Spring

This Spring, glominerals has launched FIVE new products to celebrate the season.  Their goal?  To ensure the new shades are universally flattering, yet on-trend.  Not an easy task! 

Glominerals nailed it, with the gloMetallic Smoky Eye Kit, pictured above.  One of their latest makeup inductees, four shimmery earthy shades raging from pale to dark combine to create looks perfect for day or evening.  To ensure the kit is also easily useable, it comes complete with do-it-yourself instructions on how to apply the base, lid, crease and liner shades to your lids to create a beautiful neutral smoky eye! 

As always, I love the texture of glominerals eyeshadow.  Glominerals shadow applies smoothly, and the color is rich and vibrant.  Those interested in targetting those fine lines in the eye area will be happy to read the formula includes glominerals blend of vitamins A, C, E and green tea to help keep your skin young and glowing!

Seems like every Spring, gloMinerals introduces yet another “must-have” shadow palette.  For the record, I still use my gloEye Maven Kit from Spring 2009 ALL THE TIME!

Retail price is $32.  To buy this product, (and to read the step-by-step application instructions online, CLICK HERE to head over to gloskincare.com. 

The author of Raging Rouge received press samples for purposes of this makeup review / product review.  For more information on sample policies, please click HERE to read my full disclosure statement.

More, more, more Urban Decay eye shadow, please!  Consumers are so crazed with Urban Decay eye shadow (proven by how quickly “Book of Shadows” palettes fly off of shelves), the brand recently launched an entire new line to keep up with demand!

How is it different?  These colors are all super-shimmery, as if the brilliant power of the stars themselves was captured to formulate them.

Appropriately named “Stardust”, this collection of eye shadow is extremely pigment-rich.  I was impressed with how opaque the shadow was, even without a primer underneath!  Check out the swatch below!  On the left, each shadow was applied with no primer.  On the right, Stardust shadow was applied over Urban Decay’s Primer Potion in “Sin”.  You’ll note that the primer intensifies the color, but the color was really ALREADY INTENSE!  Impressive.

While I’m throwing around star metaphors, I need to note the packaging is equally brilliant.  Just squeeze the sides of the pan, and the lid pops right open!  No more wedging a nail under the lid, and chipping your manicure to open your eyeshadow!

Top shade:  Void.  Bottom shade:  Atmosphere.

Retail price is $20. 

Click HERE to buy it from UrbanDecay.com.  

Click HERE to buy it at Sephora.com

Click HERE to buy it at Beauty.com 

Click HERE to buy it at Macy’s

The author of Raging Rouge received press samples for purposes of this makeup review / product review.  For more information on sample policies, please click HERE to read my full disclosure statement.

Each Spring in recent history has been defined by one makeup color.  Spring 2009 was a sizzling shade of coral.  Spring 2008 was all about pink.  Spring 2010 is the year of blue.

Don’t fret… the blue eye makeup introduced for 2010 isn’t the sky-blue washed out shade of yesteryear.  Case in point:  one of the new releases from Urban Decay cosmetics.

Urban Decay’s famously smudgeable eye pencil is now available in this metallic shade of navy, mixed with just enough true-blue to be electrifying.

Retail price is $17. 

Click HERE to buy it from UrbanDecay.com.  

Click HERE to buy it at Sephora.com

Click HERE to buy it at Beauty.com 

Click HERE to buy it at Macy’s

The author of Raging Rouge received press samples for purposes of this makeup review / product review.  For more information on sample policies, please click HERE to read my full disclosure statement.