stila In the Garden Palette: Review and Swatches

stila's In the Garden palette is a nice mixture of neutrals with a few pops of color, making it versatile and wearable for my needs.  There are 2 matte and 8 shimmer shades in In the Garden, making it a nice complement to the all matte In the Know palette I reviewed not long ago. Also included is a smudge stick waterproof eye liner in starfish.

For the swatches, we have:

• chinois:  a bone matte
• breeze:  a silvery oyster shimmer
• bark:  a neutral medium brown shimmer
• freesia:  a blue shimmer with purple undertones

• rosette:  dark reddish pink shimmer
• nectar:  beige matte
• honey:  golden topaz shimmer

• sage:  name pretty much nails it, a sage green shimmer
• moss:  dark brownish green with gold shimmer
• juniper: blackened blue-green shimmer

The starfish smudge stick is a pretty brownish green with gold shimmers, actually quite close in color to the moss shadow.  It can apply a bit patchy, so more than one pass is sometimes required to build up color.  The smudge sticks do have good staying power and I like them.

The consistency of the shadows is nice, nor were there any really problematic colors.  A look booklet is also included, and below is "simply romantic". 

Here is a similar look but using honey to warm things up a bit.

I think In the Garden will gets lots of use by me - I'm a fan!  It retails for $39 and I got mine from beauty.com.

Disclosure:  I purchased this.