Anastasia Beverly Hills Prism Eyeshadow Palette

After the trauma Anastasia Beverly Hills (ABH) fans experienced with the Subculture formula fiasco, many were hesitant to purchase their next palette release, Prism. Me? I’m a die-hard ABH palette lover so Prism went right into my Sephora cart the day it released!

Something about the shade selection of this palette made me immediately perk up. The shades are so much more vibrant than other more muted palettes and the diversity of colors made me forget all about the woes of Subculture. I was willing to take the risk and purchase the palette – and I wasn’t disappointed when it arrived.

Prism’s standout factor for me is the seven metallic shades. I think some of them are technically labeled “shimmer”, but they are INTENSE so I’m considering them all to have the metallic formula.  Favorites of mine are Dimension, Throne, and Osiris. These three are definitely unique shades and possibly completely unique to my collection which is always a win for me! One swipe of any of these is super pigmented with minimal fallout. Quite the feat when most metallic formula shades have significant fallout.

But the metallics weren’t the only eye-catchers here. Two of the mattes – Sphere and Obsidian – were calling my name from either side of the color spectrum. Sphere is a fluorescent yellow identical to the bright yellow/green in the Sephora Pro Editorial palette. It does take some layering on deep skin to pop, but it does POP! Obsidian is not a shade I initially thought I’d like. On first sight, the black looked like a new name for my all-time favorite super pigmented black shadow, Noir from ABH. However, Obsidian is actually a lighter black that lets you layer up the intensity instead of just packing it on in one swipe. I typically stick to Noir or Dark Matter from Melt Cosmetics, but I might use Obsidian more come spring/summer where I don’t want no smoke.

The only dud for me was Lucid. Lucid is a white shimmer with a yellow shift, and as pretty as that sounds, it swatched (and applied with a brush) patchy. The shade should act like the limited edition Looxi Beauty Stiletto highlighter, but it clearly didn’t get the memo. I’d stick with an alternate if you are really looking for that shade. Moonlight from the ItsMyRayeRaye x BH Cosmetics collab palette is a good dupe that is available now. Not a dud, more like an annoyance is this new move towards velvet palette packaging. I’m a messy makeup applier and as soon as powder starts flying the palette is immediately covered in it. Trying to brush it off leaves the palette dirty and gross-looking. However, with Modern Renassiance, Prism, Subculture and now Soft Glam … it seems this velvet trend is here to stay. Meh.