Palette Advice: If you could only fill one mac pro pan

[celestia]

If for reasons beyond your control your entire MAC eyeshadow inventory was reduced down to one mac x15 pro pan forevermore- which colours would make it into your 15 irrefutably essential staples?

And it would include everyday looks, night looks, all FOTDs- etc.

I know this might be easy for those who already pondered, wallowed and squandered over an ideal 15x pan of HG e/s to have- but it may prove a challenge for some of you with heappsss of palettes and I'm reallllly interested to know what everyone's own.

Until I do more research into mixed swatches and whatnot (to rule out dupable colours):

1.) Handwritten (matte2) // Swiss chocolate (matte)
2.) Sushi flower (satin)
3.) Expensive pink (v. pearl)
4.) Coppering (v. pearl)
5.) Bold & Brazen (starflash) // Brash (v. pearl) //
6.) Evening aura (v. pearl) // Flip (frost) // Woodwinked (v. pearl)
7.) Ricepaper (frost) // Femme Fi (v. pearl)
8.) Shroom (satin)
9.) Sumptuous olive (v. pearl) // Mink & Sable (starflash)
10.) Bio-Green (frost)
11.) Jewel Blue (veluxe) // Blue clam (v. pearl)
12.) Freshwater (v. pearl)
13.) Deep truth (frost) // Submarine (frost)
14.) Sweet Chestnut (frost) // Heritage Rouge (pressed pigment)
15.) Carbon (matte)



Spurred on from the last post... I still hadn't found any thread so if there is an existing one- i'd love for it to be merged and I apologise for the work any mod has had to do. There just has to be a thread about this already! I must not be thinking strangely to not have come across it in searches yet.

 

[panda0410]

OMG.... I have 8 x 15 palettes full of e/s and pressed piggies, I NEED them all :| But anyway, here we go... hehehe


1. Moth Brown
2. Smoke & Diamonds
3. Smudged Violet
4. Circa Plum (pressed)
5. Springtime Skipper OR Golden Olive (pressed)
6. Wintersky
7. Green (pressed)
8. Lark About (pressed)
9. Awash
10. Silver (pressed)
11. Carbon OR Dark Soul (pressed)
12. Sweet Sienna (pressed)
13. Satin Taupe
14. Maroon (pressed) OR Heritage Rouge (pressed)
15. Naval Blue (pressed) OR Blue Storm (pressed)

On the shortlist ~
Gold Dusk (pressed)
Rose (pressed)
Gilded Green (pressed)
Mineral

 

[Penn]

This is going to be hard, but I'll try, I'm just gonna do shadows from the perm line.

1. Carbon
2. Woodwinked
3. Expensive Pink
4. Vanilla
5. Embark
6. Mulch
7. Humid
8. Shroom or crystal avalanche
9. Goldmine
10. Satin Taupe
11. Electra
12. Cranberry
13. Coppering
14. Freshwater
15. Sketch

I'm doing this from the top of my head of the shadows I would use regularly or I can create different looks with.

 

[nunu]

1. Knight divine
2. carbon
3. cranberry
4. freshwater
5. antiqued
6. woodwinked
7. mythology
8. Coppering
9. humid
10. vanilla
11. bronze
12. sketch
13. satellite dreams
14. da bling
15. goldmine.

 

[pdtb050606]

1. Blanc Type
2. Femme Fi
3. Woodwinked
4. Cranberry
5. Soba
6. Carbon
7. Falling Star
8. Folie
9. Brown Script
10. Post Haste
11. Fig. 1
12. Nocturnelle
13. All That Glitters
14. Bold & Brazen
15. Arena

 

[blinkymei]

wow this is a great post idea, I was thinking of a 15 pan for someone but I couldn't decide what to get ... so thanks I'm gonna watch this thread for a while, I can only think of a few must have's for 15 pan idea:
1) carbon
2) femme fi
3) electra
4) showstopper
5) satin taupe
6) heritage rouge pressed
7) violet pressed
8) night light pressed
9) sketch
...and then I don't know

 

[*K_87*]

1) Carbon
2) Woodwinked
3)All that glitters
4) Stars N Rockets
5) Moth Brown
6) Mulch
7) Phloof
8) Amber Lights
9) Sumptuous Olive
10) Greensmoke
11) Parrot
12) Shimmermoss
13) Paradisco
14) Electra
15) Goldmine

 

[Heiaken]

1. Black Tied
2. Knight Divine
3. Electra
4. Humid
5. Emerald Green p/g (pressed)
6. Kelly Green p/g (pressed)
7. Teal p/g (pressed)
8. Parrot
9. Steamy
10. Satin Taupe
11. Gesso
12. Chill
13. Blue Flame
14. Club
15. Coco p/g (pressed)

 

[TexasBelle]

I probably shouldn't answer, since I don't yet quite own 15 MAC shadows, but were I to plan out a single x15 palette, I would definitely include:

Humid
Steamy
Passionate

And beyond that, I'm not sure. I haven't yet found my ideal MAC shades for highlighting and contouring . . .

 

[moopoint]

1) Black Tied
2) All that Glitters
3) Shale
4) Dazzlelight
5) Ricepaper
6) Sable
7) Sushi Flower
8) Da Bling
9) Woodwinked
10) Beautiful Iris
11) Nocturnelle
12) Amber Lights
13) Cranberry
14) Parfait Amour
15) Espresso

 

[gabi03]

At first I thought this would be hard but after thinking I want (NC45):

1. Cranberry
2. Expensive Pink
3. Sketch
4. Humid
5. Romping
6. Deep Truth
7. Swimming
8. Coppering
9. Nocturnelle
10. Ricepaper/Femme Fi
11. Saddle
12. Amber Lights
13. Club
14. Teal (pressed)
15. Pink Bronze (pressed)

 

[Charlie'sAngel]

1. White Frost
2. Vanilla
3. Blanc Type
4. Phloof!
5. Naked Lunch
6. Mulch
7. Swish
8. Nocturnal
9. Trax
10. Shimmermoss
11. Sumptuous Olive
12. Cork
13. Espresso
14. Carbon
16. Satin Taupe

....I basically just read you my "favorites" palatte

 

[myystiqueen]

so far :

1. carbon
2. ricepaper
3. satin taupe
4. expensive pink
5. amber lights
6. cranberry
7. electra
8. gesso
9. cork
10. espresso
11. bisque
12. nocturnelle
13. stars n rockets
14. sushi flower
15. parfait amour

 

[celestia]

I really enjoy seeing these. I have a feeling my ideal 15 will change as I cross-reference the shades I'm not so familiar with. hah!

 

[Exotica]

1. Magnetic Fields
2. Satin Taupe
3. Era
4. All That Glitters
5. Soot (Pro)
6. Smoke And Diamonds
7. Velour
8. Graphology
9. Knight Divine
10. Moth Brown
11. Mineral

Thats all I can think of for now...

 

[purrtykitty]

Ooh, this is tough...

1. Dazzlelight
2. Blanc Type
3. Sunday Best
4. Shale
5. Crystal
6. Poison Pen
7. Signed, Sealed
8. Tempting
9. Clue
10. Satin Taupe
11. Moth Brown
12. French Grey
13. Shore Leave
14. In Living Pink
15. Springtime Skipper

 

[vocaltest]

1. carbon
2. dazzlelight
3. smoke and diamonds
4. star violet
5. sketch
6. soft brown
7. folie (eyebrows)
8. vex
9. satin taupe
10. sable
11. vanilla pm (pressed)
12. nocturnelle
13. black tied
14. contrast
15. scene

 

[GlamYOURUs]

This would be too hard bc I have 1 palette all dedicated to my teals and blues

But here goes anything:

1) Carbon
2) Satin Taupe
3) All The Glitters
3) Embark
4) Freshwater
5) Humid
6) Ricepaper
7) Deep Truth
8) Steamy
9) Wondergrass
10) Mothbrown
11) Silver Ring
12) Vibrant Grape
13) Expensive Pink
14) Top Hat
15) Goldmine

 

[rt66chix]

This question vexes me (

pardon the pun) every time I have to go somewhere for a short trip, so I think about it often and think I have it down to something that works for me.

1) Blanc Type
2) Carbon
3) Texture
4) Stars n Rockets
5) Charcoal Brown
6) Bio Green
7) Sky Blue
8) Satellite Dreams
9) Haux
10) Sketch
11) Crystal Avalanche
12) Chrome Yellow
13) Retrospeck (even though I hate the texture, I make it work)
14) Mulch
15) Knight Divine

This is, ofcourse, on the basis that I can use any blush as an eyeshadow, too

so no, its not cheating.

 

[OfficerJenny]

1) Blanc Type
2) All That Glitters
3) Woodwinked
4) Showstopper
5) Twinks
6) Freshwater
7) Sketch
8) Humid
9) Aquadisiac
10) Chrome Yellow
11) Orange
12) Creme De Violet
13) Solar White
14) Prussian
15) Carbon e_e