Dupe Alert? Too Faced Peanut Butter and Jelly and Milani Earthly Elements

Let's get this right out of the way, first: the Milani Earthly Elements (EE) palette contains no actual purple elements. So, it is not an exact dupe of the Too Faced Palette. However, certain shades are very, very similar, that one could replicate the same look.

The Too Faced PB & J palette is sold at full retail price for $32.00. However, many discount outlet stores are selling it for half price, which is $16.00, and which is the price that I paid.

The Milani Earthly Elements palette cost $11.00. So, in terms of the way I am going to evaluate it, the way I see it the Too Faced palette was only $5.00 more.

We'll go shade by shade. Only the Too Faced palette has shade names, and all Too Faced swatches will be on the left, with Milani on the right.

Soft & Sweet is a very light matte peach, with sparse bits of microgitter. It's "dupe" in the EE palette is a satin that is light peach as well, but pinker than the PB & J palette.

Peanut Butter is a light matte orange-brown. Its dupe in the Milani palette is more brown than orange, and less warm.

Peanut Butter Cup is a gorgeous mid-toned brown with golden shimmer and some sparkle. It's potential dupe is the next shade in the EE palette, which is cooler toned.

Peanut Brittle, the star of the palette, is a high-impact metallic copper. The closest in the EE palette is a shade very similar to the brown shimmer, just more red-toned. These are not close at all.

Nuts About U is a dark orange matte, very similar to Realgar from the MR palette. It's potential dupe in the EE palette is lighter and brighter.

Rich and Creamy is a pale golden shimmer, which I wish was a bit more pigmented. A potential dupe was scraped out by me ages ago- it appeared to be a champagne "shimmer," but really it was just pressed glitter that flew everywhere and had no pigment, so I exorcised it from the palette. Therefore, I don't have any comparison photos to show you.

Overall, I do see significant overlap with these two palettes, but not enough for me to think buying the PB & J palette was a waste. That palette has a matte cream, a dark shade, and greater variation in the shimmers. It also has that purple, which I don't seem to mind! The formula seems excellent as well. However, this exercise is also an illustration of the fact that Milani is an excellent brand as well, and there are some looks you could make with one palette that you could definitely make with the other.

I did notice that the Milani mattes, as nice as they are, needed to be built up a bit more, but this is not necessarily a bad thing. Its shimmers definitely need to be applied with a finger and used with primer, which is not too much extra work.

Though I wouldn't say this palette as a whole is a dead-on dupe, I do think the Earthly Elements palette is a good buy for someone wanting to create trendy warm toned looks.

Thanks for reading!