Holiday 2012: Urban Decay Vice Palette.

I introduced you to the Urban Decay Vice Palette back in September when it made its debut, but it is actully one of their holiday palettes. What could be better then a palett filled with 20 brand new shades? It is a great gift to give anyone who wears makeup.

Now that I have my hands on the palette, I wanted to show it to you, up close and personal.

The shades:

• Desperation – taupe brown w/satin finish
• Muse – deep sepia brown w/multidimensional sparkle finish
• Jagged – metallic black gold w/shimmer finish
• Blitz – metallic yellow gold w/shimmer finish
• Penny Lane – metallic peachy bronze pearl w/ golden shimmer finish
• Junkie – dark green/blue pearl w/ golden shimmer
• Chaos – bright blue matte
• Occupy – metallic steel grey w/multidimensional sparkle and shimmer finish
• Unhinged – metallic electric turquoise w/ shimmer finish
• Black Market – jet black satin
• Provocateur – light metallic mauve w/multidimensional sparkle and shimmer finish
• Rapture – dark greyish purple w/multidimensional shimmer finish
• Vice – deep eggplant purple w/shimmer finish
• Noise – electric punch pink w/gold sparkle and shimmer finish
• Armor – metallic dove grey w/silver micro-glitter shimmer finish
• Nevermind – metallic cork w/shimmer finish
• Echo Beach – pale wheat w/shimmer finish
• Anonymous – opaque almond w/matte finish
• Free Bird – pink champagne w/silver microsparkle shimmer finish
• Laced – opaque pinky taupe w/matte finish

The Vice Palette retails for $59.00 and is available from Sephora, ULTA and select Macy’s stores; or online
at Sephora.com, ulta.com, macys.com, beauty.com and urbandecay.com.

Holiday 2012: Anastasia Holiday Makeup Sets.

Anastasia Beverly Hills has two holiday sets for giving (or keeping) this year. One set is focused on the eyes and one set is focused on the lips. Both are beautiful.

Want You To Want Me ($34.00) is for the eyes. It is a kit within a super lux looking klutch type of package. Inside is a removable Eye Shadow Palette with 9 neutral (meaning wearable by all), a Mini Clear Brow Gel and a Jet Black Liquid Eye Liner.

The eye shadows are long-wearing, and are velvety smooth. The palette contains both matte and shimmery shadows and can create a range of looks. An unexpected thing with Anastasia's shadows, are that they are created to be used wet or dry. You can use the same shadows dry for day, then dampen your brush and apply them wet at night. Talk about turning up the WOW, as shimmers are turned almost metallic.

The shadows:

• Platform Wedge
• Members Only
• Graphic T's
• Iron on
• Front Row Center
• Ziggy
• Brass in Pocket
• Power Ballad
• Jellies

Kisses On My List Volume 2 ($30.00) is a set of six high-shine lip glosses in beautifully natural shades.

The set includes three opalescent glosses along with three new Hypercolor Glosses that actually stain the lips as it adds a glossy finish too. They feel very cushiony on the lips.

The colors:

• Jolene
• Moi
• Maggie May
• Roxanne
• Lola
• Sharona

Shop for the Anastasia Holiday Makeup Sets online at anastasia.net or in Sephora.

Holiday 2012: M∙A∙C Guilty Passions 4 Nicely Nude Lip Gloss.

This beautiful set of four lipglosses is part of the M∙A∙C Guilty Passions set for Holiday 2012. This is the Nicely Nude Lip Gloss set.

The set comes in a miniature hat box, with a beautiful hard plastic bow on the top. I am dying over the packing in this collection. M∙A∙C has outdone themselves this year as far as design goes. Inside the box are four glosses, embossed with a bow tie on the front of the gloss tube.

The Nicely Nude Lip Gloss set includes the following glosses:

Dazzleglass - Get Rich Quick (Warm yellow brown)
Dazzleglass Creme - Satin Slip (Soft beige with gold pearl)
Cremesheen Glass - Fashion Whim (Light beige)
Cremesheen Glass - Kiss Don't Tell (Warm chocolate creme)

The set retails for $32.50. It is also available in two other color families; Cocktail Coral and Lavish Rose.

Shop at M∙A∙C counters or online at maccosmetics.com.