ColourPop Cloud 9 Palette Swatches
ColourPop Cloud 9 Palette is a new, smoky/gray color story in a 12-pan format. The quality was as expected for ColourPop, though I’d say the shimmers felt a bit firmer and were more emollient while being on the thinner side, which is not my favorite texture from the brand as I find it doesn’t work as well with brushes. Here are swatches!
And…we needed 5 shades of white (or nearly white, because? Plus 2 very light pinks, two light grays, too? I only see several shades that I would bother using, as the rest looks like it would ASH CITY on me. 🙄
That’s exactly what I was thinking! All those whites aren’t going to be different on the lid.
The cooler color story initially caught my eye but on closer inspection it doesn’t seem well executed and the quality doesn’t look like it’s there anyway.
I totally agree with you Nancy. I think that if the white shades were very pigmented and completely opaque, it might make a lovely palette but when I can see Christine’s arm vein and skin through the shades, I think that doesn’t bode well for either pigmented or opaque. I always use Christine’s veins and her lip freckle to determine opacity and pigmentation and these were a bit iffy. I would want to see this in person so not likely to ever know!
Not very inspiring to me. Not much difference in tone and depth. Overall, it does look like it pulls cooler toned with a couple of exceptions.
I don’t think that this is one of CP’s best palettes – the shades look quite wishy washy to me – very faded and dull. Look Up is probably the best shade in the palette.
Quite a pretty color story!
Maybe if you like this slice of the color pie, you see more differentiation. I see a LOT of differences. I can see how it becomes one note, if you use the same technique/placement all the time. Vary your app up, and there’s lots to do, without even bringing in a supplementary palette. Plus the colorways appropriate for an oldbie like me. I just might.
I’m pale enough now so that these colors might work on me. I don’t care for all the non-matte shades, however.
As someone who is a cool (blue-based) very fair, I think this looks like a palette that I would really use! And I’m thrilled it’s not another warm, orange, and brown palette, none of which are workable for me. 🙂
I agree in that I am happy it isn’t a palette of the same orange, pink, brown shades but I don’t have the creativity to see a way to utilize so many similar toned colors. It isn’t really the shades for me but the shades being so close in tone and saturation. I am glad to see it pulls more cool toned though since like you, I am super pale and have no clue what undertone I am as every time a sales associate tells me they are different. I have actually been at the Nordstrom’s in downtown Seattle and had three different sales associates tell me my undertones were strongly cool, strongly warm and neutral leaning. I actually walked out without purchasing anything which for me is a miracle.
Same here!!
If it was good quality this could have worked as a palette for me, both for everyday and night out looks.
However, when I see how the mattes perform on the swatches, I’m pretty pessimistic.
If anyone has a recommendation of a palette with a similar color story but in better quality I would run and buy it
Obviously………Depending on your coloring;
It looks like a palette of ‘blending or transition’ shades. They all look like they would serve to blend the edges of more pigmented shadows. Their performance and ability to layer etc.. would make it or break it.
I would not buy it, as I have that worked out in my kit already but if I didn’t – it might be a good (cheap) addition. But I would need to test it first.
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