Last August I purchased Boxycharm glam. I bought it exceptionally because of this Laura Lee Party Animal palette. It caught me with its vibrant shades on Instagram that looked so neon and bright.
At first, I used to think these were eyeshadows but now I know they are pressed pigments. If only I had known that before, I would have never bought it. But I won’t cry before I’m hurt, so let’s get it started. :)Wanna party? This highly pigmented palette is a must-have for every makeup enthusiast! This mini palette features 3 matte on-trend brights, and 3 shimmer shadows. These bold and versatile shades are formulated in a creamy easy blendable formula and designed in a travel friendly sized palette.
The palette costs $19.00 if bought standalone. The glam box was much more profitable of course.
The Party Animal palette consists of 6 refill pans. Each refill has 1.3g of the pigments. They are pretty big, in my book.
Manufactured in the USA.
The palette is pleasant to the touch, as though it has Touch Cover. It’s pretty heavy because of a small yet really handy mirror inside.
It’s compact and will be a good travel-friendly option.
The pigments and eyeshadows are different in the lack of base in the pigments. They are pure here.
Ingredients: Talc, Zinc Stearate, Ethylene/Acrylic Acid Copolymer, Caprylic/Capric Triglyceride, Sodium Dehydroacetate, Phenoxyethanol, Sorbic Acid, Poloxamer 338, PTFE, Silica, Mica, Tin Oxide
May Contain +/-: Yellow 5 Lake (CI 19140), Chromium Hydroxide Green (CI 77289), Titanium Dioxide (CI 77891), Blue 1 Lake (CI 42090), Chromium Hydroxide Green (CI 77289) Mica (CI 77019), Yellow 6 Lake (CI 15985), Ultramarines (CI 77007), Ferric Ferrocyanide (CI 77510), Titanium Dioxide (CI 77891), Red 7 Lake (CI 15850), Red 28 Lake (CI 45410), Red 30 Lake (CI 73360)
The products do have a base here and several ingredients are in charge of it. But they’re still to be used as pigments which means mumbo-jumbo. Lower, I’ll comment upon how exactly.
The palette offers 3 different finishes: matte, glitter and satin.
Most of all, there are matte shades here, 3 of them. That’s great because the matte shades turned out to be the least difficult to apply.
In fact, these pigments don’t dust but still, they may fall out when I apply them.
Issa Party is a yellow matte shade. It’s easy to blend out and it’s so bright. I can wear it over a primer but better over a concealer.
Dranks is a super vibrant neon orange hue. It’s the least troublesome shade to work with. I can apply it over the thinnest layer of a concealer or a primer for a lesser payoff.
Damage control is a matte blue shade. It’s great because it doesn’t blend into a bruise-like finish after blending. It isn’t complicated but still, it requires some skills with priming. If you apply it over a thin layer of concealer, it’ll appear patchy.
Karaoke is a royal blue matte color. Actually, it has the slightest shimmer infusion but when I apply it, I can’t see the shimmer anymore. Its characteristics are the same as of the previous Damage Control shade.
Swatches of the “light” shades of the palette.
The ones, which are paler, were applied over my non-primed skin.
The brighter finish was done over a concealer.
The orange one looks the best over my nude skin.
And now, the more complicated shades. There are two of them with satin and glitter finishes.
Bottoms Up is a neon pink shade with a finely-milled silver shimmer. Neither the shade nor the glitter should sit over my nude skin. It’s better to wear it over an adhesive primer and pat over the skin. It’s useless to blend, it’ll look pale and patchy. Besides, your cheeks will be covered with glitter.
Neither a setting spray nor damp brush can do anything about it. Only an adhesive primer can stick this finicky shade to my skin. However, it doesn’t last long, I mean the glitter falls out first or last but the color stays put.
Hungover is the most beautiful purple shade. It’s noble and expensive-looking, if you manage to apply it, of course. It doesn’t want to sit over my nude skin. I can’t apply it over any other shade either, even with a damp brush. It can open up only over a concealer.
It can’t be blended out, alas. Besides, it has another disappointing drawback. It stains my skin with a pink hue.
It may come through a primer too!
It takes 2 tries to wash it off. I didn’t want to rub my eyes that much and washed it off completely only in the morning.
The swatches reveal the troublesome shades of the palette.
The nude skin almost doesn’t have any color, while the pink base is peeking through in the purple color.
So: always prep your skin before applying these colors.
For a fuss-free use of the Party Animal palette, you’ll need:
a concealer (for creating a base)
if you don’t have a concealer or a primer, you can use Maybelline Color Tattoo eyeshadows of a beige color.
sticky glitter primer.
It took me some time to make out how to use this palette right and my first makeup looked like this:
My favorite makeup with this palette is pinky-orange. I blend and shape with orange and apply pink over my mobile lid. This makeup is simple yet vibrant at the same time.
Satin purple makes it possible to create a really interesting evening makeup. Hungover is for my mobile lid, the blending was done with the pink shade and I didn’t care much that it looked pale and all the shimmer fell out. I needed exactly that finish.
The palette is awesome for creativity. But I still had troubles with pure colors. I didn’t prep my skin properly, so the blue shade was patchy and the pink one was almost invisible.
So, I did the same makeup with eyeshadows and then I liked the result!
I have a better example of my makeup with this palette. Here my primer was a concealer and the Color Tattoo from Maybelline.
You can use any brushes to apply these pigments.
I use a flat brush for patting the colors and a furry one for blending. For color application, I use a defining brush.
I recommend using synthetic brushes for those difficult shades. For matte shades, I felt free to use natural brushes.
The lasting power of the pigments is fantastic! Only after 9 hours of wearing they can crease a little.
It’s worth saying that all my eyeshadows don’t stay on well now. Maybe that’s because of my skin type change or climate.
Removing is not difficult.
All the shades can be removed with micellar water or cleansing oil. Except for the staining one.
No allergy, discomforting sensation or anything negative was noticed.
The Laura Lee Party Animal palette is rather complicated to use and I don’t think that a regular user will fall for it.
I can recommend it to a makeup artist and makeup junkies or bloggers. 
You’ll have to tame it but the result is worth it.
Thanks for your attention!
See ya! 
