Fall 2012: Urban Decay.

This fall, Urban Decay is expanding their product line with some new additions to the ever so popular Naked line, a beautiful new palette, and some new primers. Take a look at what's new!

Smoked Palette - $49.00

This new Smoked Eyeshadow Palette flaunts 10 smoky shadows including gorgeous hues of green, blue and purple in addition to the classic greys and browns. Not only do you get the gorgeous palette, but there is a full-size 24/7 Glide-On Eye Pencil in Perversion, a Deluxe Travel-Size Eyeshadow Primer Potion to make sure your shadow stays in place all day, and the essential 29-page, step-by-step, how-to ‘get the look’ book. A smoky eye is easy with everything here.

I am addicted to this palette and am making beautiful smokey eye looks with it almost every day.  I reviewed this one back in August, so be sure to go back and read up on my thoughts.

Urban Decay Smoked Palette

Naked Skin Weightless Ultra Definition Liquid Makeup - $38.00
The ultimate in ultra definition, with a no makeup yet perfected look, this buildable liquid foundation provides medium to full coverage with an amazing, weightless texture and customized finish.

I’ve been using the Naked Skin foundation and will bring you a complete review later today.

Urban Decay Naked Foundation

Optical Blurring Brush - $24.00
This brush was made specifically to use in applying the new Naked foundation. It helps brush the foundation on with ease, giving skin a blurred, airbrushed beautiful look. The brush creates the look of complexion perfection by diminishing fine lines, pores, and other areas makeup tends to settle in. Like the rest of the Good Karma Brush collection, the super-soft synthetic brush hair of the Optical Blurring Brush is made from recycled PET bottles, while its sleek gunmetal handle is fashioned from recycled aluminum.

If you want the Naked foundation, you need this brush too.  After applying the foundation with my fingers, traditional foundation brush and with my favorite makeup sponge, nothing compares to the look I get when using this Blurring Brush.

Urban Decay Optical Blurring Blush

Pore Perfecting Complexion Primer Potion - $31.00
Urban Decay presents a new Pore Perfecting Complexion Primer Potion in a new stream-lined package. This one is perfect for oilier skin types, but works well on dry skin too. This primer preps the skin and perfects it as it minimizes the appearance of pores and fine lines by creating an optical veil of scattered light. It evens out the skin tone and leaves skin with a perfect, airbrushed finish. This primer is now more light weight and slightly nude tinted, but still dries down to a sheer, soft-focus finish.

I apply the primer after my moisturizer and before foundation to perfect and prep my skin for makeup. Not only does this make my makeup look better,  it helps to make it last all day long. While I like this primer, I recommend it for anyone under 40. I love the new one below even more, as it was made for more mature skin.

Urban Decay Pore Perfecting Complexion Primer

Brightening and Tightening Complexion Primer Potion - $31.00
For those like me who lust after naturally younger looking and more radiant skin, Urban Decay presents Brightening and Tightening Complexion Primer Potion in a new stream-lined package. The state-of-the-art formula comes infused with Hyaluronic Acid Filling Spheres to boost collagen, hydrate and smooth, swelling and blowing out lines and imperfections. Peptides also work to lift and firm, reducing the appearance of wrinkles. This primer is ideal for all skin types: dry, oily, sensitive, combination, skin lacking radiance, and mature skin in need of a youthful glow.

Like I said, I love this primer. I apply the primer after my moisturizer and before foundation to perfect and prep my skin for makeup. It plumps up my fine lines making them less noticeable. It provides a finish in which helps to make application of makeup easier, it makes it look overall better, while helping make it look beautiful all day.

Urban Decay Brightening and Tightening Complexion Primer Potion

Super-Saturated High Gloss Lip Color in Naked - $19.00
For the ultimate natural lip look, this Naked Super-Saturated High Gloss Lip Color will leaves lips subtly shades, super soft and sexy. You can line, color and gloss in one long-lasting step.

I love the pigmented and shiny color I get when wearing this. It makes for the ultimate nude lip, making my lips look like themselves, with just a hint of a neutral pinky nude color, with lot’s of lasting shine. Every time I wear it, I am completely in awe that the beautiful look I get comes from a pencil.

Lip Junkie Lip Gloss - $19.00

In three new Naked shades, these lip glosses are super sexy and leave lips with a beautiful glossy pout. The luxe, mint-flavored, cooling formula laced with Maxi Lip™ (a key ingredient that moisturizes and plumps), actually plumps lips an average of 40% when used daily for a month.

  • Naked2 – sheer, light nude/beige
  • Streak – sheer, light peachy nude 
  • Strip – opaque, mauve/nude

I wear nude lips 80% of the time, so I am adding these to my arsenal of nude shades. It’s easy to love them all, by just picking the intensity and tone of the nude lip I am after.



Urban Decay Lip Junkie Lip Gloss

Look for all of these new Urban Decay fall products right now at Sephora, ULTA, select Macy’s, Beauty.com and UrbanDecay.com.

The Urban Decay Friends & Family sale starts Tuesday October 9th and goes until Saturday October 13th. Shop with the code: FFHOLIDAY12 at checkout to get 20% off your total purchase.

Fall 2012: Stila Cosmetics.

Stila recently launched some new products as part of their fall collection. Not only did they launch new products, they branded a new tagline, "Makeup your own rules". Have you seen the new ads?

Stila Cosmetics Makeup Your Own Rules

The product news for Stila this fall is that they have expanded their best-selling Stay All Day franchise. The line-up now now includes a Foundation & Concealer duo that is said to last all day, plus new shades in Stay All Day Liquid Lipstick and Stay All Day Liquid Eyeliner. 

The Stay All Day Foundation and Concealer comes in 16 shades to help a variety of skin tones. I just got my hands on one and am taking it for a test. Look for my review and photos of this new foundation and concealer later today.

Stila Stay All Day Foundation and Concealer

Take a look at the rest of the Stila fall 2012 products:

Stay All Day Liquid Lipstick – $22 (Sephora Exclusive)
This creamy, full-coverage lip color delivers intense moisture with bold, long-lasting pigment to stay in place for up to six hours of continuous wear. The comfortable texture feels weightless on lips and its color-rich formula will not bleed or transfer. Enriched with Vitamin E and avocado oil, Stay All Day Liquid Lipstick hydrates and softens lips so they look and feel beautiful. Available in 10 shades.

Stila Stay All Day Liquid Lipstick

Stay All Day Waterproof Liquid Eye Liner in Snow – $20
Seen on the runways at Fashion Week, this stunning matte white shade of Stila’s cult-favorite liquid liner creates a bright-eyed stare. The easy-glide, quick-dry precision liner stays in place all day – no smudges, feathering, or running. The thin, marker-like tip is easy to use, even for the beauty beginner. From a thin line to a bold, dramatic stroke, it goes on smoothly without skipping, smudging, or pulling, and stays in place until you say when.

Stila Stay All Day Waterproof Liquid Eye Liner in Snow

In the Know Eye Shadow Palette – $39
Stila’s original matte eye shadows are back in this beautiful collection of 10 universally-flattering shades that can be worn wet or dry. Create endless earth-inspired looks with the help of an 8-page lookbook featuring how-to tips and tricks from Stila Global Creative Director Sarah Lucero. Each palette also comes with an exclusive shade of Smudge Stick Waterproof Eye Liner in Halfmoon – a matte charcoal gray.

Stila In the Know Eye Shadow Palette

Smudge Stick Waterproof Eye Liner in Empress – $20
Beloved for its ability to deliver intense color and subtle sparkle with serious staying power, Smudge Stick Waterproof Eye Liner is now available in a new trend shade for fall – a striking white with sophisticated shimmer. Formulated with a blend of pearls, the long-wearing formula is waterproof, transfer-proof and fade-proof. Soft, smooth and even on the eyes, it can be applied to both the upper and lower lash lines.

Stila Smudge Stick Waterproof Eye Liner in Empress

Lip Glaze Trios in Foliage and Harvest – $12 each
Inspired by the change of seasons and vibrant autumn colors, these Lip Glaze Trios each contain three of Stila’s most popular lip gloss. The gorgeous hues will add a splash of color and glossy shine to lips with one click of the iconic pen.

Stila Lip Glaze Trios in Foliage and Harvest

Shop for these new fall beauties right now at stilacosmetics.com and at Sephora.

Fall 2012: M·A·C Face and Body.

One of my very first M·A·C foundations was Face and Body Foundation. I love the light and liquid texture.  I could never wear it one it's own, because I need more coverage than that. But, I would use that and then Studio Fix Powder over it and my face was perfect. Anyway, it is a wonderful water based formula that is one of the best I have ever used. M·A·C actually has an entire line up of shades just for beautifying, contouring and perfecting the face; it is the new and updated Face and Body.

The collection includes the Face and Body Foundation shades, four new Pro Sculpting Creams and how exciting is this, Pressed Pigments!

Three formulas: Face and Body Foundation’s water-based, anti-oxidant-rich liquid goes on smoothly for up to 8 hours of natural-looking wear. Pro Sculpting Cream, in two original and four new limited-edition shades, creates dimension and definition using natural tones. Lightweight, soothing and vitamin-rich. New Pressed Pigment in six, limited-edition, pearlescent shades are creamy and highly concentrated. Apply dry for a subtle and sophisticated translucent finish or wet for high-shine, dramatic dimension.

M·A·C Face and Body

Face and Body Foundtion - $27.00
C1, C2, C3, C4, C5, C6, C7, N1, N2, N3, N5, N7, N9

Brushes

  • 215 - Medium Shader - $25.00
  • 163 Flat Contour  - $35.00

Pressed Pigment - $21.00

  • Light Touch - High pearl powder in W10
  • Warming Heart - High pearl powder in NW20
  • Day Gleam - High pearl powder in NC30
  • Spot Lit - High pearl powder in NW35
  • Beaming - High pearl powder in NC50
  • Deeply Dashing -  High pearl powder in NW55

Pro Sculpting Cream - $20.00

  • Accentuate - Peachy beige
  • Naturally Defined - Warm beige
  • Pure Sculpture - Neutral pink beige
  • Copper Beech - Warm golden brown
  • Coffee Walnut - Deep dirty, cool brown
  • Richly Honed - Warm deep brown

The Pressed Pigments are beautiful for highlighting the skin. I use Day Gleam, which is NC 30; my perfect foundation shade color.

 

MAC Pressed Pigment Day GleamMAC Pressed Pigment Day Gleam

I like to apply this with my index finger and do some quick and swift blending. I apply it right beneath my brow bone and then on the very tops of my cheekbones, like I would any highlighter. It starts off very sparkly, but looks beautiful and actually more subtle than one would think after my face is totally blended.

The shade Spot Lit is also beautiful, in a warmer, more pink tone.

MAC Pressed Pigment Spot LitMAC Pressed Pigment Spot Lit

All of the new Face and Body products are available right now at all M·A·C locations and online at maccosmetics.com