e.l.f. Limited Edition Disney palette: Sinister Smoky Eyes Maleficent

Are you excited for Halloween? I myself am getting very pumped up for it, and am already deciding who I should dress up as. e.l.f. recently teamed up with Disney to release three palettes based on Disney villains in select Walgreens stores (that already carry e.l.f.) in  honor of the upcoming holiday.

After much consideration, I decided to pick the Sinister Smoky Eye palette with Maleficient, the evil queen in Sleeping Beauty.

The palette is designed around the concept of day to night-time looks, with eight shadows and two lipliner/cheek colors in all that are supposed to reflect this idea. Each palette retails for $9.99.

The left cover of the booklet is a two page spread with one day time and one night time look, with Maleficient's look on a plastic see-through sheet.

In all, this palette comes with a set of eyelashes that are supposed to represent the villain (each palette has different eyelash styles), eyelash glue, four day-time shadows and four night-time shadows, two lip/cheek liners, an eyelid primer, and a glitter clear-based eyeliner.

First up is "Day Evil". Spindle is a satin champagne pink - think Urban Decay's Sin, except a bit warmer. Sceptre is a peachy bronze satin that is on the metallic side. Fog of Doom is a satin purple/blue or a colbalt. Fauna is a satin mid-toned blue-teal. The texture of these are great - very smooth and buttery; think Wet n Wild and you get the idea. Only downside that is visible at this point is that none of these are matte. These also do not have considerable fall-out, so yay!

The lip & cheek color is a mid-toned berry with a matte finish. It is quite a dry formula and would probably work best if the lips were already hydrated.

Below: all four day-time shadows swatched, no base or primer. Below that: day-time lip/cheek color, swatched and blended below.

Next we have the "Night Villain" portion of the palette.

Again, four shadows that are night-time appropriate. Misfortune is a metallic silver - a very dupable shade. Forest of Thorns is a dark black with lots of silver shimmer. Deep Sleep is a satin finish dark purple - definitely a shade that I'm really excited to play around with! Diablo is a very dark purple, almost black shade with purple glitter. Again, I love the texture of these shades! Nice pigmentation, too. Very comparable to high-end eye shadows.

The liquid eyeliner is a clear-based glitter liner. It smells like cheap makeup, but let's be honest - we all expected a dinky product in this product, right?

The lip & cheek color is a dark berry plum that is also very dry and a bit difficult to work with.

Below: all four shadows swatched, the liquid eyeliner right below that, and the lip & cheek color swatched and the blended out below.

Overall, I'm definitely considering buying one of the other two palettes, and would give this palette a 4/5 stars.

An extra bit: Today I'm wearing Sinful Colors Mercury Rising, which I thought was very fitting to go along with this palette!

Thanks for reading everyone! <3

Whitney