Urban Decay Naked Honey

Urban Decay Naked Honey has dropped and its everything I hoped it would be!

Perfect for the upcoming winter months and dare I say it, party season (sorry!), this rich, sweet and warm palette contains 12 beautiful shades which allow you to create everything from light-hearted day looks to seductive and deep evening eyes.

This golden neutral palette features classic golds, warm ambers and rich chocolate brows along with soft nudes and stunning bronzes.

Housed within a decadent and rich honey hued box, its impossible to miss the nod to 70s nostalgia, both in terms of the bold, curved ‘honey’ font and also the statement shades within.

Complete with a mirrored lid and cruelty free, super soft double ended brush, you’ve got everything you need in one place to create a beautiful eye.

So, lets take a look at the all important shades!

Flyby is the first in the palette and is a soft, matte cream colour. Finely milled and silky to apply it creates a flawless base.

Sweet  Is a small step up from Flyby in colour with its matte, beige hue while Swarm offers a more sandy coloured matte.

Amber is the first metallic in the palette, a sparkling and vibrant golden orange that just screams 70’s glam! Keeper, a matte rich sandy shade compliments Amber brilliantly while Golden offers the ultimate in metallic gold.

Equally captivating is Honey, with its yellow gold tones while Queen signals the beginning of richer tones with its metallic taupe.

The soft, matte, natural brown of Hive sits alongside the warm bronze mattE of Drip, before HBIC (my favourite shade) blows everything out of the water with its beautiful metallic gold.

Sting completes this diverse, rich and warming palette with its deep, matte, rich chocolate brown, leaving a palette which contains a complete and comprehensive selection of shades to compliment, contrast, dazzle and delight.

The mattes are beautifully silky soft and blend like a dream while the metallic are wonderfully pigmented, rich and glide across your lids like silk.

There are such a fab array of shades that the possibilities are almost endless when it comes to creating looks and I just love the intensity of colour that the metallics bring.

Urban Decay Naked Honey is available now and costs £42.

Urban Decay Collaboration with Gwen Stefani

I am so excited about this news!

 

Urban Decay have announced their first ever celebrity designer collaboration and the person they’ve chosen couldn’t fit the brand better.

This limited-edition collection which will be available later this year is with none other than THE Gwen Stefani!

Gwen has apparently worked closely with the brand, guiding every detail of the collection, from the shades to the packaging. Chief creative officer and founding partner Wende Zomnir spent countless hours at Gwen’s house, talking makeup and working with her on every detail of this launch-from the packaging to the formulation to the shades. She carefully crafted each product with Gwen, creating the exact shades she always wished she had in her collection.

Gwen says;

“When Urban Decay came to me to collaborate, I immediately thought it was a perfect match. The way they’ve built their company is very similar to my aesthetic and approach. It’s all about creative self-expression, being strong and not being afraid to go outside of the box. Everyone in my life knows I absolutely love makeup. From a very young age, it was an artistic passion of mine. I actually used to be a makeup artist. I love wearing makeup and having so many ways to express myself through it. It’s my war paint. To be able to do a collaboration with people who get that concept and who are just as passionate about it is a dream come true. We’ve made and created products that I actually wear every single day. It’s the real thing. I’m obsessed with everything we’ve done, and I can’t wait to share it.”

 

I can’t wait either!

 Stay tuned for further details nearer the launch!