REVIEW: Too Faced Eye Shadow Insurance Policy Kit

This Set retails for $34.20 on the Too Faced website. It comes with 6 full size eye shadows and one full size Shadow Insurance Primer.
I didn't pay full price for mine. Too faced came to Hautelook for the first time a few weeks ago and I snatched a couple of products while they were at a discount, I am not positive but I think I paid about $17.00 for this palette.
Too Faced Cosmetics is a high end brand and when you look at almost $35.00 on one palette it DOES look like a lot. The way to look at things like this (and how I personally justify it) is to break down the costs. Each Too Faced eyeshadow retails for $18.00 and the Eye Shadow Insurance, which happens to be one of the best in the market, retails for $18.00, so in reality you are getting $126.00 worth of products for $34.20.

My first impression on this palette was not a good one. I was very unpleasantly surprised at the size of the whole package, I guess I got too used to Urban Decay's palettes, but at the end of the day it makes sense. It is a very compacted little thing, it does hold 6 full size shadows and it comes with a little primer holder on the side, so you can easily grab it and take with you on vacation and not have it take a lot of room.
As far as the color selection, I loved all of them except for Boy Toy, but that's nothing against the actual shadow, I just don't care for pink shades that much. My absolute favorite was Full Frontal. It's such a pretty bronze shade and it's so stinking pigmented! Actually, all of them but Skinny Dip are really pigmented.

Swatches

On the left I applied primer prior to testing the eye shadows. On the right, I have nothing underneath.

Shadow Insurance
Like I mention above, this set comes with a full size primer. I would say is just as good as a Urban Decay Primer Potion. It's consistency is a little thicker but it blends the same.

(Below top = Too Faced Shadow Insurance - Bottom= UDPP)

I own one of the older pretty bottles from Urban Decay's primer potion, so I will say that I LOVE the packaging of the Too Faced one. Having said that, I know UD now has changed their packaging so it would be really hard to choose. Based on the two products I do own, I will say that Too Faced Shadow insurance is a lot easier to apply, but the quality is the same as the UDPP.

Here's a comparison of the two. You can see why Urban Decay HAD to change their packaging. How in the heck would you get the product stuck on the sides of that bottle, without cutting the thing into pieces? That's where Too Faced got it right!

Also, Too Faced comes with more product!

All in all, I do like this set. Would I ever pay full price for it? NO. I am too cheap for that. I believe I've only paid full price for a 3 Urban Decay palettes and one Christmas Sephora one (the last one I regret).