The Good and the Bad of ColourPop's Super Shock Eye Shadow

All summer long I've been playing around with ColourPop's Super Shock Eye Shadow. Some I love and some I will absolutely hate (hate is a harsh word, dislike is better). Some, as a matter of fact, I will probably get rid of before finishing the pot. At only $5 a piece I don't feel too bad about getting rid of the shades I don't like.

I know that I am probably the wrong demographic for this brand. The employees are well versed in Social Media, as am I, but that's neither here nor there. Their announcements are all made on Instagram and Snap Chat. Everything is abundantly colorful, hence the name ColourPop. I have never felt my age until I watched a ColourPop Snap Chat. This is the future for business.... ugh Millennials.

Back to the actual product. The eye shadow comes in a little plastic white pot. The product itself is squishy, velvety and feels both wet and powderey all at the same time. It's hard to use a brush with these eye shadows. Brushes don't pick up the product. I have seen bloggers say to use a synthetic brush to apply the color, but please. Brushes DO NOT work, I've tried and I only use synthetic brushes. You really have to apply the color using your fingers, which sucks and is quite gross. I have an elf brush that blends the crease out nicely, but I have to first put the shadow on my lid with my finger then blend.

I've only used a few of the finishes; Matte, Metallic (there is a lot of fall out), Ultra-Metallic (again they have a lot of fall out), pearlized and pressed pigment. I can deal with the fall out of the metallics, my least favorites have to be the Matte finish shadows, especially the light colors. Most of the light colors, I'll never repurchase again anyway, it's doesn't matter the finish. I'm on the fence with a few. Some colors are very similar, for example Midnight and Hammered, LA LA and Weenie. You don't need both. 

I find that using the pink, purple and blue colors are harder for me to create a look for than the neutrals. It may just be because I'm gravitating more to neutral palette than the bright colors.  I have so many beautiful BareMineral pigments in pink, purple and blue that I like so much better than these.

I want to make it very clear that these were purchased with my own money. I've heard that YouTubers and Bloggers praise these products just to help the company build its reputation and get free stuff. I'm definitely not one of those people. If I don't like it, I will tell you. 

For this list, I'll categorize them by by finish and I'll start with the colors I really like.

The Good (Colors I will repurchase): 

Ultra Metallic/Metallic 

Lovely: Soft Gold, metallic. This is really pretty over a powder shadow to add some sparkle. 

Liberty: Silver, ultra metallic. OMG this is an amazing color all on it. It's like liquid metal. I used it on the 4th of July as an all over the lid color.

Sugar: Silver Blue, metallic. This is a pretty color that I use alone all over the lid. Sugar was one of the first colors I bought. It has a lot of fallout. 

I Heart This: Cool Toned Taupe, metallic.This also looks great over a powdered shadow to add a little something special. This is one of my favorite colors. It has a ton of fallout though.

Eye Candy: Lavender, metallic. I really like this color a lot, but as I said earlier purple shades are harder to use, so I'm on the fence with this color. 

La La: True Rose Gold, ultra metallic. It's a very pretty color, but similar to Weenie. I like to use LA LA all over the lid. 

Krinkle: Smokey Blue, metallic. It's a really pretty color all over the eye.

Bae: Eggplant Purple, metallic. This is a pretty color in the crease.

Hammered: Olive, metallic. This is a pretty color to use on it's own all over the lid.

Bubbly: True pink, metallic. I like to use this color over my BareMineral eye shadow. I am on the fence with this one.

Cricket: Warm plum with cool highlights, metallic.  I love this color in the crease. I used it with the e.l.f. baked shadow in Pixie and I Heart This.

So Quiche: Soft olive with gold and pink violet glitter, metallic. I use this on the crease or the outer corner.

3: Cool toned bronze, metallic. This is really pretty as a crease color. 

Get Lucky: Rich gold, ultra metallic. This is pretty as an all over color. 

Fringe: Champagne with gold and silver, metallic. This is pretty over a powder eye shadow.

Stereo: Black Burgundy, metallic. This is a really pretty crease color. 

Nillionaire: Warm bronze, metallic. This is pretty in the crease, but similar to so many other colors I own. 

Midnight: Black undertone with gold, metallic. This is a pretty crease color but too similar to Hammered.



Matte

Tink: Charcoal grey. This works good in the crease bit a bit hard to use.

Effect: Teal. Nice in the outer corner

Bill: Plum Beige. This is nice in the crease.

Fairfax: Blackened Brown. Nice crease color. 

Hanky Panky: Cool toned taupe. I'm on the fence about this one. The color does not look anything like what's described on the website. This is a problem with some of the colors, buyer beware. 

Party Time: Dusty Mauve

Pearlized 

Weenie: Rose gold pink: This is so much like La La, but I think I like this one better. 

Partridge: Saddle brown: This isn't like what is described on the website. I'm on the fence with this color too.

Mixed Tape: Cool Gray

Coconut: Peacock teal: I'm up in the air with this one. It's a bit hard to use.

Flower Shop: Blue green. This is pretty all over the lid.  


The Bad (Colors I'll never repurchase):

Glow:  Creamy Vanilla, matte. This has no pigment and is pointless. 

Slave 2 Pink: Neon pink. This is a pressed pigment. From what I hear the pressed pigment have chemicals that haven't been approved by the FDA for eye shadow. I didn't know beforehand. I'm throwing it out. 

Acorn: Cool toned beige, pearlized. Not enough pigment. I don't like it. I'll never get it again. 

Vanity Fair: Brown. Only because I can't find it on the ColourPop website, it may have been discontinued. I liked this in my crease. 

Girly: Creamy Vanilla, pearlized. This again is too light and has no pigment. 

Colors I'd still like to try:

Matte: Girl Crush, Cop a Feel, Central Perk (Friends is my favorite TV show), Hustle, Pearlized: Luckfully, Lace, Supermodel, Metallic: Envy, Dare, Porter, Sequin, Satin:  Cheeky, Truth, Wattles Tie-Dye: Pop Rocks, Meow and Summer Lovin

I'll share my favorite lip products next. I'll separate that into two posts, the lippies and the liquids. 

ColourPop Super Shock Eyeshadow June Purchase

I'm obsessed with these eye shadows! I love the way they feel. Don't get me wrong some colors suck. I've had massive issues with Girly and Glow. I've already hit pan with both colors. I bought a bunch of colors when ColourPop was having their 20% off sale back in April. Because their prices are so affordable, ColourPop rarely goes on sale.

One of my favorite colors is called I Heart This. What I do is cover my lid with Stark from the Urban Decay Gwen Stefani Palette and then go over it with I Heart This and the effect is amazing. It's very shimmery and beautiful. 

Be careful, because sometimes I feel that ColourPop's descriptions are off. I found that these shadows do crease with the NYX primer. They don't crease and they last all day with the Urban Decay primer. Does ColourPop sell a shadow primer? I know they sell a lip primer. 

In early June, I decided to purchase some more shades, even though I was on the fence about buying anymore. I had a bad experience with one of their Ultra Satin Lipsticks and, like I said before, I hit pan after only using Girly and Glow a few times. At $5 a piece I thought I'd give the products another try. So, I bought these. Again, some of the colors are STUNNING and others are great to use on top of other shadows.

All of the new colors minus Fringe

One color that I absolutely adore is Weenie. It is so beautiful swatched. It's a pink rose gold pearlized finish according to ColourPop. It glides on like butter. I can't even describe how beautiful this color is. I've used it quite a few times now and this is one color I will repurchase. I used to not like these types of colors, but as I've gotten older and my dark brown eyes have gotten lighter, I really gravitate towards the golds.  Swatched, this color looks like liquid gold, it's beautiful!!

Weenie The next color is very similar to Weenie and is also rose gold, but in an Ultra-metallic finish called La La. I've also used this color a few times. Once as an all over the lid color. To me the swatch wasn't as opaque as Weenie. I still think it's beautiful and I will repurchase this color again. This is the color I was wearing when I noticed creasing with the NYX primer.

La La

Below is a side by side of La La and Weenie. They're obviously similar and you don't need both. I love them equally, but if I had to choose, I would probably just buy Weenie. It seems to be more pigmented than La La, however La La is an Ultra Metallic.  

Weenie and La La

Another color that I bought and have used a few times is the color Fringe. It's a metallic champagne color with gold and silver sparkles. I've only used this on top of other colors because I know it's not very opaque. I'm curious to see how it would work with Bare Minerals Queen Anne. Something to try.

Fringe

A color that is similar to Fringe is called Lovely. Again, this is a color to put over another color, because it's very light. It's a metallic, soft light gold.

Lovely

These colors are very light and are best suited to layer on top of another color. Here they are side by side with I Heart This. You don't need all three. If I had it all to do over again, I would only get I Heart This.

I Heart This, Lovely and Fringe

I also bought Liberty. According to ColourPop, it's an Ultra-metallic true silver. Like Weenie above, it swatches like liquid silver. It's stunning. I used it on the 4th of July all over the lid. It's a little difficult to use this with another color, except for maybe creating a smokey eye look. This swatch, however is just heavenly.  The heavens have opened and the angels are singing. That's how I feel about this color.

Liberty

The next color I bought was Eye Candy, a cool toned Lavender. This is one that I haven't used yet. It seems to be a little light, but this may look good layered over another shade. It seems a little light on it's own.

Eye Candy

Keeping with the purple theme, I purchased Stereo. The swatch does not do this color justice. As a matter of fact, when I first swatched this color I thought it was ugly and regretted buying it. Stereo is a blackened burgundy, with copper and pink violet glitter in metallic. It looks great on the outer corner of the lid. After wearing it out, this color quickly became my favorite of the bunch. In the swatch it looks more bronze/brown, but is more of a purple tone on the lid. 

Stereo

Wearing Stereo on a night out

The last color I got was in Bubbly. I love the color pink. I have so many pink shadows with Bare Minerals. Again this is a good color to layer on top of another shadow. I find that ColourPop doesn't have a wide selection of pink shadows. According to the ColourPop site, this is a true pink with silver and bubble gum pink glitter. 

Bubbly

Many in the ColourPop shadow line are neutral in tone. I'm not a huge fan of the matte's and I didn't get any matte colors when I made this latest purchase. The lighter colors do not build up. I've mentioned this issue before in another post. The lighter shades layered on a powder shadow, like those from the Urban Decay Gwen Stefani Palette, work beautifully, but on their own, there is no pigment, just shimmer. Blending the darker colors in the crease can be a bit tricky. Because you can only purchase ColourPop online and their descriptions don't really match their products, each purchase is really either a hit or miss. At $5 a shadow, it's worth it to play. Maybe in another post, I'll list my faves and hates. Actually "hates" is such a harsh word and I really don't hate any. I know there are some I won't repurchase.  

I am well passed the age that ColourPop is targeting. It's a young, fun company, that really got notoriety through YouTube. I'm not old by any means, but really I'm passed the target demographic. I wouldn't have known about this company if it wasn't for the fact that I use social media. Don't get me wrong, anyone can use these products and age really is just a number. As long as you are happy with who you are, nothing else matters. Do what you like and enjoy!