Lorac SummerGLO Eyeshadow Palette Review

Today's review will be on the Lorac SummerGLO Eyeshadow Palette. Can we talk about how up my alley this color palette is? Yes? Like, what a welcome relief from all the neutrals I've been reviewing lately. I love how this has a great balance of both fun and neutral colors so it's good for someone like myself who likes to wear both. Honestly between this and the AfterGLO I think that this is the better quality of the two.

Availability: This appears to have been discontinued. 

Would I buy this again? I'm not entirely sure if I'd buy it for myself if it wasn't on sale - not to say the quality or value are bad - they're great actually BUT I just have so many similar colors in my arsenal that when this originally launched for summer 2014 I considered it but decided against it. I would absolutely buy it as a gift for someone though.
Notes: So I'm reading a lot of reviews where people said these have great pigmentation when used wet. I didn't know you could use them wet (without ruining the shadow/creating a crust) so I haven't used them that way. Used dry, some of these have a great pigmentation while a few are lacking. I'll try and make comments below per each individual shadow.

A soft satiny tan/sand shade that would work fantastic as a transition color, well-pigmented, smooth texture, matte satin finish.

A soft coral pink with a white pearl, well pigmented, soft texture, satin finish.

A magenta with a blue pearl, needs to be layered to get good pigmentation, texture is smooth, frosty finish. This one is disappointing because it looks like it'd be well-pigmented and it isn't.

A gorgeous turquoise blue with a white pearl, another one that needs layering to achieve ideal pigmentation, soft texture, frosted finish. I wish it was more pigmented gosh darn it, it would be so pretty. 

A soft gold, decent pigmentation (softer than the pan color would lead you to believe), smooth texture, frosted finish. 

A copper brown with white micro-glitter, pigmentation is OK but could be better, frosted finish.

A more intense turquoise, well-pigmented, smooth texture, frosted finish. 

A deep chocolate brown, OK pigmentation, smooth texture, matte finish. 

Though it looks matte in the palette, this is a satiny off-white with just a hint of a sheen, well-pigmented, smooth texture, satiny finish. 

A soft off-white-gold highlight shade - would be gorgeous on the face also, well-pigmented, smooth texture, satin-frost finish.

Please let me know if you have any questions or comments.

Disclaimer: I paid for this myself.

Lorac Pro Eyeshadow Palette 2 Review

Black Friday 2014 brought about the sale of this palette and since I'd been eyeing it since its launch I decided to just go for it. So prepare yourselves.

Availability: This palette retails at $39 for 8.8g and is available at ulta.com and khols.com as well as their respective physical store locations along with loraccosmetics.com
Would I buy this again? Yes! I really like how it's relatively different enough from the Mega Pro palette that I could have both.

Notes: The palette contains 16 shadows, 8 of which are matte/satin and 8 which are pearly/frosty. They are absolutely beautiful in their textures and work well with one another. I haven't had an issue with pigmentation or anything of that kind. This is a tad more cool-toned but I like how there's a few actual colors in here other than just all neutrals and that they're not all silver/taupe like Naked 2 is. For whatever reason warmer toned neutrals are more aesthetically pleasing to me in palettes. :I

Buff - a soft fair flesh-tone that's a little more on the golden side.

Lt. Brown - a soft milk chocolate shade that's very smooth and well-pigmented.

Cool Gray - I'd say this is more of a taupe with a strong gray undertone.

Nectar - a soft, light blush tone that would literally make a very pretty understated blush. 

Plum - I love how this is a purple and not a brown because I know plums have somewhat brown/burgundy undertones but to me they're mostly purple and this captures that perfectly; it's a deep, rich, slightly reddish aubergine. I love it. 

Navy - so navy is my mermaid winter shade, it's dark but it's still blue and nautical and this just... it's so hard to get a matte blue shade that's this perfect and buttery, *drool* Honestly, this was one of the main colors I wanted this palette for because I don't really have much in the matte navy department and this is on point.

Charcoal - a true charcoal, gunmetal gray. 

Black - a rich black, I feel like it's a tad more of a charcoal/soft black versus the inky black in the Mega Pro palette.

Snow - a frosty pure white.

Beige - a soft, slightly pinkish champagne shade.

Rose - a beautiful soft rose gold. 

Mocha -  a reddish mid-tone brown, almost plummy but not quite. 

Chrome - I love colors like this for my eye color, it's a taupe-meets-mauve, it's purply, gray, pinkish all in one and just gah... so multi-dimensional and pretty. 

Silver - a beautiful soft, true silver. 

Jade - this is an absolutely gorgeous, almost jewel-toned deep olive/army green with soft gold micro-shimmer all throughout. Another color that I really wanted this palette for and I am not disappointed in the slightest.

Cocoa - like Jade and Chrome this looks like a nice but not so dimensional color in the palette until you swatch it, then the magic happens. This is a deep plummy brown with gold and pink micro-shimmer that just give it dimension and a gorgeous shine. I love it. 

Please let me know if you have any questions or comments.

Disclaimer: I paid for this myself.