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Urban Decay Naked Cherry Lipsticks (Review & Swatches)
While I’m unfortunately making you wait on my Urban Decay Naked Cherry palette review (sorry! Give me another week or so!), I can still give you a review on the lipsticks that launched with that collection. Say hello to the Urban Decay Naked Cherry lipsticks! These are brand new shades from their recent launch, but in their usual Vice formula and (specialized) packaging.
With the Naked Cherry launch, Urban Decay put out three shades for “lips like cherry wine”. While I agree that it applies to one of the shades, the description is a little bit suspect for the pink and more nude shades. It must be said that Urban Decay‘s interpretation of the colour “cherry” is very, very different than mine and it’s hard to remove myself from that. When I think of cherries, I think of deep red ones, bright red ones, and heck, even white cherries. What I don’t envision is mostly pink (which is one of the problems I have with the palette). I feel like Urban Decay tried to take a cool concept (cherries) and mash it up with their Naked range and it has mostly left me feeling confused.
Moving away from my feelings on the bizarreness of the Naked Cherry idea, let’s talk more about the lipsticks in depth. Urban Decay‘s Vice range is phenomenal – smooth. creamy, colourful, comfortable and easy to wear. The three shades in this collection are metallized (Juicy & Devilish) and cream (Cherry).
- Juicy: a light peach-pink with copper micro-shimmer (I actually see pink micro-shimmer but you get the idea)
- Devilish: a berry pink with tonal micro-shimmer (I have NO idea what tonal micro-shimmer is, but I see hot pink shimmer)
- Cherry: a deep berry wine (yep, bang on!)
Juicy is definitely the most “wearable” and nude of the bunch. But don’t let my face shot fool you – this lipstick is jam packed with shimmer and glitter and it is definitely noticeable once you get a bit closer up. I found that the lipstick predominantly wore away after a few hours and I was left with only glitter on my lips. The glitter isn’t gritty, but it definitely has more staying power than the actual lipstick (I’d classify the lipstick base as semi-sheer).
Devilish (oh how I wish this was RED!) is a medium pink with similar glitter particles as Juicy. Same thing here – the lipstick disappears over time and you’re left with glitter particles left behind.
Cherry is really heckin’ pretty. It’s a cream finish, which makes me a bit nervous in a colour like this, so I always made sure to pair it with a lip primer and a lip liner to ensure no bleed out. It lasted well through a drink at an event I went to, but since it is a cream formula with quite a high shine finish, you will need to retouch it every few hours.
Final Thoughts
Look, I love Urban Decay and I think the concept of the Naked Cherry lipsticks is a nice match for the shades in their palette (and I’m a huge fan of their Vice range) but I think these lipsticks are not really up my alley. The metallized formula is just so glittery! Which is not something I really want on my lips. And I don’t love how the lipstick itself dissipates but the glitter is left behind. As for the cream formula… there’s no denying how pretty that shade is – it wore well and didn’t move around, but I am PARANOID while wearing a dark lip that is creamy with a shiny finish. If you can get over the paranoia of always checking your teeth for lipstick or don’t have to worry about lipline bleedout, then this is a good pick for you since the formula is super comfortable to wear.
I’m not saying that there’s anything wrong with these lip products, but for ME… this just isn’t something I gravitate to at all. If they took the glitter out of the metallized lipsticks and made the Cherry shade a matte then my life would have been made. Regardless of my thoughts, I hope this has helped you in some capacity. I do highly recommend the Vice lipsticks overall though – they’re unscented and super comfortable on the lips!
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Swatch Sunday: Urban Decay Naked Cherry
With the death of the original Urban Decay Naked palette (I’m being that dramatic because THEY were that dramatic!), another Naked palette popped up on the radar – say hello to Naked Cherry!
Urban Decay took the idea of cherries and built a palette around it – although at this point I really don’t think we’re looking at “naked” shades anymore!
I’ll be posting a full video review with five looks in the coming weeks, but until then, please enjoy swatches of UD‘s latest addition to their Naked range!
Urban Decay Naked Cherry Swatches
The Urban Decay Naked Cherry palette can be purchased on sephora.ca for $66 CAD or on sephora.com for $49 USD.
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VIDEO: September 2018 Favourites
Holiday Makeup Releases: The Good, The Bad & The Boring
It’s the most wonderful time of the year! For holiday makeup releases that is! September marks the start of a four month build up to Christmas as all the beauty brands launch their holiday collections. And, no different than years past, I am SUPER freaking excited for it all!
I’m going to walk you through what I’m interested in, what I think is bad, and what’s downright boring. Let’s go!
The Good
Let’s start this off with the item that I am THE most excited to get this year – the Too Faced Gingerbread Spice palette! This only got previewed about two weeks ago and it’s already launched… but only in the US so far. I’ve been trying to get my hands on it in Canada, but Sephora doesn’t yet have stock just yet (and it’s killing me). The colours are freaking stunning (although I had thought the deep fuchsia was more of a red in the original photos I saw), and it’s supposed to smell like gingerbread! I love their Gingerbread Man Melted Matte from last year, so I’m so happy they’re going down the gingerbread path and making more things in that vein. I cannot WAIT to get my hands on it! (If you’re in the US, you can already pick this up at Sephora!)
I cannot get over Too Faced‘s holiday Melted Matte releases – they make me so happy! I have Melted Candy Cane from 2016, Gingebread Man from 2017 and now I MUST own all four shades in their “The Sweet Smell of Christmas” collection. Each one smells different! Pumpkin Spice! Sugar Cookie! Cinnamon Bears! Hot Buttered Rum! I’m also happy to report that these come in mini sizes. I’m at a point in my life where I no longer need a full size lip product, so this is perfect for me! Sadly, this isn’t available in Canada just yet (again… dying over here), but if you’re in the US you can snag this sweet set for only $25 USD! (BTW, I’m taking a pass on Gingerbread Girl Melted Matte just because I don’t really need another full size lip product, and I love my Gingerbread Man from last year – which they actually re-released this year!)
Do I need these Too Faced mini palettes? Surely not. Am I going to get them? More than likely! The Tickled Peach palette hopefully smells like the original Sweet Peach scent (my favourite!), and the Sugar Cookie one? I mean… how am I supposed to resist this??
WOW! I only just saw this Laura Mercier palette come out of nowhere in the last few days and I’m intrigued. Her formula of eyeshadows is one of the best on the market, but she tends to create muted shades that fit more into the neutral side of things. When I saw this Hidden Gems palette I was blown away – there’s some legit colour in there! I’m not totally convinced I NEED it yet (and there’s potentially too much shimmer), but I’m going to see what the price is at IMATS Toronto (coming up this weekend) and/or wait till the November Sephora sale to potentially pick it up. This palette is already out at Sephora if you’re interested though!
I do NOT need more highlighters, but I find it hard to turn down BECCA highlighters in itty bitty packaging (which is a far more reasonable amount of highlighter than the enormous ones we all keep buying). This is the BECCA Mini Macarons set, and by some miracle I don’t have a single one of these shades! The four piece set comes with Opal (yes, I’m the last person to own this shade), Vanilla Quartz, Rose Quartz and Prismatic Amethyst. For once a practical set without a repeated shade (for me) – dead pleased with this one!
Whoa Bobbi – where have you been hiding these shades? I’ve never EVER been intrigued by Bobbi Brown‘s makeup… until this launch. Just LOOK at those REDS! The Bobbi Brown Infra-Red palette speaks to me on a different level and I’m curious to try out the formula of their eyeshadows!
The Bad
I can barely believe I’m putting this Urban Decay Elements palette under “The Bad”, but here we are. At a surface level I should frigging excited about this – it’s a rainbow palette and I *love* rainbow palettes. But… and this is huge for me… there is not even close to enough matte shadows in here. This palette becomes nearly unusable by itself for me because of that and I find that very frustrating when the palette is so enormous to begin with. I think there’s two, maybe three mattes in there, and given how many shades are in the palette, that just isn’t enough. I loved the concept of it, the colours, even the awkward layout was kind of intriguing… but I’m becoming a bit more discerning with my makeup over time and the lack of mattes in this palette is making me put my foot down and say “no” to it.
What the fork happened here? Ugh. When BECCA sneak peaked the front of their Volcano Goddess palette I was SO EXCITED. Look at that beautiful rainbow of colour on the palette cover! I thought they were finally putting out a beautiful rainbow eyeshadow palette! And then a week or so later they released a picture of the inside and I’ve NEVER felt so deflated by a makeup product in my entire life. It’s pretty much a neutral palette with… a red-ish shade, and a blue. I can’t believe what a let down this item ended up being. How could they release that outer packaging knowing that the inside was going to be bland as all get out?I want absolutely nothing to do with it. 🙁
What the hell happened here, ABH? My god, it looks like this palette is practically in greyscale! It’s like they sucked the life out of the Soft Glam palette, accidentally dropped in a poppy-red shade they’d discarded from another palette, named it Sultry (?????) and called it a day. This is HORRIBLE. I rather think NOT, Anastasia.
The Boring
I’ve got a lot of Too Faced palettes, and many of them are holiday launches, but I’ve felt for a little while that they’ve started to become rather redundant and are more for makeup newbies than they are true makeup enthusiasts. The Too Faced Under The Christmas Tree set is basically a repetition of shades I already have from the brand so I don’t really need these sets anymore. They’re fun to look at, and great for a beginner in terms of variety, but as someone who has all of these shades already (in my like… 40 different Too Faced palettes) this set isn’t vital to me. (And the same thing applies to their Dream Queen set and the Beauty Day Dreamer set.
I’m still trying to process what to do with Kat Von D‘s revelation that she’s an anti-vaxxer and won’t vaccinate her child when they’re born. I think that’s absolutely fucking CRAZY not to do that… like it really is bat shit insane to think that you know better than a doctor. But does that make HER a bad person? Not necessarily. So while I’m currently struggling with this internal dilemma on whether or not I want to give money to someone who has vastly different morals than me (and I do really freaking love her products and still wear what I already own), I’m happy to report that her holiday 2018 collection is boring me to absolute tears. The Fetish eyeshadow palette is nothing noteworthy as I find the shades far too muted overall. I’m not interested in a blush palette from her, so that’s out of the question for me. The only thing that might’ve swayed me was if she released another set of mini liquid lipsticks like she’s done the past two years (see the 2017 lineup here and the 2016 lineup here), but this year she isn’t doing that – instead opting to release four full size shades in a pack. I’m grateful that I’m not interested in any of it so it gives me a bit more time to determine if I even want to continue to purchase from her anymore. (I’m mostly hopeful she’ll see the light about vaccinating and will do it in the end…)
Urban Decay really isn’t hitting the right notes for me lately. Their latest addition to the Naked line is Naked Cherry… and I’m just so disappointed in it. Concept-wise, I liked the idea. A cherry palette would be great! And heck, the packaging is pretty too. But the shadows? I’m getting flashbacks of Naked Heat and I don’t think there’s enough variety amongst the shades. Not to mention… THERE IS A SERIOUS LACK OF RED IN THERE. For a palette based on cherries, they could’ve done more than whack in some mulberry-pink tones. Where is the RED, Urban Decay? And don’t try to tell me Devilish and Young Love cut it… because they don’t. The promo shot above shows more red, but I’ve seen the palette open in many other photos and they are WAY more pink. This is like Naked 3 2.0 and I’m not having it.
Phew okay… that’s it (for now). Let me know what’s piqued your interest this holiday season!
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