Hi Guys & Dolls! Is it just me or does it seem that there is a huge surge of Baked eyeshadows on the market- I’m not at all complaining, I love this type of wet/dry shadow; I love the option to apply color intense when it’s wet, or sheer when it’s dry. Also it’s undeniable that they look gorgeous in the pot. Milani recently expanded it’s range and I have all three to share with you today! Read the rest of this entry
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Milani Crystal Gloss is a non-sticky lipgloss with a scent that Milani describes as “Cotton Candy” though I think it smells like caramel cookies. They have a sponge tip applicator that is a bit on the small side so you may need to do several pulls to get enough gloss on your lips. The tube appears small, but they contain 4.86gm of product, about the same as a MAC lipglass. They retail for about 5.49, and can be found an many different druggstores & mass retailers like Target. The color payoff varies from sheer to medium. Milani recently launched a few new colors for spring 2012 and I have 5 to share with you today. Read the rest of this entry
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A few weeks back I was contacted by Devu Cosmetics, a company from Canada that sells Sleek, Barry M and various other goodies that can be a wee bit difficult to get here in the US& Canada. Sure, for those of us in the US you can order from the Sleek site and the cost of the products and shipping are about the same, but Devu is much faster; it only took a few days for the palette to arrive from Canada to California. Mind, if you are in Canada, shipping is much cheaper/faster; I have many Canadian friends and viewers who lament about how long things take to ship to Canada. Enough with this shipping talk, let’s look at this palette! Read the rest of this entry
Hi Guys and Dolls! Today I’m sharing with you my swatches and thoughts on Lit Cosmetics! I love their glitters and I’ve had them for a while, but they were hiding in the back of a drawer-FOR SHAME! Read the rest of this entry
Hey Guys and Dolls! So I jumped the gun and uploaded the video for this post before writing it out, and now I’m sitting here with bleach on my head…not well planned out. Here’s some awesome product pictures, swatches, and dupes!
Curvaceous LipGlass, Oh Oh Oh Luster Lipstick
Curvaceous Milky Dusty pink. It slightly settles into lines but in person it’s not even noticeable. I’ve seen this look good on NC15-NW45 skintones!
Oh Oh Oh Lipstick Sheer Berry/Plum with golden/Copper shimmer. Luster lipsticks are thin in texture, and are typically pretty sheer. They are also pretty moisturizing feeling and the sheerness makes them very attractive. This is like a little-sister to MAC’s “O” lipstick in the regular line.
Stunner Blush and Avenue Fluidline
Stunner is a light coral-pink thinking blue thoughts. It warm enough to work on many skintones, but it might be too light for very deep tones. I’d consider it Mocha and Fleur Power’s light-skinned baby.
Avenue is a very dark brown with lots of small glitter- more glitter than Blitz and Glitz Fluidline from the regular line.
Clockwise from the top: Outre, Mythical, Carbonized, Creamy Bisque, and Moleskin
From L-R Creamy Bisque, Moleskin, Outre, Mythical, Satin Taupe, Carbonized
Creamy Bisque is a soft off-white Frost eyeshadow with a almost pink sheen. It’s not very intense which is why is makes a fantastic highlight color for beauty makeup. It’s the Piner version of MAC’s Shroom eyeshadow in the regular line.
Moleskin is a must-have light to medium matte brown. It’s the just-right balance of gray, pink and yellow tinted tan and though you many use it different ways, it can work for anyone, as a lid color, crease color or highlight. It’s very similar to Wedge Eyeshadow from Mac’s regular line, but Moleskin has a better texture and color payoff, and is just a hair pinker.
Outre is a mustard-caramel, which sounds really nasty, but as an eyeshadow color it’s fabulous. To my eye this color is identical to the mustard-caramel in the Double Feature 4 duo (Side by side swatch below). This color is great as a crease or transitional color on people with a golden or olive skintones, though it can also work for deeper skintones. The closest thing in the regular line is Soba, though Soba is much browner, and has a slight shimmer.
Mythical is a metallic pink-copper,a nd as far as I’m concerned is a “better-than” dupe for MAC’s Mythology from the regular line.
Satin Taupe is a metallic silver brown taupe. It’s incredibly versatile and works on virtually every skin-tone though the effect changes (on me it’s very brown, but on a deeper skintone it looks a bit more silver. MAC Repromotes this thing like crazy, and while that’s a bit annoying, I don’t mind as long as it’s not a quad where I’d want it but I already have it.
Carbonized is a shimmery chocolate black-brown. in the pan and swatched is seems to be a metallic warm chocolate brown but in use it tends to loose some of the shimmer and shifts to a cooler grey-brown. Incredibly usefula dn easy to blend. there are no direct dupes, but if you want a shimmery warm brown in the regular line try Mulch.
Comparisons:
Wedge, Moleskin
Soba, Outre, Double Feature 4
Center Stage, Carbonized, Mulch
Thanks for stopping by!
-Cora
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Does anyone remember a company called FaceFront? A few years ago they were quite popular with the YouTube Beauty community, and though I never tried them out, it was “on my list”. Then they seemed to just go away, I think I heard that they went out of business. Anyway, fast forward to the here and now: The brand is back and has been taken over by a new comapny. You can read all about it here if you’re interested. Read the rest of this entry
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Today I’m finally sharing my swatches and thoughts on Inglot shadows! For those of you who are out of the loop here’s a brief breakdown: Inglot is a makeup company that started in Poland about 20 years ago. They’ve been in the US for a while (though they’ve only had 2 stores, and until very recently no way to buy online) Luckily Inglot recently launched an online store for the U.S. – YIPPIE! Read the rest of this entry
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I just wanted to touch bases with you on a couple of things: I know Mr. VOT and I were supposed to do our “reverse” husband tag video (wife tag?) this week but our schedules conflicted all week so we’ve had very little time together much less time to film a video together- but it’s coming. Better late than never eh? Speaking of better late than never- My REAL Inglot review is coming up, but it looks like it might have to wait until mon or tues. Review videos takes a bit more for me to organize my thoughts and edit etc and I work all weekend though Monday, so yeah, that whole time thing. Don’t we all wish we had infinite time? I swear I’m not intentionally putting it off!
If I show you pretty swatches will you forgive me?
aaaaaaaand another angle
These were swatched DRY with a flat shader brush, over some concealer as a base.
LOVES IT!
-Cora
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Today I’m sharing my swatches and thoughts for the new Wet ‘n Wild 8 pan palettes. There are a couple of things I forgot to mention in my video- All of these new palettes have a few re-promotes from previous palettes, which is a good thing if you missed out, or really like a color, but it’s kinda annoying when companies repromote the same colors over an over (MAC, I’m looking at you- *cough*Deep Truth*cough*) It might just be my imagination, but some of the new ones seem slightly different (the mushroom-gold in the Nigh Elf palette is warmer than the Comfort Zone version). The good thing is that most of the repeats come from the hard-to-find- Holiday palettes! YAY! Also I forgot to mention that I used the palettes- I used Comfort Zone and Petal Pusher to do the look I was wearing in the review (tutorial coming very soon). They do seem to have a bit of fall out, and some colors (like the Olive green in CZ) are best applied wet to get the full potential!
