Thursday, September 3, 2009

Urban Decay Nail Polish!! New Apocalyptic Nail Kit for Holiday 2009!

I am ridiculously happy to announce that Urban Decay nail polish is BACK! Today they're releasing a mini nail kit just in time for fall/winter/holidays and it's gorgeous!

I forgot to take a picture of the whole kit in the cute bag it comes in, so I'll add one when I get one.



Apocalypse. Dark blackened vampy purple creme. This polish can go two ways- if you can do a nice, even coat on the first coat, it looks really purple. With two coats (pictured here) it looks nearly black... I'd call it prune colored. It reminds me a lot of Hard Candy Vinyl:


Big Bang. Insane metallic foil bright pink. A re-release! Hooray! I'm so glad they brought back an old color, but also a little sad it wasn't something like Toxin or Bruise or Id. Anyway... this one is very, very flashy and looks great in the sunlight AND under low light, like indoors. I took the first picture in the late afternoon while the sun was setting, but the color came out a little more accurate- the bottom picture is a little too light/washed out.

I could have sworn I had the original Big Bang to post a picture of, but I can't seem to find it, so here's its Hard Candy counterpart, Scam:



Fbomb. Faded medium red creme. Haha, cute name! Love it. Fbomb is interesting- it's not a bright red like I've been seeing lately. It's soft, dusty and faded looking. Very dense and smooth looking with an antique finish.

Grunge. Blue-green shimmer. In the bottle this looks more green, but on my nails it looks blue. I think it's both. Mostly blue. Perhaps it's aqua. This has a smoky black base and the shimmer is very fine and bright colored so it creates this cool sparkly smoky blue color.

Gunmetal. Soft grey-brown shimmer. This is called Gunmetal but it's really not what I'd picture for that description! That's not to say it isn't gorgeous. It's icy and shimmery. This color also has an old photograph - faded - tattered - antique sort of look. LOVE IT.

Meltdown. Vivid deep purple shimmer. The top picture was taken at sunset so it's a little weird looking, but it really captures the special quality of this polish (and the color is more accurate). Can you see what it is? It has teeny-tiny little holographic particles! They're too small to be glitter and still too small to be microglitter, so I'm going to call it holographic microshimmer. It isn't a prominent feature of the polish if you're looking at it in low light, but in sunlight it's just so fascinating I can't stop looking at this. Very unique, ridiculously gorgeous, for me this is the stand-out shade in the collection.

White Widow. Greyed-white shimmer. Oooooh. This is spooky. This is a ghostly color! Just in time for Halloween. It's mainly white.... Or is is very, very light grey? White with touch of grey. And it has very fine white pearl shimmer. And, for a white, it's not streaky or sheer.

The formula on these is average. Nothing really stands out to me in the positive or negative categories. I didn't really have any trouble applying these, all of the colors seemed smooth and even. The texture is a little on the thick side for some shades (White Widow, Gunmetal.) The drying time is also average, I'd say. Not super fast but not slow. With quick-dry topcoat these were completely dry in 20-30 minutes.

I am ridiculously excited that Urban Decay has brought back the product that made them famous. Urban Decay always had the best, edgiest, most unique colors and then one day- poof! Discontinued. But now that they've made polish again, I have hope that all the awesome colors may be back someday, or if not, they'll create brand new shades.

Overall, I think this is a great set. I like all of the colors, I like the names, I love the bag they come in, I love everything. Thank you for making polish again, Urban Decay! This is going to make a lot of polish junkies like me VERY happy.

As far as I'm aware, these are only available as minis in this set. It's supposed to launch today on UrbanDecay.com but I don't see it on the website yet. As soon as I see it online, I'll add the link and the price. I do know that it's supposed to be an UrbanDecay.com exclusive!

EDIT: It's here!! Click here for the Apocalyptic Nail Kit on Urban Decay.com. $25 for all seven shades.

36 comments:

  1. Oh I was so excited to see this!! I've been waiting for so long for UD to release more nail polishes! I can't wait for them to get to the UK.
    These all look good, I especially like the look of Meltdown!

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  2. ALL pretty! I can't wait to see the price! I am very intrigued!

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  3. these all look great, hopefully they will re-release some of the old ones i never got to buy.

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  4. Exciting! Was this the surprise that you had to keep under wraps this week?? O.o

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  5. Gaaahhh!!! ZOMG! *polish-gasm*

    Finally! As soon as I found out they were discontinuing polish I started hoping they would bring them back! And even though I'm not crazy over every single one of these colors, Gunmetal reminds me a lot of Uzi, a color from the very fist Urban Decay order I ever made (I'm talking 15+ years ago here) and Meltdown ... well, how can I not love a purple!

    I'm tempted to break my no-buy in half & buy all of these just to give encouragement to UD.

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  6. Ooo...that White Widow is fabulous, and I adore minis! Must go there now - thanks!

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  7. That is super snazzy! White Widow looks a lot like Zoya Harley in your pics. Possible dupe?

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  8. You just made my day! Urban Decay has been a long time favorite of mine! EEEEE!!!!

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  9. I have three old UD polishes nd love them so much. Glad they are coming up with this set :)

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  10. ZOMG MUST HAVE RIGHT NOW BUYING AS I TYPE THIS HAHA

    Thank you for having swatches the day of the release! AHHH!

    seriously cannot focus at work any more now haha

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  11. Wow. I love them all!
    But no shipping to Germany sucks. I want Urban Decay stuff. Now!

    :(

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  12. Pretty colors on you. I don't have any of the origianls. I'll wait on these. Nothing that really stands out to me. I do like that red though,

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  13. Nice colors. the purple and white would be the only ones I would buy. I did a mani last night and it turned out so badass I thought I would share it with you cuz I think you will dig it. Nicole by OPI Midnight madness and Pure ice Heart breaker over it. 2 coats of each. Probably any dark color would do the same but I can't be sure and this color is AWESOME!!!! Let me know if you try it!!

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  14. Wow they're all so pretty! I want them all :)

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  15. These are all gorgeous!!! I want all of them!

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  16. i want gunmetal so badly. i hope these reach the UK soon!

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  17. I was really looking forward to these, but other than White Widow, I'm just not that impressed. I was hoping for much edgier colors, like they used to make when they started out (like Gangrene, Bruise, DTs, or Mildew), but these look a lot like colors you can get from a dozen other polish companies. I hope they come out with more colors later that peak my interest, because I loved the colors of the originals (but hated the bottles) & I really like their second attempt at polish too.

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  18. aw, drat...they're small :( I hope they release them full-size...I could use a full bottle of Big Bang! I'm glad they're coming back; it's long overdue!

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  19. I'm a fan of Urban Decay on Facebook and they just posted a link to your blogpost! :)

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  20. Oh my god... these are AMAZING... perfect Holiday shades!!!! I love the mini size too... nail polishes tend to dry up so quickly, so this is perfect.. totally economical.. and won't be wasted!

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  21. I love the white widow, but it took close to 45 minutes to dry for me!

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  22. I love Fbmomb and Grunge. I wish they would have added Toxin to the collection. Thanks for the swatches!!

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  23. They are all very nice! I'm so happy Urban Decay made nail polish again!

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  24. *runs in circles screamin*

    OMGAH OMAAAHHHGAHHH

    So effing pumped.

    Oh and I totally want to see your HC Collection. You show me yours and I'll show you mine... *waggles eyebrows*

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  25. So much for my no-buy. :P This plus the new 24/7 sets with exclusive shades? Can't...resist...

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  26. I love Grunge!

    Scrangie, your nails always look so perfect - do you use a polish corrector pen? If you do, is there one that you would recommend? I was thinking about purchasing the OPI Correct & Clean up pen :)

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  27. Must have these...must have these now. Thx Scrangie for the swatches!

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  28. I perfer the old ones. More unique colors but I'm glad to see UD making polish.

    Thank you for the post :)

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  29. not impressed at all. not unique like their old school polishes.

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  30. Can you compare gunmetal to sparitual hypnotic?

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  31. White Widow looks magnificent on your perfect nails! Very pretty color.

    Scott

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  32. Excellent, so excited to see the return of UD polishes, hopefully a Gangrene like shade will be in the makes.

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  33. Obviously, UD had discontinued their polishes in the past for a reason. For all that think that these colors aren't "edgy" enough...give UD some time. This is the re-release of their polishes and they want to see how much in-demand polishes are to the mainstream before they start coming out with really crazy colors! I received my set in the mail today and I am REALLY excited to try them all out on myself!!!

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  34. I finally got to order this from Sephora and will have it here soon! I'm ridiculously excited over this! They all look so gorgeous :)

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  35. Ooh, I LOVE the White Widow! But it only comes in the set, right? And it's only 5ml! :( That's too bad because the rest of the colors made no impression on me (with the exeption of maybe the Fbomb). Can you suggest any dupes to White Widow?

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  36. Oh, and I see someone suggested Zoya's Harley as a dupe for White Widow. But it seems more grey. What do others think?

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