Maybelline The City Mini Palette: Downtown Sunrise First Impressions | VoxBox

I received my palette free of charge from Maybelline and Influenster, for my 100% honest review in return.

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I finally received my first VoxBox after realizing they have been emailing me offers for months dating as far back as last year! Oops! Now let's get into the box and onto my review of this beautiful palette.

The Box

I loved the styling of the box they sent. I really had no idea what a VoxBox might look like. Actually, I didn't even know that I made it onto the list to receive these boxes! I took my survey and totally forgot about it until it showed up in my mail box. Needless to say, I was pretty excited to see it!!

In The Box

In my VoxBox was one of the new City Mini palettes by Maybelline. I received 'Downtown Sunrise'. I'm pretty happy to get this particular color. It has a lot of shades similar to ones I already use so it will be nice to have a bigger variety of stuff that looks good on me! As you can see from the previous photos there was a little card and the palette wrapped in bubble wrap. Beneath that was a sheet of purple tissue paper. Really nice packaging and secure so that the eyeshadow won't shatter!

Picture time!

Click the photos to open the photo viewer which will enlarge them, or scroll on past to see my swatches.

Swatches

I decided to swatch the shadows in the same pattern they appear in the palette. I don't know why, it just seemed fun at the time. Overall I'm pretty happy with the pigments!

And as you can see in the picture below, you can't even see the lightest shade on my skin! That's why I included the above photo because that was the only angle I could capture the color on my skin. It's very very light.

My Look

Eyes

I normally do my eye makeup a bit differently but for reviewing purposes I followed the 'directions' on the back of the palette. I may post another look in the future once I experiment a little more!

I used the base color (The very light color in the top left) all over my eye from lid to brow as suggested on the packaging. Then I used one of the lid colors on my lid (Top right, pink), then one of the crease colors in my crease (Bottom left, red. Though it looks a bit orangey in person and on my eye. Lovely color.).

And lastly I used the dark brown in the bottom right in the outer corner of my eyes.

For mascara I used a mix of Covergirl's Super Sizer and LashBlast Fusion, both in the color 'black brown'.

Face

Covergirl CGSmoothers SPF 21 Tinted Moisturizer in fair to light.

My Thoughts

Overall this is a beautiful, affordable palette. The colors are warm and go well together. It's probably one of the best drugstore eyeshadows I've used in terms of pigment and application.