Review: eBay 24 Baked Eye Shadow Palette

I have had so many requests to review this since I bought it! It doesn't seem to have a brand, I only know it as the 24 Baked Palette. I bought mine ages ago from Celia Makeup on eBay. I'm sure I paid no more than about £25, including shipping. The seller is now listing them for £100 plus £10 shipping from Hong Kong. They do appear to be the only seller right now with that particular palette but certainly don't deserve linking to with that ridiculous price increase. It's not worth £100.


As is typical with most cheap make up I've bought from Hong Kong, it was bubble wrapped to within an inch of its life and reached me quite happily. It's in a glossy, plain black case in a plain black box with no branding. There was a mirror in the lid but it fell off as it wasn't glued in very well.

You get 18 eye shadow duos and 6 marbled eye shadows. They're all a really good size. While some of the shadows look similar, there are no duplicates within this palette. All of these are shimmery, with a couple veering close to frosty.

The surface of each shadow is really hard. I had to rub off the top layer of each of the 24 shadows in order to get any pigmentation at all. After that, they are extremely powdery! I get so much powder flung out when I use these and I really don't like that. It just makes it hard to keep the palette clean.


Urban Decay Primer Potion just does not do it for these shadows. You need something slightly sticky or these just blend right off. It feels like there's no binder in these shadows, they don't stick at all. Yet the ingredients list Dimethicone and Mineral Oil very high up in the list. I suspect the ingredients list is not quite accurate, these shadows do not have any of the creamy, oily texture that these two ingredients give. For the typical creamy, oily texture that these ingredients provide see something like the £1 MUA shadows.

I swatched these with a mineral shadow primer I collected along the way (the label is gone, it creases within 2 hours on my lids). It's not the usual Detrivore that I've been using, but I'm not sure where I got it.

These work best with something like Fyrinnae Pixie Epoxy. They really do need something to stick to. They work well when used with a damp brush as well (Foiling). With Pixie Epoxy you can see some complexity to some shades. There are sparkles and shimmers that just don't show up in the pan or with a less sticky primer. It was quite unexpected. I was almost ready to give up on this palette until I tried the Pixie Epoxy.


I got good wear out of these, possibly because they behaved more like loose mineral shadows due to the lack of binder rather than pressed shadows. I got a good 6 hours out of these. Fading depends on the colour of the shadow. Some of the blues and purples can fade a little.

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