iWant: Urban Decay Naked 3 Palette

Just saw this on Facebook... The next Naked palette is going to have rose gold hues! Ecstatic! I'm probably going to buy this. 

Update: It's finally out! Oui! I finally went to Sephora to try out the colors and this is how they look on me. 

#Rave: Ulta Holiday Value Sets

Ulta either read my blog or my mind. With this one. They rose to the occasion to offer something similar to Sephora's multi-brand holiday samplers. The email I got yesterday advertises three of them, one for eyes, one for fragrance, one similar to the Glitz & Glamour set (Sephora). All sets around $25 USD to $30 USD. 

The Perfect Wink 

($30 USD)

The Perfect Wink Includes:

Benefit Bad Gal Mascara

LORAC Front of the Line Pro Eyeliner (in Black)

Pur Minerals Big Blink

CK One Show True Black Mascara

Napoleon Perdis Long Black Mascara (in Double Black)

Urban Decay 24/7 Glide-on Eyeliner (in LSD)

Get Ready for the Party

($30 USD)

Get Ready For the Party Color Collection Includes:

Butter Londonnail Laquer (in Rosie Lee)

LORAC Behind the Scenes Eye Primer

Put Minerals Mineral Glow Bronzer

Laura Geller City Lights Lipgloss

Napoleon Perdis Loose Eye Dust (in Pink Champagne)

Tarte Lights, Camera, Action Lashes Mascara

The Finishing Touch

($25 USD)

The Finishing Touch Fragrance Sample Collection Includes: (Fragrance Samples)

Calvin Klein Downtown

Giorgio Armani Acqua do Giola

Lancôme La Via Est Belle

Coach Love

Juicy Couture Viva La Juicy

Ralph Lauren Romance

Holiday Value Sets: Sampler Packages by Sephora

Ok, I gave this a separate post because this is (by far) what I've been waiting for all season. The opportunity that we all get  once a year to purchase samplers that may hook us to a cosmetics line for life. Sephora usually releases these toward the end of October and I am all for it. Usually sampler lines include : lip, lash, fragrance & 'all-stars' (best sellers). I truly believe that this is the way to get the best bang for your buck. (Ulta is really missing the boat on this one. They need to start doing this if they want to compete with this comestic giant.) 

Not only do you get to compare & contrast brands, you have an ample supply that lasts for most of the year. Without further adieu, here is what they released for this year's holiday season. 

Lips

Lash

Fragrance (for her)

All-Stars

Glitz & Glam

The Holiday Value Sets are here! (Ulta)

I popped into Ulta yesterday to realize that there were different kits available here.

Among those seen were Smashbox, Tarte, Laura Geller, Lorac, PurMinerals, TooFaced, Anastacia, BareMinerals, Cargo and Benefit.

Smashbox

   

Tarte

Laura Geller

Lorac

PurMinerals

BareMinerals

Benefit

Cargo

TooFaced

Another trend that I'm seeing- especially from Benefit is stocking stuffers in the form of doubling up. Meaning- they sell two full sized or a full sized and a trial sized at a discounted 'combo' price.

Holiday Value Sets that I'm actually considering.

The onslaught of the holiday season and all the bounty that has been made available to us has really got me thinking about which deal would be best to add to my collection. These are those deals. 

Wondervision lipgloss set.

Smashbox 

$24 USD

Five potent glosses? The retail value of one lipgloss is around $19 so four more lipglosses for five more dollars, makes this is a steal. 

Try It Kit: Halo + BB

SmashBox

$29 USD

This kit brings all the basics to beginning a journey with SmashBox in the ways of BB. A Baby kabuki brush- which is priceless would literally be the reason that I purchase this 

The Holiday Value Sets are here! (Sephora)

With the first waves of holiday kits, Sephora also had some sephora exclusives. Here's what I saw when I went in there today- that I haven't seen in other stores.

Buxom

Josie Maran

Urban Decay

(Macy's has the purple version of this.)