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Sneak Peek: Urban Decay XX Vintage Nail Colors Photos & Swatches

Urban Decay XX Vintage Nail Colors
Urban Decay XX Vintage Nail Colors

In honor of the brand’s 20th anniversary, they’ve re-released 20 shades in a capsule collection known as Urban Decay XX Vintage Nail Color (each shade will retail for $10.00). The polishes come in a vintage, plain cardboard box, while the nail lacquer is packaged in today’s packaging. Here are swatches of the shades:

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Carrie Avatar

I don’t have any browns in my collection, but I may have to remedy that with smog! It looks quite lovely and I think I can pull it off on my skin tone

Sue Avatar

Atmosphere is more sheer with stronger pink to light gold duochrome shimmer. You can try to find it on eBay. That’s where I bought mine and it’s so pretty layered over a light color.

Nika99 Avatar

I had lots of these in the 90’s.I was thinking of getting some just for nostalgia but they definitely aren’t looking like duochromes from the swatches.I wonder if they’ll ever bring back the flavored shimmer body powders like Honey and Marshmallow or the Cinnammon I used to literally bathe in those before a concert or a special event!They were so fun I saved several for way longer than I should of but threw them out eventually so they didn’t go rancid.They were edible so you think they would of gotten bad at some point.

Cj Avatar

Hm…I had Bruise – it was my first UD product ever – and I don’t recall it looking anything like that. Maybe I’m mixing it up with Roach. I recall it bring a stro ger, darker duochrome. But regardless really…I gotta have…

Danielle Avatar

You are correct, the new Bruise is nothing like the original. The new version is much lighter and almost frosty. The other was a deep, rich, duochrome shimmer.

Katie Avatar

Really digging these, but also wished they had changed the name on “Uzi.” That just feels really gross when framed by today’s current events.

Futuralon Avatar

20 years? I feel old. In high school I definitely had asphyxia – my mum liked it- and I think mildew, plague, uzi and radium. I wore them all frequently. Drugstore options were just pinks, reds and sheers. Then there was hard candy pastels, the dead opposite style. Thanks hot topic for UD…I felt so edgy! I had the manic panic hair to complement it too. Oooohhhhh, 90s.

Jenny Avatar

I think you must have received the only bottle of Asphyxia, lol! It was gone from the website instantly, I’ve seen no other reviews, and it’s not even on eBay. Hoping they come up with more! My inner 90’s teenager bought all the rest and I’d like to complete the assortment. Bruise was the first one I bought at Hot Topic in 96 (along with acid rain lipstick, i’d love to have that again!), and it didn’t look anything like the new version. I’m so glad they are doing these vintage collections, even though my wallet isn’t so happy and it’s making me feel old =p

La Doshis Avatar

Dam these UD re releases make me feel old 😉 it’s amazing how unique these were back then in the sea of reds, pinks and nudes. Now, they are no longer unique…boring even to the nail aficionado that’s now used to the duochromey, holos and glitter bombs out there

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