Too Faced Semi-Sweet Chocolate Bar Review

Again, I'm a little late to the Too Faced party. These palettes have been available for a while. So far I've reviewed my Too Faced Original Chocolate Bar Palette and the Too Faced Chocolate Bon Bon Palette. I will link both of those reviews below. After Christmas and again with my gift cards, I have quite a few, I purchased the Semi-Sweet Palette. I was conflicted about purchasing it. I thought that this palette was way too warm for my skin tone. I also really didn't need it, because it closely resembles the Original Chocolate Bar Palette. You can see the the similarities in these side by side photos. The Original is cooler in tone than the Semi-Sweet. 

Original Chocolate Bar Palette

Chocolate Bon Bon Palette

Original Chocolate Bar

Semi-Sweet 

The packaging is still the adorable chocolate bar. The Semi-Sweet case is lighter in shade. It's still made of metal and has a magnetic closure. All of the palettes are made of metal and have magnetic closures. The shade names are right on the palette.

The shades, oh my goodness, they swatch horribly!! I was so disappointed based on the swatches. I thought I was going to return the palette based on the swatches alone. The colors were not pigmented at all (and I'm very fair skinned) and were extremely patchy. These colors were very stiff and were very different from the other palettes. I was so unhappy with the purchase! The only row I liked was the bottom row. Those colors were more buttery than the rest of the colors in the palette.

I told myself I would give it a week. I vowed to use the palette for one week and if I didn't like it I would return it. I actually ended up loving it. I had more complements about my eyeshadow during my week using this palette than I've had with any of the other palettes I've used. Surprisingly these colors were very blendable.  I've created looks using Peanut Butter, a color that seems to be the most popular among the YouTube beauty bloggers, Rum Raisin, Caramel, Bon Bon, Butter Pecan, Frosting, Pink Sugar, Puddin', Coconut Creme, Cocoa Chili Truffled and Hot Fudge.  Peanut Butter is so popular that Too Faced created and entire nine shade palette around this color. I'm interested in trying that palette out too. 

With that being said, there are a few more colors in this palette that are pointless. Pink Sugar is just glitter/shimmer. There is no pigmentation. I tried using it over a lid shade, and by the evening, the glitter was gone. There aren't too many transition shades. Nougat is good and I've used Peanut Butter as a transition. Coconut Creme is barely visible on me. Caramel and Bon Bon are very pretty lid shades, but I have to pack them on with my finger. 

Overall, this was a nice palette and I decided to keep it. In order to get use out of my palettes, I am going to trade them out every week. I have to commit to using one palette for the entire week, including the special edition Christmas palettes and my Urban Decay Palette.

I think this palette is better than the Chocolate Bon Bon Palette, which I rated 3 1/2 Pink Gerber Daisies. I can't give this palette 4 stars, because this isn't a 4 star palette, so my rating for the Chocolate Bon Bon Palette will be revisited and revised. Color swatches for the Semi-Sweet Chocolate Bar Palette are down below. 

The Semi-Sweet Chocolate Bar Palette gets 3 1/2 out of 5 Pink Gerber Daisies. 

Top Row: Licorice, Coconut Creme, Nougat, Truffled, Hot Fudge

Middle Row: Cocoa Chili. Pink Sugar, Puddin', Blueberry Swirl, Peanut Butter, Frosting

Bottom Row: Rum Raisin, Mousse, Caramel, Bon Bon, Butter Pecan

Too Faced Chocolate Bon Bon Palette: Palette #2 Review

Last week I reviewed the Too Faced Original Chocolate Bar Palette, here's the link to that review Too Faced Original Chocolate Bar Palette. 

In December, my husband and I went to Las Vegas to celebrate my birthday. Using a few gift cards, I bought The Chocolate Bon Bon Palette, my first Too Faced chocolate palette (although it wasn't the first one I reviewed), at a cute little shopping plaza near Mandalay Bay.  I had been looking for this palette in stores close to my house, but my Sephora stores were all sold out. No, I didn't go all the way to Vegas just for these eye shadows. We were heading out there anyway. Buying this palette was just an added bonus.

This is one of my favorite palettes in the line. I am fair skinned and am on the cool side, so I tend to gravitate towards the cooler colors. There is a mix of 16 matte and shimmer shades. 

Some of the colors in the palette aren't the most pigmented right off the bat, but you can build up color. Always wear these shadows with a primer, I use the MAC Pot in Painterly. 

I think more looks can be created with this palette because of the variety of shades. I haven't used the blue/grey Earl Grey. I'm not quite sure how I would. It's a beautiful color, but odd for the palette. Almond Truffle, Molasses Chip, Malted, the entire middle row, all of the bottom row, except for Totally Fetch are all colors I love. They swatch and apply beautifully. 

Some of the shadows are a bit stiff. I don't know what it is about Too Faced,  I always seem to have issues with the top row. Satin Sheets I already have in the Boudoir Palette. I'm not a fan of it in the Boudoir Palette, but it seems creamier in the Chocolate Bon Bon Palette. I like to use it as a base. These colors apply better than they swatch, because most of the swatches are subpar. If I based my decision to purchase this palette off the swatches, I would pass.  Actually, I passed on this palette for many years because of the swatches. They apply so much better with a great primer! I have a problem with creasing, but if I use a good primer, my shadows stay more vibrant and last longer. As I said in my Chocolate Bar review, I do not like the Shadow Insurance, by Too Faced. 

The smell in the palette is amazing!! It smells like yummy chocolate, just like the Semi-Sweet and Original. The scent does fade over time though. I wish they would vary up the scent, create something new.

The packaging is super cute! It looks like the Original Chocolate Bar on the outside, but pink instead of chocolate brown. My favorite color is pink! Each shadow is a tiny shadow heart. This packaging is the cutest in the line. 

Overall I would rate the Chocolate Bon Bon Palette 3 1/2 out of 5 Pink Gerber Daisies. Make sure to check out my swatches below.  

Top Row: Almond Truffle, Satin Sheets, Sprinkles, Molasses Chip, Malted 

Middle Row: Cashew Chew, Cotton Candy, Cafe Au Lait, Bordeaux, Mocha and Black Currant 

Bottom Row: Dark Truffle, Pecan Praline, Totally Fetch, Earl Grey and Divinity

Too Faced Chocolate Bar Palette

Last year I had an obsession with ColourPop, and that obsession is now finally/thankfully, over. I've become more and more disillusioned with the novelty of the ColourPop shadows. I love their pigment, for the most part, but they are just too hard to work with.

This year I am obsessed with Too Faced and their eye shadows. Last summer I purchased two of their smaller palettes just to see how I liked their shadows. I purchased both with gift cards. I thought they were just ok. I  do wear the Natural Eyes to work almost everyday.

 Now to the actual review of the Original Chocolate Bar Palette I know that the Original Chocolate Bar Palette was released quite a few years ago, so I'm a bit late to the party. I did purchase this palette with a gift card. I scoured all of Southern California, in the rain on New Year's Eve, to purchase this palette. 



I noticed right off the bat, that the Original Chocolate Bar Palette is very similar to the Natural Eyes Palette, except for the fact that the Chocolate Bar Palette smells like chocolate and the shadows apply better!! I feel that the Chocolate Bar Palette blends easier than these smaller palettes and the color payoff is way better! Obviously more looks can be created with the Chocolate Bar Palette, because of the few pops of color.

 I ALWAYS use my MAC Pot in Painterly as a shadow primer. It works better than the Shadow Insurance by Too Faced. That primer is horrible, even with the Too Faced shadows. Using a primer helps the eye shadow last longer without creasing, which is a problem for me, and helps give the color a boost, so to speak. I do not have swatches of the Natural Eyes Palette, but I do have swatches of the Chocolate Bar Palette, which I will post down below.

A couple of things about the Original Chocolate Bar Palette. I absolutely LOVE the packaging! It looks like a Hershey Bar. I love the chocolate scent. The shadows are infused with cocoa powder. Some colors are not too highly pigmented and are a bit patchy. The pink color isn't very pigmented at all, you can build it up, but the other lighter base shades are pretty smooth and silky. With the exception of a few, the shadows are very buttery and swatch nicely. The shadows in the top row I had the most problems with and I like the least. They aren't as good as the others, swatched or applied. 

I chose this palette over the Semi Sweet Palette, because the colors are a bit cooler. Which is a moo point, thanks Joey Tribbiani, because I ended up purchasing the Semi Sweet Chocolate Bar Palette with another gift card I found a few weeks after this one. Once it arrives, I'll have all of the Too Faced Palettes, minus the Peanut Butter and Jelly Palette, Natural Mattes and the White Chocolate Chip Palette, which I heard is not good. 

Do I like this palette, yes. Do I love it and feel I can't live without it, no. Will I use it, of course. Do I wish that Too Faced amps up their color payoff and color choices, yes. Not everything has to be a neutral.  

I'm typically drawn towards cooler shades, but lately I like the neutral and warmer shades. I will be reviewing all of my palettes in separate posts and will rate all of the palettes I own from Too Faced, including my limited edition holiday palettes. 

I would give the Original Chocolate Bar Palette  3 1/2 out of 5 Pink Gerber Daisies.  Scroll down below for swatches.

Top row: Chocolate Ganache, White Chocolate, Milk Chocolate, Black Forest Truffle, Triple Fudge

Second row: Salted Caramel, Marzipan, Semi-Sweet, Strawberry Bon Bon, Candied Violet, Amaretto

Third row: Hazelnut, Creme Brulee, Haute Chocolate, Cherry Cordial, Champagne Truffle

****Disclaimer, I purchased all of these palettes with either my own money or with gift cards given to me, These opinions are my own and I am not being paid by Too Faced to promote their products. If I don't like something I will tell you.