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Beautiful Beginnings with Urban Decay
Beautiful Beginnings with Urban Decay
What was the first Urban Decayproduct you ever tried? Did it pave way for a real romance or did it put you off the brand entirely? What was the first Urban Decayproduct you purchased? Did you love it? Hate it? Still own it?
my answer: The first products I tried by Urban Decay were back in fall 2008. It was when they debuted their dagger-adorned lipstick range, which were really fun to look at, though less practical to store! I also tried out some of their matte eyeshadows, like Electric, and they have a really soft, buttery matte formula that makes mattes easier to work with. Some of my long-time favorite Urban Decay products are their eyeshadows and their eyeliners!
The first time I experienced Urban Decay products was in this palette I bought where the packaging was made out of bamboo. I forget what it’s called but I remember enjoying the eyeshadows so much I went out and bought a couple of their shadows in Baked and YDK, which is still one of my favorite eye shadows!
Wow this is going to take some peeps back! My first experience was back in the late 90’s early 2000’s when I was in middle school. Urban Decay used to be carried in Nordstrom and me and my sister used to buy the nail polish they had back then. They had a ton of colors back then and a totally different style of packaging. My first makeup product from them was the “Vintage” liquid liner in Shattered.
Same time for me- late 90’s, early 2000’s and I was finishing up middle school. I bought this blue hair gel stuff that was scented and awesome…I wish I could remember the proper name for it, but it came with a little comb for application and the bottle twisted up. Also, I bought their lipstick that had “split personalities”, with one shade on one half of the tube and another shade on the other half. I had it in Jekyl & Hyde (sp?)
Also, I had their eyeliners back when it had the World Trade Centers on their packaging. :/
heh, i remember trying on that twist up hair gel at sephora during a senior trip to NYC back in 2001.
Urban Decay 24/7 liners! I love them!
It was the nail polishes back in the 90s, before they were a makeup line at all. LOVED THEM, with those colors like Shattered and Gash. I really miss those, even though everyone’s doing colors like Shattered now. They wore really well.
When they showed up at Sephora with everything BUT nail polish, I was pretty disappointed and underwhelmed. It took a long time for me to develop some appreciation for their eyeshadow line in general, and I still prefer their more matte shades – they can go overboard on shimmer and glitter, for my taste.
Urban Arsenal Palette was the first high end product I ever bought and it was a lot of money on a collage budget at $58 CAN. It was well loved and used up.
The mascara is one of my favorites from it. I wish them made it in full size.
The second think I got from them was Goddess eyeshadow and it was the most disappointing buy ever for $21 and no way to return it at I was in Toronto for the day and wasn’t worth it to spend another $0 to travel to the closest Sephora.
urban decay was my first high end purchse! i bought the ammo palette with my first paycheck from my first real job 🙂 i love their palettes and the liners, both liquid and pencil..and just about everything else!
My first Urban Decay product was their shadow in Gash. I won’t lie; I totally bought it because I was (still am) a huge fan of My Chemical Romance and frontman Gerard Way was in his red-shadow stage. In my search, I remembered I’d seen a photograph of a model wearing the shade in an issue of Seventeen years earlier. So I bought it.
After that fateful purchase, I learned what eyeshadow could be (until then I’d only used drugstore shadows). I bought the Deluxe Shadow palette shortly after, and the rest is history. UD is, and will probably always be, my favorite brand.
I still own that first pan of Gash, and even bought a backup.
That was my first purchase too! They used to sell UD in TJ Hughes in th UK quite a lot, really really cheaply. I bought Gash pan eyeshadow, Rockstar and Protest eyeshadow pigments and Honey liquid eyeliner. I’ve still got them all and I love UD now. Primer Potion will always be my number 1 UD product. I love it!
Ha! That was my first experience with UD, too. After that episode of SURS where Gerard did that make-up demo, I somehow ended up with every UD product at the time that came in Gash and a stash of Ben Nye make-up. I still wear that eye shadow sometimes (I definitely have bought a fresh one since 2005), and I wear the Gash lipstick on a regular basis.
Though, actually, I remember years before that, my mom owning the UD lipsticks that came in the packaging that looked like a shotgun shell/bullet casing. (I had a cool Jersey mom. 😉 )
You literally just described my friend’s first experience with UD! That’s so crazy…
Was introduced to Urban Decay 24/7 eye pencils quite a few years back. They were priced at £9 which was quite expensive for me as I literally had experience in buying makeup so didn’t realise how much it would be! I didn’t take the plunge to buy any till the Summer of 2009! (thank god for Boots 3 for 2 promos haha!!) I bought one of the mini sets of five, a full sized honey and a full sized 1999. I deffo think that UD do the best eyeliners on the market! They last for ages and do not budge whatsoever!! I finally got my hands on the original NAKED palette back in Jan last year. I think of it as a beauty staple! It’s so easy to do so many beautiful looks with this palette alone and cannot travel without it! Another eyeshadow I have been lusting over for years is Fishnet which I still haven’t bought hehe!
My first experience with Urban Decay was the Naked palette, which sparked a huge love for the brand!
My first purchase was the UD Naked palette, since then I’m a huge fan of te UD pallets!
The Naked Palette was the first UD item I bought, and the 15th Anniversary Palette was the second – and those are the only UD items I own, actually. I absolutely LOVE them both, but nothing else has caught my eye.
Just last summer I ordered the original Naked palette and it quickly became my go to eyeshadow. It is so convenient and easy to use, plus the shadows are amazing quality for the money.
I first used Urban Decay in high school in 1997. That was back when their products were in amazing packaging. Their lipstick was in metal tubes and their eyeshadow was in cute small metal pots. My favorite color was bruise! I had the bruise lipstick and nail polish. If only they would bring back this color! I still have a little tiny bit of this lipstick left just for the color. Through the years the quality of packaging of urban decay products has declined so I don’t buy Urban Decay like I used to. Bring back the 90’s, Urban Decay! BRUISE!
I second this – wish they’d release a line of “vintage” UD stuff! Bruise was fantastic.
Agreed! Bring back a vintage line!! My first UD purchases were 3 eye shadows in Gash, Roach and Rust..and some liquid eye liners…Rust was the best! Nothing made my eyes pop like that colour and i havent found anything that even comes close..loved their original metal pots..even though the lids stuck xD
I adore Urban Decay products, especially the shadows and eye liners. The first product I bought was the Alice In Wonderland pallette, eyeliners, then the Naked Palette, then the anniversary eye liner collection, then the anniversary eye shadow palette and now Naked 2. As you can see I am a fan. I also bought the little Summer of Love, 4 shadow palette which is great to carry in your bag.
I bought the Naked palette and I was hooked. Urban Decay eyeshadow is all I ever wear!
The first UD product I tried was their primer potion that I got in a sample pack and i fell in L.O.V.E the first thing I actually bought was the ozone eyeliner 🙂
yeyo eyeliner* >_< my bad
I moved to the US 2 years ago and until then I didn’t know Urban Decay even existed. Then I saw the rave about the Naked palette and I tried to get it for a few months. I finally did and I fell in love with it. Since then I tried more of their products, love the eyeshadows, eyeliners and the Primer Potion. I have never bought a product from them that let me down.
24/7 eyeliner in Zero, then Ransom eyeshadow (LOVEEEE) then ransom eyeliner
Oh this one is easy. I fell for the Naked Palette when it came out, but it was out of stock everywhere. Finally managed to snag one on the Boots website and had a friend collect it and bring it across the strait to Belgium for me. I’m still madly in love with this palette, and whenever I travel it’s with me. I have collected a whole bunch of 24/7 liners since then and laid my hands on Naked2!
The first Urban Decay product I tried was the mineral foundation and the concealer. I didn’t know anything about beauty products then, so I didn’t know that I should’ve tried out some eyeshadows. Later, I bought the Naked Palette and I really love it!!! 🙂
My first UD product was the primer potion in Eden. I’m hooked! I have the original and Eden, and I don’t know how I ever did makeup without and eye primer. I’ll never be without this stuff again!
I started using the UD eyeliners, because of all the great reviews, in 2010. Since UD wasn’t sold here in Portugal, I couldn’t get my hands on anything but, at that time, I had a friend living in London and I asked her to bring me a Zero, Bourbon and El Dorado . It was love at first use 🙂 After that, I found an online store that sold UD and bought Naked, which only confirmed how great UD is. Fortunately, Sephora started selling UD here which makes my choices much much easier. Since then I bought much more eyeliners…
I actually started using Urban Decay nail polish before any of their makeup. I think I had a purple with green duochrome polish (Bruise?), and one sparkling pink (Hot Pants?). The nail polish was just okay, it chipped so quickly on me. I think that was all I could afford at the time because the makeup was so expensive for me as a high schooler/college student. I always adored the ammo palette for the vibrant colors and sleek packaging.
Now with a full-time job, I own so much Urban Decay! I love all of their eye makeup from shadows to primers and liners. I’ve also developed a liking for most of their lip products. I’m really excited to see the company grow and branch out into new products.
It was primer potion! I bought the original, used it consistently, bought a backup. Then I learned they’d come out with the Sin version and that was kind of the beginning of the end for me? Because I picked up that, then I picked up BoS III, the Naked palette, did my first UD HauteLook haul…
UD is still my favorite brand. I wish I liked their face makeup a little better, but I love their eyeshadows and lipsticks the most.
The first Urban Decay item I had was Gash lipstick and eyeshadow, back in the late 90’s. The lipstick was the perfect dark gothy red for my fair skin and the eyeshadow was amazing. I miss the old bullet style packaging in the lipsticks too! I wish they’d bring back the old packaging.
I had this silver palatte where the top slid over and it had a mirror when it opened. I still have it somewhere but it’s pretty old, probably from like 2002.
Mine was BoS3! My first high end brand, it was a Tuesday in November – I remember being SO excited. I’ve bought a couple more things from them since but they aren’t my *favourite* brand.
My first taste of UD was in the late 90s with a little box set that contained a Hotpants lipgloss, a pink eyeshadow in a metal tin and a test-tube with baby-pink glitter in it. The lipgloss smelled and tasted AMAZING!
Since then I’ve bought loads of UD products and received loads as gifts. I still have loads of their nail polishes, too. I love the 24/7 eyeliner pencils and Primer Potion, but my favourite UD gift was my Book Of Shadows Vol 3 – I obviously dropped enough hints!
The first UD product I ever tried was this really terrible rubbery purple pallete I got from Ulta. It had some glittery eyeshadows, blush and lipglosses. I hated it. The glosses tasted funky, the blush was chalky and the eyeshadows were a mess. It didn’t put me off from the brand, because I didn’t realize it was an UD item. It wasn’t until after I had bought a couple of other UD things which I liked, that I realized the terrible little palette I had bought was actually from UD.
My first encounter with Urban Decay also happened to be my first time in a Sephora. I was just amazed that “real” make-up could be actually be fun. I bought two lipglosses for myself as a 15th birthday gift. XXX Shine in a white glitter color and Lip gunk in Gash. I had bought 2 back ups of the XXX gloss before it was discontinued, but one was stolen at school and the other was destroyed by a “friend” after a fight.
I actually really miss the matte eyeshadows, XXX Shine glosses, and Lip Gunks from when I first discovered the brand.
Oh, you reminded me about Lip Gunk! I bought it in “Kiss”, which was scented like Cherry-Cola. I remember liking the name because I was 13 or so and hadn’t ever kissed anyone before.
A friend of mine loaned me her UD Gash nail polish, and I loved it so much, I had to buy my own! This was back in 2001.
I think the first product I ever got from UD was their lipstick in Gash . I remember when the dagger broke off and it took a while to get the cap off : ( I can’t exactly remember the year I got into UD though I keep buying from them . My favorite product then & now is the 24/7 eyeliner pencil line ! I love all the colors and they really stay put . I have had probably 10 + pencils in Zero & now I’ve switched to Perversion : ) My favorite black eyeliner for sure that doesn’t irritate my eyes !
This makes me feel like such a goofball because I can emotionally connect with a brand, but I was 15, it was 1998, and I bought an Urban Decay eyeshadow in Mildew from Sephora. I had seen it in some teen magazine — they did an article on different zodiac signs and associated makeup looks. It was actually in one of those old school tins where you pulled the top off. I liked the eyeshadow okay. I wasn’t crazy about the color, or the look as described in the magazine. I didn’t really pay attention to Urban Decay again until after I got out of college. When I was younger, I was really put off by UD because of all their glittery products which come off as very juvenile and unsophisticated. Now, I still stay away from the glittery shades, but I do like to dabble in the wilder colors like Woodstock and Hotpants for eye shadows. I also like their lipsticks, but I hate the packaging so I don’t buy them. I also liked UD better when they offered 40% off on their FFS instead of the measly 20% they’ve offered the last few times.
Our stories and ages and exactly alike. We may have even seen the same editorial. I beleive mine was a liquid liner in chains and/or lipstick in gash. I may have also had a couple of eyechadows, maybe spare change? Abc gum? I remember that they were even glittery-er and grittier than they are now.
My first Urban Decay product was the Naked Palette that I purchased in June 2011. That was my first high end purchase! I have since acquired quite a bit of UD products. I LOVE their 24/7 eyeliners!
My first experience with Urban Decay was Roach lipstick and I had to HUNT for it! I guess it’s discontinued now but oh how I loved that lip color!
pocket rocket lipgloss in James and d
I’m really new to UD. The first thing I bought of theirs was the Naked 2, and I’ve only had that for a few months! I lusted over it for a while and tried to find cheaper alternatives before breaking down and buying it. I’ve used it every day since I bought it :]
I remember I had their Gash lipstick (because Gwen Stefani supposedly wore it!) and a duochrome nail polish (forgot the name, it was too sheer but looked amazing in the bottle) back in the 90’s! It wasn’t my first dept. store makeup, though (that would be Clinique). I just loved their edgy packaging and colors! I was only 13 or so, so I’ve been a makeup junkie for nearly a lifetime hahaha 😀
It was a long time ago ! Packagings were totally different ( more elegant to my mind ) : I bought Gash lipstick and the nail polish. Then I stopped buying because I didn’t like the packagings. But when the Naked Palette was launched, I said ok, it’s really a great brand for eyeshadow palettes !
My first Urban Decay product was their original primer potion, which was and is such a great product and when I first got it – in the very early days of eyeshadow primers – it was sort of “life changing” for me (I know that sounds hyperbolic but in terms of wearing eye makeup and enjoying it, it really is true!). After that, I think my next purchase was the original Naked Palette, then BOS III, the 24/7 shadow pencils (the chubby ones), several more version of primer potion (Eden, which I especially love, and Sin) and it’s gone on and on from there….
The first product I got from Urban Decay was actually the Naked Palette ! And obviously I loved it.I think they make the best shadows, they’re so soft,pigmented and last really well. I’ve since then bought the 15th anniversary palette, a couple of 24/7 glide on pencils and the Naked 2, that’s not a whole lot but I love everything that I have !
Mine was in the late 90’s and it was the nail polish. I don’t remember what color but I know it was popular and hard to find. They had a small office in Mountain View, CA back then and were right around the corner. They let me come to the office and pick it up.
I first bought Urban Decay during my first Sephora purchase around March 2009. They were their eyeshadows in Green Goddess and Midnight Cowgirl. Now I own way too much from them for my own good!
The firt thing I purchased was a beautiful irridescent purple eyeshadow back in about 2001. I didn’t wear make up often back then though, so I didn’t expand to any other products. I’ve begun to consistently wear make up within the last year, and while I’m interested in some of thier products (mostly eyeshadows and liners) I don’t currently own anything by them. Hmmm, I should really make it a point to change that 🙂
In fact, I would like to repurchase the same eyeshadow I originally had of theirs, but online, I can’t tell if it was Ecstasy or Flash, or something else. I need to swing by Sephora to check.
my first ud product was the primer potion. i loved it. after that i bought some palettes via boots great offer of 3 for 2 on urban decay/cargo. ive got rid of the palettes because i didnt use them, as much as i thought i would.
It was UDPP and I love it! <3
xoxo
My first experience with Urban Decay was actually at a flea market about 10 years ago (I was 13)! My grandma gave me $15 to spend and I found a table that had Urban Decay eyeshadows (brand new and still in the packaging!) for $3 a piece. I bought all four of them–Grifter, Baked, El Dorado and Vert–and used them every day haha. I had them all until about 6 months ago when I finally threw them away, but they’re still the only eyeshadows I’ve ever hit pan on. Definitely started my love affair with Urban Decay and I can still remember the first time I saw the brand in an actual store. Their eyeshadows are still my favorites.
The first Urban Decay product I tried was the Naked 1 Palette 😀
Big Bang lipstick that I bought in the late 90’s! I loved it! they had a bunch at the time (no daggers!) That were amazing and really fun colors. It was the first makeup line I loved. When they scaled way back, I strayed to MAC.
What was the first Urban Decayproduct you ever tried? Did it pave way for a real romance or did it put you off the brand entirely? What was the first Urban Decayproduct you purchased? Did you love it? Hate it? Still own it?
The first Urban Decay product I used was the Deluxe Eyeshadow palette and the Urban Decay primer potion original in early 2008. It really did pave the way for the romance simply because I am in love with UD now and have consistently purchased items that catch my attention, which are a lot of their palettes. I still love and have my Deluxe palette, although I don’t use it as much now, I still love it the same. I don’t have my very first UDPP lol but I’ve purchased several tubes over the years. Still my go-to primer. 🙂
I love Urban Decay for color selection. The first thing I ever bought from them was the Urban Ammo Eyeshadow Palette back when I was in high school. I don’t own it anymore…I think it finally bit the dust. I think Urban Decay makes great palettes; my only complaints is there aren’t enough mattes.
Urban Decay is the first (and only, so far) brand that I have tried. I love their 24/7 eyeliners, and the limited edition Quinceanera bag they released.
My first UD purchase was the Alice in Wonderland e/s palette. Their eyeshadows are nice and easy to apply. I love twice baked and their primer potion. I also bought the Naked Palette last year and didn’t care for the colors on my skintone, gave it to a coworker.
My first experience with UD was Christmas of ’09. My then-boyfriend got me the Super Stash of 24/7 liners and the Deluxe Shadow Box. And that is what started my addiction. I realized how important primer was after using the sample with the shadow box, and how great an eyeliner or eyeshadow could be. I then started buying their Book of Shadows and more – 2 years later it is still my favorite brand and my collection is HUGE 🙂 I don’t know what I would do without their primer, eyeliners, or eyeshadows <3
My first Urban Decay product was the Naked Palette. Thereafter, I fell in love with all their eyeshadow products as well as the much mentioned UD Primer Potion. I have since purchased the Ammo, Summer of Love, Feminine, NYC, Book of Shadows IV and most recently the Naked 2 palette. The formula and color pay off is excellent on most of their shadows.
The first product I ever tried was UD Primer Potion in the Original formula. I heard a lot about this product from the net, and really wanted to try it since I have SUPER oily lids. I don’t know why I just didn’t order it, but I ended up spacing it. One day, my friend and I decided to take a small road trip, and we went to MAC; I was asking the girl helping us about eyeshadow bases, and she actually told me that she didn’t like any of the MAC bases then told me to go to Sephora and get UDPP! Hahaha. I thought her honesty was awesome, and she was so nice; she ended up actually drawing us a little map with directions on how to get there! That day I ended up picking up UDPP. Bummer that my lids must have gotten oilier over the years because it doesn’t work as well now. 🙁 The UD products I have now are UDPP Original and Eden, Midnight Cowboy Glitter Liner, and Naked Palettes. Perversion and Demolition 24/7 Pencils are on the list to purchase. I like UD, but don’t love it.
My first UD product was the Sustainable Palette! I fell in love with the quality of the eyeshadow and the packaging! And the names of the shadows! They have become my favorite brand for sure!
I first started buying Urban Decay about 10/11 years ago. I had several of their Face Cases – little palletes which included a selection of products including eyeshadows, lipsticks, glosses and usually a blush or highlighter or something. I think I had “Nymph > Glam”, “Bad Girl”, “Sellout”! “First Date > Pinup” and maybe one or two others. I used to love those things, although the eyeshadows were mostly very glittery and they could get messy. I then started buying a few single shadows including Acid Rain and Mildew. I still love UD and I have loads of their palettes, eyeshadows, liners and a few lipsticks too (although I hate the dagger packaging!). I also couldn’t be without my primer potion.
I still have my Nymph to Glam palette!
My first encounter with urban decay was the ammo palette and the deluxe palette (brought them at the same time) and it was loooovvveee…These palettes still get a lot of use even tho my collection has grown quite a bit since then.
I, sadly, have oily lids and getting eyeshadows to not crease after an hour was almost impossible. I did lots of reading and found out about the primer potion by UD as being a high rated eye primer. First purchase 🙂 Now all my eyeliners are from UD, plus I own both Naked palettes. Love. Them. Introduced my friend to them and got her hooked. And she’s done the same with her friends.
My first UD experience was in 1996, the year they launched, when I went into Nordstrom’s for no real reason. I came across the counter and promptly bought a lipstick in Gash that came in a sweet bullet case. I think I was a Sophomore in HS at the time, and everyone would ask me what color lipstick I had on. I soon bought the Gash nail polish, the Gash liquid liner and the Toxic (the pinky purple one) liquid liner. I still have my original Acid Rain eyeshadow from that same year! I’ve been loyal to this company since the very beginning and they’re still my favorite.
For some weird reason I never even heard of them as being any good until I saw the review post here for the book of shadows III. Bought it for myself as a bday gift lol and its a gift that keeps giving!!!! I now have all the pallets that are still avail lol as well as most liners and a few lipsticks. The mini primer that came with it is what made me try everything tho as I never had such an amazing primer!!!!!
My first UD purchase was 2 years ago and it was the single eyeshadows “Sin” and “Midnight Cowboy Rides Again.” I wore Sin sooo much, and even contemplated wearing it on my wedding day! I don’t reach for it as often as I used to, but I should!
Ammo Box!! I hit pan on Chopper, Sin and Smog in like 1 month! 😀
The first thing I tried was the XXX shine gloss in Carney, then some eyeshadows- I think it was sin and a purple and a blue one, then I tried the powder that came in a container with a puff. I always wanted the body glitters they had with the giant brush on the end and the glitter came through the brush, but my mom said it was vulgar since it was called “lickable something”
The first time I ever tried Urban Decay was when I bought a matte purple eyeshadow in Purple Haze and the cocoa body powder from Hautelook last spring (2011). I fell in love with the stellar quality of the shadow and I now own a lot of Urban Decay and my roommate is addicted to it as well!
Urban Decay holds a very special place in my heart. I got a pan of X and Half Baked for my junior prom, and those were pretty much the only two eyeshadows I used for years. I remember when my pan of X shattered, a little part of me died on the inside. Since then, I’ve accumulated so much Urban Decay stuff (some of which I love and some of which totally wasn’t worth it). It’s one of my favorite makeup brands, for sure.
My first experience with UD was with quite a few products, actually. I managed to snag 2 of the vintage primer potions, the 24/7 Baked liner, the vintage Oil Slick liquid liner, and two 24/7 minis in Bourbon and Stash.
I LOVE the primer potion and I never wear eyeshadow without it.
Baked is/was my favorite 24/7 eyeliner (I’m super bummed that they discontinued it) and I’m also quite fond of the other two. I really love the formulation of these liners because they’re soft, apply so nicely, and don’t migrate south as the day wears on.
I’m not a huge fan of the Oil Slick liquid liner (mostly because there are a lot of design flaws with the packaging), but I still prefer it over the new 24/7 liquid liner.
After my first purchase with them, I’ve put in countless others and now I have a pretty impressive collection. Urban Decay is definitely in my tip 3 favorite brands.
The girl who did my prom makeup introduced me to the primer potion. That sparked my obsession for makeup cuz that day I learned about techniques and stuff cuz I would just do powder, dark eyeshadow and eyeliner. It opened my eyes, I’m a big fan of UD now. I’ve got primer potions, 24/7 liners, book of shadows iv and most of all, the Nakeds 🙂
urban decay naked palette!
and the second one is naked 2~ haha
I think it would either be the primer potion or the 24/7 eyeliners…can’t be sure now :p
XXX Shine Gloss in Carney was the first UD product that I tried (back in 2003, I think?). Love at first swipe!
UD was one of my first high end purchases… I bought a couple of the 24/7 liners in deviant and electric back when they were $15… they are $19 now :O. I went back a couple weeks later for ransom. I loved and wore these liners to death.
The NAKED palette.
PRIMER POTION….love it!! didn’t know what i was doing without it before!! still use it..bought a palette and haven’t stopped buying their products and don’t think i ever will!!
It’s only been a few years, but I remember seeing the Alice in Wonderland pallette, and I really wanted it, but it was sold out. Shortly after that, I bought several of the single Deluxe shades: Fishnet, Ransom, Zero, Scratch, Ruthless, Frigid, & Freakshow. The packaging was a little bulky, and a couple kept falling apart, so I finally depotted them; but the shadows are absolutely divine. Then there was the Naked pallette, and the Black Pallette, then the 15th Anniversary Pallette, BoS IV, and Naked 2, along with a few shadow singles and a lipgloss. I love UDPP, but I’m not a fan of the 24/7 liners.
Oddly, though, back in the ’90s, I thought the products were aimed at adolescents due to the packaging, and therefore not amazing quality. I have since been proven wrong.
The Alice palette!
my first product from urban decay was their 24/7 eyeliner in zero! i was looking for a new eyeliner at the time, and i have since repurchased it! 🙂
my first was their 24/7 concealer pencil from sephora.com. I wanted something great that would last all day for my wedding in 2010. I used it all up because I loved it so much, but never repurchased because I hated sharpening that bad boy. lol but then for our anniversary my husband couldn’t get off work to take me anywhere, so instead, he took me to sephora and let me buy whatever I wanted… and I got the naked palette and since then have spent waaaay more money than I should buying urban decay products but I’ve loved every one of them. everything they make is such nice quality and seems to last a really long time as well.
My first Urban Decay purchase occured just a couple days ago in fact- I bought the Naked 2 palette and I love it! The shades are so pretty and buttery, and they’re all easy to work with. Urban Decay is quickly becoming my favorite brand, and I have my eye on a couple of their deluxe eyeshadows now 😉
My first UD product I ever bought and tried/used was the original Naked palette. I used to loathe palettes and had ceased their purchase after a few bad eggs. I viewed them as cheap-looking, less quality for more quantity, etc. My disinterest in palettes even extended to my significant stash of MAC shadows–I avoided the pro palettes. However after the rave reviews of the “Naked” palette, I caved in and bought it–I ultimately fell in love with it. It changed my entire outlook not only on UD (I still purchase shadows and eyeliners from them) but also on palettes in general. While still very picky, I since have purchased a number of other palettes. Moreover, at long last, all of my MAC shadows are depotted and in pro palettes (so glad I made the switch!) 😀
Urban Decay flavored body powders in Marshmallow and Honey! Pretty and very girly with their soft puffs! Don’t remember when though. At least 10 years ago!
My very first Urban Decay products were from the very early 2000s – I was still in middle school, and my favorite color was purple, so I got a squeezy-tube lip balm (I don’t remember what it was called, but the theme was cities, and I had the purple one, which was Chicago) and Asphyxia eyeshadow, and I wore them constantly! I no longer have either (I got rid of the last dregs of the balm last summer when cleaning out my stash), but I have had a long and fruitful relationship with UD ever since!
My 1st Urban Decay products were back in 1999 and it was their eyeshadows in Asphyxia, Grifter & Mildew. I was hooked from the moment I first bought them and haven’t looked back. They were the most pigmented, amazing eyeshadows that I had ever tried at the time, so it wasn’t hard for me to fall instantly in love.
Once i tried urban decay cosmetically, i could never go back to Walgreens.
Once I tried urban decay cosmetics, I could never go back to Walgreens.
I went into Sephora about 4 years ago. I told the gal there that I had no idea how to apply or wear eye color. She plopped me down in her chair and went straight to the Urban Decay kiosk. She applied Last Call, Sin, and Stray Dog. I was in love. I have bought SO MANY UD eye colors that I cannot count. I won’t wear anything else on my lids!!
The first products I bought from UD were several eyeshadows many years ago when Nordstrom was having a HUGE sale because they were discontinuing UD from their stores. I wasn’t a fan for I thought the e/s’s were too glittery and chunky and too difficult to apply. I actually fell in love with brand a few years later when they introduced their eyeshadow primer, which has since becoming an HG.
1995 or 1996, at this store called Antique Boutique in new york city. The first product I bought was Uzi eyeshadow, back when it came in the silver tin. It was perfect for going out to clubs like Limelight, Tunnel, Twilo and Vinyl. I have not strayed from this brand since – I must have 50 eyeliners by now, and all the eyeshadow palettes… I just love the brand so much. I’ve just toned down on the glitter, that’s all 🙂
My first UD product I got when I was 16, back in 2002. It was a small palette called gypsy den. It came with 4 eyeshadows (Goddess, Mildew, X, Polyester Bride) 2 lip glosses, 2 lipstick colors, and a blush. I took it everywhere with me. I still have it, but don’t use it. What sucked was that the shadows started to transfer to the lip gloss and lip stick.
My first UD product was “asphyxia” purple lipstick and eyeshadow. I miss this shade.
My first UD was the fun pallet, I got it as a present from my parents. I had been searching for a bright pink, and Woodstock matched what I was looking for perfectly. I still have the pallet and have bought many more UD products since then, all of which I have been thrilled with.
Almost 2 years ago, after one of our first dates, my bf and I went to the mall. I told him I’d been wanting to try their primer potion and the deluxe palette had a sample of it. He was like, “get it.” Lol he said back then he was trying to impress me by buying me small gifts sometimes 🙂
Kickin it old school!!! Started with UD back in high school.
My first purchase was Bruise nail polish. I thought it was amazing that someone finally made colors that not everyone else had a million of!!!
Still going strong with UD!! Have tons of palettes, 24/7 pencils, primer potion, almost everything. Lol!!!
Way back in the 90s I remember visiting Atlanta and finding UD at a Nordstrom. This was back when the names of their products were more decay and less drug-related (wish they would go back to that). I bought Uzi and Crash eyeshadows on that trip and we’d drive 4 hours to Atlanta just to go shopping at this mall simply because they had UD at this store. LOL.
Which names are drug related?
Half baked, yayo, blunt, ecstacy, etc. Those are the ones I can think of off the top of my head XD
I loooove UD! : D … The naked palette made me fall in love with them.
I got the Urban Decay Show Pony palette for Christmas a couple years ago when I first started getting make up. It’s been love ever since.
I first was introduced to Urban Decay when they appeared on a TV showed called Stripped on the Style Network. I was still in Middle School at the time. I remember getting on their website and thinking one day when I had money I wanted to buy some of their products. I just fell in love with the bright colors.
Then when I got a job I ordered the Sustainable Shadow Box. I liked it, but slowly kept ordering things from them and fell in love with their products. A lot of them I love and use almost everyday. I have a lot of their products, and the bulk of my makeup collection is from them.
The Naked and Naked 2 palette were the two products I bought from Urban Decay. I bought them last month, but I really fell in love with them and I use them almost every day. So I can start exploring the other products of UD. 🙂
I first heard of Urban Decay when a member of a band said he used their products, lol. I decided to look them up. When I was 17, after a long battle of makeup not staying on my face, I bought some UDPP and their Deluxe Shadow Palette (the purple velvet one) and I was instantly hooked. Still my favorite brand of makeup- wish I could afford to try all of their products!
My first UD products were purchased back in the 90’s, when I was starting in College, saving up for my UD fix next purchase. My first products were Lipgunks (Hotpants,Gash, Buzzkill) and the eyeshadow in Asphyxia. I still have this eyeshadow! I loved those lipgunks with their great color, smell, taste and stickiness. I love UD then, I love UD now.
My mom bought me Midnight Cowboy and Urb back in 1998 and I’ve been collecting since! I know have almost every liner and single eyeshadow they have out as well as 6 palettes! I LOVE UD!!!!!!!!!
it was a metallic dark red nail varnish, & grey multicolour glitter liner. it’s funny how i remember that! i still love urban decay, use a lot of their stuff, they excel at eye makeup, amazing quality.
My first Urban Decay was in 2006 and it was eyeshadow in Green Goddess. I was attracted to the bright display case. The colors looked so much brighter than other brands.
Urban Decay, as others have said, was my gateway drug to makeup. I had always loved makeup, but it was just random eyeshadows here and there in drug stores. In 2009, a friend of mine bought me the Sustainable Shadow Pallette. What really did it for me with this pallette was the UD Primer Potion. I had never gotten such color payoff before! Since then, I have bought nearly every palette they’ve released. They’re my absolute favorite brand, without a doubt.
my first “high end” makeup item was by urband decay. it was back in 2003 when i was a junior in hs. i bought sin eyeshadow and used it all over my lid. i had no idea how to apply makeup but the application was so fool proof that my nit picking mother actually complimented my makeup. i later bought roach eyeliner then big fatty mascara that same year.
My first experience using Urban Decay was back in the 90s with a friend from junior high and she had the vintage liquid eyeliner that was black with rainbow glitter. I kinda wish they would bring it back lol.
My first Urban Decay purchase was the nail polish Roach, and the eye shadow Shotgun (which I mourn for everyday because it’s been discontinued!!!!!!:(. It was the mid 90s for me and I loved the tag line “Does Pink Make You Puke?” Best. Makeup. Ever.
Mine was in the late 90s/early 2000s. Remember the tin packaging for the eyeshadows? I still have quite a few of them!!!
I think it was 2005/2006…I bought their Lip Envy lip stain in Envious. I also received the Ammo Eyeshadow palette as a gift, I can’t remember which came first!
The first product I ever used was the eye potion and realized it was the best product I had found on the market so far. I have then since used multiple products and am also as pleased!
The first product i ever tried and bought was cherry eyeshadow. It was when I had just started wearing on a daily basis and I was into very neutral and light makeup. I had it for a while but ended up throwing it out.
My first UD product was Half Baked eyeshadow, I’d received it in a swap. First of all, I loved the color and I’d always heard really good things about the brand, so I was curious to try it. I’d like to say this was around 3 years ago. I absolutely loved the texture and how smoothly the shadow applied! This had led to me buying Book of Shadows IV and V, 15th Anniversary palette and the Naked palette! I absolutely love UD shadows, even more than MAC ones. >_>
My first Urban Decay product was the Deluxe Eyeshadow Fishnet. My first visit to Sephora, out of all the other eyeshadows in the entire store, it was the one that caught my eye and I kept going back to until I finally bought it. The sales associate, being the good up-seller that she was, convinced me to add on the original primer potion. Those two products together began my absolute love affair with Urban Decay.
I’m at the point now where, oh, at least 3/4, if not more, of my eye make up is Urban Decay. I own 4 palettes (Deluxe, Ammo, Naked 1 and the 15th Anniversary set), a number of singles and a whole collection of their eyeliners. I’m also really loving those jumbo lip pencils they released. I have the bright red (F bomb) and it’s the first red lip colour that I’ve ever liked on myself.
Their lipsticks are crap though… bought Gravity (I think that’s what it was called) and returned it after wearing it no more than twice. The colour was great but it had such a horrible taste to it that I couldn’t get past it. It’s a good thing that I was already in love with their eyeshadows because the lipstick was nearly bad enough to turn me off the brand for good.
My first ever UD product was from 2003 back when I was in junior high. It was the mini Lip Gunk set containing 5 colors- Asphyxia (bright bubble gum pink with blue shimmer sheen) was my favorite!!
The nail polishes when Urban Decay first came out. They were the first company to make all the they’re so ugly they’re pretty colors. Hard Candy had the cream finish pastels and Urban Decay had the edgy colors…loved both brands.
Their nail polish. “Does Pink Make You Puke?” Loved the names & colors. I bought the whole set. No one I knew wore colors like this. My favorite was Acid Rain.
Urban Decay was actually the first makeup I ever owned! It was a birthday gift from my mom on my 16th. 😀 The first products were a 24/7 eyeliner in Underground, and the Surreal Skin powder foundation, both of which I still use and love.
I actually hate Urban Decay. I thought the Primer Potion was unimpressive and I care too much about a brand’s packaging design. I’m also not ever really in the market for the insane amount of neutrals they put out.
I think my first Urban Decay product was the 24/7 eyeliner in Bourbon! I love that stuff. I have a lot more of their products now! Other than the eyeliner..I think I bought the Book of Shadows 3 pretty much as soon as it came out. 🙂 That was another early product of UD that I purchased.
I miss the matte eyeshadows so much, the only shades they still sell are perversion and abc gum.
That’s how I got my start w/Urban Decay, the matte purple shade and the eyeshadow primer.
i’m a new concert to urban decay, and my first purchase was the feminine palette last summer. they’ve spoiled me on pigmented shadows, and their 24/7 liner is now my favorite!
I think the first thing I purchased was one of the 24/7 eyeliners a few years ago, but I can’t remember which color it was. Probably something very bright because all throughout high school I would wear nothing on my eyes but bright eyeliner and mascara. What finally turned me into an eyeshadow girl was buying the Naked palette, though. I always gravitate toward really fun, bright colors that aren’t very wearable, so I never wore eyeshadow. The Naked palette made me realize I could wear eyeshadow on the daily.
i first tried their eyeliners that my mom bought me from sephora and fell in love from there.
My first UD product was actually back in 02-03 and it was their uv light pen. I forgot all about UD until the Alice book of shadows launched in 2010. I now have Alice BOS, bos3, bos4, naked 1, naked 2, and the 15 year anni palette. I also have numerous single eyeshadows, mascara, and tons of 24/7 eyeliner as well as UD primer potion! I am in love with UD products more so than MAC.
Urban Decay is my favorite brand! The first Urban Decay product I bought was the “UD loves NYC” Book of Shadows from 2010. I bought it along with the Midnight Cowboy lipstick and the Lip Junkie gloss in Wallflower. I fell in love with their products from then on. Unfortunately lots of the products that I love the most have gotten discontinued. They’ve stopped selling almost all of their darker and brighter lipsticks. They also discontinued their cream shadows, and their bright matte shadows. I hope they bring out some new things that I love just as much.
I’m a late boomer for UD. I got the Naked palette a few months ago and tried the primer potion sample size that came with it and loved it ! So I bought the full size too. That’s all I have… for now !
I first got bitten by UD with the BOS. I was really impressed with how they put their palettes together. I countinued to buy palettes as they came out. The only one I missed out on was AIW … Would still like to get one if it is ever repromoted. I have bought many single e/s, liners and lip products via Haute Look. I’ve bought a few primers through Ulta and Sephora. The number one reason I like UD is they seem to have quality e/s palettes and even if their are a few colours I don’t care for it still makes it worth it to buy a palette instead of the single e/s.
My first ud product was the eyeshadow primer potion because I heard so much bout it on yt.
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so after watching a yt makeup tutorial using the “get baked” palette, i went in to sephora to get it but they were all sold out so i ended up getting the “deluxe shadow” palette instead. ever since then, have always loved their eyeshadows and try to get what i can when i have the money available.
First experience with UD is only a few months ago with the Rollergirl Palette! 🙂 It’s pretty good. The shadows are soft and buttery, and the mini UDPP was a nice addition. I find that UDPP isn’t that great as I have other primers that make colors way more vibrant, and the shadows of UDPP are too simple for my tastes, so although I really like the palette and everything in it, I wouldn’t go out of my way to spend more money on UD.
I remember buying their sustainable shadow box set. I think that was the first thing I ever purchased from UD. The most recent thing I’ve purchased from them was Free Love eye shadow.
I first heard about Urban Decay when I was about 17, before it was available in the UK. My Dad travelled a lot to the US for business and I would send him with a list of products I NEEDED, based on things I found on US blogs. Bless him for rising to the challenge and going into department stores to ask for things like Frostbite and Gash lipsticks. I think the very first one he brought back was a bluey purple, but I’ve forgotten the name – and oilslick eyeshadow. Loved the crazy colours in the lipsticks. Now I’m a 24/7 liner addict, I think I actually have them all.
My first UD product was a single eyeshadow…Half Baked. Since I live in Germany, those products are pretty hard to get and I was lucky to find a friend from Canada who send it to me. I really love the texture, colour payoff end everything else. Half Baked is very good product to start with ;)Now, I just ordered the Naked 2 and hoping for it to be as great as well.
My first product was the Deluxe palette (seeing swatches on here I wanted it) and then I started collecting BOS — I have all except for Vol 1. I copped Vol 2. when UD “found a few left over” in their warehouse. I was happy I was able to get it.
My first Urban Decay product was Primer Potion back in high school. I was at Sephora and on of the ladies suggested it to me, let me tell you that just started my love affair with UD 🙂
It must have been 1999 or 2000 – Bruise nail polish. I miss it!
My first UD was when I got the Ammo palette. However, I’ve been through several single shadow pots of Mowie Wowie. It is def my favorite color. I actually think their shadows are a lot like Kat Von D palettes.
My first Urban Decay product was Zero, the pencil eye liner. It’s amazing, black as night, goes on smooth and I still use it. It’s a little bit pricey at $18 but it is well worth it. It wear well, all day long.
The first UD product I tried was the eyeshadow Chains. I feel in love with it, it lasted a long time and the pigment was great. Sadly its discontinued. I am now a UD addict and use the Primer Potion, All nighter and Naked Palette on a daily basis.
I was first introduced to Urban Decay brand while working at Sephora in the late 90’s. I used to love the Lip Gunks in colors such as Roach and Gash.
I was late to try UD (makeup in general actually) but the first products I ever tried were UD eyeshadow primer potion and 24/7 glide-on pencil in Zero about 3 years ago. My UDEPP is still a staple in my makeup collection, as well as the Naked/Naked 2 palettes. I prefer Perversion over Zero now, but I still love the formula for the glide-on pencils. I have also recently added 24/7 waterproof liquid liner in Perversion to my staples (hoping to also try some other colors later). I stocked up on all the cream shadows I could before they were d/c and I really like those as well. Great smudge/budge-proof bases. I am also sad that the matte shades were d/c as they do have a nice buttery-smooth texture 🙂
My first urban decay product was Shag, i fell in love with the color and the way it applied. it was like butter. From that day on i wanted to try more. i love their eyeshadows and eye liners. i have yet to try their lipsticks and lipglosses
My first and only Urban Decay product is Book of Shadows IV.
I really love it, despite the bulky packaging 🙂
Love the shadows, love the liquid liner, the mascara and of course the primer potion.
I would want to buy Urban Decay products again, but they’re too pricey for a student like me ><
I first used UD back in 2006. My first product was their eyeshadow primer, Adore deluxe eyeshadow, and the Ammo palette. I am glad that this brand has grown over the years and I am still using them today.
Gostaria muito de comprar estas cores que estao nesta palleta de sombras? Tem aqui no Brasi?Onde? E se nao tiver, como posso comprar? Bjos e obrigada!
My first UD buy was the original Naked palette. It was a godsend because at the time, I owned very little in terms of eyeshadow and it gave me room to experiment with lots of neutral shades. I still use this quite often, and it’s good to travel with.
I bought a bunch of lipsticks and nail polishes when they first came out in 1996, with the “Does pink make you puke?” adline. Roach, Bruise, Asphyxia, Smog. GOD I miss those days, because yeah – pink does make me puke. I suppose it only makes business sense that UD abandoned their edge, but it still disappoints crusty old punk me.
I received two shadows from Urban Decay. Both really glittery. A black and a beige one. I do like Urban Decay but I don’t love it.
Like a few others here, my first UD experience was also due to Gerard Way’s make-up tutorial on Steven’s Untitled Rock Show, haha. I immediately had to go to Ulta to achieve his look, and I’ve been obsessed for about 4 years now. (: (I was 12 at the time)
I first used “Chopper” eyeshadow back in the day. It looks really pretty on brown eyes!
my first purchase was the Ammo palette before the brand was made available for us italians.. i did hear so many good things about this brand that i purchased it online and crossed my finger it would survive the customs!!
indeed it’s pure love! i still have it and it’s the number one thing i reach when i have to go out of Rome for a few days, it’s so versatile and pigmented!
that sold my soul to urban decay, definitely!
My first Urban Decay purchase was the “Delux Shadow Box” back about 4 or so years ago along with a bottle of UDPP. I love the brand even more today and Own all the BOS’s and every palette they’ve come out with (except the black palette) I love them and my palette collection.. My favorite makeup brand hands down!
It was about 15 years ago I made my first purchase from Urban Decay for their eyeshadows. Ever since, it have become one of my favorite brands for buying qualitative eyeshadows and lipstick. I just made my purchase for Book of Shadows III last year. And their Gash lipstick is still one of my favorite red shade.
It was about 15 years ago I made my first purchase from Urban Decay for their beautiful eyeshadows. Ever since, it becomes one of my most reliable source for buying interesting & qualitative products. I bought Book of Shadows III last year. Their Gash lipstick is still one of my favorite red shade after using for so many years.
I was 16 years old in Paris feeling a little homesick and then I spotted familiarity, Sephora. Perhaps the most chic makeup artist I have ever seen convinced me unwittingly to tryUrban Decays Lip Gunk in Roach… It took me through Highschool And College… How sad that it was discontinued
The Naked palette did it for me, I’m not interested in anything else because it’s only available online and the packaging is kind of tacky and impractical.
I think I can finally say that I am threw with Urban Decay. I have tried two of their eyeshadow palettes and have failed at falling in love with either one. My first product from this brand was the Naked Palette. I was so excited to purchase this, but upon first using it, I was deeply disappointed. After all the rave reviews, I don’t know exactly what I was expecting, but I just was not impressed. First of all, I didn’t like that the palette was basically a box of brown shadows that could be easily duped. It bothered me that in the palette, all the shades looked different, but once applied on the lid, many of them looked too similar to me. Furthermore, I didn’t like the fact that this palette was full of shimmery and glittery shades. I really wish Urban Decay would invest some time into developing palettes that are more evenly distributed when it comes to shimmery and matte shadows. Lastly, I didn’t experience very good wear with these shadows even with a primer (but I wasn’t using UDPP so maybe that is why). I played around with the palette hoping to fall in love with it, but it never happened, so I returned it to my local Sephora and forgot the whole ordeal. However, when the Christmas holiday rolled around this past year, I received an email from Urban Decay promoting it’s 15th Anniversary palette. I decided that I would give the brand another try before giving up on it entirely, and again, I experienced the same disappointment. This palette now sits inside my make up chest untouched! I personally do not understand all the hype surrounding Urban Decay eye shadows. I have worn less expensive, drugstore shadows with more color payoff and longevity than Urban Decay shadows have ever worn on me. I’ve even tried one of their Lip Junkie glosses, and I am glad that it was a free gift because it is nothing that I would pay $19 for. It has absolutely no pigment, and the only thing I did like about it was the minty feel and the shine factor. So basically after these three failed attempts to love this brand, I’ve decided that I won’t be purchasing anymore of their products.