My Shameless Obsession With Urban Decay: The Bamboo Palettte

This one... This one was sent to me by a really lovely woman I won a giveaway from on Instagram. She actually sent this one to me about two weeks after I received my first package. Why did she send it? Because I made a post asking for recommendations for summer makeup because I knew I was going to need waterproof things for Warped Tour and our summer vacation coming up. Check her out here and here.

The Bamboo Palette (Sustainable Shadow Box?)
Year Sold- 2009 (Maybe after then)
Year Received- 2015

Packaging- No this is really inconvenient. It doesn't have a magnet that keeps it close so it just swings around. I obviously haven't messed with stability much but to be honest it doesn't have a good mirror, it doesn't have a good closure, and I understand why Urban Decay doesn't make things like this anymore.

Swatches and Color Reviews!

YDK- A really soft cool toned brown with golden

shimmers and a frosted finish. Perfect color for 

darkening up the outer corner without being too

dramatic or smokey.

Flipside- More on the teal side of blue, but not straight

up teal. I'd call this a mermaid blue. It's not as opaque

as you'd expect but it's still lovely.

Grifter- I love everything about this color except

the crazy silver glitter. I've found I can put the product

on the brush and blow the chunks of glitter off,

leaving me only with the color. It's a silver

purple shade that is a nice wash of color that 

still has a nice pigment to it.

Uzi- Similar to Grifter with the nuts silver glitter,

except I don't really like the white. If I had to choose

an Urban Decay white shadow I'd have to say

Bobby Dazzle is much better.

Twice Baked- I actually don't like this color at all

it's chalky and not very well pigmented. Which makes

me pretty sad to be totally honest.

Midnight Cowboy Rides Again- Pretty, champagne, has

obnoxious glitter and is a more beige version of Maui Wowie.

The glitter is slightly more bearable than most of 

the other glitter shadows in this palette

but not by much.

Flash- If you take Grifter and take out the silver

aspect that's what this color is. If you put both

on your lid there isn't much of a difference

except maybe the finish of it.

Half Baked- See my Naked palette review for my

thoughts on this one. 

Kiddie Pool- I adore this blue with my life.

I think honestly I'll use it more as a pop

of color here and there rather than all over

my lid, but it's a lovely aqua blue.

Oilslick- A matte black shadow with glitter.

It's not as black as Blackout and not 

shimmery enough for me to like it more

than the black from the Pulp Fiction palette.

Overall this is a great summer palette. I am once again so grateful to Tina for sending it my way. Look forward to a series we've got in the works to collab on together about makeup for different age groups. Make sure you check her out.

Disclaimer: While this was sent to me it was because someone saw a better home for it, as well as I constantly support her on my Social media way before this was ever sent to me. So I mean... Unbiased review.

My Shameless Obsession With Urban Decay: The Fun Palette

When I was little, I was completely desperate to wear makeup. So much so that I used to sneak little smudges of eyeliner or smears of mascara on my lashes to see if I could get away with it. The answer is, I could not. Finally, I hit the magic number of 13, and I was allowed to wear simple eyeliner, mascara, and lip gloss. It wasn't until 14 that I really wanted to wear more than that. We went to the Sephora store inside of JCPenny's and let the lady at my face. Unwrapping wasn't really a surprise, except for one item. I received my first Urban Decay palette. And it allllllll went downhill from there. Through the years I've collected a slightly ridiculous amount of Urban Decay (particularly in the past year), and was at a loss for new blog posts. Which is how this big week of swatches, reviews, and general rambling came about. We'll start from my oldest palette to my most recent.

The Fun Palette

Year Sold- 2012
Year Received- 2012

What the brand new palette looked like

Packaging- As far as packaging goes, I love the zipped Urban Decay palettes. A lot of people don't like them but I find them superior for traveling. In the two or so years I've had this palette I've dropped it, stepped on it (yes, stepped on it), and brought it with me on every single vacation I've been on, meaning it's been through being thrown around and absolutely crushed. Yes, the mirror has broken, that was the side effect of stepping on it. However, putting a hundred lbs. worth of pressure on it didn't bust or break any of the eye shadows. I'm pretty sad I lost the lip gloss to this (pretty positive it got left in a hotel room in Amsterdam), because the Lip Junkie gloss was absolutely gorgeous. I'm even considering buying the full size version. Another really cool thing about this palette in particular is you can remove the whole block of eye shadows and use the case as a clutch.