Runway To High Street Fashion

thebeautycupboard:

I love Haight. Possibly because I love turquoise. This is actually a little lighter than it looks in the picture and has a beautiful shimmer to it.

Maui Wowie (top marks for cute name) is a light gold with bucket loads of shimmer. Nothing like Half Baked from the naked palette though, its far paler.

I swatched Smog and sat thinking I REALLY recognise this colour before realising oh yeah that’ll because its the same Smog that’s in my naked palette! It is a beautiful deep bronze though and i’m pleased to have it twice!

I can’t make up my mind whether Bordello is pink or purple but I love it either way and this is coming from someone who thinks pink eyeshadow is a thing of the devil. I think i’d describe it as pink shimmer with a hint of lilac.

Radium is similar to Haight but is slightly more of a deeper blue and has far less shimmer.

Snatch (haha!) is a pale pink/ nude shimmer and is like a truly pink version of Bordello (which then makes me want to call Bordello purple!)

Suspect is a light bronze with a hint of glitter. Almost an exact dupe of Sidecar.

Psychedelic Sister is the main colour I used for my purple smokey eye and it is just so beautiful. A perfect mid tone purple with enough shimmer to notice but not enough to be overpowering.

So there we have it! I really hope my swatches have been useful, please let me know if you liked them!

Rach

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thebeautycupboard:

The shadows of course glide on beautifully like all Urban Decay shadows do. You get 16 eye shadows in total as well as a mini primer potion, zero UD’s standard black eyeliner and a purple eyeliner called Ransom (…which I forgot to swatch but its pretty!)

Starting on the left of my arm we have Perversion which is a pretty standard matt black.

Uzi is next which is a really really frosty white with silver glitter. This looks gorgeous as a bright highlighter in the corner of the eye and really makes your eyes pop.

Then we have Loaded which looks like a deep emerald green in the palette but swatches as a deeper black then Perversion. Probably the most disappointing of the colours.

Kush is next which swatches almost exactly as it looks in the palette. A bright mint green with a subtle green shimmer.

Midnight Cowboy Rides Again is just beautiful and reminds me a lot of Sin which I have from the naked palette. I can see i’m going to end up wearing this one with everything.

Last Call is quite an unusal colour kind of a pinky browny burgundy with a Sin/ MCRA shimmer to it.

Rockstar is a deep purple burgundy which looks beautiful on the outer corner of the eye. A lovely staple colour.

I’m pretty excited about Money because i’ve never really tried a colour like this. Its part blue, part green, part grey and part white. It catches the light beautifully and i’m obsessed with it already!

I’ll do the nest 8 shadows in a seperate post.

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