Eyeshadows reviews from Reddit
Summary
We analyzed 181 Reddit reviews across 12 subreddits and 21 posts to rank the best Eyeshadows brands recommended by redditors, including communities like r/Makeup, r/AsianBeauty, r/drugstoreMUA, r/muacjdiscussion, r/Sephora. Top-rated brands include Natasha Denona (4.8/5), ColourPop (4.0/5), Urban Decay (4.0/5).
Stats
Reviews181
Subreddits12
Posts21
Brands59
Products68
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#1
Natasha Denona
4.8
(18)
"Natasha Denona"
"Natasha Denona really is that girl. Amazing quality eyeshadows."
"Natasha Denona is incredible quality with no fallout."
"I LOVE my Natasha Denona mini! It is by far my EASIEST palette to work with."
"Natasha Denona Mini palettes. 5 shades. $27usd. Quite a few to choose from."
"The Natasha Denona ones that are 5 shades are good."
"I love my Natasha Denona mini pallets!! Great size for my makeup bag and I can use my fingers to apply them."
"Natasha Denona (great pigmentation)."
"Natasha denona! also really love pat mcgrath."
"Natasha Denona will always be that girl and there is definitely a palet out there to match the colours you’re looking for."
#2
ColourPop
4.0
(13)
"I love colourpop palettes."
"Colourpop eye shadow sticks are great, I love the shade Socialite."
"Yes, I love the Super Shocks. You won't get the same level of coverage or sparkle from their pressed powders compared to the metallic Super Shocks."
"Personally, I like color pop eyeshadow, palette."
"Naked or colorpop is what I usually use for my eyeshadow and I think it works well."
"Colorpop for sure."
"Colourpop has a bunch of great options."
"Colourpop has some great variety."
"Makeup revolution and color pop. they’re around $15-18. love them both!"
"Morphe and colourpop have some good options!"
#3
Urban Decay
4.0
(11)
"Urban Decay Naked 2 Basics."
"Urban Decay Naked 2 is good for fair cool neutrals if you like to stay matte."
"I also really enjoy the urban decay naked basics 2 palette."
"Naked or colorpop is what I usually use for my eyeshadow and I think it works well."
"Urban Decay"
"Fan faves are urban decay primer potion."
"Urban Decay Anti-Aging, since NYX discontinued “Proof It.”"
"Urban Decay. I use the anti aging because it’s a bit more matte."
"I’ve been using primer potion for years. I have very oily and hooded eyelids, so I set it with a little powder and it works a treat."
"Urban Decay is still very solid."
#4
Sugarpill
5.0
(7)
"I’ll get sugar pill then thank you!"
"I still love them!"
"Yes, sugarpill!"
"I second Sugarpill."
"Sugarpill! It's really pigmented, so a little goes a long way."
"Love this brand. Very pigmented."
"Sugarpill are my most pigmented."
#5
MAC
4.1
(8)
"MAC Eyeshadow in “Embark” or “Brun” – legendary for a reason, deep pigment and super buildable."
"MAC FTW. I’ve used them all and set with powder and this one does not move."
"MAC paint pots"
"Higher end but still affordable are the Mac paint pots."
"Mac Paint Pots!"
"MAC Paint Pot. I’m fair neutral and use Painterly."
"Mac paint pots have never proven me wrong."
"MAC paint pots are OK, they crease on me if I don’t set it with something."
#6
Romand
3.6
(7)
"I’m SUCH a Rom&and lover. Their formula has not changed. Super creamy, buildable, and blendable."
"Could try eyeshadow from romand. I love the shimmers from them."
"Romand has a lot of variety within their palettes and color themes people seek out"
"Romand can be iffy depending on the palette"
"Romand is the most "solid for the price""
"My main gripe with Rom&and is that it is a bit too sheer for me"
"I've also tried romand, dasique, and the unleashia glitter palette."
#7
Clio
4.2
(6)
"Im also vouching for clio. I have almost, if not all, of their palette lol. I find they stay all day on me, even if im outside all day and no smudge at all."
"Clio is solid for this"
"Clio stands out as the one that’s most pigmented (still not that pigmented compared to western eye shadows) and soft."
"In terms of Korean eyeshadows and mattes, I find Clio, Hince and Bbia to have the best eyeshadows."
"My favourites have been clio and flower knows!"
"Clio has some pro eye palettes that I believe a lot of korean muas use"
#8
Juvia's Place
5.0
(5)
"I have never had a bad palette from Juvia's Place!"
"I have SO many JP palettes, they never fail!"
"Juvia’s Place has sales all the time for way under $25. They are very pigmented."
"Second for Juvia's Place palettes! They're so affordable and amazingly pigmented."
"I personally love juvias place eyeshadows."
#9
Bobbi Brown
4.6
(5)
"For stick nothing beats Bobby brown"
"Bobbi Brown has my faves"
"You could go with either eyeshadows sticks (best imo are Bobbi Brown."
"Bobbi brown eyeshadow sticks. Neither budge on me."
"Bobbi Brown eyeshadow sticks"
#10
Flower Knows
4.2
(5)
"Flower Knows wins in all aspects among Korean palettes."
"I prefer chinese brands for everything else just because of how affordable, buttery and pigmented their eyeshadows are at a reasonable price point too, if flower knows is too expensive try flortte"
"Wow two ringing endorsements for both flower knows and Suqqu!"
"I wanna try both flower knows and Clio."
"My favourites have been clio and flower knows!"
#11
Fyrinnae
5.0
(4)
"Most my looks include Fyrinnae."
"Shenanigans and Ailurophile!"
"Shenanigans and Ailurophile!"
"Can't go wrong with ANY fyrinnae shadows"
#12
Makeup by Mario
4.8
(4)
"I second Makeup by Mario palettes. Goes on clean, stays all day."
"I mostly reach for makeup by mario palettes. Any would be a great investment."
"I love Makeup by Mario Master Mattes"
"I’m tempted to get the makeup by Mario master mattes tho."
#13
NYX
3.6
(5)
"Check out the NYX Ultimate Warm Neutrals palette."
"I would go nyx or Too Faced on sale."
"I recommend NYX jumbo palettes (I think it's called Nyx Ultamite Utopia for the best browns."
"I like to use the Nyx Jumbo eye pencils when I want really good brown pigment on my eyes."
"Nyx is the one I’m using but it clumps bad for me"
#14
Charlotte Tilbury
4.5
(4)
"The Charlotte Tilbury Eyes to Mesmerise cream eyeshadow is a top pick for its smooth, no-fuss application, long-lasting wear, and zero fallout."
"Charlotte Tilbury cream eyeshadow in oyster pearl. I use it all on my lid and under my eyes."
"I really like the charlotte tilbury super nudes palette, but it's kinda pricey so i'd recommend to wait for a sale."
"Charlotte Tilbury Eyes to Mesmorise in Chocolate Bronze. It’s super buildable."
#15
Suqqu
4.3
(4)
"Suqqu is still my favorite brand for eyeshadow."
"Suqqu and Addiction"
"Will def check out suqqu though—the colors are so pretty."
"Suqqu has some really nice eyeshadow palettes."
#16
Milani
4.3
(4)
"Milani gilded palettes are around $8 and really good!!!"
"Milani"
"Milani's eyeshadow primer is just as good as the expensive ones."
"Then, I use the Milani eye primer. It’s really good. It’s smoothing and mattifying, but not heavy or cakey looking."
#17
Makeup Revolution
3.8
(4)
"Makeup Revolution their palette’s are a steal!"
"Makeup revolution and color pop. they’re around $15-18. love them both!"
"Western drugstore brands like essence, catrice, or revolution may even be cheaper than some AB brands"
"I don’t think colourpop or revolution have very gold color payoff."
#18
Danessa Myricks
5.0
(3)
"Danessa Myricks colorfix! She has tons of different fun and bold but also neutral and easily wearable shades."
"Danessa Myricks Colorfix."
"Danessa Myricks has liquid pigments that can be used anywhere on the face, they have a bunch of browns, they apply like a dream, are pigmented as hell and are damn near bullet proof!"
#19
Kaleidos
4.0
(3)
"Brands like Kaleidos, GirlCult, Cheeryep are great places to start, and I wanted to add Joocyee too esp for their glitter shadows, so gorgeous."
"I can only vouch for kaleidos, but cheeryep and girlcult also seem to be pretty pigmented"
"Their pigmentation is basically western level, while still maintaining an AB feel to them"
#20
Too Faced
4.0
(3)
"I would go nyx or Too Faced on sale."
"Too Faced and Urban Decay are still very good."
"Of the old cult faves I still like Toofaced, Anastasia Beverly Hills, Colourpop."
#21
Perfect Diary
4.0
(3)
"Perfect diary has lots of palettes with wider shade range than the peachy coral tan daisique type eyeshadows. Long lasting and highly pigmented"
"I’ve heard really good things about perfect diary!"
"Right now my regular use one is a Perfect Diary palette and I have a 3CE glitter quad I use if I want chunkier glitter."
#22
e.l.f.
4.0
(3)
"My faves would be Elf bite size."
"ELF bite sized quads."
"I like the little ones from elf. They less than 5."
#23
Laura Mercier
3.7
(3)
"Laura Mercier stick in amethyst is my go to!"
"Laura Mercier eye shadow stick has a great line of shimmery and matte colors."
"I tried the Laura Mercier eyeshadow stick and it creased on me."
#24
Morphe
3.7
(3)
"I have this Morphy eyeshadow palette I’ve been using for the past two years and it works really well."
"Morphe and colourpop have some good options!"
"I find morphie to be a decent brand for eyeshadow pigments but id research more of that"
#25
Patrick Ta
5.0
(2)
"Patrick ta major dimension 3 is my fav neutrals palette."
"I really like the Patrick Ta Major Dimension III eyeshadow palette."
#26
Armani
5.0
(2)
"Armani liquid shadows."
"Liquid eyeshadows (Giorgio Armani which lasts considerably long even on my oily eyelids)."
#27
Lethal Cosmetics
5.0
(2)
"Just going to suggest lethal cosmetics from beserk and also Glaminatrix Cosmetics for Australian based single eyeshadows"
"Beserk are online but the warehouse is in Windsor, QLD - they stock empty palettes and lethal cosmetics and sugar pill single eyeshadows."
#28
Inglot
5.0
(2)
"Inglot"
"Inglot! I built my first like 5 years ago and it’s still going strong."
#29
Sydney Grace
4.5
(2)
"Sydney Grace - it's expensive once you convert to AUD but the quality is there! The selection is also great - you can build exactly the palette you want."
"Deep Waters & Indiana Love from Sydney Grace."
#30
Viseart
4.5
(2)
"Viseart has excellent cool and neutral, all matte palettes."
"I also like the viseart ones."
#31
L'Oréal
4.5
(2)
"L’Oréal just released some eyeshadow sticks in basic colors and different finishes. For me, they really check all the boxes."
"L’Oréal has new ones out and they are pretty damn close!"
#32
Maybelline
4.5
(2)
"They had the tattoo ones which were amazing!"
"Maybelline Made for Mocha is my go to dark brown."
#33
Hince
4.0
(2)
"I really like Hince and Dinto. The colour payoff for both are decent. 3ce is good as well."
"In terms of Korean eyeshadows and mattes, I find Clio, Hince and Bbia to have the best eyeshadows."
#34
Addiction
3.5
(2)
"Jbeauty is my fave for sure, although flower knows performs well for mattes! For jbeauty, my faves are addiction, excel, Jill"
"Addiction also has a large line of single shadow mattes, I’ve never tried them so I don’t want to necessarily recommend them but if their pearl shades are any indication of quality then they may be worth checking out as well!"
#35
Dasique
3.0
(2)
"I’ve heard good things about dasique’s palettes with darker shades but the darkest one in mine (summer coral?) is a medium brown and it doesn’t have as much pigment as i would like"
"Sounds like I prob won’t like dasique then."
#36
Joocyee
5.0
(1)
"The glitter ones are so so so pigmented and pretty"
#37
Mini Dream
5.0
(1)
"Mini Dream is fabulous. Whatever you do with it will look great."
#38
Physicians Formula
4.0
(1)
"My faves would be Physicians Formula!"
#39
Blend Bunny, Bellabeautebar, Glaminatrix, Lethal Cosmetics
4.0
(1)
"Blend Bunny, Bellabeautebar, Glaminatrix and Lethal Cosmetics always deliver high quality shadows/pigments."
#40
Nabla
4.0
(1)
"I've heard great things about the Nabla ones."
#41
Rituel di Fille
4.0
(1)
"Rituel di Fille has talc free eyeshadows."
#42
L.A. Girl
4.0
(1)
"I’m using LA girl “The Nudist” right now and am very happy with its performance and color selection."
#43
bareMinerals
4.0
(1)
"Bare minerals has talc free eyeshadow"
#44
Melt Cosmetics
4.0
(1)
"Melt Cosmetics “Rust” or “Dark Matter” palette – pricey but absolutely delivers that punch-you-in-the-eye brown."
#45
Ulta Collection
4.0
(1)
"Ulta Collection Matte Veil Longwear Eye Primer lasts a while and no creasing."
#46
Huda Beauty
4.0
(1)
"I really love Huda matte obsessions."
#47
Ulta
4.0
(1)
"I just recently switched to the Ulta "Glow Tinted Eye Primer" to give it a try, and I'm impressed!"
#48
Kiko Milano
4.0
(1)
"Eyeshadow sticks are your friend! Kiko Milano, Laura Mercier, Bobbi Brown..."
#49
Moira
4.0
(1)
"I use a dupe for MAC paint pot from Moira. It’s only $6. It’s basically a cream eyeshadow in a skin tone color."
#50
Bellabeautebar
4.0
(1)
"If you're into bold hues, check out Bellabeautebar Dead Roses palette."
#51
EM Cosmetics
4.0
(1)
"I can use EM cosmetics they have cute cream singles that stay on great."
#52
Julep
4.0
(1)
"I use a cream shadow stick from Julep called Pearl."
#53
Einsley Reign
4.0
(1)
"Einsley Reign’s Cold Moon or Glow palettes might be what you’re after!"
#54
Makeup Geek
4.0
(1)
"Makeup Geek “Americano” – dark, matte, intense."
#55
Sigma
4.0
(1)
"9 pan palettes for sigma. They are easy to blend and I never worry about messing up my makeup when blending them. Pigmented but buildable."
#56
Isadora
4.0
(1)
"Isadora has one with 5 colour that's great."
#57
Cosmic Beauty
4.0
(1)
"Cosmic Beauty has great colours, great mattes, great shimmers, multichromes and all for very affordable price and no/little fallout."
#58
Mini Glam
4.0
(1)
"I have the mini Glam and it’s perfect for an everyday neutral look!"
#59
Lawless
4.0
(1)
"I also like the lawless ones."
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