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Hit or miss, but worth the risk!

I own nine of these so far and will keep updating this review with every tube I purchase. I'm addicted and will probably own them all sometime soon. :] I'm going to go through all the colors I have since I realize how useful that would be.

24 Carrot Gold: Cute pastel orange. A little hard to get totally opaque without lipliner (which is hard to find in this color!) but worth the constant reapplication. Oddly moisturizing.

Bare It All: Medium pinkish nude. Very nice color, very opaque, wears well.

Dollhouse Pink: Super cool color, a highly saturated cool pink. Very matte and lasts forever. The only color in this line that has survived a kiss without transferring. The most true to its "Mega Last" name! :D

Purty Persimmon: My most-worn color. A gorgeous orange-red that wears semi-matte and lasts a long time! The tube itself is a good example of the line's lame packaging. It looks pretty beat up, for example the black is flaking off.

Red Velvet: A little lighter and pinker than a true red. Very pretty and long-lasting.

Smokin' Hot Pink: Beautiful raspberry color. Very matte, very long-lasting. This color is a no-brainer, flattering on everybody, and I think every lipstick-wearer should have a shade like this.

Stoplight Red: Super classic pin-up perfect red. Creamy and shiny and long-lasting. Needs lipliner though.

Sugar Plum Fairy: A dark red-purple. Very pretty and opaque, but doesn't have the staying power most other shades do. This is a problem for me since the tube I purchased has a faulty cap that won't stay on so I don't trust it in a purse. I haven't worn it out of the house yet for this reason. :/

Vamp It Up: Off-black purple. Such a cool color for a drugstore brand! Is not long-lasting and does not go on very opaque. To wear a color like this, I need to know it won't budge so this one isn't worn much.

Why bother with anything else?

The perfect mascara in my opinion. Coats every lash, does everything promised in the description, and stays on for hours. No need to comb lashes after applying, either, because it never clumps. I wish it cost less, yes, but I don't want to waste money on other mascaras that I know will disappoint. Try it, you'll love it. :]

Just gross.

I've gotten this mascara three times as a gift, and I feel terrible about it because it's just a bad product. Grossly huge brush that just rubs a wall of gross dry clumpy black goo on your lashes. As if all that weren't gross enough, it all will flake off in an hour anyway. The threads on the screw-off cap get coated in the stuff so it doesn't open and close very well. Doesn't coat each lash, doesn't lengthen or volumize or curl or even darken very well. If you are at a department store looking for mascara, don't waste your time at the Dior counter.

Almost perfect.

Goes on smooth, dark, opaque. Stays on, no dissolving, flaking, chipping, anything. Great packaging, won't dry out. My only complaint with this eyeliner is the felt tip. While it's not fussy and is probably perfect for people new to liquid liner, it's not as precise as a brush tip. I'll line my eye with this, then use an e.l.f. liner with a brush to give my winged-out liner a sharper tip. I'd guess 95% of people wouldn't notice or care but I am a perfectionist ahaha

Major win with some minor fail.

I am so pleased with the quality and versatility of these shadows! The mix of shadows allows classic looks, colorful looks, dark looks, light looks, everything. I'm sure it'd complement many skin tones as well. The color payoff is so great that I just lightly pat the shadow once for each eye. If I ever use up a shadow, it'd be Anonymous, the pale matte color. If UD ever sells Anonymous as a single, I'll buy it as powder foundation (ahaha!) as it's the most perfect match for my skin color I've found.

The brush is lovely. I wouldn't have bought the palette if it came with an animal hair brush, so the fact it was synthetic was a big deal to me. It's great for application, stiffer and a bit smaller than brushes I already own (Ecotools and Rite Aid Renewal) so it complemented my set well. I'd rather it came as two different brushes and not one double-ended brush. As it is, I can't put it in my brush cup with the others since one end would be destroyed. Keep that in mind before buying.

I'll have to come up with a really good excuse to buy another eyeshadow palette after Vice because this palette comes with every color I use regularly. :3 It's isn't perfect, in fact mine came with two slightly broken shadows (Blitz and Nevermind). I wish the palette's packaging was easier to clean because I could remove the gold shimmer everywhere. I've also found the color Jagged to be unusable. I wish they'd either worked more on that formula or put in a different color, as I've found basically all reviews say the same thing about Jagged: no color payoff, weird shard fallout. Despite that, I highly recommend this palette for anyone who wants to buy one and be done! :]

Edit: Unfortunately, I found out while doing a friend's makeup, Vice does actually appear chalky on dark skin. For instance, Echo Beach should have been a nice highlight on her lids, but it hardly showed up. So now I augment "recommend for anyone" with "darker ladies should swatch first". :/