Kat Von D Gypsy Palette

I did a little Sephora hauling on my birthday- I got a couple polishes (Sephora by OPI 212-Sephora, Sephora Fusion), my Sephora Beauty Insider birthday gift and this awesome palette!


Here's the outer box. It has some sketch-like artwork on the front.

Such a nice touch. It's wrapped in metallic black paper with a Kat Von D monogram! Note Kat's signature stars on the inside upper lid.


Here's the front. Same artwork as the outer box, but this is more filled in. The palette has a rubberized feel.


Here's the back of the palette. "A smoky eye adds an instant air of mystery." Shade names are: Lucifer, Stryker, Frankie, Hawkwind, Brass Knuckles, Birdcage, Ego Sum, Gunner.


Lucifer (matte black), Stryker (green/brown duochrome), Frankie (warm brown mauve shimmer), Hawkwind (iridescent green/white), Brass Knuckles (gold metallic creme), Birdcage (soft lime), Ego Sum (medium grass green), Gunner (sparkling deep emerald).



These are out of order. Lucifer, Hawkwind, Frankie, Stryker. Note the green iridescence/duochrome on Hawkwind and Stryker.

Brass Knuckles (creme shadow), Birdcage, Ego Sum, Gunner.

Here's a quick look I did with this palette:



Outdoors, late afternoon warm sunlight. The lighting is causing it to skew a bit warmer than it is in real life.


Indoors, no light, total shade.


Hawkwind all over lid, Birdcage from middle third to outer crease, Ego Sum in crease blended out and Gunner to darken crease and line under eye.

Kat Von D Autograph Liquid Liner in Black Metal Love (hell yeah!). It's matte black, absolutely no shine, but with tiny flecks of silver microglitter. I admit, I bought this just for the name but I find myself using it almost every day. I'm almost finished with it! I never finish things!

I LOVE this palette. The colors all go so well together. The thing I like the most about it is Hawkwind eyeshadow- it's a white that flashes bright green. When you layer other colors on top of it, or you layer it on top of other colors, it adds a vivid bright green flash. It's so amazing. Reminds me of an old Urban Decay shadow... Fluorescent maybe? I don't remember the name. I wish they would sell Hawkwind all by itself, I foresee myself hitting pan on this color!

I also adore Gunner. It's so rich and sparkly. It's the emerald green I've been looking for! It looks like black with green glitter in the pan, but once you put it on your skin it becomes a bold, deep, dark emerald green with bright green sparkles. So amazing.

Like the other palettes from Kat Von D, they include two totally useless brushes. They're basically double-ended lip brushes. Soft, shiny, slippery, tiny bristles. They're impossible to apply shadow with- maybe liner would be okay but... Yeah. Don't really see the point of them. Even sponge-tip would have been more useful.

The pigmentation of everything is okay, not as pigmented as MAC but definitely not bad. They're soft and silky. Not overly-silky powdery messy frosty like Stila, more Urban Decay Deluxe type silky. Lasting power is good when used with Too Faced Shadow Insurance, Urban Decay Primer Potion or MAC Paint Pots (I used all three this week).

I love the names she picks for everything. They're so metal! Ego Sum had me a little confused at first, I thought it said Ergo Sum, which would make sense... I like the name because it makes me think, "Ego sum via veritas et vita", but I'm not sure what her inspiration for the name was. Either way, awesome.

The other thing I love a whole lot about Kat Von D's palettes is that they look good on brown eyed girls. THANK YOU!!! It's like they were designed for us. Every single color in them is flattering on brown eyes. I love seeing a brown-eyed girl like Kat promoting makeup. I always feel left out because all I see are these beautiful, icy blue-eyed models that look good in everything... There is so much contrast between blue eyes and dark eye makeup and it looks so stunning... But it's a look I'll never be able to have. So FINALLY seeing brown-eyed models in makeup ads makes me feel better.

I also picked up the Sephora Beauty Insider birthday gift, and in case anyone was curious, here's what they look like:

Bronzed Beauty, Rosy Glow, Precious Pink.

The glosses are the standard Sephora gloss formula. A little sticky, smooth, sheer, noticable unidentifiable fruity scent. Very nice, but a little perfumey. I can see these colors being flattering on everyone. I think they look beautiful.