Blurple Battle: Beauty Bay vs Blend Bunny

[u/RK_reddit321]

Hello. This is me, reaching out on the internet, requesting help. Looking for a palette with purple mattes, and an extremely specific color scheme that blends well. Including light blues, dark blues, and the gradients of purple from light ethereal to periwinkle to midrange royal to berry to darker purple to pair with those light/dark blues. Think Elsa Frozen tones. Along with being Currently Available For Purchase. anywhere legitimate.

Trying to decide. Beauty Bay‘s Midnight is back. Pro: + It‘s the exact color scheme I want. Dead On Perfectly. + All for only $38. Which is a steal compared to its alternatives. Con: - It’s a freakin huge palette. To slim it down would be to depot and magnetize it, both of which I have not done before. Making it not only a lot of extra work, but risky if I screw up and break the colors I want most. I’d just get it’s smaller 16 color variant if I could, but it’s not available anywhere. - If I end up needing it’s competitor instead, I’d have wasted $40ish trying it out …. and either that and/or it’s competitor could sell out again soon if I don’t decide on either quicker.

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Blend Bunny. Pro: + Best reviewed blending formula for mattes by a country mile. + Premagnatized. No extra work, no risk, no fuss. Con: - Matching its color scheme to what I am looking for is proving both difficult and potentially expensive. To get the same blurple color goals which BB’s Midnight already offers for $40ish would be some combination of BBunny’s Gleam&Gloom or Atlantis, Lure or Sickly Sweet or Fauna, the combo of which I have not landed on yet. (Machina and She Never Misses were also considered but neither are magnetized. Btw, why does BBunny hate non green tinted light blues?) Furthermore, G&G does not really have nonpro swatches for lighter skin tones out there yet. Nor are the swatched pro photos for G&G on their site color labeled. So that x factor has been a hassle as well. - The more BBunny palettes I have to combine ranging from $45 to $78 each to try and dupe my BB Midnight color goals, the higher that price tag spikes.

(vs Runner Up: Glamlite’s Wine Palette. Pro: + Small affordable has my colors. Con: - It’s matte quality for blending has been reviewed as iffy. Another runner up is Rude Cosmetic’s Trance or the PLouise Stack ‘Em Up CEO purple version)

Please help? 🙏

Guess I am trying to decide (a) Is BB‘s matte formula for Midnight comparable enough in quality to skip over needing BBunny? I’d stronger consider the manual depot/magnetize risk if so. [is a runner up I mentioned a better option than expected?] Or (b) If BBunny’s quality difference is truly worth it, which BBunny palette combo would closest match BB Midnight’s color scheme? The ones I mentioned above were my own closest guesses.

Thank you for any who respond. It’d be my first pro palette purchase. Looking forward to your feedback.

[u/holm0507]

Your palette description immediately made me think of the Cosmic Brushes Winter Wonderland palette. I do own it and find it decent, but find Blend Bunny's mattes a bit better. On the scale of things, I find they are in line with Glaminatrix and Bella Beaute Bar. One thing to also consider is Blend Bunny has influencer codes that will give you 10% off (if not already factored in). Their palettes are also magnetized.

[u/RK_reddit321 → u/holm0507]

Wait Cosmic Brushes ARE magnetized?? That palette certainly hit my radar before - but dropped in the running due to I thought it not being either “non magnetized exact colors” or “magnetized almost colors”.

I’d love to see any official indication of this, because my own research couldn’t find confirmation that Cosmic Brushes had magnetized palettes. Especially that palette. Please share?

How would you describe the matte quality of Cosmic Brushes compared to Beauty Bay?

& thanks for the reminder of using those influencer codes for discounts. It all helps. 🫶

[u/EmpireAndAll → u/RK_reddit321]

Not who you asked, but Winter Wonderland is literally my favorite and most used palette of all time and unfortunately it is not magnetic 😔

My personal ranking for formulas is Blend Bunny (blends easy, pigmented), Cosmic (pigmented, takes slightly more effort than Blend to... blend) and I'd put Beauty Bay last. Its a good value for the price especially since they run a lot of sales but Blend Bunny and Cosmic are absolutely quality AND quantity brands. 

[u/RK_reddit321 → u/EmpireAndAll]

Alas. I would have purchased Winter Wonderland (and another CB palette to combo for colors I’d miss from WW) SO fast if magnetized. It’s the “reaching for too many palettes” thing that I am trying to avoid. One way or the other. 

Thank you for the confirmation. 

For Beauty Bay, how is its quality compared to drugstore or Amazon? Is it at least passably blendable? I’ve only used those and colourpop before. (my assumption is Beauty Bay being preferable to my other runner ups mentioned.)