Makeup-Pixi3: Vice 2

For Christmas I had this little baby, no, not an actual baby, a makeup baby in the form of the Urban Decay Vice 2 palette. Oh my goodness, it should be framed and hung in the National Gallery as a work of art! Before I get into the nitty gritty of the review, here's some beautiful pictures of it and some swatches :)

The top row of the UD Vice 2 palette swatched

Top row swatch

The 2nd row of the UD Vice 2 palette swatched

2nd row swatch

The 3rd row of the UD Vice 2 palette swatched

3rd row swatch (look at that pretty glitter in the middle!)

Bottom row of the UD Vice 2 palette swatched

Bottom row swatch

Ok, lets get ourselves together after those pretty pics! Can you tell they were taken with a new camera? :) Anyway, on with the review!

First off, this is really beautifully packaged. I'm a sucker for purple at the best of times, but this is adorned in fluttery purple petal print. Then there's the way it opens, a push button-auto-open action, ooooooh yeah!

Inside you'll find 20 stunning shades ranging from blues to pinks, neutrals, greens and metallics. All are of the standard you've come to expect and love from Urban Decay, they're creamy, buttery, blendable and highly pigmented without too much fallout (there will be some though). The first combination I wore is the blues (below), I really was taken back by how beautiful these looked together - I think I might have scared my family though! The next day I work the silver shade 'shellshock' with the glittery black 'lovesick' (no matter how many times I write that, I keep going to say lovestick!).

After that, I ventured into the neutrals and experimented with the different browns, either wearing just one shade, or blending lots of them together - they looked beautiful in whichever arrangement I wore them in. I really do love the matte nude shade 'habit' (middle of bottom row) for highlighting under the browbone too - it's skin coloured but brightens just enough without any shimmer.

The only negatives I can think of with the palette is that it's a little large, so not that travel friendly, but on the flip side of that, if you did take this palette with you, you wouldn't need to take any other shadows with you. Also, there's the price, it's £42 which for what you get is a really good price, but £42 for a palette feels like quite a lot. But you do get reasonable sized shadows for this and in really beautiful packaging. I would recommend this to anyone and everyone, I absolutely adore it!!! What's better, it's Urban Decay so it's cruelty free :)