One of my birthday presents was a large eyeshadow palette type thing. I don't want to put it on the shelf to languish into oblivion but at the same time I don't tend to go out in the evening regularly to bars and restaurants so the only option of trying them out is wearing different colours daily to work. I work in a casual setting so considering some people have bright purple hair, my eyeshadow isn't likely to cause a scene. On the flip side I could just give the palette to my nieces (8 & 13yrs) who'd have a blast of a time experimenting.
What do you reckon? If it helps, I'm quite good at applying eye-make-up anyway so I know I wouldn't look like a clown but I would need to force myself to use colours that I've not tried before.