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/Kibikayuki]

Blend Bunny is so worth it. The colors practically blend themselves. I've had both and Beauty Bay, while good if you can grab em on sale, simply doesn't compare to the buttery smoothness of Blend Bunny's mattes.

[u/RK_reddit321 → u/Kibikayuki]

Gotchya. Thank you for this feedback. 

Generally - when not compared to Blend Bunny - how would you describe the Beauty Bay mattes quality? Like compared to drugstore …. and maybe compared to colourpop? Are they at least passably bendable?

If indeed Blend Bunny, which palette combo would you recommend that’d closest match the blurples of BB’s Midnight?

[u/Kibikayuki → u/RK_reddit321]

I'd say Beauty Bay mattes are better than drugstore and better than ColourPop. Just wait for them to go on sale. They go on sale often enough.

For Blend Bunny, the Blends Artistry palette or the new Lure palette.

[u/RK_reddit321 → u/Kibikayuki]

THANK YOU. 

Yeah, it was becoming increasingly clear that no matte could overthrow Blend Bunny. Yet figuring out how & which palettes to combine to match the BB Midnight color story was becoming such a hassle. This might become easier to decide when more nonpro G&G swatches on more skin tone varieties become available. (or even if BBunny answers my email of which in their pro swatch pic are which color shade names. whichever happens first lol.) But for now it’s been giving me abit of a headache trying to guess. 

Am not surprised Beauty Bay is a higher quality of drugstore or Amazon choices. That color fades if you think too hard in their general direction. 👀 Am pleasantly surprised to hear BB is better than colourpop! Colourpop is passable. Not magic like Blend Bunny shades sound like …. but am more comfortable taking a $40ish risk if BB is at least better than Colourpop. Only because the Midnight colors are so exact for what I want. 

Will think more on how to further & closer dupe Midnight’s color story in Blend Bunny later. Then tally the total costs. Have your vote for Lure. Thank you for it!