Charlotte Tilbury Instant Look Palette Review & Swatches – ALL EDITIONS

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There have been lots of different Charlotte Tilbury Instant Look Palettes over the years and I have rounded them up together in this post.

What is Charlotte Tilbury Instant Look Palette?

So if you ever enjoyed a bit of painting by numbers, and need a bit of guidance, then the Instant Palettes would have been right up your street. The Charlotte Tilbury Instant Look Palette is an all in one beauty palette that has been designed to enhance a natural look and the natural colours that your face has.

It is formulated with smoothing, radiance-enhancing, colour-correcting ingredients and Charlotte says, “You don’t need to give me an hour to feel the full force of my makeup magic. Just give me 5 minutes in the wing mirror of your car and I can show you an instant, naturally gorgeous look”.

Charlotte Tilbury Instant Look Palette Features

I think what is most interesting about this palette is that each of the powders, even across the same categories, has a different texture and formula to suit its primary function.

1. Eye Brighten –  a matte, emollient-rich texture to smooth the eyelid
2. Eye Enhance – satin texture, blends easily
3. Eye Smoke – matte, pigment-rich to create a dramatic effect
4. Face Bronze – specially blended to be the perfect universal shade to sculpt any skin tone
5. Cheek Swish – formulated to give the skin a luminous finish
6. Cheek Pop – for the apples of the cheeks
7. Face Highlight – universally flattering and uses Light Flex Technology for a luminous complexion

Original Charlotte Tilbury Instant Look Palette Swatches

Eyes:

Blusher:

Contour / Highlight:

The textures are beautifully creamy and very easy to work with. And I love the natural yet enhanced glowing look you can create with it. It will be the perfect travel companion and with a slick of mascara and lip colour you’d be ready to go.

Charlotte Tilbury Seductive Instant Look Palette

The Seductive palette is all about adding a bit more drama. It is still beautifully natural looking in true CT style, but you can definitlely smoke things up a bit more and achieve a more sculpted, contoured look.

Charlotte Tilbury Seductive Instant Look Palette Features

This contains 7 of Charlotte’s most loved and iconic shades that promise to give you a sultry, sculpted complexion and signature smokey eye in 5 minutes!

• Three eye shades
• Two blush shades
• Contour shade
• Highlight shade

Seductive Instant Look Swatches

Eye shades:

Blush:

Contour and highlight:

Comparison with the Natural Beauty Instant Palette

And to make things easier, I thought I would just swatch the original palette next to each category, so that you can see the difference between the two palettes. The Seductive Beauty swatches are on the left:

As you can see the new Charlotte Tilbury Seductive Instant Look Palette is a more intense affair than the original. I absolutely love it. The textures are beautiful and the makeup by numbers approach makes everything super simple. I know I am going to get so much use out of this one.

Charlotte Tilbury Gorgeous Glowing Beauty Palette

Like the previous palettes, each shade has a different texture and formula to suit its primary function.

1. Brighten (eye) –  an emollient-rich texture to smooth the eyelid
2. Enhance (eye)– satin texture, blends easily
3. Smoke (eye) – matte, pigment-rich to create a dramatic effect
4. Face Bronze – universal shade to sculpt any skin tone
5. Cheek Swish – formulated to give the skin a luminous finish
6. Cheek Pop – for the apples of the cheeks
7. Face Highlight – universally flattering for a luminous complexion

The eyeshadow and blushes are 2g each (0.07 oz) and the bronzer and highlighter are 6g (0.21oz).

Charlotte Tilbury Gorgeous Glowing Beauty Instant Palette Swatches

I absolutely LOVE the shades in this palette. It really is my kind of colour harmony. They all work so beautifully together and the textures are great quality and easy to blend. It’s dreamy.

Charlotte Tilbury Instant Palette Comparison Swatches

I have broken down the swatches into eyeshadows, blushes, bronzer and highlighter. I hope this is helpful!

Eyeshadow Swatches

Blusher Swatches

Bronzer Swatches

Highlighter Swatches

Charlotte Tilbury Instant Smokey Eye Palette Features

• Makeup palette with intense black, gilded gold & nude shades
• 7 shades to create a sexy, sculpted look
• Neutral palette for a daytime makeup look
• Deep black shade to smoke up the look for night
• Highlighter is the iconic Bar of Gold highlight to add gilded gold shimmer to your cheekbones

Charlotte Tilbury Instant Look Palette Stoned Rose Beauty

There are seven neutral-toned shades for the eyes, cheeks and contour. This is a “radiance-enhancing palette for a fresh, natural-looking, lit from within glow!”. This palette is all about every day rosy beauty and a year-round rose-kissed glow. 

EYES

• 1: Eye Brighten – a golden, youthful champagne eye shadow to prime the surface of the eyelid with light-reflecting shimmer
• 2: Eye Enhance – a peach-inspired bronze shadow to add soft, glowing dimension to the eyelid
• 3: Eye Smoke – a universally flattering rich chocolate shade for sultry definition

FACE

• 4: Face Bronze  – Charlotte’s best-selling Filmstar Bronze & Glow formula in a muted tawny-brown to warm the complexion and define the cheekbone hollows, jawline and nose
• 5: Cheek Swish – for a rosy, glow-giving wash of colour. A warm, bronzey hue to be applied on the apples of the cheeks and blended out
• 6: Cheek Pop a romantic rosy-pink to POP high on the apples of the cheeks and enhance the natural tones of your complexion for a lit-from-within glow
• 7: Face Highlight – buttery, sheer highlight for a magical blurring effect and photo-finish radiance

Swatches

Here are the swatches of the Instant Look in a Palette Stoned Rose Beauty:

Charlotte Tilbury Instant Look Palette – Look of Love

I have the swatches of both palettes here for you. The Pretty Blushed Beauty Instant Palette is best suited to light to medium skin tones, and the Glowing Beauty Palette is designed to suit medium to deep skin tones.

However, like all Charlotte Tilbury products, you can mix and match them.

Instant Look of Love in Palette – Pretty Blushed Beauty Swatches

Charlotte Tilbury Instant Look Palette – Look of Love in Palette – Pretty Blushed Beauty Swatches

Let me know if I have missed any of the Charlotte Tilbury Instant Look Palettes? Which one was your favourite?

To read all about the latest CT launches, check out all my Charlotte Tilbury Reviews.