Urban Decay is known for their highly pigmented eye shadows. You can purchase each color separately, or you can get a nice palette of colors.

With some holiday money, I was able to pick up the Urban Decay Eyeshadow Ammo Shadow Box. It consists of 10 different shimmery and sparkly shadows:

• Smog
• Mildew
• Oil Slick
• Last Call
• Chopper
• Maui Wowie
• Shattered
• Polyester Bride
• Grifter
• Sin

Since the color names really don’t give you much of an idea of what it actually looks like, check out a close-up shot of the colors:

How well does it work?

I really like the consistency of the colors in the Ammo Shadow Box. Your eye shadow brush will easily fill up with color with just a swipe of the wand. It also goes on real smoothly.

These are indeed highly pigmented colors. How they look in the packaging is exactly how they’ll look on your skin. Because of that, a little bit will go a long way.

I do have a small gripe, though. The makeup applicator that it comes with is essentially useless to me. Sponge tip applicators don’t blend very well at all. I would use my fingertip before I ever used this. But I don’t use my finger. I use a medium sized eye shadow brush. They’re better.

How are the color combinations?

It seems like Urban Decay really thought this through. It’s possible to create several different looks using only eye shadow from this palette. In fact, I even used it in a few makeup tutorials:

• Makeup Tutorial: Purple Eye with Urban Decay Eyeshadow Ammo Shadow Box
• Makeup Tutorial: Mossy Eye with Urban Decay Eyeshadow Ammo Shadow Box
• Makeup Tutorial: Brown Eye with Urban Decay Eyeshadow Ammo Shadow Box

The Final Verdict

Besides the small transgression of a useless sponge applicator, there really isn’t anything wrong with this makeup palette. It has a good price, is small and thin enough to fit in a purse, has a big mirror, and has great eye shadows. For this reason, I give the Urban Decay Eyeshadow Ammo Shadow Box an…

A-

You can find the Urban Decay Eyeshadow Ammo Shadow Box online and in stores like Sephora for $36.00.