I’ve reached a point where I’m tired of buying big palettes because they have one or two colors I love and don’t have, mixed in with colors similar to or exactly like ones I already have, and colors I’ll never wear. But individual eye shadows can take up a lot of space, and often have more product than I’ll ever use (I’ve yet to hit pan on even my favorite color in my first palette). With that in mind, I decided it was time to start rounding out my color selection by purchasing individual pans from Makeup Geek and putting them into a Z Palette for easy storage. For my initial order I picked out five colors… three shades of green (of course!), a cool matte grey, and a medium silver. I also bought myself a large Z Palette in the rose gold chevron pattern, and a pigment in Kryptonite. I’ll talk about the palette in this review, but you’ll have to wait to learn about the pigment.

As you can see, the individual colors arrive in really cute little envelopes. I tested and it seems pretty easy to take the shadows in and out, so I saved a couple of the packages in case I want to just take a color or two with me on a trip.

The large Z Palette that I purchased can hold 27 Makeup Geek eye shadows, so it looks pretty empty with my five colors so far. It has a magnetic base so the little pans just stick right to it. It also comes with some sticky-backed metal blanks that you can attach to any other stray makeup pans you might have. I like the pretty rose gold and white pattern, and the big plastic window in the top makes it easy to see what colors I have in here, which would definitely come in handy if I had more than one palette going.

So anyway, as you may have noticed I sort of love green, so I was excited to get my hands on some shades that weren’t really represented in my collection of palettes.

Seamist is a beautiful shimmery aquatic green. Perfect for summer, or for a mermaidy costume! This is the only one I haven’t had a chance to wear yet, but I can’t wait to find an excuse for it.

Dirty Martini is a matte olive green. I LOVE drab olive greens and already have some shimmery ones, so I had to have a matte to go with. I needed to layer this one on to get the intensity that I wanted, but once it was on, it was so gorgeous!

Envy is a dark metallic green. I find that when I applied it, it was more of a black with green undertones. I think I need to try applying it wet to bring out more of the metallic shimmer. The pigmentation is good so it’s definitely worth experimenting with.

Stealth is a matte grey. I thought this was a really unusual color and might be fun to play with. Like Dirty Martini, it has to really be built up to get any impact. This is the only one I wasn’t really impressed with.

Mercury is a pretty silver. I have various silvers in palettes, but they’re either a warm silver, or have bad glitter fallout, or otherwise just leave me wanting. This one is a little sheer, so it makes a nice highlight. Like Envy, I might try applying it wet to see if I get a bolder look. Applied dry, it is very shimmery, just very pale.

I wore Dirty Martini, Envy and a touch of Mercury to troupe practice this week. Applied over primer and sealed with makeup setting spray, it still looked perfect after an hour of dancing.

And I used Stealth and Mercury last month when I was testing Fem Bot makeup ideas.

I’ll definitely pick up more of these shadows to keep filling out my collection.