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Pat McGrath Labs

Eyeshadow palettes.

Pat McGrath Labs
Eyeshadow palettes
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About this product

High-end eyeshadow palettes featuring multiple shades in various finishes, available in different sizes and color collections.

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The Guru Index verdict

63%

Mixed

~Mixed · 63%
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What the gurus are saying

Gurus acknowledge Pat McGrath Labs delivers beautiful, pigmented products, but feel the brand has lost its spark. The recurring complaints are high prices relative to value, repetitive shade stories across launches (especially pinky-nude tones), and perceived quality inconsistency in recent releases. Several reviewers report feeling fatigued by the sameness and unwilling to repurchase despite respecting the initial formula quality.
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What the gurus are saying.

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"I probably got a couple of Pat McGrath Labs eyeshadow palettes, the smaller ones because the big ones were like $200 maybe. They're very expensive and I'm not that great with eyeshadow. So, I'm not going to spend a whole ton on eyeshadow because I'm not very good at it."
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"The quality of the eyeshadows did seem to change slightly to a point where I was like, oh, I don't know what's really happening here. I remember buying one eyeshadow palette that was like a bigger version. And everyone seemed to love it. And I was like, no, this feels different. It doesn't feel right. There's something off about the quads. And then the releases came along, Bridgerton, all this other stuff, the other motherships. And it just seemed to give us this same shade of pinky nude, reddy pinky nude. It was almost like that was happening with the eyeshadow. And you were paying quite a hefty price for a cardboard palette."
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"Pat McGrath Labs definitely has beautiful, beautiful products that are worth the price point to an extent. But what I do find a lot about the Pat McGrath palettes is that only half the palettes are exciting. You have some nice colors here, but not such a great moment down here. They're very pricey considering the choice of what you get. More often than not, when I do see a new launch for a Pat McGrath palette, they look very samey. There's a lot of similarities between all the palettes, which I do find like, well, I don't really want to buy anything because everything looks the same as what I already have."
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"They're very pricey considering the choice of what you get. Some people may not be happy or see any difference in some of the palettes themselves. I know that now, more often than not, when I do see a new launch for a Pat McGrath palette, they look very samey. There's a lot of similarities between all the palettes. I don't really want to buy anything because everything looks the same as what they released last year, or perhaps a launch looks very similar to what I already have from the brand. This was a brand that kind of started out very exciting and they delivered, but I would like to be excited by the brand again, which I'm not really."
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"The quality of the eyeshadows did seem to change slightly to a point where I was like, oh, I don't know what's really happening here. I remember buying one eyeshadow palette that was like a bigger version. And everyone seemed to love it. And I was like, no, this feels different. It doesn't feel right. There's something off about the quads. And then the releases came along, Bridgerton, all this other stuff, the other motherships. And it just seemed to give us this same shade of pinky nude, reddy pinky nude. It was almost like that was happening with the eyeshadow. And you were paying quite a hefty price for a cardboard palette."
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