I’ve been branching out more into indie brands (and European indie brands to boot, for easier access), and waiting for the perfect colour scheme to pounce on one of the Oden’s Eye eyeshadow palettes. Is Giant Wolves THE ONE?!
Oden’s Eye is a Swedish indie brand that concentrates mainly on eyeshadows, cheek products and the occasional lip product. They’re influenced by Nordic sagas and mythology, reflected in their whimsical packaging.
They excel in original colour combinations and have been known for adding duochromes and multichromes to their palettes. The Giant Wolves Palette is part of a trio of eyeshadow palettes created with three influencers/creators: Judy, Tina and Annette.
Annette’s colour story spoke to me the most (I love purples), and so I got it.
Incredible attention to detail
Shipping fees were really reasonable (6€), and the shipping time really fast: I got my palette 7 days after ordering it. The packaging impressed me a lot: it showed an incredible amount of thoughtfulness. The palette came in a collection branded box with pictures of the whole collection, bubble wrapped in heart (!) bubble wrap. Also included was a silk scarf printed with the Giant Wolves palette design.
Shades in the Giant Wolves palette
The Giant Wolves palette includes 12 shadows (net weight 13g, made in China), that are described as follows: 7 matte eyeshadows, 4 shimmer eyeshadows, 1 multi-chrome eyeshadow.
Here’re my impressions after playing extensively with the palette and doing looks with every shade.
Astral: a near translucent white base with a gold shimmer. Seems like a duochrome in some lighting conditions. Rather soft and crumbly. This didn’t work for me as an inner tearduct highlight as it was difficult to achieve a precise application. It works best applied with a finger over a glitter glue for me.
Flare: an antique gold with a green-gold shift. Very smooth shimmer, but packs a punch.
Antipode: a murky olive green matte.
Annihilation: a black matte.
Sköll: a black base with shimmer particles that reflect blue-pink. Rather soft, again, for me, finger application over a sticky base is a must.
Desolate: a blackened greyish Kelly green matte
Howling: a slightly grey leaning aubergine matte
Hati: described as “super shiny gray blue shimmer eyeshadow”. Come ON people, it’s a pressed glitter. It has a near translucent base with chunky glitter particles that shift from silver to electric blue. Everything about this annoys me: the colour payoff, how scratchy it feels in the pan and how you have to baby it when applying. How nice could this have been with a silver base and finer glitter. My least loved shade in here.
Ablaze: a murky magenta matte
Cosmos: a dark greyed navy matte
Eternal: a multichrome shimmer that shifts from a light, icy blue to a light green, to gold, to pink. It’s very smooth but feels a bit thin in the pan. Might need a base for it to properly shine.
Azure: a matte bright mid-tone blue
Shade comparisons
Some (pseudo-)dupes in my stash:
Mattes
Untamed from ABH’s Subculture palette for Desolate
Love from bh cosmetics Flower Power palette for Ablaze
Montmartre from bh cosmetics Passion in Paris for Cosmos
Seine from bh cosmetics Passion in Paris for Azure
The shimmers
Glam Shop Unikat is by no means a dupe for Eternal (sorry)
Hass from bh cosmetics Avocado Toast comes kind off close to Flare
Versailles from bh cosmetics Passion in Paris is similar to Sköll.
Oden’s Eye Giant Wolves review: Performance
The mattes
The matte eyeshadows perform generally well. They’re incredibly smooth and pick up easily without kickup. They’re also very pigmented, and, for me, difficult to apply lightly or sheer. If you want to achieve full saturation with these – bam, done! Easy. I found blending them lightly though and building them up slowly rather difficult and patchy-leaning.
Blending them into each other is very easy though.
The shimmers
Generally smooth and a joy, BUT! You definitely need a glitter glue or to spray your brushes. For me, I apply them with a finger or even with one of those little silicone sponge applicators to minimize fallout, because there will be some.
There’ll be some fallout during the day, but less than I expected.
I exclude Hati here, which is honestly just an annoyance to me (and also might developing hard pan after carefully using it for a bit more than a week?!). Speaking of hard pan: the shimmer shadows seem to be prone to that. Eternal and Sköll are the ones that are on the verge to that as well. (Let me stress that I’m ALWAYS very careful how I treat my shadows.)
Oden’s Eye Giant Wolves review: Looks and Wear
The palette is very thoughtfully arranged – you’ll be able to easily pair shadows for at least four looks if you just go through the single rows. (I always find that helpful.) The shimmers also lend themselves easily to a two-shadow look: use a shimmer all over the lid, blend out with one of the mattes, done.
A word of warning, though: there’s nothing subtle about the looks you’re creating, though. I’ve paired the shimmers with some light beiges and browns to tone them down for everyday wear and got some really pretty results.
The shadows perform really well over my regular primer and glitter glue – there’s been no creasing nor flaking.
Price & Accessibility
In relation to the price and accessibility, I find that it was absolutely worth it buying the Giant Wolves palette (different to, say, Clionadh, where you’ll wait for 6 weeks for your shadows and pay around $25 for one multichrome).
It’s fun, with (mainly) good quality, in a colour scheme I really like. It retails for 27,90€ at the Oden‘s Eye site.
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Thank you so, so much for the in-depth review.
And let me say how grateful I am that someone FINALLY mentions how much of a problematic shade Hati is.
I hate that shade as well, and the worst of all: no reviewer talks about it!
Like you I‘m also very much afraid that there is definitely a high chance of hard pan forming on these shimmers
Thank you Elle, my pleasure. I used Eternal in a look today, and while stunning, I’ve to admit that because of the issues you too mentioned (now I don’t feel like a weirdo any longer – I was second-guessing myself because no one talks about that?!) I didn’t get one of the other palettes during the Black Friday sale.
You are actually the first reviewer whom I totally agree with when it comes to this palette, and ESPECIALLY regarding the Shade “Hati”! I was doubting myself because noone else mentions this, and I’m glad I read your review and also another person (Elle) commenting on this thread saying that she felt the same! It just validates the fact that I’m not exaggerating. That shade is so hard to pick up and just leaves a few glitter particles behind, nothing more. I made such a big dip in it already trying to pick up colour, I will soon pan it! 😀