Maybelline

Maybelline City Mini Palette.

Eye Makeup

About this product

A small eyeshadow palette from Maybelline's City Mini line, offering a coordinated set of shades for everyday eye makeup.

Full ingredients

Caprylic/Capric Triglyceride, Nylon-12, Bis-Diglyceryl Polyacyladipate-2, Dimethicone, Talc, Diisostearyl Malate, Boron Nitride, Silica, Magnesium Stearate, Calcium Aluminum Borosilicate, Dimethicone/Vinyl Dimethicone Crosspolymer, Isostearyl Alcohol, Calcium Sodium Borosilicate, Alumina, Caprylyl Glycol, Ethylhexylglycerin, Sorbic Acid, Paraffinum Liquidum/Mineral Oil/Huile Minerale, Sodium Dehydroacetate, Cera Microcristallina/Microcrystalline Wax/Cire Microcristalline, Paraffin, Sorbitan Isostearate, Tocopheryl Acetate, Tin Oxide, Serica Powder/Silk Powder/Poudre De Soie, Tocopherol, Mica, Ci 77491, Ci 77492, Ci 77499/Iron Oxides, Ci 77891/Titanium Dioxide, Ci 77007/Ultramarines, Ci 77742/Manganese Violet, Ci 19140 / Yellow 5 Lake, Ci 42090/Blue 1 Lake, Ci 77510/Ferric Ferrocyanide, Ci 75470/Carmine

Guru Score

68%

Mixed

Early verdict · Few reviews so far

What they liked

Lovely color story
Loved lavender shades

What they flagged

Heavy fallout
Needs lots of product to show

What the gurus are saying

Experts split on this one. Those who loved the color story praise the shades, especially Skyscape, as a nice set to wear together. The other camp likes the colors too, but says the powder falls out everywhere and needs a heavy hand before any shade shows up. That fallout is the main complaint, so anyone who dislikes messy eyeshadow should know it going in.

Synthesized from 2 expert reviews · most recent take July 2023

Type

Eye MakeupPowder

Key actives

Vitamin E

Formula notes

Fragrance-freeNo drying alcohol

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What the gurus are saying.

Every take we've logged from this product's reviews across YouTube. Click any row to watch the moment they said it.

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Allie Glines

829k subs

~Yay

"I'm going to go into an eyeshadow palette, and I thought that this color story was really nice in the Maybelline City Mini Palette. This is Skyscape, Skyscape, yeah, Skyscape, not Skyscrape, Dusk 520. It's all mapped cool tones, and I thought that would be really pretty."

Dr Dray

2.69M subs

~Nay

"I purchased the City Mini Palette from Maybelline [...] expecting it to be a win because [...] I love these lavender shades, but it's terrible. [...] You need a ton of the product for it to even show up, and it flakes all over the place, even with a small amount. [...] The fallout of this is horrible."

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"I like the colors in the Maybelline City Mini Palette, but these eyeshadows are not very good, take it with a grain of salt since I'm not a professional makeup artist. They fall out a ton."

What the evidence says.

Independent of what the gurus think, this is what the published research supports about the main active ingredients here.

Sunscreen filters

Sun protection is the best evidenced way to slow visible ageing, and the filters are what does the work. Mineral and chemical filters both protect when a product is applied thickly enough and often enough, which is where most people fall short rather than on the choice of filter.

Source: DermNet

Vitamin E

Vitamin E is an antioxidant, and it is often in a formula to keep the other ingredients stable rather than as the active itself. It pairs well with vitamin C, though on its own the evidence for visible change is limited.

Source: NIH, National Library of Medicine

Frequently asked.

What is Maybelline City Mini Palette?

A small eyeshadow palette from Maybelline's City Mini line, offering a coordinated set of shades for everyday eye makeup.

Is Maybelline City Mini Palette worth it?

The gurus mostly approve it, but with enough reservations to keep it in the middle at a Guru Score of 68%.

What is Maybelline City Mini Palette's Guru Score?

Maybelline City Mini Palette holds a Guru Score of 68%. That is our read on how warmly the experts talk about it, based on the verdicts of 2 expert reviewers we have collected.