Fenty Beauty Cadet review: Do you need a rather affordable eyeshadow palette with an unusual color scheme? Read on for swatches, loads of looks and comparisons.
The Brand
Fenty Beauty excels in being an inclusive brand: We all love it for launching foundation shades for every skintone and featuring a broad range of people on their social media channels. Fenty Beauty is also connected to Rihanna’s own charity, the Clara Lionel Foundation that invests in sustainability, but mainly disaster relief:
Sustainability majorly impacts the world:
It’s interconnected to issues including global warming, poverty and hunger, and social justice. We partner with the Clara Lionel Foundation, Rihanna’s charity for global advocacy, which supports education, health, and emergency response around the world.
Snap Shadow Palettes
Their Snap Shadow palettes come in a variety of different color schemes (there’re nine palettes right now), which ‘snap’ together, because they’re magnetized. Nice, surely, if you have a lot of them, but on the other hand – does that help in any way for storage or traveling? I’m not sure. Fenty says:
A game-changing portable mini eyeshadow palette of 6 rich, blendable shades in a range of matte to shimmer finishes: Use ’em solo or snap together any two palettes to double your collection while keeping it perfectly compact—that’s 12 of your fave shades, all in the palm of your hand!
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The Size
The size of Fenty Beauty Snap Shadows is 6 x 1.0g = 6g. For comparison, Natasha Denona Mini Palettes come with 4g of shadows, while a single MAC eyeshadow is usually around 1,5g.
Verdict
Sure, you get some bang for your buck for the Fenty Beauty shadows, but honestly, did you ever finish an eyeshadow palette? (Actually if you do, please tell me your secrets!) I find it better to go with a color combination we like and will use often. Cadet is called ‘camo-inspired earth tones’ on Fenty’s site, but while I think of olives and browns and khakis when hearing ‘camo’, Cadet is different. The most unusual shades are a vivid matte yellow and a blue-grey matte, while the rest are more regular creams, beiges and bronzes.
Fenty Beauty Cadet review: The Quality
To be honest, I bought this palette because I love the color She Salute (the yellow one). I was hoping for a bright yellow like how it was shown on the Fenty Beauty website
I know I should’ve known better than trusting a promo picture, but still, one can have high hopes? High expectations are there also because I love the Fenty Beauty Moroccan palette, reviewed here, and the matte shades there packed a punch. I was disappointed because the matte shades couldn’t pack as many pigments as pictured on my eyelids. I still find it pretty, and it’s a decent palette, but it’s nowhere as strong as the Moroccan palette.
The two metallic shades in this palette, Honey Mission and Good Cookie, are also not that strong for me. Honey Mission has fallout and Good Cookie is a bit lost on my skintone.
Fenty Beauty Cadet review: The Looks
Verdict
In the end, we choose a palette based on color preference. With the Fenty Beauty palette, you’d at least have two completely different looks, even if the quality isn’t on par with their first eyeshadow palette.
It’s $25 at Fenty’s own site and at Sephora.
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