Urban Decay's Bamboo Palette

The Urban Decay's Bamboo Palette was the first eyeshadow palette I bought when I was still experimenting with make-up. I remember it all too well, stepping into the first nicely refined Sephora store in a mall that I drove an hour and a half to. I walked around aimlessly in the store until I laid my eyes on the bright purple shelf that screamed URBAN DECAY. I've recognized the brand before from previous videos of Youtube bloggers that rambled endlessly on how much they loved their products. I was 16 or 17 when I found this so encountering the price put me in an immediate awe. Of course, with my excitement and lust for cosmetics, I purchased it for 40 dollars. This palette offered a decent variety of colors. It also comes along with a small sample of the Urban Decay Primer Potion and for all you make-up junkies out there know this primer is awesome and works very well. You are able to create from a sexy smokey eye to a very flashy and striking kind of look. The colors that they had to offer were YDK (a cooler bronze color with gentle shimmers), Flipside (a very bright teal-ish color with satiny texture), Grifter (a glittery light purple with slightly pink undertones), Uzi (densely glittered white shadow), Twice Baked (A brown shade with golden shimmers), Midnight Cowboy Rides Again (A light golden shade with tons of shimmer), Flash (A very satiny bright purple color), Oil Slick (A deep grey shade with silver glitters), Kiddie Pool (A light blue shade with shimmers), and Half Baked (A bronzy golden shade with a satin finish). Now here are my biased opinions of each eyeshadow. I wouldn't say I have a favorite because, I honestly love this set as a whole, but there are colors that I prominently use. I often times use Half Baked, Oil Slick, Flipside and Flash. First of all, I have to say I love, love, love Half Baked. It's a beautiful color, it makes your eyes shine and it's a perfect golden eyeshadow. But it just looks too bright for my eyes. I have warm-toned skin and yellow-gold based colors normally look good on me but this color was too strong for my liking. It's a great color on other people; its not the color for me. Oil Slick appeared to be a black eyeshadow for me in the beginning but it turns out its just a dark grey. I like this color because it seems very versatile, it's a good shade to build up a smokey effect. Also, I have a red lipstick and on certain days I wish for the red to be a little deeper, I'll use Oil Slick and blend it only a tad bit onto my red lips to create a vampy look. The rest of the shadows are mediocre, I have no feedback on them except for Uzi. I barely used this shadow because it was thickly glittered and every time I put it on, I came out to look like a fairy because of all the glitter fall out. It is also not the way I applied it either, I know with such a delicate shadow, I should press on the shadow instead of brushing it on but it still is very loose and the sparkles just consumes my face. Overall, this wasn't a bad investment. I could create many looks with this palette but I do regret paying 40 dollars for it. I hope that you find this helpful and I'll post my next review tomorrow.