Urban Decay Anarchy Face Case Swatches, Review & FOTD – Holiday 2013

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I love an all-in-one palette.  Nothing is more travel friendly than having your shadows, cheek products and lippie all in one place.  The Urban Decay Anarchy Face Case is compact enough for on-the-go, but sturdy enough to bump around in your makeup drawer.

What Sephora says about the Urban Decay Anarchy Face Case:

What it is:
A luxurious two-tiered mirrored case featuring color for the entire face.

What it does:
An ultimate all-in-one travel palette for the most discriminating beauty junkies, this limited-edition set contains all the essentials for a range of looks, including colors for your eyes, lips, and cheeks.

This double-layer compact keeps everything organized and prevents the shadows from mixing with the blushes and highlighter. Lift the lid to reveal the first tier, which houses five shades of Eyeshadow, a Super-Saturated High Gloss Lip Color, a travel-size 24/7 Glide-On Eye Pencil, and a big mirror. Delve into the lower tier and you’ll find two shades of blush (in an exclusive new powder formula) and a highlighter, along with another mirror. Perfect for quick getaways, rushed mornings, and last-minute invites to stay the night, this travel-size palette fits stealthily into your bag—making it easy to create a hot look no matter where you are.

This set contains:
– 0.03 x 5 Eyeshadows in Redemption (deep gunmetal satin), Fray (warm mauve matte), Vaporize (deep metallic gray-taupe shimmer), Provocateur (light metallic mauve shimmer w/ multidimensional micro-glitter) and Revolt (bright metallic silver shimmer w/ silver micro-glitter).
– 0.10 oz x 2 Blush in Fetish (mauve-pink) and Quickie (bright pink)
– 0.05 oz Highlighter
– 0.01 oz Super-Saturated High Gloss Lip Color in Scandal
– 0.03 24/7 Glide-On Eye Pencil in Perversion (blackest black matte)

What it is formulated WITHOUT:
– Parabens
– Sulfates
– Phthalates

What else you need to know:
With most all-in-one palettes, you run out of lip color long before everything else. Not so with Urban Decay’s Anarchy Face Case, because the Super-Saturated pencil is full size. And when you want to change up your look, you can just swap out the pencils for your favorite UD shades.

The packaging is what I like to call royal with an edge.  I love the sleek white palette with the siver and grey writing accents.  The mirror spans the entire top interior of the case, which is a perfect size.

The eye shadows are Redemption (deep gunmetal satin), Fray (warm mauve matte), Vaporize (deep metallic gray-taupe shimmer), Provocateur (light metallic mauve shimmer w/ multidimensional micro-glitter) and Revolt (bright metallic silver shimmer w/ silver micro-glitter).

Vaporize is my fave (taupe, like you couldn’t tell I’d love that one best haha) but all of the shades have a great formula and are heavily pigmented (even Fray!).  Which is obviously awesome, but because these can lean too icy you’ll want to be careful, especially with Revolt.  Perversion is a fave of many so it was perfect for these pink and grey tones.

The face and lip products are lovely.  There’s a mauve shade laced with fine gold shimmer (Fetish) , hot pink (Quickie) and a gilded highlighter.  Quickie may look way too pigmented for some of you, but if you use it lightly on the apples of the cheek it gives off a nice pop of color.  Scandal isn’t my favorite shade to have on my lips, but in this case it works and I can always swap it out for another Super-Saturated High Gloss Lip Color in a shade that I’d prefer when I head out of the house.

I love this kit, but I’d love to have the bottom half with the cheek products be a little easier to open.  I have the worst time with it.  Anyone else?  It’s also a little thick and I think it could be thinned out and made a smidge longer for a travel sized mascara, making it ideal for travel.

The Urban Decay Anarchy Face Case retails for $44.00 and can be purchased at Sephora.  This item is limited edition.

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