Anastasia Bold & Beautiful Kit Swatches, Review & EOTD

Introducing the Anastasia Bold & Beautiful Kit! It’s compact, it’s portable, it’s wearable… it’s basically your travel-ready bestie. With this slim palette duo, you can expertly work your bedroom eyes and perfect your brows for any occasion.

What the Nordstrom website says about the Anastasia Bold & Beautiful Kit:

Beauty by the book.

Volume 1 Bold Brows: Brow powder, pomade, mini duo brush and mini tweezers allow you to sculpt, define and beautifully layer color for perfect brows.

Volume 2 Beautiful Eyes: Four matte and shimmering shadows in versatile neutrals are the perfect shades to finish any look. Layer them wet and dry to create anything from a subtle, sheer wash of color to an intense, nude smoky eye.

Volume One. Create bold brows by using the Brow Powder & Pomade shades provided. The look is meant to be dramatic, so as long as you blend well and brush the powder through with the provided brush it will look okay. Tweeze off those stray hairs with the mini-tweezers that are also included in the kit.

Volume Two. Create beautiful eyes by blending shades together or using them alone. All are nicely pigmented and smooth. I only experienced a bit of fall-out with the darkest shade, shade four.

Shade One is a vanilla colored matte
Shade Two is a golden pink shimmer (and I think would also make a pretty blush!)
Shade Three is a caramel with a slight shimmer to it
Shade Four is a deep chocolate with golden shimmer

The shades can be worn dry for a subtle or smoky look, but can also be worn wet to make the look become much more intense. Below I used the shades dry to create a subtle yet smoky day-time look.

(L-R: Shade One, Shade Two, Shade Three, Shade Four, Brow Pomade, Brow Powder)

For the EOTD I applied shade three all over the lid, shade two in the crease, shade four in the outer V and shade one to highlight. The liner is Make Up For Ever 2L Aqua Eyes and the mascara is Neutrogena Healthy Volume.

The Anastasia Bold & Beautiful Kit retails for $36 and will be available at Ulta, Nordstrom, Sephora Canada, Sephora.com and anastasia.net.