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NARS Pro Palettes

NARS Pro Palettes

Recently I indulged in one of the new NARS pro palettes plus some refills. NARS has small and large pro palettes available. I bought a small.

Where to Buy
NARS

Price
$14 – small palette
$18 – large palette
$18 – eyeshadow single
$21 – blush refill
$25 – eyeshadow duo
$30 – contour refill

Blushes
Amour
Angelika
Deep Throat
Desire
Dolce Vita
Exhibit A
Gaiety
Lovejoy
Lusteer
Mata Hari
Orgasm
Outlaw
Seduction
Sex Appeal
Sin
Super Orgasm
Taj Mahal
Torrid

Highlighing Blushes
Albatross
Miss Liberty

Bronzing Powders
Casino
Laguna

Contour Blushes
Olympia
Paloma

Pressed Powders
Bleach
Desert
Flesh
Mountain

Duo Eyeshadows
Alhambra
All About Eve
Bellissima
Bouthan
Cordura
Isolde
Kalahari
Kuala Lumpur
Mad Mad World
Madrague
Pandora
Rated R
Silk Road
Sugar Land

Single Eyeshadows
Abyssinia
Ashes to Ashes
Bali
Bengali
Biarritz
Blondie
Coconut Grove
Fathom
Galapagos
Goldfinger
Kamchatka
Mekong
Nepal
New York
Night Porter
Night Star
Outremer
Persia
Sophia

NARS Pro Palette NARS Pro Palette
NARS Olympia
NARS Olympia swatches

Olympia Contour – ivory / rose. This is the warmest contour shade that I will wear. I do love it, which is why I decided to pick it up for my custom palette.

NARS Luster NARS Luster swatch

Luster Blush – sheer golden apricot. This is a lovely, soft blush.

NARS Sin NARS Sin swatch

Sin Blush – berry with gold shimmer. This blush is a favorite for me for Fall / Winter.

NARS New York NARS New York swatch

New York Eyeshadow Single – plum brown. This is the only product I was disappointed in. I swatched it on bare skin and all I see is brown and it was kind of patchy. I just wasn’t impressed with the texture of the eyeshadow.

NARS Kuala Lumpur NARS Kuala Lumpur swatch

Kuala Lumpur Eyeshadow Duo – rose gold / boysenberry infused with gold. I swatched these on bare skin. I think they’re lovely, especially the rose gold.

The palettes are very similar to Z-palettes, though without the clear lid. The lid has NARS printed on the inside and outside. It feels about as sturdy as a z-palette.

The small palette’s dimensions are 7 1/20″ by 5 1/2″. The large palette’s dimensions are 8 9/10″ by 6 4/5″. To me, the small palette still is a pretty good size and can hold a lot of pans.

So I was feelin’ very Fall when I chose these colors. Like I mentioned above, Olympia is the warmest contour shade that I will wear, but I do reach for it often so that’s why I picked up another. I still don’t care for the highlighter that comes with it, as I prefer shimmer and shine for my highlighter, not matte. Luster is a blush that I’ve always wanted to add to my collection and I feel like it’s a shade that I can wear year round. Sin is a blush I like but I don’t often remember to use from my Danmari blush palette. Kuala Lumpur is a duo that I’ve had my eye on because of the rose gold shade. I thought New York would work well with Kuala Lumpur but instead I just find it disappointing.

The only thing I find disappointing about the Pro Palettes is that they don’t offer every shade. Shades like 413 BLKR, Tropic, Thunderball, and New Order aren’t available in the refill size. I do wish that NARS offered every shade.

Really, after picking up the pro palette, I want to depot all of my NARS eyeshadow singles and duos!

What do you think of the NARS Pro Palettes?

20 Comments

  1. Kuala Lumpur is gorgeous! Definitely need to pick that up. I am dying to make a NARS palette of my own. Great swatches!

  2. I think it would be great if you have enough singles to use in these kinds of palettes. Then it is a matter of just buying the colours you like instead of ending up with a palette that has shades you don’t use. Very cost effective I would say.

  3. Oh, no. No. No. No. No. I can’t be seeing posts about these palettes and pans. I really, really can’t. I love systems like this. And I want all of the things. I have to run away, now.

  4. Ooh – I think it is so great that Nars has these – because I would use more of the products if I could keep them together. I don’t have much Nars… so for now – I think I’m good.

  5. I kinda want one of these palettes, but I just have so much stuff already! And I have this weird feeling that I need to fill it up immediately.

  6. I should get up the nerve to depot all my oodles of Nars eyeshadows and buy the empty palette. I know I’d get much more use out of them than I do now.

  7. Wow, is that Sin blush gorgeous. I only have a few NARS products (though I just splurged and ordered some of the new Steven Klein collex!) but I’ve heard they’re really hard to depot, so I agree that they should offer everything as a refill, too.

  8. Ugh. I have been wanting to depot my Nars stuff for awhile now, but don’t have the balls. Those plasticky/rubber cases are gonna stink, I am afraid. I was just going to put mine in a MAC palette because I have about 4 empty ones. I am lazy though.

    1. I really need to pick up more wax paper and see how I do at depotting my NARS. I have a TON of eyeshadow singles and duos. Supposedly the easiest way to do it is wax paper on top of a flat iron, put the single on top of the wax paper, loosen it up, use a pin to pop it out, clean the back with rubbing alcohol.

      1. That’s how I did my MAC de-potting. I didn’t bother with the wax paper, since I had an old flat iron that I was going to toss anyway.

  9. Do only NARS pans fit in the palette or can you put others in too? That seems like a good price for the palette itself too. Very pretty shades you chose.

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