I got the Pearl Paints and Dramatically Neutral instead of BOBW because of the duplication issue. I knew I'd want the other palettes eventually. If I had bought the BOBW palette, then I would just buy an empty 40 palette and start building my own palette based on what I use as an artist and what I don't have that I would like from the BOBW palette. ie - in the Dramatically Neutral palette there isn't a matte gray or an ashy brown (which I use a lot for brows and mixing). So I would pick that. Also, don't have bright mattes in either palette, so I would get some bright matte color, etc. HTH!