I’m digging through my older palettes now, so you’re getting one from mid-2015 today: the Too Faced Love palette!
Too Faced Love
Released amid not much fanfare, the Too Faced Love palette was one that left me wanting more. Overall the shadows are flaky/shimmery and it’s just really not an enjoyable palette to use. I’m swatching this just for the sake of working through all of my palettes, but it was a limited edition item that can only be found now (on sale) on Too Faced‘s own web site. It’s almost unnecessary to say at this point, but Too Faced has come a long way since this palette so I would not look at these swatches and be like “ugh – what a terrible brand”.
In 2016, for some unknown reason, Urban Decay discontinued their rather large (and relatively NEW) Revolution lipsticks. It was a weird move since the lipstick range really wasn’t all that old (circa 2013) and yet it was completely wiped out with Urban Decay‘s Vice Lipstick launch.
Urban Decay Vice Lipsticks
The Vice lipstick launch was ENORMOUS. UD unleashed 100 shades of lipstick onto the unsuspecting beauty community and it caused a bit of uproar. There were people who loved the Revolution formula and were pisssssed that that formula was now gone. However, beauty junkies know how to find excitement in turmoil, and with 100 shades of lipstick to choose from, how could you NOT be excited?!
Urban Decay Vice Lipsticks
But for me, when the UD Vice launch happened, it was so overwhelming I personally just went “NOPE!” and never looked at them again. I now know how some newcomers to makeup feel when they walk into Sephora for the first time – where do you even BEGIN?
Thankfully, UD got me started gently. I went to their Square One launch party in Mississauga, (there’s a vlog of it here if you’re interested!) and in their swag bag for the event were two lipsticks. I subsequently ordered a third with a PR gift card for Beauty Boutique online (which I highly recommend by the way) because I wanted to pick a colour that was very ME.
Urban Decay Vice Lipsticks
The UD event furnished me with Jawbreaker (a mega matte) and Ex-Girlfriend (sheer shimmer). I chose Tryst (cream) because that colour is everything I ever lust for in a lipstick.
Urban Decay Vice Lipsticks in Jawbreaker, Tryst and Ex-Girlfriend – swatches
Swatched up, you can definitely see the variety in the finishes. The Mega Matte, Jawbreaker, can only be described as “matte AF”, the Cream Tryst was, aptly, very creamy, and the Sheer Shimmer Ex-Girlfriend was all sheer gloss with zero shimmer.
Wearing Urban Decay – Jawbreaker
The first shade I tried was Jawbreaker, and sadly, I was not a fan. It was difficult and stiff to apply. I could only keep it on my lips about 15 minutes before I said “enough” and took it off . It pilled along my lip line, gathered in the corners of my mouth… not a win for me.
Wearing Urban Decay – Tryst
However, Tryst was an absolute freaking winner! It’s a cream, but there’s less slip to it than most cream formulas out there (this makes me happy as I prefer a tackier cream finish as opposed to a slippery one). It feels like the more comfortable mattes that are on the market right now – highly pigmented, easy to apply and just overall completely beautiful. This was one of the more comfortable formulas of lipstick I’ve worn on my lips as of late.
Wearing Urban Decay – Ex-Girlfriend
Ex-Girlfriend is beautiful and even more comfortable to wear that Tryst. It’s a very faint “my lips but better” shade, but don’t expect it to last an exceptionally long on your lips simply because of it sheer, high shine finish. The bullet is also very soft and within the first use I was already cramming the back of the lipstick bullet against the back of the tube. I like this one for easy application on the go. It’s an easy to wear shade that I dare say will match anything else you could possibly put on your face.
Final Thoughts
There’s no denying how daunting 100 shades of lipstick can be! I mean really, go to the Sephora site and tell me that that wall of lipstick doesn’t make you go “holy crap”. However, for those looking for variety, you really don’t need to look any further. Although I tried out three different finishes, UD does offer even more as well (such as Comfort Matte, Sheer, Metallic, Shimmer and High Shine) which will help you figure out what kind of shade to go for if you know what kind of finish you like.
For me, the Mega Matte wasn’t worth my time, but the Cream and Sheer Shimmer finishes were downright delightful. Tryst is an astonishingly pretty shade – the kind that makes me SUPER FREAKING HAPPY to wear it. Ex-Girlfriend is also a winner because it’s 100% failsafe on me. I’m really happy with how they wear too – comfortable and zero issues with odd fading, etc.
Smashbox recently unleashed their Cover Shot palettes onto the unsuspecting makeup community! Created in collaboration with Shay Mitchell (you may know her from her Pretty Little Liars fame), there are seven palettes that cover a wide range of colours. I opted for the most brightly coloured option (Cover Shot: Bold) as it definitely appealed to me the most!
Smashbox Cover Shot: Bold
The Cover Shot palettes come with 8 colours and are on the smaller side for a palette as it contains a total of 6.2 grams of product. You can comfortably hold the entire palette in your hand! With a $29 USD/$35 CAD price tag though… I can say that I am REALLY happy to see Smashbox doing something like this. Smaller palettes for a far more reasonable price point, when all the other behemoth brands seem to be releasing enormous palettes that are $60+?? That’s incredible!
Stock is currently going in and out with these palettes, but when they’re available, you can get them on sephora.com or $29 USD or on sephora.ca for $35 CAD.
The product featured in this post was picked out by me with a gift card that was provided by PR.
I know a lot of people are super excited to get their hands on the relaunch of the Too FacedSweet Peach palette, so I thought I’d do a round up of all the old posts/videos I have that focuses on that palette. I hope you enjoy this palette as much as I did!
Sweet Peach Challenge Week
If you got this palette, you may be looking for different ways to wear it. Check out my five looks using this palette right here.
Sweet Peach Makeup Tutorial
I did one of my Challenge Week looks as a full on video tutorial which you can see over on my channel:
