Deck of Scarlet Makeup Subscription Box

 

Today I wanted to share with you the brand new Deck of Scarlet Makeup Subscription Box. Deck of Scarlet is the sister company to Scentbird. All of their products are cruelty free, paraben free and proudly made in the USA.

Deck of Scarlet Makeup Subscription Box

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About Deck of Scarlet Makeup Subscription Box

Deck of Scarlet will send you a new palette every other month for $29.95. You can also skip any month that you want to skip. Each palette is unique and limited edition. They’re made in collaboration with a popular YouTuber.

Each Deck of Scarlet palette comes with all the products you need for one daytime and one nighttime look – 3 eyeshadows, 2 cheek colors, 2 lip colors, 1 lip pencil, and 1 eye pencil. The palettes are a mix of powder products together with cream ones. Each palette has 8 or 9 full size makeup products that differs with every box.

You can sign up at DeckOfScarlet.com

Deck of Scarlet Makeup Subscription Box

The palette is black and much like a NARS palette, picks up finger prints and dirt easily. It drives me crazy. The names of the products are not printed on the palette, nor are they printed on the back of the palette. The product names are printed on the paper sleeve that slides off of the palette.

Deck of Scarlet Value

Deck of Scarlet claims that the value of each palette is $150. Here’s how it breaks down:

Eyeshadows $16 / .04 oz each

• Irresistible (peachy brown shimmer)
• Lucky (warm brown satin)
• Loot (warm green shimmer)

Lip Colors $14 / .035 oz each

• Jackpot (peachy beige)
• Flush (red brown)

Powder Blush/Bronzer $20 / .33 oz

• Bluff – light matte bronzer

Cream Blush $20 / .35 oz

• Playtime – pink nude

Eyeliner $17 / .01 oz

• Lust & Chocolate – dark brown matte

Lipliner $17 .01 oz

• Oh So Nude – peachy nude

I personally feel like they’re over-valuing each of the products since they’re made at their labs. They’re putting the pricing almost on par with Urban Decay, which is surprising.

Deck of Scarlet Makeup Palette Swatches

 

Row 1 – Oh So Nude Lipliner
Row 2 – Flush – Jackpot – Playtime

The lip color formula is very wet, closer to a solid gloss or a gloss lipstick hybrid. It does work well with the lip pencil. The blush is less wet. I’m still not a fan of cream blush.

Now, I personally hate it when palettes mix cream and powder products.  You’ll inevitably get kick up from the powder into the cream and that becomes a hot mess. That is my least favorite thing to deal with in a palette. I think it’s far better to include lip crayons or lip pencils, not lipstick in the pan.

L to R – Bluff (finger swatch) – Bluff (brush swatch) – Lucky (finger swatch) – Lucky (brush swatch)

The powder bronzer Bluff is nice for a nude blush or matte bronzer / contour shade. Lucky is just that unfortunate shade of brown that goes super muddy on me.

Row 1 – Lust & Chocolate
Row 2 – Loot (finger swatch) – Loot (brush swatch) – Irresistible (finger swatch) – Irresistible (brush swatch)

Loot is a really gorgeous green. Irresistible is a pretty peachy brown. Lust & Chocolate is a very nice brown liner that is extremely difficult to remove without makeup remover. I think it’s a pretty good liner.

I swatched the eyeshadows on Urban Decay Primer Potion. For the brush swatches I used the Urban Decay Moondust brush.

Deck of Scarlet Makeup Palette Look

For my eyeshadow look I tested out the LA Girl white eyeshadow primer. My eyes have been tearing up because I’m sick, and the primer wasn’t able to hold the eyeshadow in place on me at the outer corner. Because I’m currently sick I found it hard to do makeup at all. I did put on Ardell Demi Wispies since I’m not getting my lash extensions refilled and I wanted to have some lashes.

Products Worn

• Deck of Scarlet Palette – Irresistible, Lucky, Bluff, Lust & Chocolate, Oh So Nude and Jackpot
• Sugarpill Castle on the Hill (to deepen the crease color)
• LA Girl HD Pro Eye Primer Stick White
• Glossier Boy Brow in Black
• Urban Decay Optical Blurring Primer (not out yet)
• Urban Decay One & Done in Light mixed with Manic Panic Dreamtone White
• Urban Decay All Nighter Spray
• Makeup Geek Glitz Highlighter
• Ardell Demi Wispies Lashes

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The first Deck of Scarlet Palette was made in collaboration with Kelly Strack, also known as MakeupBarbie. The products are perfectly suited to her coloring. She chose warm, fresh and natural shades. I do not find the eyeshadows to be flattering shades on me when worn together.

I thought the eyeshadow texture was nice, but I do not find browns fun to work with on my coloring. They go muddy on me far too easily. I tried to create three looks with the eyeshadows, but only have one to share because the others turned to mud.

The eyeliner and lip liner were very long wearing. The lipsticks had good texture and felt lightly hydrating on the lips. The cream blush had a nice consistency and good pigmentation.

The powder blush / bronzer was very easy to work with. I used it on my cheeks to lightly contour and I felt like it was flattering. I also used it as a light matte transitional shade on my eyes.

I felt like the lipsticks, blush and bronzer were flattering on my skintone. I could probably find a way to make each individual eyeshadow color work with other colors outside of the palette, but I could not find a way to make them work together on me.

I’m very excited by the idea of a makeup palette subscription box. That said, I would definitely be choosy over which palettes I would buy, since I find some color combinations easier to work with than others. Brown and green? No thank you. Grey and silver? Yes, I’d do that.

I think the Deck of Scarlet Makeup Subscription Box is clearly a good value for the price of $29.95, even if I don’t think it quite stacks up to the $150 value it claims.

What do you think of the Deck of Scarlet Makeup Subscription Box?

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