Top 5 Favorite Affordable Lipsticks | ColourPop, City Color, Maybelline

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Top Five Affordable/Drugstore Lipsticks

Maybelline Colorsensationals

Color Sensational The Vivids $5.50 from Walmart http://www.walmart.com/ip/22137515?wmlspartner=wlpa&selectedItemId=22137472&adid=22222222227016201414&wl0=&wl1=g&wl2=c&wl3=40842703352&wl4=&wl5=pla&wl6=78656307152&veh=sem

Color Sensational Matte $5.50 from Walmart http://www.walmart.com/ip/39590683?wmlspartner=wlpa&selectedItemId=39590681&adid=22222222227030388638&wl0=&wl1=g&wl2=c&wl3=51487832552&wl4=&wl5=pla&wl6=105950424992&veh=sem

Color Sensational Rebel Bloom Spring $5.50 from Walmart  http://www.walmart.com/ip/Maybelline-New-York-Color-Sensational-Rebel-Bloom-Lipstick-Petal-Pink-0.15-fl-oz/41128630

Milani Color Statement Lipsticks $4.97 from Walmart http://www.walmart.com/ip/24008107?wmlspartner=wlpa&adid=22222222227017325307&wl0=&wl1=g&wl2=c&wl3=40843264592&wl4=&wl5=pla&wl6=78656480192&veh=sem

City Color Cosmetics Be Matte Lipsticks $4.99 http://citycolorcosmetics.com/lips/lipstick/be-matte-lipstick/#.VRs9zLv2pnE

Color Pop Lillie Sticks $5 https://colourpop.com/product-category/lippie-stix-and-pencils/

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Lancome Rouge In Love: Corail In Love 322

Happy Friday Eve! I took a couple of days off of work for my birthday, which was yesterday, to hang out around the house and hit up the beach. 

My birthday dinner was very low key with my mother, sister and boyfriend at a cute little restaurant at a marina nearby. My lipstick of choice for the evening was this gorgeous Lancome Rouge In Love lipstick in the shade Corail in Love #322. I think I got this lipstick during the Sephora Friends and Family sale last year. I saw a swatch of it on Instagram and immediately added it to my cart.

This is my only Rouge in Love shade but it's one of those staple, everyday pinky coral shades. The Rouge in Love lipsticks are meant to provide a balm like consistency that wears for hours. 

The Rouge in Love lipstick glides on super smooth and provides a glossy finish to start. One coat gave me a nice tint and then became more opaque when I applied a second layer.  I found that after a couple of hours wear, the glossiness wore off and I was left with more of a stain. When the sheen wore off I also felt my lips become very dry.

In the photo below I applied Corail in Love over a neutral NYX lip liner. As you can see it still settled in the lines of my lips. 

Overall, the Rouge in Love line offers a great selection of colors and a formula that will satisfy some. For me personally, its not my most favorite formula but I do enjoy the effects of it for the first couple of hours if wear. My main concern, being the dryness, is easily fixd by applying another coat and achieving that glossy, moisturizing sheen again. 

Do you own any of the Lancôme Rouge in Love lipsticks? Are there any shades in the range that you want to try? 

Pink-Peach Ombre Nails

Hello lovelies! Today I am sharing a different take on an 'ombré' mani. I created this type of manicure a while back using different greens which you can see here: http://nicnacksnails.blogspot.com/2011/08/green-striped-mani.html?m=0

This time I brightened it up why using China Glazes Peachy Keen as the base. Then staring at the right side if my nails I applied a strip of Revlon's Passionate Pink followed by a strip of Sally Hansen's Coral Reef. 

I love this kind of manicure for when you want something fun to look at but you don't have much time for nail art. 

One recommendation I would suggest if you attempt to recreate this look is to use easy to work with, thinner polishes. These formulas were on the thicker side and if I had to go back a touch up I had to work with the polish so it didn't become a globby mess, if that's even a word. 

Thanks for stopping by!!

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Urban Decay Revolution Lipsticks: Review, Photos and Swatches!

By now, I am sure you are all aware of Urban Decay's Revolution lipsticks that hit the shelves a couple of months ago. These have been quiet popular in the beauty community and it's not really a mystery as to why!

Urban Decay's Revolution Lipsticks come in 22 gorgeous shades that range from nude, to pink, to berry, to bold red. The formula is probably their best feature. The Revolution lipsticks are incredibly nourishing and are really creamy when applied. They are opaque after a swipe of two across the lips. These lipsticks are formulated with jojoba oil, avacado oil, cocoa butter and shea butter so your lips appear nice and shiny! Normally, with the more moisturizing lipsticks, they tend to have a short life span, but I find these lipsticks to be very long wearing. I get about 3-4 hours wear before I need to re-apply.

The lipsticks come in a gunmetal bullet like casing. It's kind of sleep, yet edgy at the same time. I have to say I am a fan.

I have two shades: Obsessed, which I purchased from Sephora. I also have a mini version of Anarchy which I was so tempted to purchase but very fortunate that it came in my August Ipsy bag! 

Obsessed is a creamy baby, almost bubblegum pink. 

Anarchy is a gorgeous bright fuchsia

These could very well by my new favorite line of lipsticks! I am itching to go purchase some of their nude shades.

Have you tried the Revolution Lipsticks - which shades are your favorite?!

Spring 2013 Makeup: Pinks and Peaches

Hello beauties. I am so happy to be writing this post because it means spring is here and summer is on it's way. Today I am going to share with you my favorite peaches and pinks to wear throughout the next few months. 

As far as nail polishes go Revlon's Passionate Pink, and China Glaze's Peach Keen, and High Hopes all scream spring to me. They are refreshing, bright shades! I have done posts on all of these colors seen here, here, and here.

I love coraly, peach blushes during this season! I think they just look so nice with bronzed skin. I just know I will be wearing Mac's Cream Soda blush that was recently released with the Archie's Girls Collection. This may be sold out online, but definitely check out your Mac counters or stores! Another blush I love for this time of year is Mac's Springsheen. On warm toned ladies, this looks really nice. This is a peachy shimmer shade that offers a really nice glowing cheek. This is a bit sheer but it's great for when you want a subtle peach glow. Swatched below I also have Illamasqua's Lover blush which shattered, unfortunately :( Lover is more of a apricot matte blush but so so beautiful and will look great on a large span of skintones

A few lip-products that I love during this season are Mac's Dazzleglass in Extra Amps, Benefits Ultra Shine lipgloss in Spiked Punch and Mac's Lipstick in Chatterbox. Extra Amps is great because it is so super sparkly and looks great when the sun shines on your lips. Benefits Spiked Punch has super little shimmer and is a really nice peachy sheer gloss.

Mac's Chatterbox is what I purchased to mimic True Blood's Sooki's hot pink lipstick shade she wore the first few seasons. Chatterbox is a cool opaque pink that's not super in your face bright, but it stands out at the same time

While, I don't have any pinks or peaches I wear on my eyes, I did not want to go on with this post without mentioning one shade I love to wear on my lids in the spring. Mac's All That Glitters is a shimmery beige that is so simple to wear along or with a lighter crease color like soft brown, or a deeper shade like Espresso. 

Top to bottom: Mac Extra Amps, Benefit Spiked Punch, Mac Chatterbox

From top to bottom: Mac Springsheen, Mac Cream Soda, Mac All That Glitters,  Illamasqua Lover

What are some of your pink//peach spring must haves?

xxx

Chanel Joues Contraste Blush In Love

I have gone this long without owning any Chanel JC blushes. I was lurking around e-bay a little while back and came across a seller of display size Chanel blushes, and all these other lovely Chanel products. Instead of paying the $42.00 for the standard packaging, I received this for $30. the only downside is that it is not as travel friendly (it does come with a plastic cover). But it was a beautiful color for a cheaper price so I though it was worth it. 

This bush is what I wanted Nars Orgasm to be. It is more sheet, and less glittery than Orgasm, which is why I love it so much more. Chanel's In Love is the same beautiful coral - peach color with golden shimmer that blends beautifully onto the skin. The texture is velvety and definitely worth the splurge if you have some spare cash!

The best glitters in life are free...

Happy Hump day everyone :) I have a quick swatch for you tonight. I am meeting family out for dinner in a few.

The other night I was in a rush to get ready and didn't want to leave my house naked....my nails of course. I slapped on one coat of Zoya's Reagan polish and added a glitter that I received in a swap for free! It is a LA Color Craze glitter. I cannot find the name of the color for the life of me!

Flowers Flowers Flowers!

Happy Friday! Although it has been absolutely miserable where I live on the East Coast I did a fun summer time mani to liven my nails a bit. I saw this mani on Nailed It! Her nail art is so fun and her blog is amazing! Definitely heck it out 

For the base I used Maybelline's Grey T-Glamour

Yellow: Zoya Pippa

Pink: Revlon Colorstay Passionate Pink

Blue: China Glaze: Flying High

I am so loving this mani,  I still have it on and I applied it Wednesday! That is actually a record for me haha :)

That's it for my quick post, hope you guys have a great extended weekend for Memorial Day!!!

String Mani

As promised in my last post, here is my string mani with Revlon Colorstay's Passionate Pink nail polish and Zoya's Pippa. After seeing Makeup Withdrawal's String mani post here. I immediately  wanted to try it.

The concept of the mani is pretty easy. All you need is a dotter, or something of the sort and some nail polish. After spilling out some of Pippa I let the polish get a little tacky. This was the hardest part for me because I am pretty impatient when it comes to waiting around. When the polish gets tacky enough to the point where it creates strings, all you need to do is drag the strings across your nail and whala!

This can get a little messy but the end result is so much fun!

Revlon Colorstay Passionate Pink

I have been on somewhat of a Revlon kick recently so when I was perusing through the drug store a few weeks ago I picked up one of their new Colorstay nail polishes. A co-worker of mine gets gel manicures had a color on one day very reminiscent of this shade right here and I was absolutely obsessed with it so Passionate Pink was the color I chose to get (The color range is actually pretty decent!) The formula of this polish was really great. Two smooth creamy coats and it gave my nails a gel like look. The brust of these is a lot like the Sally Hansen Insta Dri brushes except a little smaller. I actually liked the brushes on this a lot. 

Keep your eyes peeled for a String of Polish manicure next week! 

Thoughts? Have you tried the new Revlon Colorstay polishes? 

Finger Paints Rose Patina

Hello ladies. I just finished my last graduate class. It feels SO good! To celebrate I have a fun shimmery pink polish. This one is actually my moms. This is not a color I would usually go for but it actually turned out really pretty on my nails. It is Rosa Patina by Finger Paints. I don't own many FP but the ones I do own are pretty impressive. This was an easy 2 coater and the fact that it has shimmers made it an instant fav. 

OPI DS Extravagance

Hey girls. I have a really quick post before I go to bed! I felt like wearing another holo again today so I put on a polish I wasn't crazy about the first time. OPI's DS Extravagance is obviously one of their Designer Series polishes. While many of the other DS shades are hard to get a hold of this one has been at my Ulta for a while so check yours out if you don't already have it!

Extravagance is a berry/wine glittery very subtle scattered holographic polish.

The application and clean up of this was super easy! It is a pretty opaque polish and looked amazing after 2 coats. I am definitely loving this the second time around! The only disappointment is that it chipped pretty quickly, but all holos do so I am not holding that against it!

Thanks for looking!

Rite Aid Snowman Swatch

The other day while perusing Rite Aid I came across a picked over Snowman polish display. They only had a few glitters left - my friend chose the green and I chose this deep pink glitter. We tend to share polishes so I wasn't going to fight her for the green one ;)

I applied this over a coat of OPI's Overexposed in South Beach simply because I knew

I was not going to be in the mood to remove a glitter when it came time to take this manicure off

I always seem to get the most compliments on the least expensive polishes :)

Do you have any of the Snowman polishes?

NYX Gilded Glitter

Sorry I have been MIA for...almost 2 weeks !! :o

2 weeks ago it was my 23rd birthday & then my family visited from Massachusetts.

My brother rents a house down by the beach for a week so I spent most of the week there.

Then last Friday I saw My Chemical Romance and Blink 182 and have done nothing but

listen to their music and just became engulfed with reblogging their photos on tumblr haha.

Anywhoo, I have a glitter to make it up to you all :D

NYX's Gilded Glitter is unlike any glitter I own. It's not so much a glitter as it is a gold flakie!

Here it is over a pink Sally Hansen Insta Dri

This polish seriously looks great over ANYthing.

Only one coat is needed to get just enough glitter evenly dispersed :)

This was my first experience with NYX girls polish and I have no complaints :)

What are you favorite NYX Girls polishes?

Holo Swatches Part 2: China Glaze & Nicole by OPI

Hey everyone. I have a few quick swatches before I head down to my brother's beach house

for the day!

I have been lucky enough to obtain most of my holos through swaps, ebay, and blog sales.

China Glaze QT came to be through a swap on MakeUpAlley.

QT is obviously a gorgeous pink linear holo.

I find ChG holos are really the easiest to apply. No dragging or patchiness like I had

with the next swatch I have comming up, an the Nfu Oh holo.

The next holo swatch I have is a NicStick from Nicole by OPI.

I know people are having some trouble finding these but I found it at a local drugstore

in New Jersey (Harmons).

This is 3 coats due to the fact that it dragged a little bit.

Hope you enjoyed those :)