[One purchased by me, one given by a friend]
The Unii palette is the sleeker, modern version of the DIY palettes floating around the web. It also happens to be kinda pricey and the only reason I ended up with two is because I bought one myself one Christmas thinking I wouldn't receive one ever as a gift. Lo and behold that Christmas a good friend who knows me oh so well, purchased one for me!
My curiosity was ignited by the de-potting craze that swept the beauty community with its promises of improved storage capacity, Back to MAC realness and fun flatiron times. I actually depotted all my shadows with rubbing alcohol which was pretty easy and only ended up with a few casualties.
In the end (and zero burns later) I ended up putting a lot of the products with the bulkiest packaging in my collection into these two palettes and I thought this was a good idea for a post for those interested in a Unii palette.
In the white palette I have some of my brights:
The two big pans you see are part of the Hard Candy Punk Palette which was actually from back in the day when Hard Candy was sold in Sephoras. Don't judge me! I am a hoarder I know. The highlighter in this is too pretty to throw away and I don't reach for this too often because of the full-on glow it gives. The bottom left three shadows are from the Covergirl Tropical Fusion quad. I never got the lime color to work for me so it went in the bin. The semi-circle shade is from a L'oreal HIP duo in Flamboyant. I hit pan more because the color doesn't show up very well unless you back it on versus actual usage. The turquoise shade is from Sephora which revamped their entire eyeshadow line so I'm not sure if the shade even matters. The lilac shadow is from a very random eyeshadow palette that was probably from Claire's or something. The right three square pans are actually a Covergirl blush trio. The shades are really soft and nice looking and I actually should use this more.
The pink Unii palette houses my brown tones and some dark purples:
The black shade is from Covergirl and I actually never wrote the name in. The middle purple shade belongs with the other two smaller square pans on the other side as part of the Hard Candy Punk Palette. The glittery purple is an Inglot shadow a friend got me in Vegas in shade 491. On the other side, the top left square pan is NYX Iced Mocha, a supposed dupe for MAC's Satin Taupe. The round matte shade is an old Jane eyeshadow that makes a great crease color. The shade stamped EYELID is from the Wet n Wild trio I'm Getting Sunburned which a friend sent me but the other two shades shattered. I made these pics smaller because there's a lot of uh-ohs in my de-potting here. Lastly that gold shade is the other half of the L'oreal Hip duo.
So, in general, would I recommend the Unii palette to everyone? Yes and no. These are expensive at about $30 each. If you're someone who has a lot of eyeshadows to depot the cost can really add up. Also, since they're sturdy plastic with full size mirrors, these are definitely a little hefty for a palette. It beats any cardboard palette I have in terms of weight. However, these really do look nice, are compact, and are a fun way store the small part of your makeup collective that takes up a huge amount of space with their unnecessary packaging.
I have some space in the pink palette for more shadows.... I'm thinking MAC?
MAC MAC!! you totally should try out some MAC shadows^^
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