Urban Decay; 24/7 Eye Liners in Electric

Swatches and Review

For Urban Decay's Winter collection, they came out with two sets of their 24/7 eye liners in Naked and Electric. When I saw the sets, I knew I must get the set in Electric because the set has exclusive colors AND Perversion! I love Perversion since it is the darkest black eyeliner I have ever owned and because I was afraid of running out, I never want to use the one I got from my 15th Anniversary Liner Collection! Since I have a travel sized back-up, I feel a lot better about using it.

Perversion: Is a very deep dark matte black. It is the perfect black eyeliner and you don't need to use a lot of the product for that dark intense look on your eyes! Just a light swipe across your waterline and wherever else you like to put your eyeliner gives the perfect intense color for your eyes. This is my favorite to go to black eye liner, even more than Zero!

Ransom: Is a violet eyeliner with a bit of a blue sheen to it to me. This eyeliner is very popular, but I am just not a fan of this color.

Woodstock: Is a bright pink. I absolutely love this color! Besides buying the set for Perversion, I was also looking forward to this color. This color was exclusive to this set, but from what I know now, Urban Decay is coming out with dual-eyeliners and Woodstock is one of the colors being sold in a dual-liner along with demolition. This color is gorgeous, but the application can be patchy the first time you use it, so it takes about two or three tries until you get a smooth line from Woodstock. Otherwise, it is gorgeous!

Radium: Is a shimmery bright blue which is exclusive to this set. I loved Radium as an eyeshadow from their Book of Shadow's 3 and the eyeliner version does not disappoint. It is extremely pigmented and bright! I think this eyeliner works well with Woodstock together.

Junkie: Is a gold sparkly teal-ish color which is exclusive to this set. The application for this eyeliner was smooth as well and this is another gorgeous color from the set.

Overall, all these eyeliners glide on smoothly and are very pigmented. I love all of them except Ransom because I feel like it is just not a color for me. If anyone is interested in buying a Ransom travel size liner from me, let me know because I have a lot of them & I just don't use them!
With the exception of having some problems with Woodstock, I still love the color and think this set is a great value. It is priced at $32 dollars with each liner being .03oz while the full-size is .04oz and costs $18 individually which makes this a $67.50 value and you get exclusive colors with this set! This set is sold out on Sephora.com, but it is still being sold at Urbandecay.com as well as some Sephora stores that still have some in stock. What do you guys think of this set? Own it? Love it?

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This is not makeup or nail polish related, but here's my babies! :)

Since break started, I have been able to spend a lot of time with them, not to mention, CLEAN after them! I don't know why, but for the past month, I have just been unmotivated to do much. All I want to do is just lay around and not paint my nails. I guess when school is in session, I feel like I have something to look forward to every week when I come back home because I have no nail polish at all with me the days I am at school so I can focus, but now that I'm home, it's just sitting there and I just feel like sitting with my dogs and watching the TV. I guess this blog post is just basically a little note of what's on my mind and to show you my babies! :) I hope everyone is having a good winter & had a great Christmas and New Years!

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Holographic Nail Polish

Swatches and Review

Here are some random swatches of some holographic nail polishes I have and never actually tried.

Thumb: OPI DS Diamond. This is a light purple-ish color with a subtle holographic finish to it. The holographic-ness of this is not strong, but it is still very pretty. This nail polish is similar to Color Club's Fashion Addict, however, it is a bit darker than Fashion Addict. I put on three coats in the picture.
Index Finger: Color Club Love Em, Leave Em. This is a neutral holographic color and I love it! The holographic finish to this is again, not strong, but it is very a appropriate color to wear if you work and are restricted from "popping" colors. When indoors, the effect doesn't show much, but when you're outside, it is absolutely gorgeous! I put on two coats of this in the picture.
Middle Finger: China Glaze LOL. I read many good reviews of LOL and when I bought LOL, the bottle didn't show much holographic looks to it. When it put it on the nail, it still didn't show much when I was indoors so this color looked pretty dull and like a dark purple indoors, but when you go out, that's when the holographic finish shows up more! I am not really a big fan of darker purples, but this nail polish is an exception because it reminds me of grapes when I'm outdoors :) I put on three coats of this in the picture.
Ring Finger: China Glaze TTYL. Out of all the fingers I painted, I absolutely loved TTYL the most! This is pretty much like a neutral peachy color. It is not a very dark peach color and I think it complements my skin tone very well. When I first bought it, I didn't think I would like this as much as I do. The holographic finish to this is very strong and it also appears when I am indoors. I used three coats for this color.
Pinky: China Glaze QT. This is a berry pink color and this is easily my second favorite! It reminds me of raspberries and makes me crave for parfaits! lol. The holographic-ness of this is not very strong, but it is strong enough to see the holographic goodness of this indoors as well! I used three coats for this color.

Overall, I really liked these holographic nail polishes. OPI and China Glaze were both on the thin side, but it wasn't a very big of a problem since you can build up the color and they were not runny or too sheer as well! The Color Club's application was the best one of the bunch because it wasn't too thick, and it wasn't thin so it only needed two coats for full coverage. What do you guys think about holographic nail polishes? Own them? Love them? :)

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And the winner is..

Emma Thea Hoop!

Thanks everyone for participating on this giveaway! There will be plenty more to come in the near future :) Happy New Years!

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