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Ethereal eyes Moonlight palette.

Makeup by Mario Ethereal eyes Moonlight palette
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About this product

A 12-shade eyeshadow palette featuring cool-toned mattes and shimmers in blues, mauves, grays, and neutrals, designed for creating dimension and dimension from everyday to holiday looks.

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The Guru Index verdict

77%

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✓Approved · 77%
2Reviewers
1Approved
1Mixed
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What the gurus are saying

The palette's matte shades and cool color story earn consistent praise for depth and wearability, from everyday neutrals to winter-appropriate looks. However, the shimmer shades split opinion sharply: some find them stunning for special occasions, while others report the chunky, glittery shimmers fall heavily onto cheeks with little payoff on the lid. Those drawn to cool tones and willing to skip or save the shimmers for holiday wear may find real depth here; anyone seeking reliable everyday shimmers or who dislikes chunky glitter may want to swatch first.
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Key actives & flags

SPFFragrance-freeAlcohol-free

Full ingredients

Mica, Talc, Zinc Stearate, Boron Nitride, Nylon-12, Silica, Octyldodecyl Stearoyl Stearate, Diisostearyl Malate, Sodium Dehydroacetate, Phenoxyethanol, Sorbic Acid, Triethoxycaprylylsilane, Cellulose, Polyethylene, Titanium Dioxide (Ci 77891), Manganese Violet (Ci 77742), Iron Oxides (Ci 77491, Ci 77492), Yellow 5 Lake (Ci 19140)], Dimethicone, Calcium Aluminum Borosilicate, Caprylic/​Capric Triglyceride, Magnesium Myristate, Hdi/​Trimethylol Hexyllactone Crosspolymer, Caprylyl Glycol, 1,2-Hexanediol, Tin Oxide, Acrylates Copolymer, Isododecane, Iron Oxides (Ci 77491, Ci 77492, Ci 77499), Bismuth Oxychloride (Ci 77163)]

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Allie Glines
Allie Glines
830k subs · 36k devotees
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"I'm going to take this on that same brush and kind of like set the drift eyeliner with this and then use the brush to create a bit of a shadowing. I really love that. These colors are honestly not exact, and I'm usually pretty good at matching exact colors, but I feel like these blues are quite niche, but I'm loving the effect that it's giving."
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"I'm going to take this on that same brush and kind of like set the drift eyeliner with this and then use the brush to create a bit of a shadowing. I really love that. These colors are honestly not exact, and I'm usually pretty good at matching exact colors, but I feel like these blues are quite niche, but I'm loving the effect that it's giving."
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"The Ethereal Eyes Moonlight palette is still available, at least on his website. The shades work really well for creating depth and dimension on the lid and crease, I'm using this beautiful smoky mauve shade to deepen and sculpt the outer portion of the eye."
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"I love this palette. I'm so happy with how the look turned out. The blue was the color, and even this topper color that had that blue undertone to it, those were the ones that I was the most curious about. It's very wearable. You obviously would have the ability to do something way more intense than what I did, but this is approachable, even good for everyday. I really loved using the Navy shadow as more of an eyeliner for this look. I think it made it super wearable and it makes me very excited for holiday parties. This is going to be a gorgeous palette for winter and honestly year round because you do have so many of those neutrals in here as well and you also have toppers that do lean a little bit more warm. I feel like it offers something different still than the first palette just because it's way more cool toned."
HotandFlashy
HotandFlashy
1.23M subs · 70k devotees
~Mixed
"This one is the Makeup by Mario Ethereal Eyes Moonlight Palette. I don't really want to talk too much about these except to say that it is a gorgeous palette. I've used it in videos and I love it, but it's the kind of palette that I'm not really going to reach for every single day because of how the shimmers are in it. The Mario is more true neutral to gray and blue, but it has shimmers in it that are very chunky and very glittery. If you're not into chunky glittery shimmers then you really will have no use for at least three or four pans from this palette. It's a stunner, it's gorgeous. This is the glittery color that I have on my eyelids today and it's beautiful and I love it, but it really is for me I'll wear it like Christmas Eve and to make a video but not so much in real life. So if you're looking for something special for the holidays or for a gift I would recommend it, but for everyday use it's not what I'd pick."
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"I love the Mario eyeshadows, but today I decided to use my Mario Ethereal Eyes Moonlight Palette, and I was really disappointed with this. The main thing was that the shimmers in this palette, they have so much glitter and so much fallout, and they don't give you any payoff on the eyelid. It didn't stay in place. You couldn't even see it. I had glitter all over my cheeks. I like the mattes in this. I don't like the shimmers. The only shimmer in this palette that is kind of like problematic is this white one, and I wish this one wasn't such a big pan because this is really a glitter fallout shimmer. So stay away from this one."
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"This one is the Makeup by Mario Ethereal Eyes Moonlight Palette. I don't really want to talk too much about these except to say that it is a gorgeous palette. I've used it in videos and I love it, but it's the kind of palette that I'm not really going to reach for every single day because of how the shimmers are in it. The Mario is more true neutral to gray and blue, but it has shimmers in it that are very chunky and very glittery. If you're not into chunky glittery shimmers then you really will have no use for at least three or four pans from this palette. It's a stunner, it's gorgeous. This is the glittery color that I have on my eyelids today and it's beautiful and I love it, but it really is for me I'll wear it like Christmas Eve and to make a video but not so much in real life. So if you're looking for something special for the holidays or for a gift I would recommend it, but for everyday use it's not what I'd pick."
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"If I ignore the shimmers I can do a beautiful everyday matte look with it. There's three silver shimmers in here, and I'm not sure that anyone needs three silver shimmers in one palette. There are three pans that I'm not going to use like on an everyday basis. I think they're both beautiful, it's just going to depend on what kind of colors you wear."
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"This palette is just stunning, it is gorgeous and it's just such a special palette for the holidays. The colors in here are definitely not the average things that you see in the average palette, but this one really spoke to me because it's on the cool side, it has some blues, it has some really pretty shimmers. The shades are so gorgeous, I used the lightest one on my movable lid at the inner corner, then this kind of dusty mauvey color in the crease, then I went with this gray to deepen up and smoke out the crease, and then I put on some of this really dark navy blue, so pretty, and then I top that with this gorgeous peacock shimmer. Oh my goodness, is that not just stunning?"
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