The 21 Best Matte Eyeshadow Palettes of 2024

January 2, 2024

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All-matte eyeshadow palettes are some of my favorite products in my makeup collection. Matte shadows can easily create natural or full-on glam looks, whether you’re a beginner or pro.

I’ve curated the highest quality matte eyeshadow palettes on the market at a range of price points, including everything from high end professional lines and prestige brands to the best drugstore finds. I selected palettes that are universally flattering for a wide range of skin tones and eye colors.

These palettes are all easy to use, extremely blendable, and perfect for both everyday wear and night looks. These matte palettes are also very versatile—you can use many of these shadows as a brow powder, highlight, blush, and contour.

The 21 Best Matte Eyeshadow Palettes of 2023

MAKEUP BY MARIO Master Mattes™ Eyeshadow Palette

MAKEUP BY MARIO Master Mattes™ Eyeshadow Palette

Since buying the Master Mattes palette, it’s become my go-to eyeshadow palette for everyday looks and my number one travel palette.

There’s a reason Sephora has a hard time keeping this palette in stock. The makeup artist responsible for Kim K’s signature looks created this universally-flattering matte palette to be a timeless staple in your collection. Using natural human skin tones as his inspiration, Mario developed a range of nudes from light to deep that work for everyone. These shadows are blendable and buildable, so you can go as natural or dramatic as you like. Grab this palette before it sells out again!


Patrick Ta Major Dimension III Matte Eyeshadow Palette

Patrick Ta Major Dimension III Matte Eyeshadow Palette

These shadows almost blend themselves. The newest addition in celebrity makeup artist Patrick Ta’s Major Dimension series is this beautiful, large-pan, all-matte eyeshadow palette. This versatile palette has twelve shades (warm and cool nudes) that can be worn alone or layered and blended for added depth and intensity. The two cream bases can be used to sculpt, contour, and line for multi-dimensional neutral and dramatic looks.

This palette is also free of parabens, formaldehydes, phthalates, sulfates SLS & SLES and is vegan, gluten-free, and cruelty-free.


tarte Tartelette™ Amazonian Clay Matte Eyeshadow Palette

tarte Tartelette™ Amazonian Clay Matte Eyeshadow Palette

If you love mattes as much I do, this palette has the essential neutral matte shades everyone needs in their collection. This universally-flattering 12-shadow palette is arranged in three rows for suggested shades to mix and match so you can create beautiful, foolproof looks. It’s also great for travel—compact size, luxe packaging, and a large mirror.


Danessa Myricks Beauty Groundwork: Defining Neutrals

Danessa Myricks Beauty Groundwork: Defining Neutrals

One of the newest additions to my collection, I’ve been getting a ton of use out of this versatile Danessa Myricks palette.

This all-in-one palette comes with 10 velvety, blendable neutral pomades paired with coordinating oil-absorbing, texture-smoothing matte powders. More than just an eyeshadow palette, I’ve been loving it to define my brows, contour, and conceal all over the face. This multi-use, talc-free palette really does it all!

(Plus, as someone with sensitive skin, I also love that this palette is fragrance-free, and free of irritating ingredients like parabens, formaldehydes, phthalates, sulfates SLS & SLES, and more.)


CHANEL Les 4 Ombres in 308 Clair-Obscur

CHANEL Les 4 Ombres in 308 Clair-Obscur

I’ve found CHANEL makeup to live up to the hype. Inspired by threads of CHANEL’s iconic tweed, this Les 4 Ombres palette comes with two medium tones to color, transition, and contour, plus a deeper shadow for more intensity, and a lighter shade to highlight. This color combination is versatile enough to flatter all eye colors and skin tones.


Smashbox Cover Shot Eyeshadow Palette: Matte

Smashbox Cover Shot Eyeshadow Palette: Matte

This matte neutral palette has a mix of six eyeshadows and two double-sized base shades in the essential colors and finishes you need to create countless eye looks with minimal effort. This pigmented palette has a great mirror, fits in your purse, and comes in very travel-friendly packaging.


Viseart Eyeshadow Palette in 01 Neutral Matte

Viseart Eyeshadow Palette in 01 Neutral Matte

This is hands down one of my favorite matte eyeshadow palettes. Creamy, buttery, pigmented, professional quality mattes that are worth the price.

The 01 Neutral Mattes is Viseart’s bestselling palette and features universally flattering beige and brown tones that are easy to use, extremely blendable, and perfect for creating both natural day and glam night looks.


Viseart Eyeshadow Palette in 02 Warm Matte

Viseart Eyeshadow Palette in 02 Warm Matte

If you love a warm palette, Viseart’s 02 Warm Matte palette is another must-have in your collection. These 12 warm neutral shades work for all skin tones.


Victoria Beckham Smoky Eye Brick in Signature

Victoria Beckham Smoky Eye Brick in Signature

This luxe minimalist eyeshadow quad makes the perfect smoky eye easy to achieve. With a formulation that minimizes skin dryness, plumps fine lines, and improves skin texture, reviewers love the easy, smooth application and that the shadows are blendable and buildable, without creasing or fading. This palette also receives high praise for the quality of the packaging. The Tuxedo shade is also beautiful.


Charlotte Tilbury Luxury Eyeshadow Palette in The Sophisticate

Charlotte Tilbury Luxury Eyeshadow Palette in The Sophisticate

This Charlotte Tilbury four-step eyeshadow quad is another universally flattering, high-quality, foolproof option. This travel-friend palette has four complementary colors to prime your base, enhance dimension, smoke out your look, and add pop where you want it.


Charlotte Tilbury Super Nudes Easy Eyeshadow Palette

Charlotte Tilbury Super Nudes Easy Eyeshadow Palette

True to its name, this nude palette is both easy-to-wear and easy-to-use. With six ultra-blendable satin-matte shadows—three warm and three cool-toned neutrals—you can create the perfect 90’s supermodel makeup. These shadows are formulated with oils and waxes for a buildable look without creasing or patchiness.


ColourPop Gone Matte Palette

ColourPop Gone Matte Palette

This ColourPop 30-pan neutral matte eyeshadow palette gives you plenty of bang for your buck. With a wide range of buttery warm and cool toned mattes, including nudes, peaches, pinks, mauves, and grays, this palette can create  endless wearable looks (plus it’s also great for beginners!).


LORAC PRO Matte Eyeshadow Palette

LORAC PRO Matte Eyeshadow Palette

LORAC was created by professional makeup artist Carol Shaw after watching her celebrity clients suffer from skin irritation and breakouts on set. Her formulas are infused with gentle and soothing ingredients without sacrificing performance.

This creamy, neutral 8-pan matte eyeshadow palette offers pro makeup performance and pigmentation that performs wet or dry. Containing soothing botanicals, your look will remain crease proof and cake proof throughout the day. Travel-friendly, this palette can easily be used to highlight, shade, contour, and line your eyes for multiple looks.


Urban Decay Naked2 Basics Eyeshadow Palette

Urban Decay Naked2 Basics Eyeshadow Palette

If you love a natural look, Urban Decay’s Naked2 Basics is a makeup bag staple. This mini matte palette has six full-size, taupe-hued nude shadows that are flattering on a variety of skin tones and eye colors. This everyday palette also travels well so it’s easy to keep on hand.


Jane Iredale PurePressed Eyeshadow Palette in Naturally Matte

Jane Iredale PurePressed Eyeshadow Palette in Naturally Matte

Jane Iredale is known for “skincare makeup” and is committed to high-quality products that are also good for your skin. As a clean beauty brand, their makeup and skincare products are free of parabens, talc, phthalates, synthetic fragrance and GMO ingredients.

This Naturally Matte six-pan palette has specifically curated colors to create limitless looks. The finely milled mineral pigments offer a richer color payoff and the long-lasting, creamy formula makes for color that won’t crease or fade. This palette also contains natural ingredients like jojoba seed oil and shea butter to make sure your lids are moisturized for a smooth application.


Morphe 18WT Matte Essentials Artistry Palette

Morphe 18WT Matte Essentials Artistry Palette

This all-matte Morphe essentials palette has 18 warm shades in highly pigmented, beautiful, and blendable earth tones. This is a great beginner-friendly palette at an affordable price point.


Morphe 18CT Matte Essentials Artistry Palette

Morphe 18CT Matte Essentials Artistry Palette

This all-matte cool toned palette has 18 timeless, versatile shades you’ll want to have in your kit. Between this palette and the warm palette above, you’ll have a complete range of neutral must-have shadows on hand.


Milani UnGilded Most Loved Mattes Eyeshadow Palette

Milani UnGilded Most Loved Mattes Eyeshadow Palette

Drugstore makeup no longer means lower quality. Highly pigmented and blendable, this Milani matte palette has 12 warm neutral shades that work for light to deep skin tones.


IT Cosmetics Naturally Pretty Essentials Matte Luxe Transforming Eyeshadow Palette

IT Cosmetics Naturally Pretty Essentials Matte Luxe Transforming Eyeshadow Palette

The Naturally Pretty Essentials palette features six full-size, anti-aging shadows that, with a tap of the bonus Transforming Hello Light™ shade, turn from matte to radiant satin for a total of 13 essential neutral shades. Their talc-free eyeshadow formula was developed with plastic surgeons and infused with collagen, real silk, peptides and a proprietary No-Tug Technology™ to give you a seamless application.


Juvia’s Place Warrior II Eyeshadow Palette

Juvia's Place Warrior II Eyeshadow Palette

Black-owned beauty brand Juvia’s Place created this affordable warm matte eyeshadow palette to work for all skin tones from light to dark skin. These highly-pigmented earth tones can also be used for contour and blush!


Dose of Colors Eyeshadow Palette in Baked Browns

Dose of Colors Eyeshadow Palette in Baked Browns

Dose of Colors makes highly pigmented shadows that are buttery and blendable, with inclusive shade ranges that work for all skin tones and eye colors.

This Dose of Colors Baked Browns palette contains 5 warm-toned matte brown shadows that can create highly versatile looks from everyday natural to smokey eye. I also highly recommend their other matte palettes below.


Check out my recommended neutral eyeshadow palettes here!

Looking for something else? Check out all my Amazon favorites here!

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