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Color cosmetic palettes for the season hit the mark.

Create a Kit

Bare Minerals' Buxom brand’s new Customizable Eyeshadow Bar Palette ($12-$40) is exclusive to Sephora and Sephora online. Explore this spectrum of 40 fabulous eyeshadow hues featuring primer-infused technology to help keep color locked in place, according to the company.

Sweet Treats

Create effortless eye looks this fall with two new, limited edition Eye Color CS colors from Paul & Joe Beauté ($28). Inspired by the swirls of milky café lattes, these espresso-inspired shades are as soft and airy as a warm, frothy Parisian treat.

Smoky…Yet Naked?

Urban Decay Naked Smoky palette ($54) is loaded with all the essentials for a neutral smoky eye. It includes a dozen sultry neutrals —bronzes, grays, browns, taupes and blacks—in matte, satin and sparkly shades for a three-dimensional, come-hither smolder.

Natural Splendor

ZuZu Luxe’s Volcanique Palette ($27.50) is a quad of eyeshadows designed to give eyelids a magnetic halo effect. Ingredients include titanium dioxide, which functions as a natural sun block. Mineral browns and golden shades with honey transparencies give a contemporary metallic finish, according to the brand.

Shape the Face

Lorac Pro Contour Palette ($28) contains two matte highlighters, one shimmer highlighter and three matte contour shades to easily create perfectly sculpted features, said the company. Its velvety-smooth, blendable highlighting and contouring powders are fragrance-free and ultra-pigmented to highlight and contour just like a pro.

Hi-Res Hues

The Japonesque Pixelated Color Collection ($38) delivers high-resolution pigments in smooth formulas that refract across the prismatic scale, according to the company. Blend these micronized color pigments for a deep, light-catching, color-shifting gradient. The set includes four exclusive Pro Basics and six Pixelated Color Eye Shadows.

By Melissa Meisel, Associate Editor 11.02.15

Offering the shopper value and variety, color cosmetic palettes remain a staple in beauty collections.

“Prestige color and combo palettes are a must for all consumers,” said Lauren Napier, a makeup artist (http://www.laurennapier.com/the-artist) in New York. “As a pro makeup artist, it's great to have a complete palette or two (or three) in a kit to meet and match the color needs of all clients. It also helps that one can tote a full color assortment without weighing down the makeup kit. On the other hand, offering a variety of colors in a palette gives the everyday or novice consumer a chance to explore color combinations, or add pops of color to a makeup look that she may not try or buy otherwise. Exploring color and texture options included in color palettes brings the buyer back to the counter. The buyer becomes more comfortable shopping the brand and the unique, must-have color found in the pallet that she just can't live without!”

Ideal for both gifting and travel, here’s a look at some recent rollouts in the prestige marketplace. They also make great holiday gift ideas.