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Neutral Eye Collection Essential Nudes Eyeshadow Palette.

Rare Beauty Neutral Eye Collection Essential Nudes Eyeshadow Palette
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About this product

A compact eyeshadow palette featuring neutral shades plus burgundy accents, with matte and metallic finishes, designed for everyday eye looks across multiple skin tones.

Guru Score

79%

Yay

4 experts · Moderate agreement
4Gurus
4Yay
0Mixed
0Nay

What they liked

  • Blends beautifully with minimal fallout
  • Works across different skin tones
  • Compact with mirror, good for travel

What they flagged

  • Nothing new or groundbreaking

What the gurus are saying

The palette earns praise for including a burgundy shade alongside neutrals, which gurus say adds versatility across different skin tones rather than sticking to one neutral interpretation. The matte and metallic finishes are blendable and pigmented enough to work broadly, though experts note the formulas and color story feel familiar rather than innovative. It's a solid choice if you're drawn to Rare Beauty or genuinely need a travel-friendly neutral palette, but those with several similar palettes already may want to skip it.
Synthesized from 4 expert reviews · most recent take August 2026

What the gurus are saying.

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Yay
"For the eyeshadow today I used the new Rare Beauty eyeshadow palette. I really like it, it blends beautifully and there's hardly any fallout, very nice."
Yay
"This is their eyeshadow palette, which is this one. It doesn't look very exciting, but it could be. I like a beige. This is a beautiful color. The formula feels very different to what they did before with the eyeshadows, remember those colorful ones. This definitely feels a lot smoother and a lot more pigmented. This is beautiful and this gray is lovely. I love this gray, a gray like this. I really really like this eyeshadow palette. I've done something quite cold here, but you can look at the other shades, you can actually do some quite warm, a little bit deeper and smokier."
All 2 takes from Robert Welsh
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"Love Rare Beauty. Does this look boring, this palette? Absolutely. If I'm thinking it from a brand standpoint, they've only had limited edition eyeshadow palettes, so to bring in a nude and neutral is a good move for them to add to their collection. I am interested to see what the formula is like from an eyeshadow from this brand. The swatches look nicer than the palette. That's actually quite beautiful. Now you can see a bit of the more metallic looks and the mattes together. That actually looks a lot more appealing to me. I'm semi-interested. Could be interested. I'm not completely."
Did Rare Beauty just SHADE other makeup brands!??
"This is their eyeshadow palette, which is this one. It doesn't look very exciting, but it could be. I like a beige. This is a beautiful color. The formula feels very different to what they did before with the eyeshadows, remember those colorful ones. This definitely feels a lot smoother and a lot more pigmented. This is beautiful and this gray is lovely. I love this gray, a gray like this. I really really like this eyeshadow palette. I've done something quite cold here, but you can look at the other shades, you can actually do some quite warm, a little bit deeper and smokier."
Yay
"I feel like this is a really nice neutrals palette. I just like it. I think it's actually quite nice and we have like a good range. I like the colors she chose. I actually do. This palette has really grown on me. When I first tried it, I was like, yeah, it's really nice, but like it's not like necessary. But now I'm like that's all I'm grabbing."
All 3 takes from Alexandra Anele
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"I'm going to be using the Rare Beauty eyeshadow palette. Just like a very nice neutral palette. This is called Essential Neutrals, aptly named."
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"It's a neutral eyeshadow palette. I think the colors that they chose are nice. I do appreciate that they included the burgundy to kind of give you a little bit of wiggle room. It's not just like your typical neutral palette where you have just neutrals because neutral can be interpreted in different ways for different skin tones. So I kind of appreciate that there's a little bit of variation in there. That being said, this is nothing new. We haven't seen this before. I do think that the matte formulas are nice. I think they're blendable and easy to use, but there's enough pigment there that they'll work for a multitude of skin tones. I do like the metallics as well. Again, they're nothing groundbreaking, nothing that we haven't seen before, but pretty tones. So if you need a neutral palette and you have been interested in this or you love Rare Beauty and you want to support them, then I think it's perfectly fine to make a purchase. If you don't need a neutral palette, if you have five neutral palettes already, you can probably skip it. That's how I feel. I do like the packaging. I think it's cute for travel size. I think it's a nice size and it comes with a mirror."
Dude STOP over blending your eyeshadow
"I feel like this is a really nice neutrals palette. I just like it. I think it's actually quite nice and we have like a good range. I like the colors she chose. I actually do. This palette has really grown on me. When I first tried it, I was like, yeah, it's really nice, but like it's not like necessary. But now I'm like that's all I'm grabbing."
Yay
"My favorite thing is definitely the eyeshadow palette. It's very cute, very practical, very like basic, but in a good way."

Frequently asked.

What is Rare Beauty Neutral Eye Collection Essential Nudes Eyeshadow Palette?

A compact eyeshadow palette featuring neutral shades plus burgundy accents, with matte and metallic finishes, designed for everyday eye looks across multiple skin tones.

Is Rare Beauty Neutral Eye Collection Essential Nudes Eyeshadow Palette worth it?

Yes. All 4 gurus who reviewed it give it their stamp of approval, for a Guru Score of 79%.

What is Rare Beauty Neutral Eye Collection Essential Nudes Eyeshadow Palette's Guru Score?

Rare Beauty Neutral Eye Collection Essential Nudes Eyeshadow Palette holds a Guru Score of 79%. That is our read on how warmly the experts talk about it, based on the verdicts of 4 expert reviewers we have collected.

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