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Today I have a beautiful treat to show you, the Too Faced Cosmetics Holiday 2012, Limited Edition: Shadow Bon Bons! Do you know what bon-bons are? They are small candies covered in chocolate. No chocolate candy for you today, but something even better…makeup!

Details About Too Faced Shadow Bon Bons:

The Too Faced Shadow Bon Bons is a Limited Edition Collection of twelve eye shadows, Full-sized LashGasm Mascara, a mirror, and Candlelight Shadow Insurance (0.17 oz.)

Price: $42.00 USD (Value: $147.00)

Available at Too Faced Website, Ulta Beauty, and Sephora.

The Eye Shadows in Bon Bons: each of the twelve eye shadows is 0.03 Oz., (0.9 g)

Vanilla: Matte Bone

Cut the Cake: Heathered Mist

Framboise: Dark Purple Sparkle

Coffee Bean: Matte Coffee

Peach Fuzz: Peach Color with Gold Shimmer

Hot Cocoa: Chocolate

Candy Rose: Pink Sparkle

Lovey Dovey: Sable Brown Shimmer

Nude Beach: Champagne Shimmer with Gold Glitter

Cinnamon Sugar: Light Brown Shimmer

Marzipan: Matte Taupe

Licorice Glitz: Black with Bronze Sparkle

Too Faced Swatches:

The photo below, taken with a flash, was swatted with a primer of the Shadow Insurance Candlelight, a sheer gold color.

The photo below taken outside:

Included is one full size mascara, lashGASM, and a 0.17 oz. size of Shadow Insurance in Candlelight:

Shadow Insurance Candlelight: 0.17 Oz. (Metric: 5g) Color: Sheer Gold. A primer and also can be used as a sheer illuminating eye shadow.

The Too Faced lashGASM:

0.4 Fl. Oz. (12 mL) This is a full size mascara!

Color: Black

This is advertised as being a “defining and volumizing mascara…to create dramatically long lashes with intense color.

Totally agree!! The brush on the mascara “flexi-firm”, enabled me to get each individual lash coated with mascara without clumping.

There are illustrations of three possible looks to create with each row in the Shadow Bon Bons. I have based mine off of one called, “Toasty Caramel” (using row 3 colors), and also included two shadows from row 2 that I blended: Lovey Dovey and Hot Cocoa.

Thoughts About the Too Faced Shadow Bon Bons:

If you’re looking for an organic product, this is not for you. However, of course, Too Faced is cruelty free—it has been since the company began fourteen years ago! I agree with Too Faced that Shadow Bon Bons does, “make it easy to create bountiful looks. Go from sweet and sassy to subtle to dramatic with this one versatile set.” Make sure to use a primer, and you’ll find all the shadows are pigmented. The only shadow that I had a bit of fallout from was Peach Fuzz.

I like that there are three illustrated looks that you can create. I used it as a basis for the above photo. Shadow Bon Bons is a great value in that you’re not only getting twelve eye shadows, but you’re also able to sample the Shadow Insurance in Candlelight, and you receive a great, full size mascara!

Disclosure: I have nothing to disclose. I purchased Too Faced Shadow Bon Bons.

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Ingredients of Too Faced Shadow Bon Bons:

Coffee Bean, Hot Cocoa, Licorice Latte, Marzipan, Vanilla: Talc, Boron Nitride, Ethylene/Acrylic Acid Copolymer, Ethylhexyl Palmitate, Zinc Stearate, Phenoxyethanol, Sodium Dehydroacetate, Polyethylene, Sorbic Acid, Mica. May Contain/Peut Contenir (+/-): Iron Oxides (CI 77499, 77491, 77492), Titanium Dioxide (CI 77891), Ultramarines (CI 77007), Manganese Violet (CI 77742).

Candy Rose and Cut the Cake: Talc, Boron Nitride, Zinc Stearate, Ethylhexyl Palmitate, Phenoxyethanol, Polyethylene, Sodium Dehydroacetate, Sorbic Acid, Ethylene/Acrylic Acid Copolymer, Mica. May Contain/Peut Contenir (+/-): Iron Oxides (CI 77499, 77492, 77491), Titanium Dioxide (CI 77891), Manganese Violet (CI 77742), Ultramarines (CI 77007).

Framboise: Ethylhexyl Palmitate, Talc, Synthetic Fluorphlogopite, Calcium Sodium Borosilicate, Kaolin, Zea Mays (Corn) Starch, Zinc Stearate, Phenoxyethanol, Sodium Dehydroacetate, Sorbic Acid, Silica, Stearic Acid, Mica, Carmine (CI 75470), Iron Oxides (CI 77499, 77491), Titanium Dioxide (CI 77891), Copper Powder (CI 77400), Aluminum Powder CI (77000), Ferric Ferrocyanide (CI 77510).

Peach Fuzz: Talc, Calcium Sodium Borosilicate, Boron Nitride, Zinc Stearate, Ethylhexyl Palmitate, Polyethylene, Silica, Calcium Aluminum Borosilicate, Phenoxyethanol, Sodium Dehydroacetate, Sorbic Acid, Tin Oxide, Acrylic Acid Copolymer, Mica, Carmine (CI 75470). May Contain/Peut Contenir (+/-): Iron Oxides (CI 77492), Titanium Dioxide (CI 77891).

Lovey Dovey: Ethylhexyl Palmitate, Talc, Zinc Stearate, Boron Nitride, Polyethylene, Phenoxyethanol, Sodium Dehydroacetate, Sorbic Acid, Ethylene/Acrylic Acid Copolymer, Mica, Carmine (CI 75470), Iron Oxides (CI 77499, 77491), Titanium Dioxide (CI 77891), Ferric Ferrocyanide (CI 77510).

Nude Beach: Polyethylene Terephthalate, Ethylhexyl Palmitate, Synthetic Fluorphlogopite, Talc, Boron Nitride, Zinc Stearate, Polyethylene, Acrylates Copolymer, Phenoxyethanol, Sodium Dehydroacetate, Sorbic Acid, Ethylene/Acrylic Acid Copolymer, Mica, Carmine (CI 75470), Titanium Dioxide (CI 77891), Iron Oxides (CI 77491, 77499, 77492), Manganese Violet (CI 77742), Yellow 5 Lake (CI 19140), Aluminum Powder CI (77000).

Cinnamon Sugar: Ethylhexyl Palmitate, Talc, Boron Nitride, Zinc Stearate, Silica, Polyethylene, Phenoxyethanol, Sodium Dehydroacetate, Sorbic Acid, Ethylene/Acrylic Acid Copolymer, Mica, Copper Powder (CI 77400), Bronze Powder (CI 77400), Titanium Dioxide (CI 77891), Iron Oxides (CI 77491).

Ingredients of Too Faced Shadow Insurance Candlelight:

Isododecane, Talc, Cyclopentasiloxane, Disteardimonium Hectorite, Trimethylsiloxysilicate, Polyethylene, Triethylhexanoin, Trihydroxystearin, Sorbitan Sesquioleate, Isopropyl Lanolate, VP/Eicosene Copolymer, Dimethicone, Propylene Carbonate, Phenoxyethanol, PEG-40 Stearate, Tocopherol, Polysilicone-11, Laureth-12, Gold, Mica, Titanium Dioxide (CI 77891), Iron Oxides (CI 77491, CI 77492, CI 77499), Bismuth Oxychloride (CI 77163)

Ingredients of Too Faced lashGASM:

Water/Aqua/Eau, Cera Alba/Beeswax/Cire d’abeille, Acrylates/Octylacrylamide Copolymer, Diisostearoyl Trimethylolpropane Siloxy Silicate, Stearic Acid, Euphorbia Cerifera (Candelilla) Wax/Candelilla Cera/Cire de Candelilla, Silica, Butylene Glycol, Cetyl Alcohol, Triethanolamine, Ozokerite, Cera Carnauba/Copernicia Cerifera (Carnauba) Wax/Cire de carnauba, Butyrospermum Parkii (Shea) Butter, Limnanthes Alba (Meadowfoam) Seed Oil, Simmondsia Chinensis (Jojoba) Seed Oil, Tocopheryl Acetate, Panthenol, Caprylyl Glycol, Phenoxyethanol, Iron Oxides (CI 77499)

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The Palette for today’s review, the Matte Eye Shadow Collection, is not only cruelty free, but also Vegan-friendly: there are no animal bi-products.

Too Faced Cosmetics does not test on animals.

“No way, Too Faced loves animals! Our products are totally cruelty-free.”

Also, Too Faced does not sell their products in China, which by law, requires animal testing.

I’m not sure what is more amazing. The fact that the Founders of Too Faced, and Jeremy Johnson, started their company only 14 years ago and are now a global company; or, that despite unlike other companies that no longer have cruelty free status, Too Faced has stayed true to their vision and remained cruelty free! Thank you, Too Faced, for caring about your customers, and the welfare of animals!

Co-Founders of Too Faced Cosmetics:

Jerrod is the Creative Director, and Jeremy takes care of Sales and Operations (CEO). The goal is to “offer foolproof makeup that allows real women to become as gorgeous as they dared to dream.”

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The Matte Eye Shadow Collection was first available exclusively at Sephora in the Fall of 2011. Now you can find this, and other Too Faced “Glamorous Goodies all over the world.”

Too Faced Cosmetics believes that “the modern way to wear matte is to keep it soft, sexy and sophisticated.”

Some specifics:

The three large eye shadows are each 0.07 ounces.

The six small eye shadows are each 0.03 ounces.

(Metric: three large eye shadows are each 2 g ; six small eye shadows are each 0.9 g).

Price: $36 ($75 value)

Opening and closing the Palette is easy with a magnetic closure:

(A little piece of maroon-colored fabric is used to pull open the magnetic closure on the Palette). Click to enlarge.

There are three cards with directions for creating different looks with the shadows: Day, Classic and Fashion

Tufted Suede: caramel

Chinchilla: warm brown

Coffee Bean: the way I like my coffee- (dark, no cream, thanks!)

Velveteen Bunny : vanilla

Pebbles: stone grey

London Fog: navy

Fresh Linen: light pink

Vintage Violet: violet (gorgeous! and a very different violet from any of the eye shadows that I currently own). Not quite sure how to describe the violet color! This is my favorite color!!

Midnight: soft black

Swatches Courtesy of Too Faced Cosmetics:

My photos, swatched with Too Faced Shadow Insurance Primer:

outside photo:

Taken inside, during the evening:

Ingredients:

Tufted Suede, Chinchilla, Coffee Bean, Velveteen Bunny, Pebbles, Fresh Linen, Midnight: Talc, Ethylene/Acrylic Acid Copolymer, Cetearyl Isononanoate, Sodium Dehydroacetate, Phenoxyethanol, Methylparaben, Propylparaben, Methicone. May Contain/Peut Contenir/(+/-): Titanium Dioxide (CI 77891), Iron Oxides (CI 77491, CI 77492, CI 77499), Bismuth Oxychloride (CI 77163), Chromium Oxide Greens (CI 77288), Manganese Violet (CI 77742), Ultramarines (CI 77007).

London Fog: Talc, Boron Nitride, Zinc Stearate, Cetearyl Isononanoate, Polyethylene, Sodium Dehydroacetate, Phenoxyethanol, Sorbic Acid, Mica, Iron Oxides (CI 77499), Ferric Ammonium Ferrocyanide (CI 77510), Manganese Violet (CI 77742), Ultramarines (CI 77007).

Vintage Violet: Talc, Ethylene/Acrylic Acid Copolymer, Cetearyl Isononanoate, Sodium Dehydroacetate, Phenoxyethanol, Methylparaben, Propylparaben, Methicone, Mica, Titanium Dioxide (CI 77891), Iron Oxides (CI 77491, CI 77492, CI 77499), Bismuth Oxychloride (CI 77163), Chromium Oxide Greens (CI 77288), Manganese Violet (CI 77742), Ultramarines (CI 77007).

I followed the instruction card to create a Fashion Eye:

Lots to love about the Matte Eye Shadow Collection. It has both cool and warm tones. The shadows applied very easily, and were blendable. There was no fall out from the shadows; they didn’t crease, nor did they fade at the end of the day. *Note, I used Too Faced Shadow Insurance Primer. There are instructions (How-to Cards) in both English, and on the opposite side, French. Vegan-friendly!

Any cons? The only thing that I could think of is that you might not want an all matte palette. However, my opinion is that, while it’s great to have a variety of textures in a palette, it’s also convenient to have all matte in one place. I’m glad that I purchased the Matte Eye Shadow Collection, and I would highly recommend it!

Disclosure: I purchased the Palette. I have nothing to disclose. All links are for your convenience only.

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