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Home » Eyes » Eyeshadow » Review: Makeup: Make Up For Ever Eyeshadows

Review: Makeup: Make Up For Ever Eyeshadows

April 21, 2008 Paris B 12 Comments

I had my first experience with Make Up for Ever (MUFE) as a brand quite a few years ago. I bought my first high end blush from there, liked it, used it up and then promptly forgot about the brand because it disappeared. Strange but true.

Then I met Jojoba for whom Make Up For Ever can do (almost) no wrong, and the Make Up For Ever brand once again swam into my world. On my birthday last year, she sent me a whole bunch of stuff, which included 2 Make Up For Ever eyeshadows.

Make Up For Ever eyeshadows come in single pans in a slim square plastic case. It is a magnetic case because the metal pans can be easily popped out by poking through a hole in the back and placing it into a palette. The colours can be viewed through a clear plastic slit in the cover and it closes with a magnetic clasp. All very easy and minimalistic.

The 2 colours I have are :-

No. 84 (Iridescent bronze) – Despite the name, this is a dark khaki green on the left of the picture. As the name implies it is iridescent rather than being shimmery. Whatever shimmer there is is very fine milled so you don’t get the glitter effect. The colour is sufficiently dark and makes a good base for a smokey eye or for contouring and lining.

No. 155 (Pearly light green Iridescent) – This one looks very light, almost white in the pan, but applies an iridescent light green. It looks awesome over black or dark eyeshadow as it takes on a darker iridescent green shade.

I find the eyeshadows firm to the touch. Not soft, not hard. I use my fingers for eyeshadow application and I don’t notice much of a hardening of the surface of the shadow. This is great in my book, because I hate how shadows with a crusted top look. I do notice that the shadows at the MUFE counter don’t have a crusted over surface as well.

From my experience with these 2 MUFE eyeshadows and testing the products at the counter, I find that Make Up For Ever shadows are very pigmented. Colours apply true to their colour in the pan and last a long time on the lids.

Like MAC, the range of eyeshadow colours are mind boggling. This is because Make Up For Ever is geared towards being a makeup artist’s brand so they carry a very wide range of colours. They are also one of the brands that carry matte eyeshadows. I’m not really one for matte eyeshadow, but there are people who have tried them and who like them. So, if you are looking for matte colours, you might try Make Up For Ever.

The size of an eyeshadow is large, similar to the size of a Stila pan so you really get lots of product. There are a few different textures – matte, iridescent, pearly iridescent and diamond. The intensity of shimmer goes up from none in matte to full shimmer in diamond eyeshadows. I’ve yet to get myself a diamond eyeshadow but I might go for the black some day. My present black shadow is crumbling to bits!

If there is one thing I do not like about MUFE eyeshadows are how they are labeled. I don’t like products that identify their colours with numbers. I find it harder to remember a number than a name so if I have one gripe, it is this.

Make Up For Ever can be found at their counters in Suria KLCC (centre escalators near British India) and U Parkson in 1 Utama. For now, these are the only 2 places I know of. I cannot quite recall the prices of the eyeshadows off hand as I did not buy these. Maybe when Jojoba comes round she can let us know the price 🙂

Pros: Nice texture, long lasting, pigmented

Cons: Labeled with numbers not names

[rating:4/5]

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  1. jojoba says

    April 21, 2008 at 4:24 pm

    65 MYR! LOL. same as Diamond Shadows! I think I prefer Diamond Shadow but still, regular ones are my love too. and there is a 3rd place in KL to get MUFE which is in Parkson Grand in Sunway Pyramid (weird huh? that store pratically doesn’t have anything but it has MUFE now. don’t know why.)
    and if you have Stila eye shadows, and don’t wish spend much on the palette, try MUFE palettes. They are a lot cheaper here than many other countries for some reason. the 4-pan is only 26 or 27MYR. (nearly 1/2 price of what it’s sold in HK.)

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  2. rinnah says

    April 21, 2008 at 4:55 pm

    Just to comment that the new logo is very cute! Me likey!

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  3. ParisB says

    April 21, 2008 at 4:58 pm

    Jojoba: I knew you’d deliver! Thanks! 🙂

    Rinnah: Thanks for noticing! 🙂 Just testing it out for now.

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  4. Andie Summerkiss says

    April 21, 2008 at 6:29 pm

    Great logo and great new look! Love it.

    Just want to say that I was in KL yesterday and I really wanted to buy an eyeliner. I remembered you wrote a post about it but can’t remember which one you recommended. I ended up getting a MAC eyeliner. Not that I am not pleased with it, but I would rather have the Bobbi Brown!

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  5. ParisB says

    April 21, 2008 at 6:37 pm

    Andie: Hey, next time you are in KL, lets meet up! 🙂 And thanks for the compliments on the look.

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  6. Tine says

    April 21, 2008 at 6:39 pm

    Oh hey, new logo. Very nice 😉

    I’ve never tried MUFE, although I’ve heard a lot of good things about the brand. Gah, too many brands to try out, too little money 🙁

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  7. Hessah says

    April 21, 2008 at 11:29 pm

    OMG! I love MUFE!

    I have +25 eyeshadows, and it’s never enough for me.

    my list of must-haves:

    #7 white shimmer (The best highlighter EVER!)

    #92 matte purple

    #126 tan beige shimmer

    #127 taupe shimmer

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  8. Nikki says

    April 22, 2008 at 9:01 am

    I love MUFE!!! Thanks for this…now i’m off to buy more! hehehe *take down notes on the colors*

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  9. ParisB says

    April 22, 2008 at 6:21 pm

    Tine: Thanks and its a good brand, just that we don’t get that great a selection here and stuff sell out fast. Get it here if you come back. Its cheaper.

    Hessah: Welcome! Thanks for all your recs. I’ll definitely be looking into them.

    Nikki: Hehe… Yes Hessah gave lots of choices!

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  10. Jooj says

    May 8, 2008 at 4:08 pm

    i just bought a MUFE 4-pan palette. it is indeed MYR26 (only!!), and it looks great! shiny black, feels sturdy, closes with a solid *click* sound, and has a mirror. kinda similar in look and feel to BB’s palettes. Around the same price: MAC’s 4-pan which looks and feels kinda cheap and only fits the smaller size eyeshadows, and Beautilicious’ 6-pan which is nowhere near as classy looking. MUFE’s is also half the price of Stila’s! MUFE also carries a 6-pan pallete (which is not magnetic like the 4-pan) I think it’s RM45?? and a 10-pan for RM71. as far as i can tell it should fit MUFE, BB, Stila, Beautilicious, Prestige and Bedhead pans, as well as Jane blushes. I may need that 10-pan… 🙂

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  11. Jooj says

    May 9, 2008 at 3:22 pm

    update: oh no! MUFE’s palette does not fit my BB, Bedhead or Beautilicious pans! (must be curse of the B brands) if it were just one tiiiiiny millimeter bigger it would fit, but …. sigh…. But the MUFE girl told me that it does fit Stila, Ettusais, Elianto and obviously, MUFE. Now i don’t know what to do with my palette because i don’t have any of those brands. PB, figure you wanna take it off my hands? 🙂

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