Speaking of the pros, makeup artist and YouTube icon Jamie Genevieve recently released my palette of the year and, despite it selling out on day one, she’s adamant that it will be back in time for Christmas.
The Essential Eyeshadow Palette (£43), by her new signature brand Vieve, is sublime – a doubledecker palette of 10 warm, wearable but vivid neutrals in dense sparkles and almost creamy, unusually blendable mattes. (You know those pigment-drenched shadows that seem to embed where they land, refusing to be made soft, smoky and blurry with a brush? Well, these have all the punch, none of the pigheadedness.) The former are a sort of gel-powder, making them glide on smoothly – no unmovable clumps or postapocalyptic particle fallout (I’ve tried applying the glittery shadows several ways and finger works best). The fill (industry term for portion size) is also huge for a multishadow, at a whopping 3.1g a pan.