Apr 13 2009
Urban Decay Sustainable Shadow Box- an amzing product!!!!
After reading so many reviews on the urban decay book of shadows make up kit i decided to treat myself to it with some boots points i had been keeping for goodness knows how long. However when i got down to my local i discovered the kt i wanted was out of stock so i ended up getting this one instead.
**Urban decay**
Urban Decays slogan is “beauty with an edge-we don’t do animal testing,how could anyone” They are an American company but i think part of the reason they are popular in the UK as well is because of this approach to animal testing. There’s just something nice about knowing that products have not been tested on animals such as Fluffy the neighbours cat.(Even if you hate the cat )
**Packaging**
The palette is made out from bamboo and there is actually a warning on the back telling you to be careful because there might be some slight natural splintering .It is covered all over in squiggles/random pictures and urban decay is written in one side of it. It is nice to look at and i think that it is quite different from normal palettes. Instead of having a clippy lid there is a screw in the corner and it sort of twists open. When you twist it open there is a mirror in the left hand corner .There is then a bit in the middle(spliting it in half vertical) for a brush and on each side is five eye shadows. The idea with this is that the eye shadow on each side of the brush goes with each other(not that you cant mix it with any they just think these go best with each other)
**Eye shadows**
In this you get ten eye shadows and they are:ydk(glittery brown),flipside(green),grifter(pink),uzi,twice baked,midnight cowboy rides again,flash,oil slick(glittery black),kiddie pool (surprisingly a blue and not yellow as i first thought)and half baked.
On the whole these are very glittery colours and very bright on so i wouldn’t suggest them for everyday wear. If you want to create dramatic eyes then these are great. I sometimes use these as eyeliners but to do that i would suggest getting a clear eyeliner to coat them with and perfect a dramatic eye look. The colours in this are very nice and i would say that they would suit most people. These are quite good however they aren’t the most pigmented eye shadow ever-its not like one little dab and you are covered in it. The colours last the entire day especially with the primer potion which you get a free sample of with the kit.
The brush you got with the kit is also good and i am now considering buying the full size brushes.
**Price/where to get**
This costs just under £20 from boots. Urban Decay do have their own web site but it is for the usa only. If you want to purchase these in the uk you can buy from boots,debenhams or house of fraiser. So as you can see the choice is not that big.
