The best face palettes you can buy

The Maybelline Master Contour Face Contouring Kit is an affordable, streamlined blush, bronzer, and highlighter set in a travel-friendly package.

For a great drugstore option that checks all the boxes, look no further than the Maybelline Master Contour Face Contouring Kit. You get a blush, bronzer, and highlighter in compact packaging for under $10.

It's the perfect travel companion for quick touch-ups, although the lack of a mirror is a downside when you're on-the-go.

Choose from Light to Medium or Medium to Deep depending on your skin tone. The powders are organized in the order you should apply them and also numbered from 1 to 3, so there's absolutely no guesswork involved.

Simply sweep the contour onto the hollow of your cheeks and around the hairline, swirl blush onto the apples of your cheeks, dot highlighter on the high points of your face and you're good to go.

"I love love love this palette! It's a 3-in-1 that doesn't take up a lot of space and does an excellent job contouring the face, coloring the cheeks and highlighting what you want highlighted," writes one Amazon reviewer.

Overall, the palette has a 4.3 rating based on more than 200 reviews.

Pros: affordable, labeled for easy use, two color options

Cons: not super pigmented, no mirror

Natasha Denona Diamond & Blush comes in two color palettes, each with six versatile cream and powder cheek products that deliver a healthy glow to a spectrum of complexions.

No face palette is one-size-fits-all, but Natasha Denona Diamond & Blush comes pretty close. It comes in two colorways, each with six cheek products in a combination of cream and powder formulas.

The palette is designed to be layered. Combine all the shades together for major glow or apply separately for more subtle looks. The palette is available in two versions — Darya and Citrus — designed to suit a variety of skin tones. Both feature cream and powder highlighters and blushes, and have garnered rave reviews from shoppers with fair to deep complexions.

Since the formulas are buildable, you can get more or less impact by using a lighter or heavier hand. Diamond & Blush is highly rated on Sephora, with 4.6 stars based on more than 160 reviews. "I swear since I have had this it seems like I am finally applying blush properly. The combination of the creams and powders gives my skin a fresh and healthy finish. I no longer look flat," writes one shopper.

One downside to this product that there isn't much by way of bronzer. The focus is really on blush and highlight rather than contour, although depending on your skin tone, some reviewers report using "Glow Cream Base" in the Citrus palette as a subtle sculpting shade.

Pros: buildable, cream and powder formulas, works for a range of skin tones

Cons: expensive, no matte shades or deep bronzers

The RMS Beauty Signature Set Pop Collection is a compact set of the brand's best-selling cream face products, crafted with attention to natural ingredients.

The Signature Set from clean beauty brand RMS is a neat little compact with five of the brand's best-selling cheek products.

There are two colorways. The Pop Collection includes Buriti Bronzer, Magic Luminizer, Lip2Cheek stains in Demure and Beloved, and Simply Vanilla Lip & Skin Balm. The Mod Collection includes the balm as well, plus Master Mixer, Living Luminizer, and Lip2Cheek stains in Smile and Spell.

This is a very easy, on-the-go kit that is small enough to toss in a purse or luggage carry-on, but still gives you options. Several reviewers address the small pan sizes relative to the price, but the formulas are truly gorgeous, buildable, and can be applied with fingertips and blend seamlessly into the skin.

While the sets themselves don't have a ton of shopper reviews, both collections contain some of the RMS's highest-rated products like the Living Luminizer, which has 4.4 stars based on more than 300 reviews.

"It's really all you need for a full face, and the products give such a healthy dewy look and very natural. The size is small but a little goes such a long way so for me this will last a pretty long time," writes one Sephora shopper.

The RMS Beauty Signature Set is an Allure Best of Beauty winner in 2017, and has been featured by Hypebae.

Pros: compact, good for travel, products are multi-use, natural formulas

Cons: small pans, expensive for size

Make Up For Ever gives you the chance to create a custom face set with the Artist Color Refillable Makeup Palette and Artist Face Color Highlight, Sculpt, and Blush Powder.

Most face palettes include exactly what you see in the photos online, but Make Up For Ever is doing things a little differently. The brand's Artist Color Refillable Makeup Palette gives you the chance to customize your ideal blush, bronzer, and highlighter combo.

The palette itself costs $2 and the powders cost $23 each, with a slight discount if you buy everything as a bundle — two powders and a palette is $35, three powders and a palette is $45.

After you figure out which palette size you want, choose your Artist Face Color Highlight, Sculpt, and Blush Powders. There are 35 total blushes, bronzers, and highlighters in the range with both matte and shimmery finishes.

This kit lets you choose the exact shades you're most likely to use. Want two blushes and a highlighter instead of bronzer? Three highlighters? The world is your oyster. And since each of the pans is refillable, you can replace one at a time — great news if you use one product more heavily than others.

The powders have a 4.6 Sephora rating based on more than 680 customer reviews and the palette has a 4.8 rating based on more than 180 reviews.

"I found the products to be really smooth and buttery, and they apply easily with a brush. For the price you get a decent amount of product, and the shade selection is quite nice," writes one shopper.

Pros: customizable refillable palettes, 34 shades, great value, palettes have mirrors

Cons: you only get discount if palettes and powders are purchased together

Too Faced Natural Face Palette ($44): This palette is pretty highly reviewed and I've personally enjoyed using it. The formula is nice and creamy, however a lot of the powders are very shimmery. Plus, there's a really intense coconut smell that might be a bit much for some.

Tom Ford Eye & Cheek Palette ($155): Tom Ford's powders are well-reviewed. This palette includes two blushes and four eyeshadows, and comes in warm and cool options for different undertones. But the price tag is just so high that it's hard to recommend.