This is a warm eye shadow palette that has eighteen multi-finish shadows in it, and is supposed to smell like gingerbread.
The front of the box and the front of the palette are the same; they both have Too Faced Gingerbread Extra Spicy raised on the front along with raised white piping around the border and a gingerbread woman and man with a heart in between them. I like when companies make the palette the same as the box.
The back of the box has the name of the palette, along with a description of the palette and the colours of the shadows with their names.
Included with the palette is a How-to Glamour Guide that shows you how to create some looks with the shadows with a step-by-step guide. In this guide there are four looks, Spice Girl, Cinnamon Toast, Bake and Chill and Ginger Mama.
Top row, colours left to right: Vanilla Wafers, Cookie Cutter, Soft and Sweet, For The Graham and Drizzle It.
Middle row colours left to right: Lick The Spoon, Spicy Mami, Extra Spicy, Half Baked, Butterscotch and Cookie Call.
Bottom row colours left to right: Plenty Of Dough, Candy Queen, Gingerbread Glam, Hot Tamale, Cinna-Moan and Midnight Snack.
Colours
Vanilla Wafers (matte cream).
Cookie Cutter (soft peach gold).
Soft and Sweet (matte soft pink brown).
For the Graham (matte peachy brown).
In a Pinch (matte deep pumpkin).
Drizzle It (burnt rose gold).
Lick the Spoon (pink gold with silver pearl).
Spicy Mami (orange copper glitter).
Extra Spicy (matte red orange).
Half Baked (mustard brown metallic).
Butterscotch (matte mustard yellow).
Cookie Call (matte mahogany).
Plenty of Dough (soft peach).
Candy Queen (yellow brown with gold pearl).
Gingerbread Glam (rustic brown).
Hot Tamale (soft ruby pink).
Cinna-Moan (matte brick brown).
Midnight Snack (deep blue with icy blue/silver sparkle).
Like the original Gingerbread Spice palette, this one has a good ratio of matte and metallics, so you can create lots of different looks with it. The Extra Spicy palette looks to have peachier neutral colours in and not as many pops of colour as the original. The shadows are supposed to smell like gingerbread, but to me they smell a bit weird. Thankfully though, the scent doesn’t linger. The matte shadows are still powdery and a couple of them are a bit patchy, but overall they are pigmented and last pretty long on my lids. The only two matte shadows that I had a little bit of trouble with was Hot Tamale and Cinna-Moan, I had to build them up a little bit. All of the foil shadows went on really nice and blended out beautifully. I had a little bit of trouble with Spicy Mami and Midnight Snack, these are both glitter shadows that work better with a glitter glue base and your finger to apply them. I had to build up Spicy Mami a bit on the lids as it wasn’t as pigmented as Midnight Snack but it still looked really nice afterwards.
I found that this palette is different enough from the original that I don’t mind having the both of them. If you would like to compare swatches from the two palettes please check out my review on the Gingerbread Spice palette.
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