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Essential Neutrals Eyeshadow Palette.

Eye Makeup

About this product

A compact eyeshadow palette featuring neutral shades plus burgundy accents, with matte and metallic finishes, designed for everyday eye looks across multiple skin tones.

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Guru Score

81%

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What the gurus are saying

The palette earns praise for including a burgundy shade alongside neutrals, which gurus say adds versatility across different skin tones rather than sticking to one neutral interpretation. The matte and metallic finishes are blendable and pigmented enough to work broadly, though experts note the formulas and color story feel familiar rather than innovative. It's a solid choice if you're drawn to Rare Beauty or genuinely need a travel-friendly neutral palette, but those with several similar palettes already may want to skip it.

Synthesized from 4 expert reviews · most recent take August 2026

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HotandFlashy

1.23M subs

✓Approved

"For the eyeshadow today I used the new Rare Beauty eyeshadow palette. I really like it, it blends beautifully and there's hardly any fallout, very nice."

Robert Welsh

1.11M subs

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"This is their eyeshadow palette, which is this one. It doesn't look very exciting, but it could be. I like a beige. This is a beautiful color. The formula feels very different to what they did before with the eyeshadows, remember those colorful ones. This definitely feels a lot smoother and a lot more pigmented. This is beautiful and this gray is lovely. I love this gray, a gray like this. I really really like this eyeshadow palette. I've done something quite cold here, but you can look at the other shades, you can actually do some quite warm, a little bit deeper and smokier."

Alexandra Anele

1.43M subs

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"I'm going to be using the Rare Beauty Essential Neutrals Eyeshadow Palette, just a very nice neutral palette."

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"I'm going to be using the Rare Beauty Essential Neutrals Eyeshadow Palette, just a very nice neutral palette."

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"I think the colors that they chose are nice. I do appreciate that they included the burgundy to kind of give you a little bit of wiggle room. It's not just like your typical neutral palette where you have just neutrals because neutral can be interpreted in different ways for different skin tones. So I kind of appreciate that there's a little bit of variation in there. That being said, this is nothing new. [...] The matte formulas are nice. I think they're blendable and easy to use, and there's enough pigment there that they'll work for a multitude of skin tones. I do like the metallics as well. Again, they're nothing groundbreaking, nothing that we haven't seen before, but pretty tones. If you need a neutral palette and you have been interested in this or you love Rare Beauty and you want to support them, then I think it's perfectly fine to make a purchase. [...] If you don't need a neutral palette, if you have five neutral palettes already, you can probably skip it. [...] I do like the packaging. I think it's cute for travel [...] size, and it comes with a mirror."

Allie Glines

829k subs

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"My favorite thing is definitely the eyeshadow palette. It's very cute, very practical, very basic, but in a good way."

Common questions

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What is Rare Beauty Essential Neutrals Eyeshadow Palette?

A compact eyeshadow palette featuring neutral shades plus burgundy accents, with matte and metallic finishes, designed for everyday eye looks across multiple skin tones.

Is Rare Beauty Essential Neutrals Eyeshadow Palette worth it?

Yes. All 4 gurus who reviewed it give it their stamp of approval, for a Guru Score of 81%.

What is Rare Beauty Essential Neutrals Eyeshadow Palette's Guru Score?

Rare Beauty Essential Neutrals Eyeshadow Palette holds a Guru Score of 81%. That is our read on how warmly the experts talk about it, based on the verdicts of 4 expert reviewers we have collected.