Best Bronzer: Urban Decay Baked Bronzer.

Urban Decay bronzers are of the baked variety, appropriately called Baked Bronzers.

Baked means that these powders are baked in terra-cotta pans until they achieve the perfect consistency. This one has a beautiful feel to it. It is super silky soft and blends onto skin with no streaking of pulling.  All that you get is a pretty, sunny glow. Just what I expect from a bronzer.

Baked Bronzers come in three shades; Baked, Gilded and Toasted.

This shade is Gilded, which is very golden bronze with shimmer, along with gold strewn into the formula. The result is sexy, and I love using it on my shoulders and chest for that extra special sheen.

Urban Decay Baked Bronzers sell for $26.00 each and can be purchased at Urban Decay and Sephora.

Calling Urban Decay Makeup Junkies.

If you are an Urban Decay makeup junkie you will want to listen up. Next Saturday, August 20th, Urban Decay is celebrating the holidays a little early this year, and Sephora’s got the scoop first… What exactly does that mean? That means that New Yorkers will have the very first chance at scoring this years star holiday product, the Urban Decay Book of Shadows IV.

Eric Jimenez, Worldwide Retail Sales Director & International Make-Up Artist is conducting makeovers and also introducing the highly coveted Book of Shadows Volume IV for an exclusive sneak peek before its holiday 2011 launch. A limited quantity of this ultra-luxe collection palette will be available for purchase ONLY at the Sephora Times Square location (1500 Broadway, NY, NY) store on August 20, 2011, from 1 - 7PM, on a first come first served basis.

You will have the opportunity to sit down for a makeover consultation with Eric and his team of artists, get an inside look at Urban Decay’s newest fall launches, learn a few artist tips and of course, have the chance to pick up the eyeshadow set before anyone else.

Check out what is included in the Book of Shadows Volume IV - $64.00:

• Pull-out drawer showcasing 16 phenomenal shadows (10 of which are brand-new, exclusive to this collection)
• Full-sized version of their new 24/7 Waterproof Liquid Eyeliner in Perversion (blackest black)
• Travel-sized Supercurl Curling Mascara
• Travel-sized Eyeshadow Primer Potion
• Mirror
• Smart-phone-ready ‘Get the Look’ tutorials
• Pocket-sized speaker allowing you to get your beauty on to your favorite beats

SPF Yourself: Urban Decay Urban Defense Tinted Moisturizer SPF 20.

SPF Yourself is a series of posts featuring products that contain a sunscreen, or SPF, in them. Not only sunscreens, but body lotions, facial moisturizers, eye creams, foundations, tinted moisturizers, bronzers, hair care and more will be featured. Only the best in beauty with SPF!

Have you found a favorite tinted moisturizer this summer yet? I don't think I have used a "real" foundation" since May, as tinted moisturizers are my bff when it is hot out, and I need less coverage because of all the self-tanning I do. One of the latest I have tired is this from Urban Decay.

Called Urban Defense, this tinted moisturizer offers light coverage with the much needed SPF 20. The moisturizer is light, doesn't feel like it would clog your pores, and like I said, offers a nice, sheer natural coverage to the skin.

I tested the shade Halo, which was a bit too light for my self tanned skin, but it did even it out a bit. With a bit of bronzer I was good to go for the day.

Urban Defense comes in four shades: Halo, Bodyguard, Bulletproof and Forcefield. They look like they would really cover a variety of skin tones with these shades.

Check out Urban Defense online at urbandecay.com or shop Beauty.com or inside Sephora to find the shade that compliments your skin best. The tube retails for $30.00