them the top two are champagne and park ave princess. The large circle in the middle is the blush unleashed. From the left the 6 shadows are bare to explore, make a mauve, plum away with me, up to no gold, tan-gled up in you, and don't turn a-brown.
Here is a photo without the plastic overlay to better see the shades in the pans.
The is a very neutral fall toned palette. Im really loving the Up to no gold shade its just such a rich metallic gold. I also love the blush unleashed. I do however find it very similar to the blush elevated in the Tarte CC Matte palette. I'm fine with this because I love the blush in the CC matte palette and wish they would make a full size of it. Crossing my fingers they make unleashed or elevated in full size soon!
Here are some swatches!
Champagne, Park Ave princess, and Unleashed.
I don't particularly enjoy the champagne shade as a highlight for my face. I find it very shimmery I will probably end up using it as an eyeshadow for an under the brow highlight. I LOVE the blush unleashed it is one of my favourite shades for a Tarte blush. I also LOVE Park Ave Princess. I have it in another palette so it is handy to have it in this palette so I can use just one palette when doing my makeup.
These are the shadows from the left the names are: Bare to explore, Make a mauve, Plum away with me, Up to no gold, tan-gled up in you, and Don't turn a-brown.
The first shade Bare to explore I find to be very light and not well pigmented (against my skin tone anyways). I really have to pack it on to get the colour payoff I want. Like i said before I love the Up to no gold shade. It is the perfect pigmented gold metallic shade. Plum away with me is also a very nice plum shade. I have to be quite careful with this one and Don't turn a-bown because I am so fair skinned. Don't turn a-brown could probably be used as a liner as well.
The placement of the shadows in the palette seems to be done specifically if you look closely at the swatches you could use the first three as a trio and the last three as a trio.
Overall I find this palette very lovely. I think it is the perfect addition to my collection with the neutral colours in it. I am very excited to create some deep fall looks with it. I like the idea of these circle palettes however, I am hoping that Tarte changes up the highlighter and bronzer if they keep continuing with this concept.
