City Color Cosmetics

I really wanted to like this palette because its cute & colorful plus very affordable. I'm all for giving affordable brands a chance but this was such a bad palette. No pigment whatsoever. Its the type of bad pigment where the colors are hard to the touch. You dip your brush and there's no product coming off the pan. The two blue eye shadows were the only ones that were buttery and pigmented. Everything else was unworkable. I've tried dollar store eye shadows that were better pigmented than this $5.99 palette.

I bought this on a whim while checking out the cosmetics section at Five Below. I bought it while I was in that "obsessed with highlighter" phase and this did not disappoint. A small squeeze of this from the tube and you have instant strobe effect. You only need a couple dots of it, seriously. So, you buy a tube and it will basically last forever. My daughter who is now in the obsessed phase wanted something that was super potent and I pulled this out and she instantly sang the praises...

Great everyday blush colour. Kind of a muted dusty rose pink with hints of peach. Very rich and pigmented, buttery texture. Wears for a long time, but it oxidizes a bit. The colour reminds me a bit of MAC Melba, but Melba is more peachy pink while Papaya is more nude and slightly darker.