Urban Decay Book of Shadows Vol. II

At the end of the last year, one of the most popular products that came out for the Holiday season was Urban Decay's Book of Shadows, a collection of many of their most popular shadows in a beautiful box with all the needed accessories. Since this product was such a hit, it is not a shock that Urban Decay will be releasing a follow up to that product this season. This product, like the first one, will contain shades that are unique to this palette and therefore give even the most die-hard Urban Decay shadow collectors a reason to rebuy this palette. Eigth new shades are certainly exciting to me and honestly allow me to overlook that fact that I am sure that I already own some of the re-releases in this palette.

This is how Urban Decay describes this new set, "Like a sequel to a great novel that you were sorry to see end, Book of Shadows is back with Volume II to captivate us once again. The largest and most unique palette we offer, Vol. II is stocked with 16 shadows (including 8 exclusive to this set, travel size 24/7 Eye Pencils in Zero and Bourbon, and a mini genie bottle of Eye Shadow Primer Potion. The mix of shadows includes shimmers and glitters, neutrals and brights. Build about just any look you can imagine!"

Here are the new and exclusive shades only in this palette...

- AC/DC - deep eggplant shimmer

- Nylon - champagne sparkler

- Mushroom - taupey-gunmetal

- Sphynx - pink sparkle/shimmer

- Jinx - bright blue shimmer

- Homegrown - bright green shimmer

- Misdemeanor - deep teal sparkle

- Perversion - matte black

Here are the existing/best-selling shades included in this set...

- Sellout - pink champange shimmer

- Gunmetal -gunmetal grey with silver glitter

- Ecstasy - bright purple with slight pink tint

- Midnight Cowboy Rides Again - golden beige with bronze, gold, and silver glitter

- Twice Baked - brownie brown with gold glitter

- Half Baked - subtle, lustrous bronze

- Flipside - electric teal with blue sheen
- YDK - bronzed mocha with golden microglitter

I also love that this palette includes a very nice sized mirror and a look book to help the users work with all of the brighter shades. As far as I am concerned, this would make a great purchase for yourself or a fantastic gift to unwrap in the upcoming holidays. For myself, even though I already own a couple of the best-selling shades but I am certainly willing to own a back up of these shades. Honeslt, hanving the back up will be more than fine for myself since these are shades that I know that i will be using more than once of twice.

I hope Urban Decay makes an entire series of these books...

photo courtesy of Urban Decay