Let’s look at an inexpensive quint today.

Visee is one of my favourite drugstore brands. They make great quality eyeshadows and their palettes are always cute-looking and, more importantly, filled with usable colours.

Here’s their catalogue of eye make-up

(and how cute is their new collection?! Check out Yumeko’s review here)

When I use drugstore items I often tend to make allowances for them because they were cheap, but Visee eyeshadows surpass all my expectations and perform like a much more expensive product*.

But let’s take a look at the colours first

Colours

It was difficult to capture the shade of the mid-tone brown (bottom centre of the palette, second from left on my arm) because in real life it actually has a teensy bit more purple in it that cools the shade down a bit.

It’s not the most exciting palette, but it is such a useful one. Most neutral palettes are way too warm for me, resulting in orange eyelids. This one leans a tiny bit cool. On its own it makes for an excellent everyday palette, and it’s very useful for travel. It also combines well with other colours, a pop of purple or green for example.

Performance

Like I said, this palette performs very well.

• Excellent Staying Power – Anyone who’s been to Gion Matsuri, will know how hot and humid it is (pro tip: very). Then there’s all the smoke from the yakitori stalls that makes your eyes water. It was on this night that I decided to test my Visee Palette. When I got back home I expected to be a creasy mess, if there was any pigment left on my eyelids at all, that is. Actually, it looked just as it had when I put it on, and, as I looked in the mirror, I realised that Visee eyeshadows were amaaazzziiinnggg. So amazing, in fact, that the story of their staying power stays in my brain for 4 months.

• Easy to Work with – This is pretty self-explanatory, they blend like a dream, and you can pack them on in areas where you want super pigmentation without worrying about fallout or mess.

• Soft, Buttery textures – Visee textures vary by finish. The textures of most of them are pretty good, and the texture of finishes like that of the mid-brown I mentioned above is really buttery and smooth. Compared to the Shu ME formula or Sonia Rykiel eyeshadows, there is, of course, a difference in feel, but I’m still hugely impressed by the non-drugstore characteristics of these eyeshadows. The glitter, while there’s quite a bit of it, is not chunky or blingy.

Overall

I can’t think of anything I dislike about this palette, its design is cute, the packaging isn’t flimsy, and the quality is good.

I will say, however, that I was not that impressed by these Glam Hunt eyeshadows. The colours are nice but I found when swatching them that the colour pay-off was pretty crappy with most finishes, and they didn’t have the buttery texture of other Visee palettes.

*Although not all expensive eyeshadows are necessarily good, in fact more often than not they’re a disappointment.