Urban Decay Born to Run - The Only Eyeshadow Palette you will ever need

I know this is a huge claim, but this is honestly how I feel about this palette. Urban Decay products have been a favourite amongst many for the longest time. Their claim to fame being the Naked eyeshadow palettes which offered beautiful natural shades for all skin tones.

Fast forward to 2018 and the Born to Run palette was the word on everyone’s lips and the shades on everyone’s lids.

It entered the market at a time when there were so many amazing products out there but not many offered the broad spectrum of colours and finishes that it does. It has everything one would need from an eyeshadow palette, mattes, foil like metallics, high colour pay off and longevity.


It is 21 shades of awesome, that’s right 21 shades, that’s a whole lotta bang for your buck. 
At R800 for 21 shades, that works out to about R39.00 a shade, all of which you would use. 
I got mine on sale from Foschini, at R640 so you can only imagine my excitement.
I’ve created a variety of looks from everyday work looks to going out looks with this palette and my eyeshadow lasts a good 7 hours, I do have very oily lids and prime with my concealer.

The colours are easy to work with and blend well with other shadows. The palette also comes with a large mirror, which does make it great for travelling.

A summary of the colours:

Hell Ride is the perfect deep cranberry colour that works well as a transition shade while Good as Gone and Punk will be sure to intensify any make up look.
Breakaway and Weekender are perfect base colours and can also be used for extra contrast on mid cut crease look.
Still Shot and Riff does double duty as great transition or standalone shades.
The Metallic shades are all winners, they apply best with a flat shadow brush or your fingers.
Stranded and Blaze offer the best brow bone highlight but can double as highlighters for your face.

Ignite, Smog and Double Life is a good inner corner highlight but layer them over Jet or Good as Gone and you will find another sultry dimension to these shades.
Guilt Trip, Radio and Wanderlust offer that something different to jazz up your look, although they do work well layered over other shades.
Drift and Big Sky lets you create an elusive evening look when paired together but can be softened with Wildheart on the outer lid.

I’ve included some looks I created with the palette below:

A subtle everyday glam look, with Riff all over the lid and crease followed by Accelerate all over the lid.

Use Baja in the crease with Jet all over the lid for a more dramatic eye look.

Baja is probably the most versatile shadow in the palette use it on its own for an intense monotone look, its also perfect for the lower lash line.

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