Phew! Can I catch my breath for second?! Swatching this entire mother ship of a palette has been exhausting but super fun! I really wanted to bring you a comprehensive look at this year's Blockbuster offering from Sephora. These palettes have become somewhat of a holiday tradition and have even started to inspire copycat "blockbusters" from places like Saks and Ulta.

Before I get to my final swatches, I wanted to take a second to review the palette as a whole.

As a product, the value is phenomenal. You get a lot of makeup, tons of variety and many different kinds of products all for a relatively small price ($48). But the key words to remember of Sephora Collection Endless Color Blockbuster palette is that it's QUANTITY over quality.

With that in mind, I wouldn't recommend this as a gift or as a purchase for someone who already owns a lot of makeup. They will be disappointed with the overall quality of products (though I do admit I notice significant improvement from version 1.0 and some earlier models). However, I was quite impressed with some products, namely the cute iconic tote design, the cream eyeliners, some lip colors, bright cool toned eyeshadows. While other things, such as the pencils, neutral eyeshadows, applicators and extremely flimsy packaging, were disappointments. Overall, year of year, serious improvements, though it may not be enough for a makeup junkie like me.

Another positive, that I haven't mentioned before, is that with each purchase comes a lottery ticket for Sephora's Silver Ticket Sweepstakes, a chance to win $1,000 Sephora shopping spree, a one year supply of Sephora Collection products and a $1,000 donation to the Arbor Day Foundation in the winner's name (there are some 2nd prizes too). However, you don't have to buy a Blockbuster palette to enter. Click here for details.

What's in the Sephora Collection Endless Color Blockbuster, one last time:

This set contains:
- 98 eyeshadows
- 70 lipglosses
- 6 cream eyeliners
- 2 lip liners
- 3 pencil eyeliners
- 1 mascara
- 3 blushes (one could be used as a bronzer)
- 4 applicators

Limited Edition, $48 at Sephora.

Now, here are the final swatches and see below for a recap of my review:

The pencils - two eyeliners and two lipliners.

These were hard but still somewhat creamy. Not terrible, but again not great.

3 Blushes - surprisingly pigment, though the texture was chalky and hard.

Cream eyeliners - can also be used as an eyeshadow base color.

These were actually pretty impressive!

Sephora will you make a kit of just these?!

The brown was quite nice.

Links to other swatches:

Pencils, Blushes, Cream Eyeliners

Summarize the review (the quick and dirty):

Pros: HUGE value. Cute packaging. Tons of colors. Sweepstakes ticket. Some pigmented and nice colors. Better than previous years.

Cons: Flimsy packaging (albeit adorable). Quantity over quality (some may see this as a PRO). Mostly soso pigmentation on most colors with hard, chalky texture.

Overall Rating: B-