Favourites: Sleek Ultra Matte Palettes

We love Sleek for being an affordable brand that always manages to stay up to date with the trends in make-up. 

Famous for their 12 pan eyeshadow palettes used by make-up enthusiasts and make-up artists alike, their i-Divine Ultra Matte Palettes are amazing.

The Bright V1 and Dark V2 Ultra Matte Palettes both contain 12 eyeshadows each cased in their trademark super slim compact. These are undoubtably some of the best high street matte shadows we have used, if not the best. 

The benefit of matte shadow is that they photograph and enhance contours beautifully under harsh camera flash as well as natural light, they are also a little more forgiving on textured skin around the eye. Mattes can be a little tricker to blend but these shadows take little effort at all. The colours are extremely buildable and nicely pigmented too.

The sponge applicators included do pick up the colour well but I would ditch them in favour of a brush to make blending easier.

If you want to create a bold, vivid eye then opt for the bright palette.These colours are a solid pop of neon. Go all out and create a bright rainbow of colour on the eye or use them as a liner on the top or bottom lid to add a colourful edge.

The darks palette is just what you need for a smokey eye that has more intensity that a shimmery smokey eye.

Plums, blues, browns and bottle greens complement all eye colours and skin tones and the lighter creams and whites add a highlight without the frosted look of the 80's

Palettes are £6.49 each and available from www.sleekmakeup.com

Check out these videos where Sam creates two different looks using the Dark Ultra Matte V2 Palette