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| My first ever palette (bless) |
Indulge me, if you will, and allow me to take you on a journey...
It's 2001 and I'm working at Bloomberg (one of several pre-make-up past lives!). A colleague of mine is going on a business trip to 'Noo Yoik' and has offered to bring me back some make-up. The most covetable item among my girlfriends is a palette from Urban Decay called 'First Date to Pin Up'. It's completely sold out in the UK so I don't hesitate in asking her to get me one!
United with my new palette it quickly becomes my go-to party tool what with its shimmery emerald green eye shadow ('Urb') and super spangly 'Midnight Cowboy' (still one of Urban Decay's best selling eye shadows). The 'lip gunks' are great too. I'm a bit scared of the darker eye shadows - haven't quite embraced the smokey eye yet.
'Urb' is by far my favourite... until one disastrous day, it runs out! (cue sad face). I search high and low over several years (I'm not even kidding) to find a replacement but am continually met with 'Oh, sorry luvvie, I think it's been discontinued'. ("Noooooooo!!!")
That was until last weekend....
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| Meet THE perfect olive green eye-shadow, if ever there was |
So it's March 2012 and I'm in Debenhams, Oxford town centre, waiting for a friend who's getting her brows done. I decide to casually meander over to the Urban Decay counter and am almost instantly accosted (do they ever let us shop in peace?!). The beauty assistant is enthusiastically explaining the benefits of the 'Invisible Eye Primer' to me when a row of eye shadows catches my eye.... (can it be?!)
"Is that..... Urb?" I ask, hesitantly and with eyes as wide as planets.
"Yes. Would you like to try it?" she responds.
(cue Nat's happy dance which involves lots of high pitched squealing).
Yes, dear reader. My all-time favourite eye green shadow, the eye shadow of my youth, the one I thought lost forever, hath returneth'd to me ELEVEN years after I first laid eyes on it. Dreams really do come true.
If you're not so familiar with Urban Decay (sorry, cult US cosmetics brand - should've said), here are two more of their best-selling products:
1. Invisible Eye Primer (RRP £14.50; The Guardian's resident beauty columist, Sali Hughes swears by it)
2. Naked 2 Eye Shadow Palette (RRP £36; a fantastic follow-up to the Naked 1)
Do you have a favourite beauty product or colour that's been discontinued and come back to life?!
