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When I got back home from my hella traumatic dental appointment this afternoon, I needed to recharge my batteries, so I plugged into the new Urban Decay Electric Pressed Pigment Palette…
Get it? Plugged in? Electric?
Sorry. 🙂
Review coming soon, but here are the first couple pics…
I’m back from the dentist! — and, yes, I cried (it’s a long story).
Buuut, it turns out that crying through my makeup gave me a good reason to soothe myself with the new Electric palette of pressed pigments from Urban Decay.
Woo-hoo!
I’m still in the “staring at it” stages… I haven’t tried it on yet, but I have lots of ideas for those blues and that green.
I’m not sure what I’ll do with Thrash, though, that funky chartreuse. Hmm…
Electric shocks Urban Decay counters and urbandecay.com March 18.
So bangin’!
No, I’m not referring to the pounding outside my window (this time), which, El Hub informs me, will be ongoing for two weeks.
Argh.
I predict that by the end of the day I’ll be rocking back and forth in the corner and clutching these two new Urban Decay Duo Shade Eyeshadows to my chest like a security blanket while mumbling, “Safe place, safe place…”
The duos, which just launched online at urbandecay.com, are like eyeshadow comfort food. Each one comes with two of UD’s bestselling shades — familiar, much-loved colors that give lurvies to your lids.
A few things…
First, this morning I tried on a pair of skinny jeans I ordered online and got stuck in them.
Seriously.
Apparently, I wasn’t paying close enough attention and ordered the wrong size.
Yeah…
I’d managed to shimmy into them up to my thighs when I realized that something was very wrong, and if I’d kept going, I’d need prayer and the Jaws of Life to get out of them.
Lesson learned here, kids. If you’re going to purchase the Citizens of Humanity Avedon skinny jeans, go up at least one size.
Second, SWV lives!!!
I found them while channel surfing last night. SWV Reunited on WE. The combination of early ’90s R&B and reality TV gets me weak in the knees… I can hardly speak. I lose all control. Then something comes over me… 🙂 Hahaha!
Third, I realized this afternoon that pinkish bronze metallic eyes are totally fun. And not too hard to create, believe it or not! I got the idea from a pink and bronze eye look I saw on UD’s website.
For this face of the day, I went with a few products from MAC, NARS and Urban Decay.
What if…
What if my neighbors saw me naked today? What if it should have been totally weird, but it was actually pretty great?
What if I strolled, all gloriously nude, past a group of them in our little circle on my morning walk with Tabs (gotta get that Vitamin D, yo!), as the sun beamed down on my cheeks?
What if I said, “Hello,” smiling and waving at all the neighborhood kids and their parents? “Nice day for a walk.” 🙂
What if —
Uh…DUDE. You do realize that I’ve been referring to wearing Urban Decay’s new spring 2014 collection, right? I wouldn’t actually walk around my neighborhood in the buff.
OK, where was I going with this…?
Oh, yeah! Urban Decay’s latest launch. It’s all about — you guessed it — more nakedness! And skincare benefits.
This time the focus is on naked skin and lips. This spring, the line is getting even more nude (nakeder?) with two brand new products lines, and two new Beauty Balm shades.
First things first, the most exciting stuff (well, at least to me): the brand new Naked Ultra Nourishing Lipglosses.
As if I needed another excuse to hoard sheer neutral lipglosses… Yeah, these are totally up my alley. Sheer, smooth, non-sticky and super hydrating, the formula contains skin-friendly ingredients like avocado oil, shea butter, Hyaluronic Filling Spheres, rosehip seed oil and vitamins A, E and C.
According to Urban Decay, these are also supposed to dramatically improve the appearance of lip lines and wrinkles, lip volume and hydration, to which I say…OK.
My lips have been flaky and dry lately (it has a lot to do with the heater being on 24/7), but they do feel a little better when I wear these. My lips also feel refreshed, as the formula faintly tastes and smells like mint (just a little; it’s not obnoxious).
There are nine shades in the release, all of them wearable nudes, bronzes and pinks.
I suspect that a few of the lighter nudes, like Walk of Shame, Nooner and Naked, will look quite alike on very pigmented lips, but that’s where the sheer brights — Lovechild, Liar and Streak (my faves) — come in.
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Whoa, boy. I am a sleep-sheepy today…but that wasn’t going to stop me from playing naked.
I mean playing with naked — Urban Decay Naked3.
Just a few shots of the look I’m wearing. I think it’s a little more wearable and daytime-friendly than the look I did on Monday.
I also incorporated some colors from the Naked and Naked2 palettes, just to see how well they’d work with Naked3’s rosy gold.
I think it went well.
Quick breakdown of what I used!
On my eyes I’m wearing…
On my cheeks and lips that’s…
So, what goes well with Naked? I mean…other than fun?
How about two new never-before-seen Nail Colors from Urban Decay?
UD says both of these new shades are going to be extremely limited edition. I’m just sayin’…
Inspired by the Naked3 shade of the same name, smoky greige (yes, greige) Blackheart is loaded with red and multicolored shimmer, while smoky green Zodiac, which UD calls the “sultry little lovechild” of Moondust Eyeshadow, is infused with gold, green and blue 3-D micro-glitter.
What do ya think? Do they make you want to throw off your clothes and run around naked? Or, stay fully clothed and go get Naked? Or none of the above?
And that’s not all. Naked3 also gets some new pencils….
Each one comes with two liner shades inspired by one of the Naked palettes. Three of the eight shades in the lineup are UD bestsellers, but the other five are completely new.
“When we first introduced our original Naked palette, we created a Double-Ended Eye Pencil to go with it. Eventually, we loaded the palette with a brush instead, but people BEGGED us to sell the pencil on its own. It’s been so popular that we’re launching that original duo (Zero/Whiskey) as a regular part of our line AND adding three new color combos — one for each of our other Naked palettes.”
— Urban Decay
The new Naked 24/7 Glide-On Double-Ended Eye Pencils and Nail Colors are coming soon to Sephora, ULTA and select Macy’s stores, and online to sephora.com, ulta.com, macys.com, beauty.com and urbandecay.com.
And then there were three…
Thrice as naked.
More naked than you’ve ever been before! (Well…)
Able to leap tall buildings in a single bound! No, not really. But it is the third coming of Urban Decay’s famous Naked palette, appropriately named Naked3 ($54).
First impressions: WOW! I have been literally champing at the bit to see this palette in person, and so far I have not been disappointed by it.
The 12 all-new neutrals, all of which have rose tones, come in UD’s typically soft, easy-to-blend formula (and matte, pearl and glimmering metallic finishes). Sure, that means there’s some fallout, but on the flip-side, the shadows are ridiculously easy to blend, and if you do your eyes first, clean up, and continue with your face makeup, it’s all good.
I think the colors are definitely different enough from the shades in the O.G. Naked palettes (one and two) to make this one worth considering.
Many of the shades have a purplish taupe tint to them, at least on my skin, which I like. I think they’ll go well with purple smokey eyes and other purple looks. I have a strong suspicion they’ll also complement bronze and gold shadows nicely.
For the most part, I think these are neutral enough to work well on cool and warm skin tones, but if you’re on the far warm end of that spectrum, you may want to work in your own mattes for transition colors, because some of these shades, like Nooner and Limit — those might be a tad too cool-toned.
I’m really jazzed about the colors on the far right, the darker colors. Those are gonna be a blast to play with in smokey eyes.
Of course, I still love black, brown and purple smokey looks, but I really like the idea of becoming a part-time rose gold smokey eye aficionado.
