Urban Decay Smoked Eyes Palette Review

A little while ago I did a Makeup & A Movie video about Mad Max using the Urban Decay Smoked Eyes Palette. You can view that below!

So I promised you a review of that palette, so here goes!

First off the packaging is what you would expect from Urban Decay. It is a nice fabric covering with a zipper closure. This is my first palette by Urban Decay and I am really in love with the packaging.

Inside, there is a nice mirror and it does come with a small sample of primer and a 24/7 black eye liner which I removed and am using separately.

Now it’s time for the swatches.

As you can see, Kinky basically blends right into my skin which for my light skin makes it a good highlight. I love Freestyle because it makes a good blending color.

Backdoor and Mushroom kind of swatch the same to me so I usually gravitate towards one or the other, but not both.

Blackout can be used to line your eyes, and it stays on pretty well!

For the bottom colors, there is a little more variety.

Barlust and Rockstar are my 2 favorite lid colors in the palette. Rockstar is such a nice purple color and if you layer it on, it becomes so pretty.

I am disappointed by Evidence because in the palette it looks like such an amazing blue color, but swatched it looks dark.

Loaded is green but it is very dark when swatched.

Asphalt is grey, and I would have liked it to be a little more silvery.

Overall, the quality of the shadows is there and they are blendable and wearable, as we have come to expect from Urban Decay. However, I don’t really feel like there is enough of a variety in the palette for me. Most of them swatch and apply so dark, it is like there is no way to have a gradient smoke on your lids. They just kind of muddy together until it is just all dark.

If you are experienced at using lots of dark colors or have superior application techniques, this might be the palette for you. However, I am not great at blending so I have a lot of trouble. Many times I have wondered if I should give this palette away, but the one thing that stops me is that I do not own any other Urban Decay palettes.

So until I find another UD (or someone gifts me one) I guess I will make do.

Comment below if you have a UD palette you wanna swap for this one!!!!