After having a couple of the City Mini palettes from Maybelline and LOVING them, I thought that a larger palette would be a great buy as I was starting to hit pan in the City palettes and I honestly just really loved them. I would use them literally everyday! But this pallete is SO different than the City Mini palettes..it almost seems like it's from a whole different company! The City Mini palettes are insanely pigmented, easy to apply, and you dont have to get a ton on the brush or eye for the color to show up; this pallete was horrible in comparison! I was so excited to be buying a full size version of the wonderful City palettes, or so I thought, but this palette is nothing like them! Which I really do not get because they are from the same company. I don't know why Maybelline would ever change the formula to the horrible stuff that was used to make this palette, when the one they used for the City Mini palettes was clearly a winner. I would really like a full sized City palette with the same formula that was used in the City Minis because those are fantastic!! I would definitely say pass on this palette if you are actually planning on trying to USE it (because the packaging is adorable and would make great vanity eye candy lol) and DEFINETELY try out the City Mini palettes because they are fantastic! Nothing in comparison to this palette, which is super disappointing. The colors are muddy, similar to each other, they hardly show up at all save for like two colors, and (like other reviewers have said) some of the colors when put on the eye look nothing like they look when they are sitting in the pan. Also, as soon as I opened up this palette, one of the pans FELL OUT of the palette & I literally had to glue it back in which was very surprising for a Maybelline product. I don't know what happened with this palette, honestly. Hard no for this one.