glamazon™ Amazonian clay eyeshadow palette

Tarte glamazon™ Amazonian clay eyeshadow palette takes its colour cues from the Amazon rainforest — peach, bronze, forest green, amber, copper and a blue luster alongside the browns. Ten pans cover both shadow and liner duty, and two of them are oversized transition and highlight shades you are unlikely to run through.

What it actually does

• Ten shades that double as liner. Tarte presents the pans as shadow and liner shades, so the deeper mattes and shimmers can be pressed along the lashline.
• Two XL pans for the shades you burn through. The highlight and transition shadows come in larger pans — the brand calls them "never hit pan" sizes.
• Finish breakdown: five mattes, four shimmers and one luster, so you can go flat, metallic or softly satin from the same compact.
• The shade range: horizon (matte soft peach), canopy (deep bronze shimmer), lush (matte forest green), light break (amber shimmer), haze (matte tan), enchanting (copper shimmer), lagoon (blue luster), forest (matte deep brown), mystic (pearl shimmer, XL pan) and scenic (matte light brown, XL pan).
• Amazonian clay in the formula. Tarte's claim here is one-swipe colour plus wear that is better, longer and truer.
• Slimmer compact. The brand describes the case as modernised and 10% thinner, which makes a difference if you travel with palettes.

How to use

1. Transition first with scenic, the XL light brown, swept through the crease to set up a soft gradient.
2. Choose your lid. Canopy or enchanting for a warm metallic, mystic for a pearl wash, lush or lagoon when you want colour rather than neutrals.
3. Deepen the outer corner with forest, then blend the hard edge back into scenic.
4. Line with a deep matte. Forest or lush on a damp liner brush gives a softer line than pencil and keeps the look inside the palette.
5. Highlight the inner corner and brow bone with mystic or horizon to open the eye back up.

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