Lipstick I’m Loving Right Now-Bare Escentuals Perfect Mauve September 27, 2010

Hello everyone,

Sorry for the brief blogging hiatus-I have been crazy busy with work and haven’t had a chance to blog lately That is going to be rectified effective immediately

A lipstick that I have been reaching for a lot lately is Bare Escentuals Perfect Mauve. I got this as part of a set for my birthday a while back, so I don’t know the exact price. According to the Bare Escentuals website though, this set retails at $30-not a bad price for three good quality products;  a matching lip liner, lipstick and gloss.

While I use the gloss and the lipstick a lot from this set, I haven’t used the lip liner much, as this isn’t a product that is part of my make-up routine.

According the Bare Escentuals website, the lipstick is:

100% Natural

Naturally decadent, creamy and long-lasting

Uses a healthy mix of 100% pure bareMinerals

This is a great day time lipstick. For me, it is a few shades darker and richer than my natural lip colour, which I like. If you like to know my thoughts on it, read the Pro/Con list below:

Appearances can be deceiving……. July 23, 2010

Hey everyone,

This is a Bourjois Sweet Kiss lipstick that I have had for awhile. I had gotten a few bits and bobs around the same time as I bought this so it got forgotten about. I picked this Bourjois lipstick as part of a Bourjois offer being run at this year’s Xpose Live show, so I’m not 100% sure about the RRP.

Outer packaging/case of lipstick

The shade that I got was 41 Beige elegant, as I am loving all things nude at the moment, and thought I would try and build up a little nude lipstick collection.

In The Nude…. July 21, 2010

Bare Lips

I’m loving the whole nude lip trend seen in magazines and on celebrities at the moment. However, while I like the nude lip look, it’s a tricky one to pull off. I had tried it out a few times before, but I thought like I liked corpse and quickly wiped it off before showing my face in public.

Anyway, I thought that I would give it another go, after discovering a love of lipstick. I consulted Amy, Make-Up and Beauty blogger, for advice on a good nude lipstick, and ended up purchasing a GOSH lipstick (Shade-Darling). This lipstick has a lovely and creamy consistency but ladies be warned with this one-do not apply it to anything less than smooth and recently buffed lips, as most of the lipstick pigment tends to stick to the flaky bits on your lips. From experience, I can assure you it isn’t a good look!!

I think the key thing when trying this look it gloss.

Lipstick are the new lipgloss in my books May 11, 2010

Lots of Lippes!

 

I’ve never been one for lipsticks…….. ever! Until recently I’ve never purchased one, and only had any in my makeup bag as they were free with a make-up offers or I had gotten one as a present. Recently, I spied the new ad for the new Chanel lipsticks, it got me thinking about lipstick. After that, I decided that it was a waste to let the four lipsticks that I had going unused so I decided to start making use of them. 

Over the last few weeks, I have got so many compliments once I changed from the gloss side, and I must say that I really like the fact that lipsticks are so much more pigmented that a gloss, but you can still get that glossy finish from them. 

Anyway, this has led to a spending splurge on all things lipstick lately, from cheaper brands to the more expensive (my purse has been sobbing at the loss of cash as a result). So watch out for loads of lipstick related reviews in the near future. 

Have you moved over from  the gloss side????