I am always looking for a good eyeshadow palette. If the tones and colors are right, they can inspire an amazing makeup look. So, when I saw the beautiful shades in the Rom&nd Better Than Palette Collection, I knew that I wanted them all. Keep reading to learn more about the palettes, my and the Koreans’ thoughts, and where you can find one yourself.
All Palettes 
All Palettes 
Original 4 
Original 4 
Original 4 
#01 Pampas Garden 
#01 Pampas Garden 
#02 Mahoghany Garden 
#02 Mahoghany Garden 
#03 Rosebud Garden 
#03 Rosebud Garden 
04 Dusty Fog Garden 
04 Dusty Fog Garden 
#00 Light and Glitter Garden 
#00 Light and Glitter Garden 
#00 Light and Glitter Garden 
#05 Shade and Shadow Garden 
#05 Shade and Shadow Garden 
#05 Shade and Shadow Garden 
#06 Peony Garden 
#06 Peony Garden 
#06 Peony Garden 
Palettes suited for cool tones 
Palettes suited for warm tones
Things to know about the Rom&nd Better Than Palette Collection:
There are 9 Total Palettes (7 Shown):
- #00 Light & Glitter Garden
- #01 Pampas Garden
- #02 Mahogany Garden
- #03 Rosebud Garden
- #04 Dusty Fog Garden
- #05 Shade & Shadow Garden
- #06 Peony Nude Garden
- #07 Berry Fuschia Garden (Not shown)
- #08 Peach Dalia Garden (Not shown)
What Complexions Do They Suit?
Cool tones:
- #03 Rosebud Garden
- #07 Berry Fuschia Garden (Not shown)
- #06 Peony Nude Garden
Warm Tones:
- #01 Pampas Garden
- #02 Mahogany Garden
- #05 Shade & Shadow Garden
- #08 Peach Dalia Garden (Not shown)
All Skin Tones:
- #00 Light & Glitter Garden
- #04 Dusty Fog Garden
What are the Undertones?
Orange Toned:
- #01 Pampas Garden
- #06 Peony Nude Garden
- #08 Peach Dalia Garden (Not shown)
Brown Toned:
- #02 Mahogany Garden
- #04 Dusty Fog Garden
- #05 Shade & Shadow Garden
Pink Toned:
- #00 Light & Glitter Garden
- #03 Rosebud Garden
- #07 Berry Fuschia Garden (Not shown)
K-Points: 9/10
So, for beauty reviews, unlike my album unboxings, I will be much harsher because this can directly impact your health, where buying K-Pop albums does not. It just impacts your wallet. As such, all of my beauty reviews will be out of 10 points. I will not be going over that number.
I really love these palettes. I like the array of colors and the different looks you can get from them. The palette I would say is probably my favorite it the Dusty Fog Garden. For K-Beauty, I would say that these colors are the most different, and I don’t have anything else Korean that is similar to it. One downside that I will say to these palettes, and why I knocked off points is because there is a decent bit of fallout when you do your makeup with these. So, just do you eyes before your base to prevent any of the fallout from affecting your foundation.
What are the Koreans saying?
I was digging through reviews on 화해 (Hwahae)*, a Korean skincare app that lists out the ingredients of products from many brands for people to look through as well as post reviews. So, instead of going through and talking about what the Koreans thought since there are 9 palettes, I will rank all 9 in order based on the number of reviews and stars. Also, I included the release date of the palettes so that you can that into account with the number of reviews.
X in Order of Popularity:
- #03 Rosebud Garden (4.58 ouf of 5 stars – 73 reviews – Winter /Spring 2021)
- #04 Dusty Fog Garden (4.36 out of 5 stars – 47 reviews – Winter /Spring 2021)
- #06 Peony Nude Garden (4.28 out of 5 stars – 50 reviews – Fall/Winter 2021)
- #05 Shade & Shadow Garden (4.39 out of 5 stars – 44 reviews – Spring/Summer 2021)
- #01 Pampas Garden (4.49 out of 5 stars – 37 reviews – Winter /Spring 2021)
- #02 Mahogany Garden (4.30 out of 5 stars – 27 reviews – Winter /Spring 2021)
- #00 Light & Glitter Garden (4.00 out of 5 stars – 20 reviews – Spring/Summer 2021)
- #07 Berry Fuschia Garden (4.40 out of 5 stars – 5 reviews – Spring/Summer 2022)
- #08 Peach Dalia Garden (5 out of 5 stars – 1 review – Spring/Summer 2022)
Where Can I Buy It?
Whenever I buy K-Beauty, I shop at a couple of different places. If you want to see all of the places that I shop at, you can check them all out here. I picked these up at a number of different places, including Style Korean and Olive Young. With a number of the places I shop for cosmetics, you can also use Rakuten for cash back off of your purchases on their site.
What is Rakuten?
Rakuten is a cashback site that gives you money for purchases you may have already made. They even have an extension for multiple browsers so when you go to a website that uses Rakuten, it will automatically pop up the cashback button to make sure you are saving money. I use this all the time, and I got over $80 back from them for purchases I was going to make anyway. That’s about 3 more albums I can buy!
If you’ve never used Rakuten before, you can use this link to get $10 when making a qualified purchase of $25 when using Rakuten. You will also get whatever percent cashback is being offered from the site you are purchasing from. Sephora, typically has 4% cashback, through here. Ulta typically has 3%. These are just some of the companies on the website, but there are other major retailers on there as well!
Rakuten also has a Google Chrome extension that will tell you as soon as you log onto a site that has cashback with a little pop-up in the corner so that you can ensure you are saving money!
Which palette do you like the most, K-Nuggets? Let me know in the comments down below!
사랑합니다!
–Rachel
*Note: 화해 still only exists in Korean, but some of the products can be searched for in English.
