Hey friends.
Welcome back.
For those of you who don't know me, I'm Courtney
and I've got my two standard poodles, Phaedra
and Nyx, hanging out in the room with me.
Today, I'm going to be talking with you about
the brand new Urban Decay Backtalk Palette.
This is an eye and cheek palette.
I'm going to zoom in so you can check this
out up close.
It's cardboard packaging.
Here are the four cheek colors.
The middle mirror does pop out very easily
and here are the eight eye shadow colors.
I've done a demo using all of the products
in this palette at the end of this video but
first, I'm going to go ahead and jump into
swatches so you can check this out.
I also have comparison swatches of this palette
to the Urban Decay Naked 3 palette and for
the blushes, I compare it to different Urban
Decay blush palettes, as well as colors in
their permanent line up.
First up, we have 3 sheets, which is a pale,
pink, nude matte.
We have bare, which is a light, pinky, peach
satin.
This one actually looks almost kind of brownish
in the pan but it really is very light pinky
peach on the lid.
Curve is an italic rose shimmer with silver
micro glitter.
I feel like bare and curve look very similar
on the skin.
Backtalk is a soft, rose, mauve matte.
This color, on the lips, is I think beautiful
and cool but on the eyes, it's very ... it's
much more warm toned than I expected.
I guess I expected it to be more cool toned
like Urban Decay's Laced.
Then we have Shade, which is a deep fuchsia
satin.
This color's beautiful and when I go to apply
it, you'll see in the demo, it applies very
nice and pigmented on the eyes but I feel
like it fades after a while and I can't really
seem to make it stick around and I'm not sure
why.
Then we have attitude, which is a metallic
red copper.
This one's very pretty.
It reminds me of Melt's She's in Parties color.
Then we have WTF, which is a reddish brown
matte and 180, which is metallic brown red.
I tried three different times before I settled
on the look that you'll see me wearing in
the video and I could not make it look good
with 180.
I ended up having to pull out Melt Mean Streak,
just to make my look look better because it
just did not work for me.
I'm going to show you these colors compared
to each other.
We have 3 sheets and strange, backtalk and
limit, shade and nooner, attitude and trick,
bare and dust, curve and burnout, WTF and
factory, 180 and blackheart.
Between backtalk and naked three, I fell like
backtalk is a much warmer palette.
3 sheets is definitely warmer than strange.
Backtalk is warmer.
Shade doesn't have any color close to it that's
in the naked 3 palette so that's why I just
picked a color to compare.
Attitude is most similar to trick but again,
these colors are not exact.
Bare is warmer.
Curve looks similar but I think it's still
a bit warmer.
WTF doesn't have any directly close color
that matches a naked three.
180 and blackheart aren't exact but they're
just the deepest shades in both palettes.
Now I'm going to move on to the blushes.
Party foul is a light nude, pink shimmer.
This would be a highlighter for most people.
This is a blush or a blush topper on my skin
tone.
Then we have low key, which is a pinky peach.
This color is gorgeous.
I love it.
It's definitely like a highlighting blush.
My only complaint with it is that it immediately
got hard pan and I have no idea why.
From me touching it with my fingers and me
using brushes, it immediately looks like it
has hard pan, which is bizarre.
It's a gorgeous color.
It reminds me a little bit of wet n’ wild's
the Princess Daiquiri's, which I really love
that color right now, I've been obsessed with
it.
Then we have double take, which is a rich
mauve with slight shimmer and cheap shot,
which is a medium pink nude.
When I was doing a comparison swatches for
these, I did a couple extra colors just because
I was curious as to how they compared.
We have hush and angel, which are both from
the Urban Decay Gwen Stefani cheek palette.
I compared party foul to aura.
Aura is obviously white based and I can us
aura as a highlighter where I can't use party
foul as a highlighter.
Low key and score are in the same color family
but score is much more pigmented and it's
a deeper color.
I really, really love the soft color of low
key.
It's probably my favorite color in the entire
palette.
Double take is very similar to fetish from
the permanent line up.
I actually think it's a beautiful cheek color.
Cheap shot is similar to NOHO but not exact.
NOHO's from the Basquiat collection.
I also swatched TMI, just to show you how
close it was to one of the permanent lineup
colors.
Between the eye shadows and the cheek products,
I prefer the cheek products to the eye products.
All right.
Now I'm going to jump into the demo so if
you want to see what each of these products
look like on my eyes and my face, you can
see that now.
My review and final thoughts on this palette
are going to be after the demo.
I'm going to start with shade, the dark pink
shade at the outer part of my lid.
I'm using a tapered blending brush to apply
this.
I feel like it has really good pigmentation
going on the lid and I like the color a lot.
Since I'm just doing a demo to see how the
eye shadows apply.
I'm going to use shimmer on my face, which
I hardly ever do.
I'm going to use attitude, which is like this
kind of a coppery color and blend this into
my crease.
Again, I feel like this color has excellent
pigmentation.
It looks like it's blending out just fine.
I'm going to take the color curve to pat this
on my inner lid.
Not bad.
I'm going to use a small, fluffy brush with
backtalk and use this at the edges.
I think it's doing a good job blending things
out but you can't really see the color because
of how I'm applying it so I'll make sure I
use it again.
I'm going to put three sheets up here under
the eyebrows.
I like this kind of color a lot.
I noticed when I was going back through my
naked three palette to find similar shades,
that I'd hit pan on the color strange and
I'd completely forgotten about that.
I got collet all over my face.
Now I can't tell if the pink faded or if I
blended color on top of it and that's the
problem so I'm going to go back with my flat
shader brush and just apply a little bit more
shade to the outer corner and we're going
to watch and see if that fades right away.
It's not like I didn't use primer.
I absolutely did use primer.
I'm going to take this Urban Decay perversion
pencil and just put it along my lower lash
line and then I'm going to take a brush and
smudge it.
Then I'm going to back over it with that pink
shade.
Oh, I really like how shade looks on top of
the black.
This time, I'm going to put bare on the lid.
Bare looks more like beige-y pink in the pan
but definitely looks like baby pink on my
lid.
I'm going to use backtalk in my crease for
this.
This is going to be like the super pink look.
Yeah, backtalk blends out beautifully and
has great pigmentation.
Then, I'm using a little bit more strange
to blend out up here.
Probably should have switched brushes but
since I'm just testing this stuff out.
Okay, let me take this off and then I'll get
to the rest of the colors.
I'm taking the color WTF and I'm using my
Urban Decay Iconic brush and I'm patting it
on the lid.
Now this color, I think, swatched best of
all the colors in the palette.
It seemed to be the most pigmented color.
It's probably going to be the color that everyone
gushes over and goes, "Oh my God, it's so
amazing," and it's a warm brown.
When I tried applying it just a second ago,
I hadn't set my primer and let it dry all
the way so it like, clumped funny and it was
all me so I didn't want you to think the eye
shadow was bad.
I'm going to pack 180 on top of this color
on the lid.
This is the deeper brown shade.
I'm taking that with a smudge brush on the
lower lid.
I didn't put any primer on my lower lid but
that's okay.
This is 180.
I think for the most part, the colors performed
well.
I'm not sure about shade.
I'm going to have to test out wearing that
one a little more because I felt like it just
faded and it could have been just me.
I could have accidentally blended over it
because these eye shadows are very, very blendable.
They're very easy to blend out into nothing.
Now I'm going to move on to the cheeks.
The shade party foul is supposed to be a highlighter,
it's a highlighting blush shade on me.
It's not light enough to be a highlighter
but I'm going to go ahead and put these on
one at a time so you can check them out.
I have nothing on my skin other than SPF.
Not normally where I wear my blush but hopefully,
this gives you an idea of what the color looks
like.
This is cheap shot.
The next color is double take and this one's
really similar to Urban Decay Fetish.
You'll see that in the comparison swatches.
Cheap shot.
Double take.
This is low key.
I swatched it next to score.
I don't think they're really similar.
This actually reminds me more of Wet N Wild,
the Princess Daiquiri's.
I really, really love this color.
It's probably my favorite color in the entire
palette.
It's basically like a soft peachy pink with
a gold shift and the gold shift's pretty strong.
This is party foul.
It's supposed to be a highlighter but on my
skin tone, it's more like a highlighting blush.
I swatched it next to aura but it's deeper
than aura.
As you saw in the demo, the eye shadows all
went on to my lid fairly well.
I don't know what's going on with shade.
I don't know why shade seems to fade away
to nothing, no matter what I do.
I used it in my look here but I feel like
it's faded.
Weird.
I want to talk about the packaging.
The packaging is cardboard and honestly, when
I compare it to the shade shifter packaging,
I am really disappointed with this because
this doesn't want to stay shut, it just kind
of falls open and I don't like that.
I don't feel like that's very safe for if
you want to travel with it.
I would basically have to put a rubber band
around it or something to keep it from popping
open and maybe that's not a big deal but honestly,
I guess I expected more from Urban Decay because
you know I love Urban Decay.
I thought that was disappointing.
I know they made the mirror pop out.
I'm not sure why they did this.
I didn't even know this at first but then
they were like, "Yeah, it pops out."
I'm not particularly crazy.
I don't normally mind cardboard but I would
much have preferred it to have been in hard
plastic like this, than cardboard that pops
open and doesn't want to stay shut.
This just does not seem like a good idea.
I personally found the cheek colors much easier
for me to use than the eye colors.
I had a lot of trouble trying to put together
a cohesive eye shadow look.
I tried to do my eye shadow three times before
I came up with a look that I liked so I don't
know.
I think what it is is that all of these tones
are way more warm toned than I expected and
I just don't find them easy to work with.
I found that the deepest color in the palette,
180, was not deep enough for my taste, that's
why I ended up using Melt Mean Streak, to
create my deepest shade for the look that
you see on me right now.
I guess I'm disappointed by the colors that
are in here.
I'm disappointed by the fact that it's so
warm.
I don't know what the hell's going on as to
why it will go away.
This whole palette is based around the color
backtalk, which is one of Urban Decay's most
popular lipsticks.
This used to be my go to nude lip color.
I'm wearing it right now for this video.
I really, really like the cheek colors.
I'm not really happy with the eye shadows
for a variety of reasons.
One; I didn't expect that the eye shadow colors
were going to be so warm toned.
When I think berries and mauve's and I guess,
for me, what that means is cool tones and
this isn't really cool toned.
This is a very warm toned palette.
When you compare it to naked 3, this feels
very, very warm and I guess it's just that
I expected it to be cool so I was disappointed.
While I love the cheek colors, the eye colors
just don't speak to me and I think that's
why I find them much harder to work with.
I don't feel like we have a deep enough shade
in this palette to really define the eyes
the way I prefer to put on my eye shadow.
I'm sure people who will love this are people
who love warm toned palettes but between how
warm the colors are and the packaging, I'm
not a fan.
I personally don't think this is a palette
that I would rush out to buy.
I think that if you're somebody like me, who
loves Urban Decay and you're an avid collector
of their products and you love their cheek
products, you might want this for the cheek
products but I am really concerned over the
fact that literally, I touch low key and low
key decided to go hard pan right here and
I have no idea why.
That should happen.
That's never happened with any of my other
Urban Decay blushes.
It makes me wonder if the formula is somehow
different than the permanent Urban Decay blushes
that I have or my Urban Decay Gwen Stefani
cheek palette or my Best Yet cheek palette.
I felt like the eye shadows have good pigmentation
and they blended out almost too easily.
They would almost blend out into nothing.
I just, I don't know what the hell is going
on with shade.
Shade was the color I was most excited for
in the eye shadows and it just seems to go
away to nothing, even if I use it wet on my
eyes.
Yeah.
I don't know.
I guess I feel like this palette isn't for
me.
Yeah.
Urban Decay, I love you.
I really wanted to love this palette but I'm
not happy with it.
I think if you love warm tones, you're going
to want this palette.
I think if you love Urban Decay and you collect
all of their palettes, your going to want
this palette.
I think if you were somebody like me who was
expecting cool tones, you're going to be disappointed.
All right.
What do you think of the Urban Decay Backtalk
palette?
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