Review - Too Faced Life's a Festival Palette

Ok, Ok I know what you're thinking, "not another unicorn themed makeup range, we are so SICK of this!" Well, let me tell you that I most certainly am NOT sick of unicorns and this palette was screaming out to me amongst all the other nonsense in this latest launch from Too Faced.

Running with the theme of their famous "Unicorn Tears" lipstick, the brand has dedicated an entire range to unicorns and the Unicorn Tears colour. Alongside the palette, Too Faced launched powder and cream highlighters, lipsticks, lip toppers, a bronzer, highlighting brush and some weird spray that I don't quite understand.  Now, as much as I love unicorns, I hate rainbow highlighters, never wear cream highlighter, don't like bronzer and the lipstick shades didn't appeal to me at all. I still have no idea what the spray is meant to do. Make your face shiny or something, I dunno. It's weird.

I ordered the palette from Debenhams, although it is also available on Cult Beauty (I'm too impatient to wait for the shipping from Cult though, and I like to get my Beauty points from Debenhams). The palette retails for £35 and contains 14 shades - 13 eyeshadows and one dual use eyeshadow/highlighter. This palette only contains two matte shades, so that's worth keeping in mind if you like to use a single palette for a full eye look.

The packaging on this palette is everything an overgrown six year old like myself could want - rainbows, glitter, a unicorn and holo! It's in the shape of a rainbow, which I find extremely adorable and the glitter accents just complete the tackiness of the whole thing.

When you open the palette, the inner of the component is completely holographic (yes, ACTUAL holo for all you Holosexuals out there) and the shade names are printed underneath the shadows, which I always prefer as opposed to having them on the back of the palette.

Like a lot of Too Faced palettes, this is scented. The official scent is Fruity Pebbles, but being an English person I have no idea what they are supposed to smell like. The scent is not as overpowering as that of the chocolate or peach palettes from Too Faced. It's very subtle and I would say if anything, it smells similar to the Sugarpill Liquid Poison lipsticks, which I believe are supposed to be orange creamsicle scented.

There is a lovely mixture of duochrome and shimmer shadows in this palette, all have whimsical names and are very soft but playful colours. The boldest colour in the palette is probably "Artist Pass" which is quite reminiscent of Mac's Blue Brown. The highlighter in the palette,, Unicorn Tears, is the star of the show for me. It's a stunning white/pinky lavender duochrome colour and looks very pretty on the face or eyes. It is fairly glitter heavy, although nothing like the Kat Von D Metal Crush highlighters, but if you like a subtle sheen then this is definitely not the highlighter for you.

If you don't like a bold or colourful eye look, then you will probably need a supplemental palette/shadows to work with this one and just use the duochromes and shimmers as accents. I do not do neutral or subtle, however, and will be happy to use this on it's own since there is a matte pink shade that can live in my crease!

If you're not over the unicorn trend and are looking for a palette that isn't just another sea of warm tones, then this one is absolutely great. If you prefer to play it safe then I'd maybe give this one a miss and pick up one of their Chocolate Bar or Peach palettes instead.