Color Story Eyeshadow Palette
SUMMARY OF REVIEWS
Hung Vanngo Beauty's Color Story Eyeshadow Palette features an easy-to-blend, buildable formula with creamy mattes and high-shine shimmers that several professional makeup artists praise. Tati calls it her "perfect neutral toned palette" for 2025, while Michele Wang notes the eight-shade size is not overwhelming. The warm and neutral color stories suit a range of preferences, with no criticism mentioned across the reviews.
FULL REVIEWS
POSITIVE
Variant: New Neutral
- “I cannot say enough about how beautiful this palette is”14:12–14:18
- “It is stunning and you get a mix of mattes and metallics, shimmers”14:18–14:22
- “You really get a palette that can create a variety of looks”14:20–14:24
- “The textures on these are so nice”14:29–14:33
- “It's just fantastic”
- “If you are a makeup lover and you love the option to go glam in a neutral approach, you must have this palette”15:09–15:17
- “It is so so good”
- Source: Allure Best of Beauty 2025: My Real Winners You Should Actually Buy - Nov 4, 2025
Variant: New Neutral
- “The Hung Vanngo Beauty eyeshadow palettes were my favorite of the year”15:01–15:05
- “Formula is easy to blend. You look like an artist when you use this formula”15:23–15:30
- “Best eyeshadow palettes of the year”15:27–15:32
- Source: Best of beauty 2025: top makeup, skin care and hair care - Dec 7, 2025
Variant: Nude Neutral
- “I am so into this shadow. Are you kidding me?”2:59–3:08
- “I have beat this one up quite a bit”3:06–3:11
- “Love, love the texture, the wear time, the thoughtfulness of how each palette curated is another color tone and family punchiness from greens, purples, warms”3:08–3:12
- “We have a neutral one right here that I am loving so so so much”3:18–3:24
- “I don't like cool tones that lean just like gray. And I'm also not into like super warm tones right now. So, this is like my perfect neutral toned palette”3:24–3:28
- “As far as eyeshadow goes, this was the hot one for me in 2025”3:39–3:44
- “I love everything about it, including the artist behind it, Hung Vanngo Beauty”3:41–3:50
- Source: Best of beauty 2025 - Jan 2, 2026
Variant: Warm Browns
- “I usually use the warm browns one most days because it can create a really natural look”15:11–15:15
- Source: Best of beauty 2025: top makeup, skin care and hair care - Dec 7, 2025
Variant: Wonderful Warm
- “This is probably my most used palette as you can see from the indentation on that one matte shade”17:14–17:22
- “I'm doing a more bronzy look”17:08–17:11
- Source: Top 3 faves in every makeup category 2026 - Jun 8, 2026
Variant: Wonderful Warm
- “The other one that I do love, it is more warm, is this one right here. I have not used this as much”3:32–3:37
- Source: Best of beauty 2025 - Jan 2, 2026
- “This to me didn't draw my eyes in terms of all the palettes he came out with. I'm shocked that this is the one that I've been using the most because I thought I'd like new neutral”23:20–23:28
- “This is the wonderful warmth. Looks like a basic color story palette, but the formulas to me are so blendable and create that effortless sort of soft glam makeup that is just easy to achieve for everyday”23:33–23:41
- Source: Top 3 favorites in every makeup category 2025 - Sep 25, 2025
- “These are phenomenal”
- “I have three of them”55:09–55:11
- “The formulations are perfect”55:15–55:18
- “There's different finishes in there”55:17–55:20
- “They're very unique”55:18–55:20
- “They're very easy to blend on, build up”55:20–55:23
- “These are really high performance, really buildable, really blendable”55:22–55:26
- “The color stories are gorgeous”55:24–55:27
- Source: Allure Best of Beauty according to me - Oct 11, 2025
Variant: Wonderful Warm
- “I love the wonderful warm and I just used this in a get ready with us best burgers vlog that I did while Lara was here last week”23:34–23:43
- “I use this palette. It's gorgeous”23:44–23:48
- Source: Best high-end makeup of 2025 worth buying at Sephora - Dec 23, 2025
- “I love the wonderful warm and I just used this in a get ready with us best burgers vlog that I did while Lara was here last week”23:34–23:43
- “These shadows are really, really easy to use. They blend out like a dream. They have a really good amount of pigmentation, but I don't think they're overly pigmented where they're not mistake-proof. Like, they just work beautifully”23:47–23:53
- “He's got gorgeous shimmers, mattes. He's got like creamy mattes in here”24:00–24:06
- “The other one that I probably have been using more, no surprise, is the new neutral. Look at that. Is that not absolutely stunning? Absolutely stunning”24:04–24:12
- “I love the size. We've got eight shades in there, so you can get a little bit creative, but it's not overwhelming. It's not intimidating, just gorgeous”24:17–24:21
- “I think he has a color palette pretty much for everyone”24:25–24:29
- Source: Best high-end makeup of 2025 worth buying at Sephora - Dec 23, 2025
Variant: New Neutral
- “The eyeshadows of this are so smooth and blendable. Really easy to blend”28:07–28:14
- “The shimmers aren't as sparkly as the Charlotte Tilbury ones. These are more like buttery smooth”28:12–28:15
- “Again, would be a gorgeous bridal palette”28:18–28:23
- Source: Best makeup of 2025 - Jan 22, 2026
Variant: New Neutral
- “The other one that I probably have been using more, no surprise, is the New Neutral. Look at that. Is that not absolutely stunning? Absolutely stunning”
- Source: Best high-end makeup of 2025 worth buying at Sephora - Dec 23, 2025
- “The formula of these is exceptional. It's much more professional, definitely pigmented, definitely like high shine, high metallic, buildable”25:42–25:47
- Source: Overhyped beauty must haves I regret buying in 2025 - Dec 17, 2025
Variant: New Neutral
MIXED / NEGATIVE
No negative reviews yet — creators have only had good things to say.
WHAT CREATORS SAY
- Consensus
- 4.8 / 5 from 10 creator reviewsGrailPeople ratings based on creator reviews.
- Features
- Blendable (6) · Pigmented (3) · Matte finish (3) · Wide shade range (2) · Easy to use (2)
Product details
Details
- Type
- eyeshadow palette
- Finish
- matte
- Shade
- New Neutral
- Key ingredients
- mica, titanium dioxide, dimethicone, talc, zinc stearate, polybutene, tin oxide, silica, kaolin, aluminum hydroxide
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