I find that the palette is easy to work with and I only have to use a light hand to get the right amount of pigments. Given that I do light make-up so maybe that might be why I feel it's enough but it's buildable. Not patchy! Just that you don’t have any film on top of the shadows as with any other By Terry palettes as protection and since I’m not in the UK, it did arrive with minimal fallout (thankfully no broken pan but that did cross my mind and is very possible to happen) and stained the plastic of the brush. I used my regular brush. Didn’t use the one in the palette.