Prose, Pearls & Polka Dots: Eyeshadows Every Girl Should Own

Oh dorm room living. Freshman year, I made the foolish mistake of literally bringing my entire wardrobe and all of my make up to college. Little did I know, I would not wear 6 different cocktail dresses nor world I use turquoise eyeshadow I bought for a dance competition. Whoops! Anyway, I've been pairing things down to the basics and figuring out which things I really want to bring on my cross country trek. I was thinking about these "essentials" (is any of this really essential haha?) when I was putting on some make up this morning. Now, which eyeshadows would I consider essential? Neutrals. P.S. I'm partial to powder shadows, I don't know why but cream shadows have never looked very good on me.

SINGLE EYESHADOWS:

**When buying single shimmery eyeshadows, make sure the glitter is finely milled, rather than chunky as chunky glitter gets all over your face during application and is super hard to remove**

Benefit Cosmetics Longwear Powder Shadow in Thanks a Latte

MAC All That Glitters

MAC Woodwinked

(my favorite ever eyeshadow, a MUST for my blue-eyed sisters!)

Bare Minerals Camp Eyeshadow

Bare Minerals Water Lily Eyeshadow

Urban Decay Half Baked

Bobbi Brown Sparkle Eyeshadow Ballet Pink

PALETTES:

**I am very picky about palettes- too often are there "chunky glitter" shades (pet peeve) and also a bunch of random black and silver shades that are hard to pull off everyday. In my opinion palettes should either support a specific look (smokey eye) or be everyday neutrals. Disclaimer: I do not own all of these, but I have tested all of them in-store**

-Best Smokey Eye Palettes-

Too Faced Shadow Collection Smokey Eye

I love that this comes with instructions.