One Palette, One Month - Urban Decay Vice Palette - August 2016

For August 2016, I've decided to use one of my biggest palettes - the original/first Urban Decay Vice Palette. Urban Decay is my favourite eyeshadow brand, and I was extremely excited when this palette came out. Unfortunately, because of the variety in this palette, it hasn't received the most love, and I want to change that this month. This palette has 20 eyeshadows.

The premise of this challenge is that I can only use the one palette during the month for my eyeshadow looks. Only once last month did I use a shadow that wasn't found in my Anastasia Beverly Hills palette (the Urban Decay Moondust Shadow in Zodiac), and I did occasionally use light cream matte shadows, but didn't reach for another palette. This palette only has three matte shades (and only two are "everyday" wearable shadows), so I know I am going to have to reach for other shades from other palettes, or singles, as transition shades. Like last month, my hopes for this palette is to hit pan on one shadow. I think I will hit pan on Anonymous quite easily. 

This palette is quite chunky, so I think I might end up depotting these shadows, and put them in a Z Palette. I think I will be reaching for the first and last rows the most this month.

Thanks for reading, (and wish me luck!),
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One Palette, One Month - Anastasia Beverley Hills Shadow Couture World Traveller Palette - July 2016 Finale

This month, I decided to embark on a month long challenge to use my eyeshadow palettes. To see my original post, click here. My hopes with this one was to hit pan on one shadow - and I'm happy to show my progress to you now.

For my first month doing this challenge, I decided on the Anastasia Beverly Hills Shadow Couture World Traveller Palette.

Pictured below is my starting progress for this palette at the beginning of the month:

And here is my progress over the last month:

As you can see, I have hit pan on three shadows out of the twelve - which is more than I was expecting to hit! Chic has some significant pan showing, and in all honesty, I never reached for this shadow before this month, but during the last month, have loved using it. I really do love this shadow, and I would be interested in purchasing it as a single. Unfortunately, I think this shadow was exclusive to this palette only and is not available in the Anastasia Beverly Hills regular line. 

I think I will end up deporting the shadows in this palette into a Z Palette to declutter some of the space in my palette drawer, but using this palette over the last month has really made me love using this palette, and I am definitely interested in trying out more Anastasia Beverly Hills shadows and palettes (Modern Renaissance, I'm looking at you!).

I will in the next few days the palette I have decided to use in August. I'm really happy with my progress this last month, and hope to continue it throughout my One Palette, One Month journey.

Thanks for reading!
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One Palette, One Month - Anastasia Beverly Hills Shadow Couture World Traveller Palette - July 2016

The last two months or so, I have really gotten into makeup decluttering and project pan type videos. I have started doing a Project 10 Pan, and you can read my introduction post here. I've now decided to embark on the One Palette, One Month challenge. The premise for this challenge is quite simple - only use one palette for the entire month. I am an avid palette collector, I have many more in my collection than I could ever hope to actually use up. I am doing the Project 10 Pan as previously mentioned, but have only included an eye base in that challenge, so doing the One Palette, One Month challenge will not slow down my progress in the Project 10 Pan. For now, I will only be focusing on eye shadow palettes (only because I have included a cheek product to use up in my Project 10 Pan).

For the first palette of this challenge, I have decided to go with the Anastasia Beverly Hills Shadow Couture World Traveller Palette.

Unfortunately I never did a review of this palette, but this is one of my favourite palettes. It has a variety of lovely neutral shades, and a few pops of colour. I think Pink Champagne is the champion shadow in this palette, which can be purchased as a single here.

When this post goes up, I will be on a cruise, but I have taken this palette with me, so I have been using it since the last week of June. I will continue to use this palette until the end of July, and then will have a post up showing my progress in this palette.

As I hope you can see, this palette has had some love previously. I think this palette is such a well rounded palette, and hope to explore many more eyeshadow looks over the next month. My hopes with this palette is to hit pan on at least one shadow. I would like to do this with every palette I pull out for this challenge. 

Thanks for reading,

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