BATTLE OF THE BRANDS : CONTOUR KITS

Hello all,

So recently (in the summer) I purchased the highly recommended Anastasia Beverly Hills contour kit in the shade light to medium then last month or so i bought the Make up revolution ultra contour kit to see if it was as good as the ABH one! (because the ABH is so expensive and hard to get in this country I wanted another incase it ran out oops) SO I thought it would be fun to make a new lil segment where i compare high end and drugstore products to see which is best!

From the picture you can see the packaging for both of the two pallets. I love how simple both of them are and how you can clearly see the name, brand and shade of both the pallets. The ABH (Anastasia Beverly hills lol I'm just lazy) is in a matte black case which has all the shade names on the side and the Makeup revolution is also in a matte black case but it's gotten very dirty! (bc i use it so often oooops)

now you're probably wondering the price difference between the two products and it's quite a lot! The ABH kit costs $45 (idk how much in pounds sorry) and the MakeUp revolution kit costa £6!!!!! So it's deffo worth trying it out!
The picture above shows the packaging when the cases are off. Again the ABH is matte black and the Makeup Revolution one is shiny and both are dirty with fingerprints this time! No favouritism here!

So when you open up the pallets this is what you see. The MUR one has 8 colours (5 matte and 3 highlighters)  whereas the ABH pallet only has 6. (5 matte and 1 highlight) so the MUR is deffo worth the money because you get more than the ABH.
The pan size for both is about the same and is around 7 or 8 cm, so an average size, (3.0 grams)

The contour shades are virtually exactly the same. In both pallets there are 3 bronze/contour colours and two matte highlights, one yellow and one pink tone. In both there is also one pink subtle shimmer highlight and the MUR has another 2, one bronze gold and one very shimmery white/gold.

(I made this bigger so you can see clearer)
This is the Anastasia Beverly Hills pallet and you can see that the colours are very pigmented in the pan and also get a better look at them up close. (left to right, top to bottom: vanilla, banana, sand, java, fawn, havana)
I honestly love this pallet because the colours are so good for my skin tone (which is vampire.) and they are sooo crazy pigmented.
My favourite shades (very popular with most people) are Fawn  it's like the only contour shade thats not muddy and looks like natural cheek bones rather than bronzer because of its more grey and cool undertone, and Sand because it's very pretty and subtle and adds such a natural glow.
I'm not much of a under-eye highlight setting because I'm very pale anyway but i love vanilla because it does brighten my under-eyes just a little but banana is still too dark for me, and i have pink undertones so the banana looks very strange on me (because it's so pigmented which isn't a bad thing it's just all down to personal preference!)

This is the Makeup Revolution pallet. You can see the shades are literally exactly the same as the ABH pallet, which makes it an amazing dupe.
Again, the colours are all very pigmented but in this pallet i love the banana shade. It's not as pigmented as the ABH one which makes it better (weird i know) for my skin tone, as it's not as noticeable.
I also love the 3 highlight shades in this pallet because they're all different and quite pigmented. They aren't as pigmented as the ABH pallet, which is only expected in a drugstore pallet but omg they're still amazing. The pink shade is the same as Sand in the ABH, the golden bronze shade is quite similar to soft and gentle, just a little less glittery and more subtle and the white gold shade is really glittery and a bit more chunky, which is amazing for lasting all day and making you have a super strong highlight!

I swatched (very badly soz) the two most known shades in the ABH pallet (Fawn and banana) and compared them to the MUR, to show the difference in colour pay off.
As you can see the ABH is more pigmented and the contour colour is slightly more cool tone. However the pigmentation of the MUR is crazy to say it was only ONE SWIPE and it's a drug store product!

Finally, to complete this battle I shall announce the winner! (lol jokes)
Both of these pallets are amazing and if you're a make up fanatic like myself you should try them both out. However if you're looking for a dupe for the ABH contour kit I would deffo buy the Makeup revolution one because the ABH one is so expensive and you can get something very similar for more than a quarter of the price!
However the ABH does give a nicer finish and the colours are more pigmented, so I'll let you be the judge of which is better because for me they're both amazing for different reasons!

Thankyou for reading I hope you enjoyed this post, if you want more battle of the brands please let me know! What's your go to contour?

Thanks again!

Fern :))