Posts Tagged ‘urban decay naked palette’
MAC Fabulous Felines Collection Haul
So here is what I got…I didn’t play with any of these products at all yet so I’m not sure if I’m going to keep everything. I’m having dreams about Estee Lauder and Chanel every night nowaday. Anyway, to my goodies!
Urban Decay Naked Palette Review & Swatches
I know that a lot of you own this Naked palette, have seen the swatches and whatever else, but I wanted to post this to my blog because I really love this palette. I’ve only owned it for almost one full day and I adore it.
All of the shadows are soft, are easy to work with, the color range is sweet for creating neutral and smokey looks, the palette is sleek, long (about 7 3/4 inches long), light weight, has a small mirror inside, the lid is magnetized so when you close it it is secure to not open (throw it in your bag) and comes with a double ended 24/7 eyeliner pencil…Zero and Whiskey. It also comes with a sample size Eyeshadow Primer Potion.
As far as the 24/7 eyeliner pencil in Whiskey goes, it is a great brown liner and it actually covers my water line and shows as a brown liner. I own MAC eye pencil in Costa Riche and it’s terrible…not sure why. It should go in better, but anyway, Whiskey is the bomb ya’ll!
You get 12 eyeshadow colors and they are all gorgeous. I think this is a palette I’m always going to take on vacations with me. The packaging is sturdy and strong. The feel of it is like velvet, but it’s not. This product is just all the way around a hit from Urban Decay and I am so happy to have it. I paid $44.00 for it and Sephora just sent an email saying that’s it back on the website for sale. This palette is permanent so you don’t need to run out and get it…but I heard that it sells out and that they have to reorder quite frequently.
Here are the pictures and swatches! Enjoy!
24/7 Eye Liner Pencil in Whiskey and Zero swatches…
From left to right these are the first 6 eyeshadows in the palette and swatches…
And just a side note, nothing serious, but why didn’t they make the eyeshadow guide in the back flat because I save them. I’m getting ready to put the ends off, but still…here is a pic of what I’m talking about in comparison to my other Urban Decay eyeshadow key guides:
That’s all…
An Overdue Sephora Haul
I ended up at Sephora yesterday after work because that damned Urban Decay Naked palette has been on my mind the past few days. I really wanted to hate this palette because I really don’t need anymore eyeshadows at this point – just put in my order for MAC Dare to Wear – I have 5 new eyeshadows on the way.
There are lots and lots of reviews on Youtube regarding the product and a lot of them were from women of color which I rarely see on Youtube when it comes to Urban Decay…across the board so that’s what sucked me in. Anyhow, I ended up picking up more than just that palette. Take a look!
OK so I picked up an Urban Decay Primer Potion in Sin (loving it!) $18.00 and I’m going to post my review about my Naked palette ($44.00) in another post so here we go with everything else I got…
Another eye lash curler because I needed one so why not go Shu Uemura this time around? So I got one for $19.00.
When I saw this eyeshadow in my promo email from NARS I knew I had to have it. It’s called Daphne ($23.00). It looks like a beauty in the pan, a mess on my hand swatched out and I have yet to put it on my eyes so I’ll let you guys know how it goes in a new post. It looks like a hot purple with some royal blue undertones in it…very pretty looking. There is a swatch located all the way at the bottom of this post for this shadow on NC45/NC50 & NW45 skin.
I have been pondering about this next product for a very long time and it’s been on wantages list for a long time as well because I was NOT about to pay $42.00 for some facial cream. It is called Laura Mercier Oil-Free Tinted Moisturizer and I got it in Mocha (the darkest color – great that it matches my skin tone because it is the only “dark” color in the line). Well what had happened was (lol) I got angry with liquid and cream foundations this summer because it’s just too heavy for to be wearing out in this heat. I went for the gusto and bought it. I figure that if I don’t like it I can just return it.
Today is my first time wearing it. Alone, I can get light to medium coverage from it, it moisturized my face (it was very dry this morning because I didn’t moisturize), it didn’t feel like I had anything on my face because well it’s not a foundation, but it does cover.
I went over it with some concealer under my eyes and around my nose and yes, I set it (was I supposed to do that?) with a very light coat of MAC Mineralized Skinfinish Natural on top. It looked beautiful afterwards (9:30am) and I’m looking in a mirror now and I’m just a little oily, but not massively as I would have been with MUFE Mat Velvet by now. It is now 3:45pm. I still have some more testing to do so I’m going to say if I like it or not just yet, but I think I’m going to. Off to go blot!
Swatches!
