It’s a rather gray day here in New York City, and coupled with the fact that I’ve had wicked insomnia all week and that I think I have yet another stress fracture in my right foot, well let’s just say I’m rather cranky.

So when I arrived at the office this morning to find a little bag from Urban Decay with this Kime Buzzelli for Blood Is the New Black t-shirt and Urban’s new holiday palette, my mood brightened.

Urban Decay had Kime, an illustrator and installation artist from the groovy Echo Park neighborhood in LA, to do create the art for their newest product, called the Show Pony Shadow Box after her clothing line and the fashion/art gallery space of the same name. And it turned out amazingly cool. It’s making me relive all the Jem and the Holograms/Jericha/The Misfits fantasies of my youth. Plus, there are two new shadow shades exclusive to this palette and they’re named “Snatch” and “Painkiller”. Awesome.

So, thanks Urban Decay for making me less bitchy this morning and giving me some pretty new eye shadow to wear.

And you thought the Cory Kennedy train had derailed long ago.

NYLON just reported that the face of Urban Decay is now the face of Sebastian, too.

Here’s a little behind-the-scenes video of her shooting the campaign for those of you still in disbelief - click to hear that she (of course!) uses the products on her own time, that it’s made for “people”, and to watch her try to hop around in her broomstick yellow YSL Tributes.

Whether the main product, Whipped Crème, will come with a diagram on how to get the perfectly haven’t-seen-a-shower-in-months look remains to be seen…

We’re always horrified by the statistics that women eat a pound of lipstick a year, or whatever, and it’s certainly impacted our vanity table:

Staring at us from our makeup case are a variety of organic lip balms from Clark’s Botanicals, Boots, Kiehl’s, and Korres, and we’ve almost given up lipstick altogether.

But Urban Decay is taking that concept one step further- while shopping for eye glitter a la Marion Cotillard last week, we noticed they had an entire section called “Vegan Beauty.”

Apparently, many makeups are still made with animal products - anything from lard to cream proteins or honey - that vegans can’t touch.

To resolve that issue, the company has Vegan Friendly labels on all of their appropriate products - which are actually most of them.

We think it’s a great idea and hope other companies follow suit - though perhaps the most “organic” of them all, Burt’s Bees, can never participate, since their wax and honey is indeed made by little animals (and it’s so good!)

PS: The model at right is Thais from Next!

And you thought the campaign announcements were over for today:

First we break the good/bad news that Victoria Beckham is Marc’s new ad muse, and now we’ve got something else:

Cory Kennedy just signed her first beauty contract with Urban Decay cosmetics.

She’ll be their new face for the next year, and her ads will appear in magazines, on billboards and posters, and probably on the makeup counters at Urban Outfitters - where they’ll stand alongside her new clothing line.

At this point, all that’s left is a Le Sportsac line and a Kid Robot toy, and the girl will officially be a franchise.

We love Cory and we’re dying to see what kinds of colors she inspires for the Los Angeles cosmetics line - Internet Indigo? Silver(lake)? Translucent Fairy Dust?

Stay tuned…