Hey so I know that I am totally late for this cult favorite but I just bought it a few weeks ago. I can say that I am truly aware of why it has such a huge following. Because it is amazing! There are of course a few things that I don’t like about it but I will go over the pros and cons a little bit later. Currently the colors that I can no longer live with out (sorry for my horrible color description) sin*, which is a smooth metallic like finish in a lovely light pink color (very reflective), sidecar* which has a metallic finish and is a taupe with a light bronze but also kinda of pink undertone, and toasted* which is a dark amber bronze color and is semi metallic. As you can see I love metallic like colors but, what is great with all of these three that you can wear then all over the lid and blend it out and don’t need a crease color. Just use virgin the lightest color in the pallet for the inner corners and brow bone. However that said the color toasted I do find to not be as buttery as some of the other shadows it can be a little dusty when you put your brush on it. I am aware that half baked the gold color in the pallet by it self is a UD cult favorite shadow but I don’t really get the hype. It is just a really pretty gold color, which is great but nothing special or amazing to rave about. Which takes me to the claim that when ever I would talk to someone about urban decay shadows they would always rave about the smooth and buttery-ness of them. And, after having this pallet I don’t really get it. They have great color pay off and 95% of the time go smoothly on the lid but they are a little dusty in the pan and don’t have that silky feel to them like I was expecting. But other wise the pallet is so worth the 50 bucks, mostly because it comes with a little primer potion bottle so that is a great bonus to me. The pallet also comes with the good Karma brush which I am joining the masses and saying was a huge disappointment. The brush in no way shape or form is a shader brush, however it does work as a decent concealer brush. The brush is well made and none of the bristles ever fall out but, seriously UD how could you think that it is a eye shadow brush.
Now to the serious pros and cons
pros:
- It has a great neutral color selection for every day where but has color to darken things up for night
- has two mat browns a light one and a darker one
- nice sleek packaging good for traveling, with a space of a decent size eye brush.
- shadows have great color pay off bright and vibrant, especially when used with a base.
- has full size shadows 1.3g
- Some of the shadows are a little flaky or dusty
- only has no mat black for a liner or a dark enough brow that i also would use to set a liner
- came with a really crappy brush (this is easy to look past)
- comes with the small mirror not practical for acutal makeup application
- magnetic closer so can be open easily if in a purse (but in a travel nothing to worry about)
- the velvet outside does get dirty very quickly and the gold NAKED lettering on the front does seem to fade over time
here is a color order from left to right
- virgin
- sin*
- Naked
- Sidecar*
- buck
- half baked
- smog
- Darkhorse
- toasted*
- hustle
- creep
- gunmetal
*photo taken from the Urban Decay website
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