themakeupnut: swatches

I am finally getting around reviewing my Urban Decay Mariposa palette! Yikes. I have been so in love with my Naked Basics palette lately that I have totally ignored all other palettes O_o

But I have used this palette and I have to say it is a pretty darn good palette from Urban Decay. I like that it has some really useable smoky colours, some decent neutrals (although all have shimmer) and a few pops of colour. I originally wanted the Smoked Palette but I couldn’t handle the price tag so I went with the Mariposa palette instead. I believe it was $19 then with 20% off. It is now priced at $12 on the UD website but is currently sold out.

Anyhow, the Mariposa palette comes in a sturdy tin that will easily fit in your hand . This is a plus because it makes it easy to tote around. The tin has a butterfly (mariposa means butterfly in Spanish) embossed on the top. Really snazzy. The tin can be tricky to open, sometimes I felt like I struggled to get it open. Inside there are 10 eyeshadows encased in a purple cardboard bed also decorated with butterflies. It comes with a small version of the brush that comes in the Naked palette. There is no mirror which is a little bit of a bummer but I generally have a mirror kicking around so I guess that isn’t that big of a deal. The shadows in the Mariposa palette are a bit smaller than the ones in the Naked palette (Mariposa .03 oz each Naked .05 oz each).

First Row

Rockstar is a dark purple satin
Gunmetal is a metallic gray with silver micro glitter
Skimp is a light peachy cream satin
Infamous is a plumy pink satin
Wreckage is a bronzy medium brown shimmer
Second Row
Haight is a teal blue satin
Money is a light gray green shimmer
Mushroom is a gray silverishy taupe
Spotlight is a light champagne with gold micro glitter
Limelight is a light golden copper with gold micro glitter

The shadows for the most part are in true UD fashion; buttery and pigmented. Rockstar was a teensy bit patchy. Spotlight and Limelight took a bit more to get an even swatch and there was a bit of micro glitter fallout but nothing that would put me off. All the shadows are satiny/shimmers. My favorites (right now) are Rockstar and Wreckage.

These swatches are just over bare skin taken by the window in daylight

Urban Decay Mariposa Palette swatches indirect sunlight over bare skin

This set of swatches are over UDPP in Eden. Just for fun I thought I would swatch these over a matte primer to show how one can tone down the shimmer intensity in these shadows (pic also taken by the window in daylight)

Urban Decay Mariposa Palette (heavy) swatches indirect sunlight over Eden UDPP

the Mariposa palette beside a regular UDPP for size reference

Overall I would say the Mariposa palette is a pretty good palette with a good assortment of neutrals, smoky colours and a couple pops of colour. If it ever comes back in stock at Urban Decay, I would say yes it is a definite grab!

~~99Raina99

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Don’t yah just love getting makeup hauls in the mail? First, it was fun shopping for it, getting it in the cart and then managing a successful check out. (Never mind the buyer’s remorse the next day about spending so much HAHA). THEN, the products show up in mail (hopefully all in one piece)! Double the fun! Ahh, just the thought of it brings a smile to my face J.

I have been achy for a couple months (stupid arthritis) so actually walking around the mall for hours isn’t so appealing to me right now. So I have been hauling off the net J. But I have been finding some awesome deals.

Let’s see what have I hauled the past few months.....

v The Urban Decay Naked Palette and Naked 24/7 eye pencil set from The Shopping Channel – Deal: 24/7 pencil set was marked down to $25 and free shipping

v MUG eyeshadows and brushes from Makeup Geek – Deal: my whole order was 20% off.

v ChinaGlaze TechnoPop Light set plus some other goodies from Nail Polish Canada – Deal: cheapest price I could find for the set plus free shipping and no GST (tax)

v A massive order of brushes from Coastal Scents – Deal: saved 20% to 40% on brushes

And the most recent haul was from Glamour Doll Eyes...

13 sample jars, Control Freak eye primer and 2 free sample baggies

This March, Glamour Doll Eyes had a March Makeup Madness sale each Monday. Vee, the owner, would release 30 coupon codes on her Facebook page that could be used at checkout. I managed to scoop one up a couple of weeks ago - Deal: Buy $15 of sample jars (non collections) and save 30%. I got 13 sample jars and grabbed a Control Freak eye primer.

Last year, I purchased some loose eyeshadow samples from Glamour Doll Eyes and I really was impressed with them. So when I saw this sale, I jumped on it right away. Well as soon as I remembered... and I got free shipping for buying samples and/or because my gross total was $40 before the discount.

I got my order on Tuesday. It took about 8 working days to get to me from Nevada. Not too bad.

I will be breaking this particular haul up into a couple of post as I don’t want to blow up any servers with an insane amount of pictures! And I want to play around with a Control Freak (primer) this weekend.

I have been pretty busy at work this week, but I did manage to play with a few of the shadows. I am so loving DinoSpotz right now. I basically slapped it on ~~this~~ yesterday morning as I was in a rush to get out of the door. I put on DinoSpotz, a little Urban Decay Buck to blend the edge out, MAC Blacktrack Fluidline and mascara. I will be getting a full-sized jar of this shadow for sure! Because I used it wet on the lids, it would change in certain lighting to a greenish teal colour. So cool! I wanted to capture that but I got busy and forgot to try taking a picture in a different room/lighting. :P

hardly any makeup, just Dinospotz on the eyes

The 13 shadows I bought were: Royal Assassin, DinoSpotz, Makin’ A Scene, Urban Trash, Graves in May , Secretive, Angel Wings, Gold Digger, Juicy Mango, Veteran, Glam Gal, Typical Girl and All Nighter

Here is Royal Assassin, DinoSpotz, Makin’ A Scene, Urban Trash

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A dark purple with flecks of greenish blue silver glitter.
Not so noticable when swatched. Crazy in the lid though

DinoSpotz, its a duochrome that is a rusty brown and has flecks of green in it.
I <3 DinoSpotz

What an awesome silver, I am digging the simple metallic wonderness of this one

Total blackout when wet

See how DinoSpotz changes! Urban Trash is so matte black when wet

Swatches: Makin' a Scene and Dino Spotz are awesome shadows, wet or dry. Royal Assassin and Urban Trash are definitely way better wet/foiled. Urban Trash could possible be used as a liner it is so black when wet. They were kind of flakey/dusty when I swatched them dry. But then I was only using my finger. So I think on my next set of swatches I will redo them using a brush.

So what do you think? You likey? Sorry I am tired. I better quite playing with makeup and go to bed...

~~99Raina99

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** I have an affiliate link with Glamour Doll Eyes (left bar) but I just signed up in March and if anyone chooses to use it, Thank you, but do not feel pressured :)
All products were bought and paid for by me and opinions are my own. ~~99Raina99

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