Last year I got mad at YSL for their holiday star product. The Yves Saint Laurent Wildly Gold palette was, in my opinion, the very worst kind of limited-edition collectible. I have to admit, though, that this year's holiday 2015 Kiss & Love palette makes up for it. Kind of.

ysl holiday 2015 kiss & love

If you caught my rage-y post about the YSL Wildly Gold palette last year, you know exactly what got me worked up. The darned thing was – and is – just too gorgeous to use. I still have it archived. Having photographed it to preserve its image for as long as the Internet lasts was not enough to allow me to mar its prettiness with a makeup brush. The Yves Saint Laurent Kiss & Love palette is just as gorgeous, all red-lip embossed gold.

I still think you might need to have one Kiss & Love Palette ($100 at sephora.ca and $95 at nordstrom.com) to archive and one to play with. At least because YSL has repeated the format, I might bring myself to use this year's. Or last year's. Maybe.

I have no problem using the YSL Rouge Pur Couture Kiss & Love lipstick, though, or the eye-candy Kiss & Love Touche Eclat. Using them won't mess up the packaging, you see. And they make me smile. A couple of moments of distraction from real life, you know? Beauty pause-buttons. 

Pretty pictures below...

I can't not say this: the YSL Touch Eclat Kiss & Love Radiant Touch ($50 at sephora.ca and $42 at nordstrom.com) is a brightening pen, not a concealer. I don't care that even YSL calls it a concealer, it "conceals" only the slightest shadows. If you have dark circles, this won't do it for you. It'll do wonders at brightening the high points of your bone structure, though.

Dying over these YSL holiday 2015 Rouge Pur Couture Lipsticks in Le Rouge, Le Orange, Le Fuchsia and Le Nu ($39 at sephora.ca and $36 at nordstrom.com). 

And omg there's also the most stunning limited-edition Black Red shade, a VIB exclusive ($39 at sephora.ca and $36 at sephora.com), and aww man, I need it.

I totally love these two firey YSL holiday 2015 La Laque nail polish shades, Rouge d'Or and Carmin d'Or ($27 at nordstrom.com). I don't usually go for shimmer nail colour, but it looks so festive and exuberant in the bottles.

The YSL Kiss & Love collection is available at sephora.ca, sephora.com and nordstrom.com (the nail colour appears to be only at Nordstrom).

I'm not quite sure how the YSL Kiss & Love array is holiday, actually. Same with the Tarte Light of the Party set, or Too Faced Grand Palais or Petite Maison sets, or Kat Von D collection... if it's already for sale, is it really holiday? Or are these just post-Fall releases masquerading as holiday in order to satisfy holiday-collection hungry makeup junkies?

Still... 

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