Urban Decay Love

I have a hardcore love for Urban Decay. Their 24/7 eyeliner was the first eyeliner I ever bought. I used to buy their glitter eye gel in college that they don't make anymore. I wear their naked palette 3 every day to work. And their mascara makes it look like I have eyelashes.

Anyhow, I've been stocking up on their products lately thanks to amazing black Friday/cyber Monday deals and such.

I bought about three new eyeliner colors. 

from l to r: Junkie, LSD, and Delinquent.

 Here's a different view of the products.

I've been into "wilder" makeup colors lately. I tend to wear enough neutral colors during the school week so that I don't look dead, but when it comes to being social or whatever, I like to add a hint of color to my usual boring look.

Junkie is a greenish silver glittery color. I've always liked green eyeliner. I think it's because I have blue eyes, and green tends to bring out a lot of the blue in my eyes.

LSD is a bright turquoise glitter.

Delinquent is a purple glitter.

My eyeliner collection had severely lacked in the glitter department.

I really like all these colors, and I'm quite happy with the purchase.

A few weeks ago I went to Sephora, and I've been saving my Sephora points for years because there's never been a product I felt like cashing them in for until I saw this.

It was a palette that had an eyeliner and four eyeshadow colors. [for the record, the pinkish and black color did not come like that, this was after I had used it when I snapped this picture]. 

From l to r: skimp, bust, guilt, and oil slick.

I was OBSESSED with oil slick eyeliner for the longest time. It's a black color with silver glitter. The eyeshadow is the same color as the eyeliner. It's one of my favorite colors.

Skimp is very light and very neutral. It's a nice highlighting color or a good base color.

Bust is a little bit darker then skimp, but not by much. It's more brown. It's also a good base or highlighting color. 

Guilt  is a very pretty light pink. I really like the way it looks when it's blended with other colors.

The eyeliner is zero, which is the first black eyeliner I think I ever bought.

On Black Friday, the ammo palette was ten dollars, so of course I had to buy it, especially with free-shipping. 

 

 Top row from l to r: smog, mildew, oil slick, last call, chopper.

Bottom row from l to r: Maui wowie, shattered, polyester bride, grifter, and sin.

The best pic I could get of swatches. 

Smog is sort of a burnt orange color that's a bit more brown than orange. 

Mildew is an olive green color.

Oil Slick is black with silver glitter.

Last Call is sort of a light magenta color. 

Chopper is a nice neutral brown with a nice shimmer. 

Maui wowie is also a nice neutral brown, but it's sort of a cooler color than chopper with more gold than brown.

Shattered is a pale icy blue. 

Polyester Bride is a white eyeshadow color. I used to be OBSESSED with white eyeshadow in college, I'm sort of glad to have a white color again, it was really good to make me look awake. 

Grifter is a pinkish purple color.

Sin is a neutral shimmery brown, as well, though more taupe than anything. 

 

I'm very happy with this palette, it's a nice mixture of brights and neutrals and the price was amazing :)

 

Urban Decay= Love. 

Ipsy: April 2014

It's Ipsy time again.

Ipsy is a mere ten dollars a month, and for that ten dollars a month, you get 4-5 products per month, sometime full-size products, other times decent sample sizes to use for your own makeup and beauty enjoyment. 

If you actually spend time reviewing your Ipsy products, you can get points, and when you get enough points, you can use those points to get free items. 

This month's theme was "Beauty Rocks", a theme I high approve of, due to my love for music. Personally, I thought the bag was cute, I like the record on it, and it didn't smell like a warehouse full of swimming pool toys like last month's bag did. 

Moving on to the products:

This product made me squeal in delight. I LOVE ME SOME URBAN DECAY 24/7 EYELINER! I own at least twenty different 24/7 eyeliner pencils. Eyeliner is my biggest addiction, and 24/7 is my go-to brand. 

My color was "black velvet." It's a generous sample size, worth about $10.00.

This is it next to my normal sized eyeliner pencil in Invasion, so see, the sample size is about 1/2 of the full-size, and the full-size is $20.00, so that's why I'm valuing the sample at $10.00, there's the value of my whole bag right there.

Kiss "Looks So Natural" lashes in Shy, worth $2.00. Meh. I'll never wear false lashes. They're not my thing, at all.

Cover FX Primer, worth $19.00. I got that value because full size is 1 oz, and this is 0.5 oz, and full size costs $38.00, which makes this size worth half of full-size. I love division.

I don't really use primer, mainly because I don't wear makeup on my face other than eye makeup because I have very sensitive skin. But I do like that this advertises itself as an anti-acne treatment. 

City Color mousse eyeshadow in white-gold, worth about $2.00, based on other products on their horrible website.

 I do really like the color. You can't really see it in the swatch, but it's a very nice white color with a gold shimmer, and it'll make a nice base color, or highlight color.

Cailyn Tinted Lip Balm in Apple Pink, worth full-size, worth $19.00. 

Not a huge lip color fan, but if I was going to wear lip color I do like this color. It has a nice tint, yet it also sort of looks like a more natural color than other colors. 

Total Value: $52.00

Bipolar Kitty approves.

Honestly, I was very happy with this month's Ipsy bag. I had a product that I'll definitely use [yay black eyeliner], and some products that I may use depending on circumstances. The only thing I really didn't like was the eyelashes. 

Definitely one of my best valued bags since I've joined Ipsy.

So, for ten dollars a month, and if you like the aspect of surprise, Ipsy might be the subscription for you :)

Julep: January 2014, the boudoir collection

Julep's speedy shipping always astounds me. Technically, this was the LAST box of 2013 because it arrived on New Year's Eve, but the apartment office was closed, so I couldn't pick it up till today. But I always get their boxes early, like before the month they're meant to be for starts.

Anyways, HAPPY 2014, I hope everyone has an awesome 2014, and it brings everyone lots of happiness and good things. As for me, I'm just hoping 2014 is better than 2013 was. 2013 wasn't bad, but it wasn't the best year for me either,  so hopefully 2014 can kick it's ass.

2014 also means about one year till my wedding!!!


I'm sad that break is almost over. I'm not sure I'm ready to go back to school. My first graders matured a lot after Christmas break, last year, which was great, here's hoping that Pre-K students do the same.

Mostly over break, I've done this:

Caught 9 different Eevees, so I can have every single Eeveelotion in my current Pokemon X game, which I just got on NYE, and I think I've already played it for 50 hours straight!

 

I will be very sad, when my video-game time is cut in half once the school year starts. 

But anyhow, onto the box:

This month, I didn't really do any upgrade. I wasn't impressed with any of the polish colors, really, and I was just like "meh" but didn't want to skip a month because I want my joules.

For those of you, who are new to Julep: It's a nailpolish subscription site, where for about 20 dollars a month, they send you a variety of nailpolish and makeup/beauty products. There are different profiles, your profile gets picked based on a quiz you take, but you're not stuck being that profile forever, at any month, you can change to any of the other boxes [or upgrade to the full collection] of you like what they get better.

 

I'm "classic with a twist", which means I get two nailpolish colors and one beauty product every single month. I've been a member of Julep since March 2013. 

 

As a Julep Maven, you do get some pretty awesome sales, and they have some pretty nifty mystery boxes, and they do have a variety of nailpolish colors and makeup products to choose from that are usually highly discounted during their sales, which are usually monthly sales. There's usually one mystery box sale per month, as well. 

 

If you're interested, you can click my referral link here

 

This is the inside of the box, and let's hope Julep is right and 2014 will be my year.

 

January is the "boudoir collection," which promises fancy finishes & top drawer products.

In the box I found the following:

Orange Sponges, which I assume are this month's extra. Not sure what I'm going to do with them, but hey, they were free.

This is Julep's TADA! Quick Dry Drops. The directions state to wait one minute after your final coat of polish, then apply 1-2 drops per nail. The liquid smells good, sort of lemony and flowery. I'm interested to these drops. I always look for speedy ways to dry my nails, and I usually opt for sticking my hands in the freezer for two minutes, this seems slightly easier, and less colder, although the freezer method does work extremely well for me. I shall try these next time I paint my nails.

My two monthly colors: Mona & Abigale. 

Mona is a dark bluish gray color. It reminds me of cumulonimbus clouds on a stormy day/night.

Abigale promises a silky finish. I shall let you know what that means after I try it. It's a light pearly pink color with a nice shimmer. 

Overall, I like these two colors. They will get worn eventually. I don't think they're my overall favorite colors ever, but they are nice, and they won't just collect dust, in a corner. 

The other day, I painted my nails with Nellie, which was an It Girl color that I received in my Naughty & Nice mystery box that I ordered back in December. It's very much a neon fuchsia color, in my opinion. It goes on very nicely. This is only one coat of polish. I very much like how it looks, and it's barely chipped, and I've had it on my nails for about three days, already.

I've also been playing with Naked 3 by Urban Decay. This is a look I did the other day. The eyeliner was sort of a dark turquoise color, it was Zeppelin, which is a 24/7 eyeliner crayon from Urban Decay. I used the white shimmer eyeshadow that I got from my Ipsy Pop Beauty Smokey Trio bag back in December, and I used the colors: Mugshot and Darkside from the Naked 3 palette, and it gave my eyes a nice silvery gray sheen. And the Golden Rose Sexy Black Mascara that I got from my December Wantable box is amazing. It makes me look like I have eyelashes, and it's really easy to apply on my bottom lashes, which up until I got that makeup had always been a challenge for me. 

My birchbox has recently been sent in the mail, so I'm sure that will be arriving soon, as it arrives pretty early in the month. Upcoming boxes are Ipsy, Wantable, some eyeshadow I ordered from Shiro Cosmetics, and Nerd Block, which I just started ordering this month. 

Anyhow back to The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey

 

Naked 3

First of all, I'm not sure if anyone actually reads this since I never get comments, which is fine :P But in the case that anyone DOES read this, I hope you've had a wonderful Christmas/Hannukah/Kwanzaa.

Happy Holidays from Tejas :)

Anyhow, before Christmas, I decided to order Urban Decay's Naked 3. Mind you, I've never ordered Naked 1 or Naked 2, so I can't really debate or list the pros and cons or comparisons of 1/2 versus 3. But I ordered 3 due to my new-found lust for nude colored eyeshadow that I can possibly wear at work [because you know, hot purple probably isn't appropriate in a prek setting], and my love for sparkles, and rose gold has a nice sparkle to it.

So here it is, Naked 3, by Urban Decay, this is the box.

This is inside of the box.

Naked 3 came with eyeshadow primer samples:

There are apparently enough of each sample for a week.

There's Original, Sin, Eden, and Anti-Aging. I haven't opened them, but original is normal, it's flesh colored primer that brings out color in eye makeup. Sin is a shimmering formula that I assume helps to keep makeup into place and add an extra shimmer? Eden is a nude matte formula. Anti-Aging apparently improves fine lines and wrinkles.

I think it's awesome that they included primer samples, but the samples are basically in a little plastic package that doesn't let you reseal it after you open it, so I'm not sure how you would keep that from drying out in a week's time. 

This is the primer I tend to use for myself, it's just normal primer. I picked up a tube of it with my order. I like it, I think it does a great job keeping my eye color in place for an extended period of time.

Anyhow...

This is the inside of the Naked 3. It has a nice sized mirror and generous amounts of each color and it also comes with a brush. From l to r: Strange, Dust, Burnout, Limit, Buzz, Trick, Nooner, Liar, Factory, Mugshot, Darkside, & Blackheart.

This is my attempt at swatches:

I have sort of a medium skintone, if it helps. 

I haven't tried to wear them yet. But my first impression of them is good. Some of the colors are a little too pale for me, but for the most part, I will wear a good amount of them, and they have just the right amount of shimmer to make a sparkle, which appeals to me. I especially like the darker end of the color spectrum, from Nooner to Blackheart because they're dark enough that they will bring the blue color out in my eye, and that they show without making a scene.

Again, I don't have 1 or 2, so I can't compare 3 to them, but I am overall satisfied with the colors, I'll have more to say, when I actually try them out, which will probably be tomorrow.

On another note, I got this eyeliner pencil in my Wantable December box. It's a Starlooks Exit to Eden pencil, and I've finally gotten around to trying it, and I have mixed feelings about it. I can't use it with primer, it doesn't show up over primer, I can't use it on my waterline at all because it doesn't show at all, so I need to wear it just as it is, and it doesn't have the best staying power. But it does look good:

Oh and Urban Decay also sent me a free sample:

It's their De Slick oil control makeup setting spray. You're supposed to spray it on your face before you wear makeup, and then after you wear makeup for lasting power. I haven't tried it yet. It sounds interesting.

On another note, Fiance begged me to buy some sort of organization system for my makeup because the cats like to knock my makeup everywhere and they make a mess, so this is my attempt at a start of makeup organization:

Yes, ignore my huge collection of Urban Decay 24/7, I'm slightly addicted to it, and I know I have a problem. It's better than my nailpolish, at least, which is currently all sitting inside a plastic box that used to be in ROY G BIV order, but is no longer :/ 

It's almost 2014, I for one, am looking forward to a new year. I have wedding planning to do [3.14.15 is the date], and lots of other stuff on the agenda. Plus, new month, means a new collection of subscription boxes to review :) 

ANYWAYS, HAPPY NEW YEARS TO ALL!!!!