Pixi Palettes

Whenever I visit Target and look through the cosmetics aisle, I always dismiss Pixi for being too expensive and never really pick anything up. Around Christmas time I noticed that these two palettes were on sale for around $5 each and pick it up to try. They are the Pixi's Softly Smoking Eyes and the Sensual Smoking Eyes. Wasn't too impressed at first, but after trying them for a bit, I love them.
The colors on each palette range from wearable to dramatic. Except for one matte black, all of them are shimmery and fairly pigmented. They can get a bit chalky but that really isn't too distracting.

The swatching came out a bit weird so bear with me. First off is the Sensual Smoky palette (the green boxed one). All of these were done without a primer and swatched on my arm with my finger with flash. For me, this wasn't my favorite range of colors and didn't really match with each other. All the colors here have some sort of glitter that you really can't catch. The flash really didn't capture the shimmer in each of the colors.

For instance, can you see the red shimmer in the dark blue? Not really. The darker colors were harder to blend and work with but were still pretty.

After swatching the second bunch and getting the colors all over my arm, I decided to get smart and stack the swatches. This is the second palette (the blue one) photographed with all of the same conditions listed above. For me, this palette works, blends and matches much better that the one above. There are a great mix of colors, and I would only need this one palette when going on vacation.

The only downside to this palette is the packaging. The colors are housed in a cardboard with only a magnetic closing on the lids. So this can open by itself and get damaged easily. What I usually do is tie a rubber band around this so that it won't accidentally open. I also don't know if you can still get this around Target though. However, if I do see some Pixi stuff on sale, I won't hesitate to buy some. I still wouldn't get anything from the line at full price though. Maybe I'm a bit biased about purchasing expensive, makeup at a drugstore and I almost never buy drugstore makeup until it goes on sale. I have to start changing that habit.