Urban Decay Holiday 2016 Collection

If you follow my weekly vlogs on my YouTube channel, then you will have seen the giant box of goodies that Urban Decay recently sent me, stuffed full of their new releases for Holiday 2016.  If you would like to see everything up close and personal, and hear my opinions (both good and bad) of all the products, then please hop over and watch the VIDEO below:

If you’re here reading the blog, I’ve decided to use this space to list all the products and give you the official descriptions of the individual products/colors/prices, all in one handy place. As of the writing of this post, the products are available at Sephora, Ulta, and on the Urban Decay website, but I haven’t seen them at Macy’s yet.  I will update this post when those dates become available.  So, without further ado…here are the products!

VICE LIPSTICK
VINTAGE CAPSULE COLLECTION
There are 9 shades in this limited edition release. They are all re-releases of popular shades from their first collection in 1996.  They will retail for $17 and will be available at:
(online and in store)
(online and in store)
(online and in select stores)

UrbanDecay.com

The shades are pictured from top to bottom on my arm:
Oil Slick (cream): sheer black with silver micro-glitter
Frostbite (cream): frosted deep blue with multicolored micro-glitter
Smog (cream): deep coppery bronze
UV-B (cream): vibrant blue with purple shift
Pallor (cream): frosted lavender with gray shift
Plague (cream): bright purple with pink undertone
Bruise (sheer): sheer deep burgundy red with green shift
Roach (cream): deep burgundy-brown, and also what I’m wearing on my lips
Asphyxia (cream): soft lavender with blue micro-glitter

NAKED ILLUMINATED TRIO
SHIMMERING POWDER FOR FACE AND BODY
This is another limited-edition release for the holiday season.  It includes 3 new shades of their shimmering powder for face and body. It retails for $36 and will be available at:
(online and in store)
(online and in store)
 (online and in select stores)

UrbanDecay.com

The shades included from left to right are:
Pyrite: gold-champagne
Oasis: marbled frosted taupe
Twilight: iridescent pink

NAKED ULTIMATE BASICS
There are 12 all new shades in this new all matte palette from Urban Decay.  It also includes a double-ended brush, with one end for blending and one end for smudging, though neither end does a great job of doing either.  The palette does not appear to be limited edition and retails for $55.  It will be available at:
 (online and in store)
(online and in store)
 (online and in select stores)

UrbanDecay.com

Top row of shadows, swatched left to right:
Blow: light nude demi-matte
Nudie: soft pink-nude matte
Commando: light taupe-brown matte
Tempted: pale brown matte
Instinct: medium pink-taupe matte
Lethal: reddish brown matte

Bottom row of shadows, swatched left to right:
Pre-Game: pale yellow matte
Extra Bitter: burnt orange matte
Faith: medium warm brown matte
Lockout: rich neutral brown matte
Magnet: smoky gray matte
Blackjack: warm black matte

VICE LIPSTICK PALETTES
Next we have two interesting offerings–two lipstick palettes, one that’s more exclusive to Ulta, the other to Sephora.  They’re both the same in terms of pricing and packaging, but they have different colors.  They each retail for $35 and contain 12 shades of some current Vice lipstick shades as well as at least one limited edition shade in each palette.  The Blackmail Vice Lipstick Palette is available at:(online and in store),  (online and in select stores),  and UrbanDecay.com.  The Junkie Vice Lipstick Palette is exclusive to.

The shades in the Blackmail palette include:
Sheer Shame: Berry
Firebird: deep fuschia
Big Bang: bright pink sparkle
Disobedient: medium pink
EZ: bright red-orange
714: bright red
Vanished: pale neutral nude
1993: medium brown
Ex-Girlfriend: nude-rose with pink shimmer
Amulet: metallic brick rose
Conspiracy: plum-bronze shimmer
Blackmail: deep berry wine

The shades in the Junkie palette include:
Disturbed: deep brick red
714: bright red
Carnal: medium warm nude
Safe Word: neutral nude-pink
Studded: metallic gray-brown
Whip: soft pink with gold iridescent shimmer
Wrath: metallic red
Big Bang: bright pink sparkle
Firebird: deep fuschia
Vanity Kills: lavender
Speedball: deep vibrant purple
Junkie: metallic green shimmer with gold micro-sparkle

LIQUID MOONDUST EYESHADOW(Sorry for the blurry picture-they sparkle so much the camera had a hard time focusing. Watch the video to see them better)

There are eight shades retailing for $22 each.  The liquid shadows come in a tube with a very small brush applicator.  They are available exclusively at  and .
The shades are (from top to bottom):
Solstice: pink-red with green 3-D sparkle and green shift
Vega: bright blue with iridescent sparkle
Spacetime: deep coppery bronze with iridescent sparkle
Zodiac: smoky black with blue-green shift and blue-green 3-D sparkle
Zap: gold with tonal sparkle
Recharged: peach with pink shift and sparkle
Chem Trail: oyster with iridescent sparkle
Magnetic: purple with iridescent sparkle

There were also quite a few false lashes offered in the holiday collection, but we all know how I am at applying false lashes…suffice it to say that there is a wide range of natural to not-so-natural, full strip lashes and partial strip lashes, all retailing for $15 each and available exclusively at urbandecay.com.

FINAL THOUGHTS
There are a lot of different options for makeup lovers and die hard Urban Decay fans.  I was personally not impressed enough with any of the offerings to recommend them to my audience, but I have some personal biases-mostly that I’m past the point in my life where I want to wear blue lipstick or pink glitter anywhere on my face. This collection definitely skews to a younger audience. If you’re not yet past that point, then you’re going to love this collection.  I had high hopes for the Ultimate Naked Basics palette, but I found that it lacked essential colors, like a few transition shades, and it was pretty high-priced for what it was.  But enough about what I thought…what were your impressions of the Urban Decay Holiday 2016 collection? Thumbs up or thumbs down?