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Vices. I’ve got a few. Shoes, sweets, stockpiling limited edition Urban Decay eyeshadow palettes… 🙂
The new Urban Decay Vice Palette ($59) sashays onto beauty counters and urbandecay.com this fall. Inside you’ll find 20 brand-spankin’ new shades, which Urban Decay whipped up special for the kit.
Check out the swatches and pics below, and let me know what you think.
Agent K-dawg, this is Urban Decay Base Camp. Over.
UD Base Camp, this is K-dawg, go ahead. Over.
K-dawg, UD Base Camp. Requesting mission status. How’s the testing of the Holiday 2012 Dangerous Palette ($36) going? Over.
Roger that, UD Base Camp. The mission to complete a bronze and gray smokey eye with Deeper, Mushroom and Ace is almost complete, although these eyeshadow pigments are reaching dangerous levels. Over.
The eye palette pops out of the zippered case, so you can reuse it to hold makeup/cat treats/secret spy gear/whatevs!
K-dawg, UD Base Camp. Tech support is wondering what that tap-tap-tapping sound is on your end. Is it static, or is Jeremy Renner trying to send you love letters via Morse code again? Over.
Base Camp, this is K-dawg. Nah, that’s just me tapping my brushes against the edge of the sink to remove some excess eyeshadow before applying. Can’t have fallout beneath my eyes while I’m in the field. Over.
Copy that, K-dawg. Special Agent T-money requests a tutorial for the look. Can you oblige? Over.
UD Base Camp, K-dawg. Can do. Over.
STEP 1: Urban Decay 24/7 Glide-On Shadow Pencil in Sin applied as a base over the entire eyelid
Yup, HOLIDAY!
A few quick pics and swatches from Urban Decay Holiday 2012.
Available online only at sephora.com, ulta.com, macys.com, beauty.com and urbandecay.com
From the left: Stash (a deep green with gold shimmer), Junkie (a dark teal pearl with golden shimmer), LSD (new and exclusive shade; a navy with bright turquoise shimmer), Perversion (a blackest black matte), Psychedelic Sister (new and exclusive shade; a bright eggplant), Rockstar (a dark purple metallic), Hustle (new and exclusive shade; a medium metallic brown) and Mushroom (new and exclusive shade; a grey taupe/brown metallic)
Available at Sephora, ULTA and select Macy’s; online at Sephora.com, ulta.com, macys.com, beauty.com and urbandecay.com
Bordello (a pale mauve with gold micro-glitter), Skimp (new shade; a light peachy pearl), AC/DC (a smoky greyish purple), Gunmetal (a dark metallic grey with silver micro-glitter), Hijack (a metallic teal), Lost (a medium metallic brown) and Wallflower Lip Junkie Lip Gloss (a nude creamy pink)
Available at Sephora, ULTA and select Macy’s; online at Sephora.com, ulta.com, macys.com, beauty.com and urbandecay.com
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Wearing Urban Decay Lip Junkie Lipgloss in Strip
Sweet! Urban Decay’s coming out with a second round of products for fall 2012 — four new nude lip shades and two face/complexion primers.
Now your Smoked Palette has a few more friends to play with this fall. 🙂
Coming soon to Urban Decay counters and urbandecay.com.
From left to right: Super-Saturated High Gloss Lip Color in Naked ($18), Lip Junkie Lipgloss in Strip ($19), Lip Junkie Lipgloss in Streak ($19) and Lip Junkie Lipgloss in Naked2 ($19)
Complexion Primer Potions ($31 each)
Swatches from the left: Super-Saturated High Gloss Lip Color in Naked, Lip Junkie Lipgloss in Streak, Lip Junkie Lipgloss in Naked2 and Lip Junkie Lipgloss in Strip
Lip Junkie Lipgloss in Streak
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Urban Decay’s new foundation brush promises to blur the lines. Borrowing a page out of Hollywood’s Golden Age powder-puff playbook, where actors and actresses were often blurred in their closeups, the Good Karma Optical Blurring Brush ($24) buffs away lines to create seamless, smooth skin.
It reminds me of my own experiences with a different kind of optical blurring…
When my BFF Jen and I were younger and looking for love in all the wrong places (Club X and 1015 Folsom come to mind), the following conversation would go down at least once or twice every night we went out on the town…
ME: I think I see a potentially cute boy.
JEN: Where?!
ME: Standing over there at the bar, in the striped button-down shirt and dark pants.
JEN: (…) Every guy in here is wearing that outfit.
ME: No, really! I think he’s looking this way. Over your shoulder, six ‘o clock.
JEN: Oh, no baby. Did you forget your glasses again? We have to get you some contacts, like soon. That boy is kinda scary. Trust me on this.
Haha! Nothing like poor eyesight to mess up your game. 🙂
Luckily, the Good Karma Optical Blurring Brush is designed to improve it.
I met it through Urban Decay’s new fall collection, and it quickly became one of those little lifesavers that I never thought I needed before, but now can’t function without.
The soft, dense brush head feels almost as good as favorite husky tabby’s fur. Mrrow!
UD says they designed the brush to be used with their new line of Naked Skin Weightless Ultra Definition Liquid Makeup, but there’s nothing stopping us from using it with foundations or tinted moisturizers from other brands.
I can’t hang with streaky foundation, and the Optical Blurring Brush’s densely-packed, soft synthetic bristles and rounded tip definitely take care of streaks. Lately I’ve been using it apply Pure Radiant Tinted Moisturizer by NARS, and seriously, I think the application looks flawless.
I’ve also heard that synthetic bristles, being less porous than natural fibers, are less conducive to the growth of bacteria, potentially leading to fewer breakouts.
