By Amanda Downs – Staff Reporter

Recently Gwen Stefani, the lead singer of the band No Doubt, has partnered up with Urban Decay, a well-known makeup brand. The line is called Urban Decay x Gwen Stefani and features a range of products from lip liners to eye shadow pallets.

Urban Decay is known for their quality makeup and highly-pigmented eye shadow palettes and have a big following. Their brand is sold in stores such and Ulta, Sephora and Macy’s. This collection is a limited edition and there have been many positive reviews sao far.  

The whole collection features an eye shadow palette, a blush palette, a brow pallette, and a few lipstick and eyeliner shades. The colors in the eye shadow pallet can be seen as bland, the pallet is made of mostly neutrals colors with some electric blue, pink and gold shades. It has mostly shimmer shadows with some beautiful matte ones. The pallet offers many new shadows by the brand and their staple “blackout,” which most people can say is the blackest and most pigmented black on the market.

The lipstick comes in six shades and are a mix of matte and glossy. The colors range from a rich ruby red, a deep fuchsia and tone down to a sheer nude. They are long wearing and creamy. The lip liners are made to go with the lipsticks and are the same colors. Many people love the lip liners as much as the lipstick.

The blush pallet that is part of the collection gives users an option of six unique shades. The pallet includes a highlight shade, a bronzer and four different pink blush shades.

The brow box comes in one shade bathwater blonde, which has a dark blonde and light blonde shade. The perk about this brow box is that it comes with two mini angled brushes to shape your brows and a mini pair of tweezers.

The disadvantage to this great collection is the price. Although Urban Decay is prestige makeup, everything in the set is pricey. The lipstick is the cheapest part of the collection at $18, and the lip liner costs more than the actual lipstick at $20. The prices are comparable to other brand names like Too Faced and Smashbox, but there are cheaper drug store brands that could do the same job.

The eye shadow pallet is priced at $58, but doesn’t have as many color options if you’re trying to go for a dramatic look.  Many prefer the company’s well known naked pallets priced at $54, which isn’t much better price-wise, but they have a greater variety of colors. If you feel like splurging on some nice quality makeup, this collection seems worth it.

Rating: 4 out of 5 stars