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I recently found this Aether Beauty Topaz mini Crystal palette on Sephora’s website. Immediately I became interested as it looks a lot like the Charlotte Tilbury Luxury eyeshadow palette in Green Lights (reviewed here)!
I’ve heard good things about this eco-friendly brand since a while ago, but didn’t have a chance to try their palettes. I love olive green and yellowish gold eyeshadows, so I’m glad Aether Beauty came out with this color scheme in their formula.
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About the Aether Beauty Topaz mini Crystal palette
This Aether Beauty Topaz mini Crystal palette retails for $24 USD with 0.12 oz (5 g) of products. There is another mini Crystal palette in cool rosy-mauve tone available as well, which is called Ametrine.
There are only a few reviews on this palette on Sephora’s website, but almost all of them are 5-star ratings. It is popular also because Aether Beauty products are all made with recyclable packaging, making this brand environmental friendly.
This Aether Beauty Topaz palette is described as ‘infused with moringa oil, rosehip oil, and crystal-charged pigments, these eyeshadows nourish and illuminate the skin. The shades can be worn individually or layered together for a multidimensional sheen’.
Ingredients and formulation of the Aether Beauty Topaz mini Crystal palette
As a clean beauty brand in Sephora, this Aether Beauty Topaz mini Crystal palette is free of talc, paraben, fragrance, sulfates, gluten and many other skin sensitive ingredients.
This palette also made with Rosehip oil and Moringa oil, which both supplies vitamins, anti-oxidants and fatty acids good for the skin.
It is amazing clean beauty brands can make such high quality and pigmented shadows. Hope more brands can follow the clean beauty trend and use skin-friendly ingredients to make cosmetics.
For the formulation of this Aether Beauty Topaz mini Crystal palette, it is on par with many high end brands in the beauty market. The eyeshadows are pigmented, smooth, soft and has less fallout than Charlotte Tilbury Green Lights.
There is no compromise in quality of this palette compared with other non-clean beauty brands.
Swatches for the Aether Beauty Topaz mini Crystal palette
Topaz (upper left) is the smoothest shade in the quad. It is a green gold metallic with a bit of thickness to it. It is very smooth and has one-swipe opaque pigmentation. It is a very intense shade in a good way.
The shade Cosmic Awareness (upper right) swatches and looks like an olive green, but they described it as ‘gold brown shimmer’. This shade can crumble up a bit if you pick it up with a finger and apply it to your eye lid.
There is no matte in this palette. The shade Rejuvenation (lower right, described as ‘bronze brown metallic’) is the least shimmery in my opinion. It is also the only shade that appeared to be a little patchy on the swatch.
The last shade in this quad, Solar Energy (lower right), is a very foiled gold metallic. It is thinner than Topaz and is very sparkly.
The shades are more vivid when swatched than they look in the pans in general.
Comparison with the Charlotte Tilbury Green Lights palette
Given how similar the color story of this Topaz mini Crystal palette to the Charlotte Tilbury Green Lights eyeshadow palette (reviewed here), it seems likely that they can be the dupe of each other.
The biggest difference between these 2 palettes is the green gold metallic shade, Topaz, in the Topaz mini Crystal palette.
In some sense, the 3 darker shades in CT’s Green Lights are very similar. So I think the Topaz mini Crystal palette has more shade diversity and has more potential to create different looks.
I can see there are some shade overlaps between these 2 palettes. Some of the shades are very complementary to each other if they are to be used to create a look.
Comparing them side-by-side, the CT Green Lights palette feels a bit smoother and high quality, which is expected as the CT palette cost more than 2 times more, with the amount of products you’re getting from each palette is almost the same.
Eye looks created using the Aether Beauty Topaz mini Crystal palette and CT Green Lights
For the Aether Beauty Topaz mini Crystal palette eye look, I used all 4 shades. I added Topaz as the ‘topper’ shade on the center of my lid, although this shade is not sheer and has a lot of pigmentation to it.
This is a complete look and I like how smooth and well-blended the eye look was.
For the comparing CT Green Lights’ look, I also used all the shades there. The two looks using 2 different palettes came out to be very close. I think the look created with the CT palette is more elegant and cohesive. Since I also used the shade Topaz in the Aether Beauty’s look, a lot of the light (lime) green came through. I think if I don’t use that shade, the look will be almost indistinguishable.
Final Thoughts
Overall, I like this Aether Beauty Topaz mini Crystal palette and I’ll recommend it, especially if you like the Charlotte Tilbury Green Lights palette. They are very similar and I prefer the former one! I think most clean beauty brands are underrated and some of them are making very nice products with much better ingredients.
I will rate this Aether Beauty Topaz mini Crystal palette as:
- Texture: 9/10
- Color payoff: 9/10
- Longevity on eye lid: 9/10
- Quality consistency among shades: 7/10
- Color scheme uniqueness: 8/10
- Affordability: 10/10
