Best Eyeshadow Palettes 2025
If you’re on the hunt for the best eyeshadow palette, we can help. The wardrobes of the beauty world, a great palette will let you go from subtle, smokey eyes one day to cut crease glam the next. Below, we’ve compiled a line-up of the best eyeshadow palettes to fancy up your lids and make your eyes pop.
How we choose the best eyeshadow palettes
When narrowing down the best eyeshadow palettes ever, we look for palettes that give real value for money, a variety of eyeshadow finishes for layering, and a versatile selection of colours. Pigmentation is also crucial - these eyeshadows all grant impressive colour payoff with long-lasting staying power.
By Sephora UK Makeup Editorial Team
Writers and experts
Updated: 20 June 2025
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Natasha Denona
Retro Mini Palette
Best for sensitive eyes
Free from talc, phthalates and allergens, this palette is carefully designed to minimise irritation - a huge tick for sensitive skin. Channelling 60s chic with its five dreamy hues, each colour is inspired by that soft, retro look that’s so symbolic of the era. The shades themselves? You’ve got a dazzling, neutral duo-chrome, a velvety, metallic grey, two creamy, neutral mattes, and a rosy pink metallic. With a compact size that slips easily into your bag, this one’s a perfect everyday palette for on-the-go lifestyles. Providing maximum colour payoff with minimal effort, prepare to fall in love with the rich pigments, buttery-smooth blend, and long-lasting staying power of each shade.
Tried and tested: “The reason I purchased this palette was that greenish shade, but when I started to use it, I fell in love with all of them. It really gives me that retro vibe, it is soft and stunning. The shimmery pink is exceptional!” - Angela, Customer Review
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Urban Decay
Naked Heat Eyeshadow Palette
Best for blue-eyed beauties
News coming in hot: 6,600 shadow-lovers search for Urban Decay eyeshadow every month. So, it’s little wonder this beauty caused a frenzy when it dropped back in 2017. A molten collection of 12 toasty hues ranging from ‘Sauced’, a soft terracotta matte, to ‘Scorched’, a deep red micro-shimmer, buff and blend out for some fiery looks. Although this one suits all eye colours and skin tones, it looks particularly incredible on blue eyes and will really make them pop.
Tried and tested: “While the original Naked palette has been laid to rest, there are still some great options to choose from in the Naked franchise; the most ‘glam’ of which has to be Naked Heat. With gorgeously rich reds, browns, and bronzes, these work amazingly well as liners as well as pure eyeshadows. Like with all of Urban Decay’s eyeshadows, each shade has an incomparable buttery texture that blends effortlessly.” - Evening Standard
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Natasha Denona
Glam Palette
Best for day to night
A versatile palette to take you from a day at the office to drinks after work effortlessly. Featuring 15 eye-enhancing shades, including rich taupe mattes, duo-chrome hazelnut, iridescent champagnes, statement silver, glowing gold and warm cocoa, so you can nail the ultimate smokey eye and a variety of extreme glam looks. We love the buttery, silky shades that glide and are long-lasting, ultra-pigmented and seamlessly blendable.
Tried and tested: “Ultimately, I think we’re all looking for that perfect neutral palette that we can get away with using every day forever more, and this is it. Not only is the quality and pigment impeccable but the selection allows a range of subtle and bolder looks that you will keep coming back to. My only concern would be refilling pans as I think I’ll keep this palette in my permanent collection. It’s a classic in the making.” - Lianne, Customer Review
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Anastasia Beverley Hills
Soft Glam Eyeshadow Palette
Best for all-out glam
Beautiful palettes are always quickly snapped up by makeup junkies, but we particularly love this latest offering of universally-flattering neutrals which are so easy to apply and blend. Including a mixture of matte and shimmer hues, this is the ideal way to transform your look from desk to date, and the high pigment formulas mean that the shadows won't crease or fade throughout the day.
Tried and tested: “Perfect for those who love subtle, more neutral looks with a slight pop of colour. As someone who tends to lean towards neutral shades, I love this palette as an intro to broadening my preferred shade ranges. It's very easy to work with and the shades apply and blend well." - Maya, Customer Review
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