Revlon Colorburst Lipsticks: Review & Swatches

Give some love to some of my favourite drugstore lipsticks, Revlon Colorburst Lipsticks.  I currently own 3 colors: Raspberry (045), Plum (010) and Peach (075).  My love of these first started about 2 years ago when I started to purchase and wear my own lipstick (rather than borrow my mom's).  These were on sale and I decided that Peach seemed like a pretty and safe colour.  Boy, am I ever happy I picked this lipstick up.  Until this day, Revlon continues to be one of my favourite lip product brand, right next to MAC and Lancome, among other Department store brands. At it's affordable cost and knowing how easily accessible they are, these lipsticks definitely deserve some love.

Trending: Hot Pink Lips

There's always some trend or another that you fall into without even realizing it.  I've been sporting this lipstick/lipgloss combo all month and thinking to myself "I need to do a post on this combo - I LOVE IT."  Then sure enough, I am flipping through a magazine, surfing the web, and checking out celebrities and what do I see?  Hot Pink Lips.  A perfect way to brighten up any look.  A perfect alternative and transition out of bold wintery red lips.

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Maybelline 24 hr Color Tattoo Eyeshadow: Swatches & Review

Today's feature product is the new 24 hr Color Tatto Eyeshadows by Maybelline EyeStudio.  If you have not already read/seen the hype about these, let me explain in brief what these are.  I would describe these to be a cream eyeshadow (or eyeshadow base) created by Maybelline that claims to have tattoo intensity and tenacity.  They are very comparable to MAC Paint Pots.  They come in a vide range of neutrals and vibrant colors (such as Teal, Orange & Purple).  However, these seem to have better staying power than MAC Paint Pots and are much more affordable.

Essie: It's Genius

Another day, another nail color, another Essie polish!  Talk about giving my nails a little TLC.  My favorite Essie polishes are the ones with this type of finish.  An (iridescent) shimmer finish.  Where it is not a creme sheen or a jelly or a foil or metallic but where it looks like it has very finely milled glitter in the polish and is almost slightly metallic when it catches the light.  It's Genius is part of Essie's permanent collection and is a gorgeous dark magenta-purple shade with silver reflects embedded within the polish.

Natural light - catching the light

Shop MAC, Cook MAC: Spring 2012 Collection (INFO & PHOTOS)

I don't know about you, but when I heard I about this new collection launching February 9th, 2012 (in North America and online at maccosmetics.com) I was a little confused.  However, this collection's colours promise to be fun, bright and vibrant!

Among the products being released are (which are limited edition) 3 eyeshadow quads, 6 lipsticks, 5 kissable lipcolours, 4 lip balms, 3 nail polishes, 3 cremeblend blushes, 3 fluidlines as well as things from their permanent line: 2 studio careblend/pressed, 1 mascara and 2 brushes. The packaging looks to be just as fun and vibrant as the collection colours themselves.  Styled after a retro 'done-up' & 'made-up' house wife who goes out, shops then comes home to cook - these colours are bright and vibrant.  Perfect for the upcoming Spring and Summer months.

Revlon Lip Butters: Swatches & Review!

Warning: this post will be very picture heavy. I own 16 of the 20 shades available.

OH the famous revlon lip butters.  When these were released, I, like so many others hopped on the bandwagon and got caught up in the lip butter craze.  I applaude revlon for yet another extremely successful lip product.  These are some of the best lip products I own.

Revlon does an excellent job at producing high quality lip products in a wide range of colorus. The finish of these is along the lines of a  luster lipsticks with a tinted lip balm coloring.  But some are equally as pigmented as lipsticks and they are very reminiscent of Rouge Coco Shines by Chanel (also a luster finish.)  They are a healthy cross between glide on creamy balm and luster lipstick.

So as mentioned, I own 16 of the 20 revlon lip butter shades available.  I might have gone a little crazy - but I found most of these on some sort of sale.  For those of you who are like me and have a hard time deciding on what to get, hopefully this picture intensive post will help you out.

MAC: Tour de Fabulous Lipglass: Swatches & Review

I'd like to welcome to the Tour de Fabulous Lipglass to my ever growing MAC collection.  According to the beauty gurus - and swatches I did myself at the store - this lipglass is a fairly good dupe if not complimentary shade for the limited edition matte lipstick, Flamingo, from the Iris Apfel collection.  I would have to agree.  The Tour de Fabulous collection was named after this one shade and with good reason.  I feel as if this would be flattering on most if not all skin tones.

OPI: Rally Pretty Pink

From the Serena Williams OPI Collection, I introduce to you 'Rally Pretty Pink'.  This duo-chrome foil polish has hints of bronze and purple/plum to it.  I wouldn't per say define this as a 'pink' but more of a bronzed-purple shade.  This beautiful shade goes on purple with slight bronze glitter on first coat and is very sheer - it needed about 3 - 4 coats to achieve full opacity.

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Fresh: Sugar Tinted Lip Treatment (ft. the Mini Kissing Trio!): Swatches & Review

Hello.  I'd like to introduce you to my star lip product: Fresh Sugar Tinted Lip Treatment.  For over a year now, I have been a disciple of these lip products.  I am never without my Fresh Sugar Rosé Tinted Lip Treatment (spf 15).  I have a correction to make - I am on my third tube of this particular color.  Rosé, if I am not mistaken, was their original Tinted Treatment and comes in a baby pink tube.

Sugar fresh & Sugar Rosé are regular size - the others are minis

Essie: Wrapped in Rubies

One thing is for certain, these pictures do not do this nail polish shade justice.  I'm talking about Essie's Wrapped in Rubies.  I have never been so curious about a permanent collection Essie polish as I was with this one.  I swore when I found it that I thought it was seasonal with the way it looks.  Again, this is one of those iridescent shimmer polishes.  This is like an amped up version of what I think It's Genius is (post on Essie's 'It's Genius' to come soon).

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Essie: Angora Cardi

If you haven't guessed already, I am a nail polish junkie. a fanatic. a devotee... I am nail polish obsessed. Well enough about my addiction to nail varnish, this is Essie's Angora Cardi.  The one thing I love about Essie, is their colour selection.  Not just their seasonal collections but their permanent line as well.  The finish and colours are amazing.  My only gripe with Essie?  The consistency of many of their polishes is too thin - which means you need more than 2 coats to get an opaque colour.  Not this one!

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Jewelmint: Silver Swan Bracelet (JM finally in Canada!)

Jewelmint now ships to Canada!  If you haven't heard of Jewelmint, it's a jewelry line/site created by the celebrity stylist, Cher Colture, and fashion icon, Kate Bosworth.  Each month, they release new pieces of quality made jewelry.  Essentially, you need to take a style quiz and they do their best to match pieces they create to your personal sense of style.  Keep in mind, you can always favourite a piece that shows up in your showroom or remove it - as well as see more.   What I love is how different these pieces are and how you don't see things quite like them anywhere else.

Favourite Products of 2011

I cannot believe that it's already midway through January 2012.  It seems that 2011 passed by in the wink of an eye.  I hardly remember what I did and when I did it.  It seems like just yesterday I was celebrating NYE 2011 with my girls.  Talk about fast.  I admit that a lot of things happened in 2011 though.  That being said, I think I've grown up some and though I'm still searching to find myself and what inspires me, I found a lot of things that I liked over the last year.  So without further ado, here are my favourites of 2011!

Disclaimer: all products mention were purchased by me with my own money unless otherwise stated.

December Favourites

This is a little belated but it didn't occur to me to do a monthly favourite blog post.  However, there are a lot of products I really did enjoy and use a lot of over the month of December.  Though I did travel, some of these still came with me and got used.  I will do a 2011 favourites - when I get the chance - which will be up before the end of January... but here are some of my favourites for the month of December 2011.

Las Vegas, NV with the Girls

Palazzo's main entrance

Over the winter holidays, I managed to go to Las Vegas with some of my best friends from high school - ie. my girls!  We had such a blast.  These plans were not long in the making.  We had the idea about a year ago but nothing really came of it until a few months before as we started looking for flights and deals.  Amazingly enough, we snagged a relatively inexpensive flight from Bellingham, WA and a great rate at the Palazzo for a 2 double-bed Bella suite - facing the strip! (our room literally over looked the pool.)

Iris Apfel for MAC Cosmetics

This past Sunday (January 5, 2012), MAC released it's newest collection - Iris Apfel for MAC.  The beautiful thing about this collaboration is the colours they chose to release.  Bold and bright colours perfect for the coming Spring and Summer months.

Flamingo

The part I was most excited about - in this release - was the lipsticks.  They are named after various birds (except for one - Morange - which is part of their permanent line) and are very brightly coloured.

There are 5 limited edition shades:  Flamingo (a light milky bright coral), Party Parrot (a bright red-pink), Pink Pigeon (a 'brightest clean pink'), Scarlet Ibis (a bright orange-red), & Morange (a 'loudmouth orange' - amplified creme).

Lash Lovelies by Benefit

The first thing I usually notice about a person is their eyes.  I adore it when girls have simple eye make-up and long, defined and voluminous lashes.  You know the ones?  Those eyes that you think, "how did she get those incredible lashes when mine are ....", well my personal lashes are straight and not-so-amazing.  I'm working on it.

I was at Shopper's Drug Mart today and came across these babies. or Lovies.  Benefit Cosmetics has come out with a new line of lashes called "Lash Lovies".  The range includes seven styles of flirty lashes with creative names (Big Spender, Debutante, Little Flirt, Pin-up, Prima Donna, Rockette and Starlet) as well as their single lashes (which are appropriately named Going Solo).  They are priced at $18 CAD a pair (or $15 USD from the Benefit website.)

Prima Donna Lash

Sally Hansen 'Co-bolt Blue'

It's been a while since my last post - I've been busy.  I hope everyone had a fantastic holiday season!  I know I did - but more about that later.  Quick and easy post of the week - or day.  This is Sally Hansen's Insta-Dri formula in "Co-bolt Blue".

In my opinion, this is a gorgeous, deep marine cobalt blue.  The formula itself is thick and opaque - so realistically, one coat of this lovely color would do the trick - but as always I do two coats because that's just how I prefer things.  It's lasting power is fair enough for it's low price tag of under $4 at any drugstore.