Anastasia Beverly Hills Amrezy Palette Review
Today I’ve got the Anastasia Beverly Hills Amrezy palette to show you. This palette was created with the beautiful makeup artist Amra Olevi. You can follow her on Instagram at @amrezy. This is an eyeshadow palette made up of warm colors that are mostly neutrals. It has two pops of color in the form of Iridescent Purple and Emerald Green. This palette is an Ulta exclusive, meaning you can only buy it at Anastasia Beverly Hills or at Ulta. It won’t be at Sephora.
Anastasia Beverly Hills Amrezy Palette Review
One thing to note about this palette is that Ulta and Anastasia Beverly Hills states that all shades contain carmine. I find that weird because I think you have to go out of your way to add carmine to about half the shades in this palette! I normally only see carmine in reds or pinks. I generally avoid carmine, but I still have a few things in my makeup collection that contain it as an ingredient. I was really surprised to see it listed in this palette. Anyway, I just wanted to warn you of that because i know many of you eschew carmine.
Price
$29 NET WT: 0.72 g / 0.025 Oz. EACH
Availability
Ulta, Anastasia
All eyeshadows swatched on Wet n’ Wild Fergie Eyeshadow Primer.
Legend – pale yellow gold metallic
Glisten – rose gold metallic
Topaz – golden brown metallic
Iridescent Purple – this one is less pigmented than the first 3, but it can be built up. It’s definitely a gorgeous purple with blue tones
Emerald – love this green. it almost has a smoky quality to it
Vanilla – pale creamy vanilla with a hint of sparkle, really blends into my skintone, this is on the sheer side, so good to highlight or to use to blend out.
Caramel – warm orange-toned brown matte
Morocco – deeper terracotta brown matte
Deep Plum – deep chocolate brown matte (I see no plum)
LBD – soft black with black sparkles
I like this palette much better than the Lavish set, except for Antique. Antique was gorgeous. I’m not sure if I like it better than the Catwalk yet, because the Catwalk palette was exceptionally lovely to me. (Strut, RTW, Scout and Pose were great).
To me this palette leans warm, but the shades are pretty wearable.
I’m very happy that the color names for each shade are printed inside the palette. The brush that comes with it seems to be of a much higher-quality than the last few included brushes with the ABH palettes. I like the mirror. The palette itself is lightweight but feels sturdy enough to toss inside a makeup bag for daily use or travel.
I love that this is a mix of mattes and shimmer. You know I love shimmer on my lid and mattes in my crease because of my eye shape.
I love Legend and Glisten as they’re both pretty metallics. Topaze is never a shade I like on me though it’s pigmented and flattering for many people. I like Iridescent purple a lot but I wish it was more pigmented. Emerald is stunning.
Vanilla is the perfect sort of inner corner highlight; it’s great for opening or brightening the eyes.
Caramel would work as a nice crease or contour shade for a lot of people. I’m not sure why you would want Morocco in the palette with Caramel, since it seems like Morocco is just a deeper and more red-toned version of Caramel. I would think that a deep grey brown taupe might be more functional than Morocco.
Deep Plum looks more like deep chocolate brown to me. I don’t see any plum / purple tones to it.
LBD is a very pretty soft black that is versatile. You can use it as liner, smudge with it, contour / deepen any shade, darken the lash line, set a gel liner, etc.
Overall, I feel like this is a solid palette from Anastasia Beverly Hills. If you like these colors, you’ll love the formula and adaptability of the shades.
What do you think of the Anastasia Beverly Hills Amrezy Palette? Do you like the mix of colors?
Pros
- Cruelty free
- Nice mix of colors
- Good pigmentation and texture
Cons
- 2 very similar shades
such a beautiful palette!
This palette just looks like perfection! <3 I will be needing it soon! 🙂
Thanks for your review. The orangeish colors look very good on me and I would actually use both the caramel and the morocco together so for me they are perfect. I like the rest of the palette as well and it’s a good price. I’m going to purchase this one.
this is sooooooooooo SO SO gorgeous!
Looks like a nice palette! Pls do some eye makeups using this palette next time 🙂
The colors all look so vibrant. I don’t like the looks of Morocco but one out of ten isn’t bad.
That purple shadow is gorgeous!!
I like it! That purple and green are calling my name.
Haha, I love how you’re like “Plum (I see no plum)” I’m obsessed with plum eyeshadows lately so the plum would have been a major selling point for me buying this palette. (Not that I’m going to buy it but if I were, it would have been largely because there’s a matte plum shadow in it. Or so I thought lol.) Weird that it’s not plum, just brown… O.O Anyway, it’s still a pretty palette and your swatches are awesome!
Thank you for reviewing this one! I follow ABH and Norvina and my Instagram feed has been blowing up with Amrezy palette looks. I love ABH and think their palettes are pretty phenomenal. I love Lavish and really want Catwalk!
I love the design of this palette!
What’s the deal with carmine?
Carmine has been used in cosmetics since Ancient Egypt. It’s like made from insects that are ground up.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carmine
I love that purple!
It is very pretty!
Glisten is my favorite shade in this palette! Great swatches!
Thank you <3
I am eyeballing the topaz, the purple, and the emerald!!! Gorgeous!!! Thanks to you I just got my first Cocoa Pink order!!! Just ordered a bunch of the Linen sprays, in clouding the Black Chocolate Rasberries, YUMMY!!! Thanks so much! They also threw in a sample scrub, Green Apple Noel, YUM! Great stuff!!!
Yay! My Cocoa Pink order arrived today too, i’m loving it
HA HA PERFECT TIMING!!!! I couldn’t wait to.try them all on!!!! I have been sitting here all morning testing them and went to the Cocoa Pink Website to read the descriptions again as I smelled myself!!! HA HA I was enjoying taking in each fragrance and enjoying it! Some were very intoxicating but in a good way! Made me feel very relaxed! I like that! I especially love the foodie ones like you. Boy do I smell delicious today with my Black Chocolate Raspberries and Cotton Candy Dreams!!! Pink Dragon is yummy too! A Day At The Beach is very nice and Sand Dollar too!!! I could go on and on about them……..
Ooh I’ll have to look up Pink Dragon
Also waiting for my Tarte order today! I hope it comes soon!!! I ordered the Rainforest After Dark Palette after your review and swatches! I was hemming and hawwing about getting it. Just not sure. But after I saw your swatches I was!!! ;D 😀 😀 I had to have it then! Would love to see you do a look with this palette!!!
I posted about the tarte fall releases, which included that palette, but I never picked up the palette, so I never did swatches of it. I really love the look of the gold and the highlighter.
Oh, I thought it was you! 😉 It may have been Vampy Varnish. She has great swatches of this palette. Either way it started with you and your great review. That is what got the ball rolling for me and started me taking another look at this palette!!! ;D