Here's my first make up look that I created with my new Urban Decay Vice 3 palette. I have been obsessed with this palette. It's got such amazingly buttery, pigmented beautiful colours, it's hard not to love it. I've decided I'm going to try to put this palette to use as fully as I can and not leave it unloved like some of my other palettes. 

And what better way to do that than to create a bunch of looks with it for you guys  !

I wanted to start with something basic and natural. Sure it's got some gorgeous eye-catching colours as well, but what's great about this palette is that it's got some amazing matte shadows as well ! 

So being a matte eyeshadow lover, I created this little neutral number for you guys. 

I love how this look turned out. 

The colours I used for this eye look are : 

Undone

DTF

Defy

Truth

Hope you guys enjoy this look ! If you want to see how I achieved it, you can watch my tutorial down below. 

A few days ago I went into Sephora on a whim, because I wanted to treat myself to something nice. I had originally had my eye on the too faced natural eye palette but when I actually had the palette in my hands to swatch and play with, it just seemed too similar to most of my other palettes. My other palettes are mostly the same color scheme. It's all that natural, beige, gold, bronze, and brown pattern. Don't get me wrong, I LOVE my neutrals. And no matter how much I lust after the beautiful and bright colours sometimes, I will always be a neutrals girl. 

But this purchase was supposed to be a little treat for myself. 

I would still consider purchasing the Chocolate Bar palette, but maybe a little later on when I have some extra dollars to spare. But for now, since I was going out of my way to splurge on something special, I wanted to get something a little different. 

I've known about the vice palettes for quite sometime now, and have considered buying some of the previous versions. So I decided to give it a try this time around. 

This palette comes with 20 never-before-seen colours that UD came out with. Despite having a few bright colours, I think this palette is still extremely wearable and contains a few BEAUTIFUL neutrals that I know I won't be able to live without now. 

And can we take a moment just to admire this packaging ? WOWZA. it is flawless. 

Here's an overview of all the eyeshadows. So far, just from swatches, I feel like my favorites are Alchemy, Downfall, Defy, and Sonic. 

All of these eyeshadows are very buttery and creamy. I only had a problem with the colours Truth and Last Sin when swatching it, but it was nothing too bad. Truth was just not AS creamy as some of their other matte shades, and Last Sin has a little bit of fall out. But like I said, it was nothing crazy. They were still extraordinary eyeshadows. 

The palette also came with a duo-ended brush. The handle is gold, and on one end it is a fluffy shader brush, quite similar to the blending brush on one of the sides of the duo-ended brush that came with the Naked 3 palette, but smaller.

And on the other side was a long, slightly tapered, blending brush that would be amazing for blending colours in the crease.

Down below I swatched all the eyeshadows in this palette for you guys, from right to left, row by row. 

First row : Truth, Dragon, Vanity, Alien, Last Sin

Second row : Undone, Freeze, Lucky, Alchemy, Angel

Third row : Downfall, Heroine, Reign, Bondage, Defy

Last row : DTF, Brokedown, Bobby Dazzle, Sonic, Revolver

You can watch the video here : 

I think I've already talked about this blush once before, but I wanted to give you guys a swatch and review of the my very first MAC blush ; Peony Petal. 

I originally went into the MAC store to purchase their Melba blush. I've been eyeing it down for quite some time now, and it is pretty much the prettiest soft peach colour ever. 

However, the day I went in, they were actually fresh out of the Melba blush in pan form, so I decided I would pick up a different blush for the time being, just because I didn't want to leave the store without a buying something. It was just one of those days.

Peony Petal caught my eye because it looked very bright and daring in the pan, but when swatched, was actually a very soft barbie doll pink blush. One of the MAC girls applied it with a blush brush on the back of my hand and showed me how different it could look when lightly applied and heavily applied. It was definitely not what I went into MAC to buy, AT ALL, but my justification was "why not buy something that's different from all the other blushes you own."

Not a bad justification at all, but the only problem with that, is that I don't reach for this blush very often. 

Here's it swatched on the back of my hand. I really tried to swatch it nice and hard for this photo, so you could see it's true colour on my skin. But usually when I use it, I don't ever apply it so heavy-handedly, so it actually comes off as a soft rosey cool toned pink. 

I think this blush would look even better on someone with fairer skin than me, but even on my very yellow skintone, it gives off a nice soft glow. 

This blush isn't as creamy or as pigmented as some of the other blushes I own, but that's actually fine for the blush that it is. Because it is such a bright colour, it makes it a lot more wearable due to the fact that it's not super pigmented. I would have to be a lot more careful applying it if it was. It is a little on the chalky side, but it isn't something that is hard to deal with, and you can tell that it is still a very high quality blush.

I definitely don't regret buying this blush, but I don't reach for it as often as I would like, when spending 20 something dollars on a blush. 

It works well as a spring time / summer time blush because of it's bright dolly pink nature. Even in the winter, applied lightly to the tops of the apples of your cheek, it could give a very nice "I was just outside in the snow" look. 

More soon,