Urban Decay has come out with 4 different eyeshadow palette for the holiday, I only decided to buy the Vice Palette as the other 3 (Fun, Feminine, Dangerous) only contained eyeshadows that I already own. The Vice Palette supposedly only contains new shades, but I'm sure some of these can be duped with other Urban Decay shadows or other brands.
There are 20 eyeshadows included in the palette:
- Desperation (greyish taupe brown matte-satin)
- Muse (dark reddish brown w/golden and multidimensional shimmer)
- Jagged (matte black base w/gold metallic)
- Blitz (bright gold metallic)
- Penny Lane (bronze metallic w/gold glitter)
- Junkie (dark green-blue w/gold shimmer)
- Chaos (vibrant royal blue w/very subtle shimmer)
- Unhinged (electric turquoise blue metallic)
- Occupy (dark grey-blue metallic)
- Black Market (dark charcoal black matte-satin)
- Provocateur (light greyish pink w/lots of multidimensional glitter)
- Rapture (dark greyish purple w/multidimensional shimmer)
- Vice (dark eggplant w/subtle red shimmer)
- Noise (dark reddish-pink metallic w/big gold glitter)
- Armor (greyish brown metallic w/silver micro-glitter)
- Nevermind (light taupey-brown shimmer)
- Echo Beach (light wheat-champagne shimmer)
- Anonymous (light whitish-pink nude matte)
- Freebird (light peachy-pink w/silver micro-glitter)
- Laced (pinky-taupe matte)
(descriptions taken from the Urban Decay website)
The eyeshadows are not full size (0.8 g instead of 1.5 g of the full size shadows), but they are a decent size. You also have a double ended Good Karma shadow and crease brush included as well as a full size mirror in the lid. The palette isn't as bulky as the Books of Shadows (especially the last one which was massive!), there isn't any unnecessary extra bits and bobs included, no drawers to put out, etc.
Quality-wise the palette is pretty good. There are some really lovely shades, soft, buttery, well pigmented, and there are some glittery, chunky, powdery ones too. The nicest ones for me are Blitz, Penny Lane, Junky, Chaos, Occupy, Unhinged, Vice, Armor, Nevermind and Echo Beach. The worst ones are Jagged, Provocateur and Freebird. All 3 have a ton of glitter and massive fallout. The rest are pretty good. The brush isn't my favourite, especially the shadow end, the crease blensing end is okay.
All in all, this is a nice palette, but not the best I have ever seen from Urban Decay. My personal favourites are the 15 Year Anniversary Palette and the first Book of Shadows. At £42 it's still great value as you get 20 just-over-half-size eyeshadows plus a brush for the price of 3 full size eyeshadows. If you're a fan of Urban Decay you will probably want it because it's very pretty and there are some really lovely eyeshadows in it. If you're not a fan of glittery, frosty shades, this one is probably not for you as there are only 4 mattes in it and to be fair the two lighter ones are a bit meh.
See lots more pictures including swatches after the jump!
