Review: New Jordana Color Effects Eyeshadow Powders

I was lucky enough to receive some of the new Jordana Color Effects Eyeshadow Powders for review recently, and I'm so excited to share them with you. At just $1.99 a piece (available at CherryCulture and various retail locations), I am very impressed with the silky texture and high pigmentation of these newly reformulated shadows. I think they're a nice improvement over the old shadows, so let's take a look!

Clockwise from the top: High Maintenance, Love & Hate and Rock Star

Rock Star is a bright berry-pink matte that I actually have been wearing as both an eyeshadow and blush (it looks amazing as a blush and the staying power on my cheeks in incredible!). 

Love & Hate is a black matte with silver sparkle, and I was surprised that there isn't much fallout when worn as eyeshadow. I'm excited to try this as a liner since it is extremely pigmented and quite easy to work with.
 

High Maintenance is a deep purple-ish plum shimmer. It's much prettier in person and, on my skin, it seems to have a little bit of violet blue flash to it.

I found all three shadows quite easy to work with and I was surprised at how pigmented they all are when used with a primer. Even without a primer (I didn't use one in the above swatches) you can see that they pack some serious color. Also, the texture on these is very silky (they're very finely milled) and they blend quite easily as well.

Here is a look I did using Rock Star and High Maintenance:

For this look, I used Rock Star on my lid, High Maintenance on my crease, and then the lightest shade in  the Maybelline Charming Cobalt trio I showed you a while back (click here if you missed it), which is increasingly becoming my go-to highlight shade these days.

I used my Jesse's Girl Eyeshadow Primer underneath these shadows, and I also want to note that the third pic was taken about six hours after application. I think the colors are still very much going strong with no real creasing and just a tiny bit of a loss of vibrancy (and actually, Mr. G said he prefered how my eyes looked later in the day because these colors were BRIGHT when I first applied them!).

All in all, I think these new shadows from Jordana are an excellent value and I highly recommend them. I'm quite impressed with every aspect of these shadows, from texture to blendability to pigmentation to staying power.  For $1.99, I really think you can't go wrong. Plus, Rock Star doubles as a wonderful blush! Man, it's so pigmented that I only needed a tiny dab on my brush and the color lasted all day, even on my oily skin.

Have you tried any of these new Jordana shadows yet? Are you thinking about giving them a shot? I'd love to hear from you!

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