Urban Decay, along with their Naked palettes, is very well known for their HUGE selection of eye liner pencils. For today's review, I will be talking about the pencil vault set that they sold for the 2013 holiday season.
This set was limited edition and is no longer available but all the different shades of pencil liners can be bought separately!
Even though the set itself can no longer be purchased, the main reason I wanted to do a review on it is so you can check out all the different shades that Urban Decay has to offer. There's a total of 40 colors available in the liner collection so there's definitely something for everybody! The interesting thing about these liners, besides their amazing colors, is the packaging itself. Each cover on the pencils helps to inform you what kind of finish the pencil has. The pencils with shimmers have a glittery cover, the matte pencils have a matte cover, etc. Now onto the swatches!
These were just a quick couple of swipes on my bare hand:
Perversion is a deep, dark blackest black. This is one of the best black pencil liners I have ever used. The only thing that sucks is that I can not wear it on my waterline. Because of the high carbon pigment, it can be really irritating so keep that in mind if you have sensitive eyes. I still wear this on my lower lash line every single day and have no issues so that's great
Zero is another black, but this one is a little lighter, especially when compared to Perversion. Now this pencil is great for when you still want a nice black on the waterline that won't irritate your eyes. This one doesn't make my eyes tear up or anything
Oil Slick is a dark grayish black with sparkly silver micro-glitter
Uzi is a shimmery dark gray
Smoke is a deep, matte dark gray, I love pairing this liner with my Naked 3 palette
Desperation is similar to Smoke but just a few shades lighter
Demolition is a dark, cool toned grayish brown
Whiskey is a deep, golden, warm chocolate brown
Bourbon is another warm chocolate brown but has a slight golden shimmer to it
Roach is a light warm brown with a reddish duochrome to it, this is one of my favorite shades in the whole collection. Definitely reminds me of the color of a roach's wing
Smog is a dusty, cool toned bronze
Underground is a warm toned taupey brown
Mushroom is along the same lines as Underground but leans more on the cool toned taupe side
Hustle is similar to Smog but is a little more of a darker brown
Scorch is a bronzed cool toned copper
Goldmine is a bright, light yellow gold
Stash is a swampy green with a slight yellow duochrome, does the name make you think of anything?
Mildew is a deep forest green with a light green duochrome
Loaded is a deep, blue toned forest green
Corrupt is a warm brown with a hint of red micro glitter
Invasion is a dark, deep green undertoned blue
Mainline is a gorgeous dark teal, this is another favorite of mine
Junkie is a super beautiful deep sea blue that has a slight yellow duochrome and also has light green micro glitter. This is possibly my favorite shade in the whole collection!
Freak is another gorgeous bright neon-like lime green with a yellow duochrome to it. I know this a favorite shade for a lot of people and it isn't hard to see why
Deep End is a bright teal
Electric is a satiny, light baby blue
LSD is a deep blue with bright blue micro glitter
Sabbath is a gorgeous deep, dark inky blue. another favorite of mine
Abyss is similar to Electric but just a few shades darker
Chaos is a striking cobalt blue
Ether is a light gray with purple micro glitter, it's a strange but beautiful color
Rockstar is warm, reddish toned dark purple
Empire is a deep, dark royal purple, very lovely color
Delinquent is a dark grayish purple with pinky/purple micro glitter
Vice is a warm eggplant purple with tiny pink micro glitter, looove this shade as well
Psychedelic Sister is a blue undertoned purple with very faint pinky micro glitter
Asphyxia is a beautiful light pinky purple with a blue duochrome and light blue micro glitter. I love using this shade as a base for the eyeshadow Trick from the Naked 3 palette
Woodstock is a warm hot pink
Cuff is a bright metallic silver
Yeyo is a creamy, satiny white
Out of all the pencil liners I have ever tried in my makeup wearing life, these are by far my favorite pencil liners ever! They go on very smooth and creamy and once they set, they will not budge! I also found that these work amazingly as bases for eyeshadows and some of them can even be used as a lip liner if you're into crazy colored lipstick.
Some of the shades are on the more sheer side (Freak, Asphyxia, and Ether are more sheer than the others) so they may need to be applied a little bit more to get full color pay off and coverage; but they're still amazingly gorgeous colors! And if you do also plan to wear them as a base for your eyeshadow, I highly recommend doing one eye at a time! Because these pencils set so quickly, if you do both eyes at the same time and try to blend them out, it will be extremely difficult to! And I'd recommend doing the same if you're wanting to smudge out your liner as well!
Amazing quality, great color choices, I definitely recommend that you try some of these if you haven't already! Hope this review was helpful
Me wearing the shade Asphyxia with the eyeshadow Trick from the Naked 3 on top and with my eyes lined with the shade Smoke (used for my eyebrows as well):
Out of all the pencil liners I have ever tried in my makeup wearing life, these are by far my favorite pencil liners ever! They go on very smooth and creamy and once they set, they will not budge! I also found that these work amazingly as bases for eyeshadows and some of them can even be used as a lip liner if you're into crazy colored lipstick.
Some of the shades are on the more sheer side (Freak, Asphyxia, and Ether are more sheer than the others) so they may need to be applied a little bit more to get full color pay off and coverage; but they're still amazingly gorgeous colors! And if you do also plan to wear them as a base for your eyeshadow, I highly recommend doing one eye at a time! Because these pencils set so quickly, if you do both eyes at the same time and try to blend them out, it will be extremely difficult to! And I'd recommend doing the same if you're wanting to smudge out your liner as well!
Amazing quality, great color choices, I definitely recommend that you try some of these if you haven't already! Hope this review was helpful
Me wearing the shade Asphyxia with the eyeshadow Trick from the Naked 3 on top and with my eyes lined with the shade Smoke (used for my eyebrows as well):
Me wearing the shade Perversion as a base with a black eyeshadow on top:
Me wearing the shade Mushroom for eyebrows and as a base for my cut crease:
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