I have to say. I have tried both high end and lower ended eyeshadows and I will admit, I do not have patience with powdery or (let me be careful here) some 'lower ended quality' eye shadow. Before I started using more expensive shadows I had the Coastal Scents 78 Palette and to me that was GREAT! But then I started exploring and realised I used it less and less and less because as the blogger said, the length of time I need to build up, is just not worth it for me, when I can get on the UD in two pats/one swipe. This maybe is because I am very very impatient generally...hehehe....
All that said, this is a very good dupe from what I can see, not from what I can confirm in terms of owning the product, and like....who will notice? Can someone tell, uh...ok she is wearing elf...uh huh...and she is wearing Darkhorse from UD. Ummm...I think not. I guess I'm straying here but I'd have to say that I can't see how an elf shadow can match up to an UD one at this price. To me that's what dupe means, not neccesarily a cheaper version, but something of same colour, texture, value, etc. But that's totally subjective.