Tag: Holiday

Coming in at half the size of Urban Decay’s typical liquid lipsticks, these minis are ideal if you’ve never in your life finished a full-sized tube of the stuff. The lineup features Amulet, Backtalk, Crimson, and Purgatory (the your-lips-but-better Backtalk is going to be especially great for family dinners).

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One of the best things about Urban Decay palettes is the mix between the reliable, matte shades that you’ll wear day in and day out, and the metallic colors sprinkled through that liven up the whole bunch. If your eye always goes to those (or, let’s be real, you already own all the matte browns you could ever need), the new Heavy Metals palette is your answer. And with 20 all-new, all-metallic shades, it was made for holiday festivities.

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Nagel Vice Lipstick Palettes, $28 each, available October 19

The brand usually goes straight to the ’90s with their references, given it was when Urban Decay got its start, but they’re throwing it back to the ’80s with these limited edition lipstick palettes. Each one is covered by a different illustration from Patrick Nagel, an American artist who, per the brand, “captured the essence of the ’80s in a minimalistic style.”

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Urban Decay Nagel Vice Lipstick Palette in Sunglasses

The Sunglasses palette leans into the classic lipstick shades with bright red Psycho, brown-pink Backtalk (middle) and grey-nude Oblivion (second from left). Two exclusive shades, plum Troublemaker and copper Roach, balance out the traditional choices.

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Nagel Vice Lipstick Palette in Rio

Pink is the name of the game in Rio, which pairs Backtalk with sparkly pink Big Bang, dark pink Rapture, and bronze Conspiracy. It also brings an all-new red to UD’s numbers, the dark scarlet Rock On.

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Nagel Vice Lipstick Palette in Untitled

If you’re always reaching for a dramatic lipstick, Untitled is your best bet. Backtalk remains the can’t-mess-up constant, joined by fire-engine red Doubt, blood red Gash, and gold-laced pink Naked. Also back for another round: lavender Exhibition, a limited edition shade from the Jean-Michel Basquiat collection.

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Every romcom worth its TBS rerun has a makeover montage scene, and this palette is basically those incredible few minutes in makeup form. A bottom row of pretty, rich matte colors, paired with a top row of metallic, glimmering spins on the shades? Here for it.

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Urban Decay Naked 4Some, $185, available October 25

What we have here is a cube of Naked. The brand calls it a 4Some (would you expect anything less?), but trust that its innuendo is riding on a legitimately incredible set. Bronzey-brown toned Naked, meets cool neutral Naked 2, meets warm and rosy Naked 3, meets red and tawny Naked Heat. Imagine unwrapping it on a holiday morning. Imagine that joy.

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Admittedly, it’s tough to follow a cube of best-selling palettes. But if anything’s up for it, it’s UD’s traditional holiday Vault. The set is back for more, this time with nine shades of Vice Lipstick and three corresponding colors of 24/7 Glide-On Lip Pencil.

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Urban Decay is funny in that even as it’s owned the Naked/nude/”still brown, but different” shadow space, its flair for just plain fun makeup hasn’t wavered. And that’s a promise, with six new shades of its Heavy Metal eyeliner dropping for the holidays, among them pink Cat Call.

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Added bonus: where glitter eyeshadow can be the worst—the WORST—and end up covering your whole face in sparkles, the liner puts glitter where you want it and keeps it there.

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Pyro can read ghostly, angelic, alien, or like a cloud in a tube, but the eye-catching aspect is a constant.

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Trust us, this one is so pretty to look at. Remember when everyone was talking about “arm parties” a few years ago, re: a curated jangles of bracelets? That’s this, for your eyes. Glitter in purple, gold, green, blue, and turquoise on a burgundy base.

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Whereas Grind combines that name with the pretty, incandescent color of a ballet tutu. Again, UD loves an extreme.

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At first glance, Stix and Bones looks like a sister to Punk Rock. But out of the tube, it dials down the burgundy color with a green-gold twist that comes out looking like an oil slick, thanks to a heavy dose of silver and gold glitter.

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Urban Decay Little Vices, $25

Brands are leaning into minis this holiday season, and you’d need an iron will to stay immune to their cute factor. Named the Little Vices set (and appropriately described as “matchbox-style”), it comes with one new shade of lipstick and two exclusive colors.

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Urban Decay Most Wanted Eyeshadow Brush Set, $38, available November 1

Here’s a secret: eyeshadow is only half the battle for pulling together an eye makeup look. The rest comes from the brush you use, which seriously makes all the difference. These duos are super specialized, but it pays off: a crease brush, smudger brush, tightline brush, lid brush, and two sizes of blending brush will have you taken care of.

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Urban Decay Vault of Vice, $150

The brand didn’t call this the Pandora’s Box for unknown reasons (the lid rolls back, it’d be a good pun), but regardless, it comes with 15 of UD’s lip crowd-pleasers. Really—it pulls on their most-requested shades from the Vice Lipstick, Vice Liquid Lipstick Vice Special Effects, and 24/7 Glide-On Lip Pencils lines.

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