Is Makeup by Mario Ethereal Eyes Moonlight Palette worth it?

The gurus mostly approve it, but with enough reservations to keep it in the middle at a Guru Score of 72%.

Makeup by Mario Ethereal Eyes Moonlight Palette.

Q: What is Makeup by Mario Ethereal Eyes Moonlight Palette's Guru Score?

Makeup by Mario Ethereal Eyes Moonlight Palette holds a Guru Score of 72%. That is our read on how warmly the experts talk about it, based on the verdicts of 7 expert reviewers we have collected.

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About this product

A 12-shade eyeshadow palette from Makeup by Mario in a cool-toned Moonlight colourway, combining matte and shimmer finishes for everyday and more sparkly eye looks. It was released as a limited edition.

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)]

Guru Score

72%

Mixed

7 experts · Moderate agreement

What the gurus are saying

Cool-toned mattes steal the show here, with blendable, buildable greys, blues and browns that gurus use for smoky liners and soft transitions. The split is the shimmers: fans love the sparkle, while others find them chunky, glittery and prone to fallout on cheeks, so three or four pans may sit unused. It's a limited edition that's back after a stretch out of stock, and it suits you best if you like cool tones.

Synthesized from 7 expert reviews · most recent take October 2026

What they liked

Niche blue shades work beautifully layered
Matte shades blend easily for everyday looks

What they flagged

Shimmer shades have excessive glitter fallout
Three redundant silver shimmer pans

Type

Eye MakeupPowder

Formula notes

Fragrance-freeNo drying alcohol

Where to buy

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What the gurus are saying.

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Alexandra Anele

1.45M subs

~Yay

"The Makeup by Mario Ethereal Eyes palette is a favorite amongst so many makeup artists, especially for bridal, and it also has some really beautiful deeper taupe shades with good options to choose from."

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"I'm grabbing the Ethereal Eyes Moonlight Palette from Makeup by Mario and mixing those two colors to create a slightly lighter color, just to set that eyeliner and build up a little bit of smoke. But again, I don't want it to get too crazy, and [...] if there are any areas where I think I went in a little too much, I buff it out to make it a little softer."

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"Makeup by Mario, please will you bring this back please please. This is the Ethereal Eyes palette and it's just so perfect for this, but it was like a limited edition or something so I'm not going to use it, but it's so good, please bring it back."

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"I'm going to use the Makeup by Mario Ethereal Eyes Moonlight Palette, which is back. I don't know how long it's going to be back, but this is such a good palette, you guys. When they said it was limited edition I was so upset, but it's back. I'm going to use this color, which is my fave, place it in the crease, [...] blending into my typical shape. It's maybe a little too cool toned. Then, using my Sigma E36 brush, pick up that same color and run this on the bottom side of my lower lash line."

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"I'm going to grab the Makeup by Mario Ethereal Eyes Moonlight Palette. [...] I'm going to mix with my finger these two shimmers right here. This might not be so soft, is that too much? Oh no, that's pretty. I feel like that toned down."

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"I'm using this brown shade from the Makeup by Mario Ethereal Eyes Moonlight Palette to just set that liner and just kind of intensify that color, and the colors complemented each other so perfectly."

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"I'm going to dip into this Makeup by Mario [...] Ethereal Eyes Moonlight Palette. [...] I'm going to mix this color with that color just to get a slightly deeper color, and use the 03 brush to intensify this contour slightly, especially focusing it on the outer part of the eye, so the outer two thirds, just so we balance that a little bit. Then I grab my little blender and just soften so it's blending into the bronzer we put down."

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"I'm going to grab this cool tone shade from the Makeup by Mario Ethereal Eyes palette on my Rougher 13 brush. You could leave the eye look just like this, this is grunge. [...] I'm going to bring a little more drama to it. I'm going to start underneath my brow, bring it into the crease or just above the crease, and then bring it into that area where we flicked that eyeshadow out, [...] which kind of creates like a little bit more of a structured look."

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"This is such a beautiful palette, it's so beautiful. You can see obviously the colors that are my faves, but when I need like a neutral, when I'm going for like a neutral look, immediately this is what I grab, especially all the little toppers, the finishes are so beautiful, sparkly and gorgeous. I just love it, I think it's fantastic. It has like a perfect combination of cool tones with warmth with the blush tones, he really nailed it with this one. I don't get excited about neutral palettes."

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Skin Obsessed Mary

33k subs

~Yay

"This is the Makeup by Mario Ethereal Eye Palette in Moonlight, and it did not disappoint. This is completely my color palette because I run warm. So these tones were made for me. There are 12 shades and a mix of different finishes and honestly, there's something for everyone. [...] They're well pigmented, they are blendable, they are buildable, and they're just easy to use, which is key. And I am a serious shimmer girl. So it feels like Christmas morning every time I open this up."

Mixed Makeup

1.46M subs

~Yay

"I want you to get this makeup eyeshadow palette because it's one of the best eyeshadow palettes ever made. I love these shades."

Abbey Yung

887k subs

~Mixed

"This was my go-to eyeshadow palette for years and I've recommended it so many times, but that's because I didn't know anything like the K-beauty palettes existed yet. I wasn't able to use so many of the shades in it because they were too dark and pulled too orange on me, so I was mostly just using the lightest shade mixed with the peach shade and using the deeper shades as eyeliner instead."

Sincerely Miss Ash

196k subs

~Mixed

"You use your bronzers and your blushes and highlighters on your eyes and I like to do that because I like to get a lot of use out of my makeup products. So I basically talked myself out of purchasing this but every time I go to the Makeup by Mario page and I'm looking at his products I'm always drawn to this palette. [...] I may consider purchasing this just to get it out of my system."

Allie Glines

829k subs

~Yay

"I absolutely love this palette. It's so versatile and just absolutely gorgeous. The shimmer shadows are out of this world, and any special occasion I go to, I use this as I know I can trust it. The pigments are fantastic and they apply like a dream. [...] You can keep it simple or build up the glam, and you can make it warm, neutral, or even pinky."

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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 best part about this is Mario does an amazing job with his matte eyeshadow formula and the shades that he chooses, like the undertones, but also the shimmer shades. [...] I love this palette so much. I haven't used it because it was out of stock. Like, you couldn't get it anymore. And now that it's back, you guys better get ready because I'm going to be using this nonstop. It's such a beautiful palette."

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"Makeup by Mario released their Ethereal Eyes Moonlight version, so this is limited edition, but it's a cool-toned version of the one that they had last year or the year before, and it is beautiful. I'm wearing the mattes from this palette and [...] I've really really been loving it. If [...] you like more textures and more sparkle I would go with this, and if [...] you like cool tones then this one would be a great option as well. I'm so happy that I bought this, honestly, it's so good."

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"I only brought two eyeshadow palettes, both of them being the Makeup by Mario Ethereal Eyes Moonlight Palette. [...] I used this shade as my transition shade, and I used [...] the same brush and just pinched it and went along that lower lash line. [...] I wanted a little bit of warmth so I took that pink shade and chucked a little bit of that into the crease as well. [...] The eye look was honestly really simple."

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"I feel like the sparkle isn't as intense as I remember or maybe as I was expecting it to be. And if you go into that knowing that, I think you would love this palette. I wanted a little something more. I felt like I wanted at least one shade that was like, yes, sparkles. [...] But everything was a little more soft and a little more subtle. You still get the sparkle, [...] but it's not as pow as like other sparkle shadows that I have. And I like a good solid sparkle."

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"I feel like Mario always does the most incredible eyeshadow looks. [...] My favorite favorite ever is the Ethereal Eyes palette, the original one that is not around anymore. My hope is that they are reworking this maybe into that newer packaging and I hope they'll bring it back, but I'm not going to use this one because it's not available. But it does look like the Moonlight one is still available, at least on his website."

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"I did end up picking up an extra Ethereal Eyes palette from Makeup by Mario, just in case, I'm just going to put this in my backstock so that if anything happens to my first palette I don't have to worry, because apparently this is still limited edition. I [...] feel like the blue eyeshadow is something very new for me, so that took me a while to get the hang of what exactly I wanted to create with that, but overall I'm really happy with how everything looks."

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"We're going to start off with one of my favorite palettes right now, [...] the Makeup by Mario Ethereal Eyes Moonlight Palette. This is limited edition but it's back apparently, at least for a little bit. I'm going to mix these two shades to start, I need a little bit of a lighter transition shade before hopping into the main palette I want to use."

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"I'm going in with secret, I can't see this color right here from the Mario Ethereal Eyes palette, which is one of my favorite palettes. [...] I'm tapping it off this gorgeous lovely secret color right here for the same palette and I'm going to start building up like the outer edge of the eye, and then kind of like drag it up and out toward the end of the brow."

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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."

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HotandFlashy

1.23M subs

~Nay

"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."