NEW Chocolate Chip Palette Reviews (White & Matte)

Hello, my name is Elle Sees and I'm addicted to buying makeup palettes that are adorable and/or look/smell like sweet treats. I don't see this addiction being cured anytime soon. Or do I?

On Black Friday, Too Faced released two new palettes, White Chocolate Chip (exclusively at Sephora) and Matte Chocolate Chip (TooFaced.com). If you "like" my blog's Facebook, you'll know I had posted about these coming soon a few months ago. Being a Too Faced fan, I had to have them. But are they worth the price at $26? Keep reading to find out.

The first thing I noticed was how tiny they are. Here's the Matte Chocolate Chip in comparison to the original Chocolate Bar. It does say it is a CHIP, but yeah, it's really tiny. And this caused a major upset online.

Here it is in comparison to the Naked Basics from Urban Decay. When those two palettes were released I don't recall there being such a fuss, but I'll get into why in just a moment.

Nowhere on either website does it list the size. It does give the ounces, so I *thought* I had a good idea of what to expect.

Here's the inside of the White Chocolate Chip.

You get 11 shades but the pans are TINY. I think this is the reason so many were disappointed. This looks like a play palette for kids. We are used to those huge-looking pans.

The Naked Basics palettes, while small and with only five shades, have larger-looking pans for $29!

The TF Chocolate Chip palettes have .02 oz per shadow (minus the top left shade which is .05), which is roughly $1.30 per shadow. This is the slightly smaller than the standard .05 MAC shadow,  or UD NB for comparison.

This palette has 6 shimmer shades and the rest are matte.

The lighter shades don't swatch well at all--you can barely see them--but they show on my light-medium skin tone. Barely.

However, I was able to get a look out of them. The pictures don't do it justice--I tried lighting, flash, everything to get it to show.

It doesn't show well on camera but it does show well in person and lasted on me, without primer, all day. That taupe-purple shade can be a little chunky with fall out. The shimmer black blends away too easily for my liking.

Then we have the Too Faced Chocolate Chip Matte. 

This also has 11 shades and this takes shades from the original Chocolate Bar (pic below) and turns them matte.

The packaging is a matte plastic.

Again, I cannot get good pics of these, but just like with the White Chocolate, I was able to get a full look out of these. They lasted the entire day on my lids without primer (I have dry skin, so most shadows will stay).

Here are the colors in comparison to the original Chocolate Bar.

The original CB has pans that are .03 oz (minus the white shade which is about an ounce). Remember a standard shadow size is .05. I would have guessed the original CB was .05.

But are they worth it? I liked the Matte Chocolate Chip much better than the White one. I don't think either are holy-grail status, but if you're TF-brand obsessed, you might want to get them. I'm not disappointed in either palette, and they will make excellent traveling palettes, but I don't think either is a must have. But they sure are cute.

Do you own either of these?

Extra Elle:

I was supposed to get another one of these for a giveaway, but only received one. Glad to say I finally heard from them yesterday and another will be sent.

Charlie and I finally got a tree up and decorated. I also completed about 98% of my Christmas shopping. Not a thing has been wrapped, of course! I'm a procrastin-wrapper.