Urban Decay Moondust Palette Review
URBAN DECAY
Moondust Palette Review 
Anyone who follows my social media accounts knows that
Urban Decay
is by far my favourite brand. I am obsessed with all their products and have
always found the staff on their counters to be so friendly and helpful. This
makes this review so much harder to write. I even considered not mentioning it
at all rather than write a negative review but, I promised to always be honest
with you guys so here goes……
To say I have been
excited for this palette’s release would be an understatement, but there is no
other way to put it…..I am really disappointed!
Urban Decay are
famous for their eyeshadow palette’s. Their Naked palettes are a cult favourite
and set a very high standard in both packaging and quality of the shadows. I
obviously expected the same from this palette.
From the outside the
packaging looks good quality. It is beautiful with a glittery Space theme but
when you open it up it appears to be made out of cheap plastic and does not
live up to the high standard we are used to from Urban Decay. It is
very lightweight and has a large mirror which makes it brilliant for travelling
so there are some positives.
There are 8 new
shadows inside that are all individually named.
Specter – a pale pink.
Element – an orangey copper.
Magnetic – purple.
Lightyear – a vibrant green.
Granite – grey/black.
Vega – true blue.
Galaxy – a dark Teal blue.
I don’t know if it is
just me but the pan sizes of the shadows appear to be quite small. I have
compared them to the ones in the Urban Decay Electric palette and they
definitely seem smaller. I'm sure if I done my homework I could easily find out
the answer but let’s face it I’m not going to waste my child free time doing
that lolz.
The shadows
themselves are a hit and a miss. All of them have what seems like chunks of
glitter in them but the glitter doesn’t appear to be evenly spread throughout
the shadow. One swatch you get large chunks of glitter and no pigmentation in
the shadow and on another swatch get a better colour payoff from shadow but
less glitter?
I started off swatching with
the intention of taking photographs after one layer each, but most shadows were
barely visible in person never mind on camera. As I continued I found the
eyeshadows to be very patchy especially the brighter shades. I found that you
needed at least 4 layers of product before the shadows looked even. There was
also considerable fallout from the shadows Granite, Lithium and Galaxy. You
expect this from glittery shadows but with these ones it’s as if more product
falls away than actually sticks to lid. I also strongly recommend using a good
eyeshadow primer with these shadows as the brighter colour's will stain your
lid otherwise.
I will say in Urban
Decay’s defence, they do recommend using the shadows with your fingers and also
to wet them to increase intensity which would solve or at least help the
mentioned problems.
One thing I just do
not understand about this palette is why no silver? On the box Granite looks
quite silvery but on swatching there is more black in there than silver. I just
do not understand in a space themed palette that is loaded with shimmer and glitter
why silver wouldn’t be an obvious choice. Although the shade lithium is
beautiful and one of my favourites as it is so wearable it sticks out like a
sore thumb. In my opinion a silver shade would have fitted beautifully with the
theme and could have been mixed with the other shades.
Overall, I am really
disappointed with this palette. I intent to keep using it to find ways to make
the shadows work. I am yet to actually work with them wet but after seeing Samantha
Ravndahl’s tutorial today I am hopeful they will be a lot more
pigmented and easier to work with when wet.
I do not suggest
buying it if you are new to makeup. In fact, I strongly suggest you don’t as
the shadows are not easy to work with. If you are a makeup enthusiast, I would
suggest going to your local Urban Decay counter (You can find yours Here)
to swatch the shadows before purchasing.
Thirtyandmakeupmad
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