One of my latest obsessions is Bobbi Brown Pressed Powder in Golden Orange. The shade adds a touch of brightness to my skin, which counteracts any sallowness I may have from sleep deprivation - which has been happening a lot lately - and is the perfect finishing touch to any makeup routine. Not to mention that it cuts down on oiliness, which is my constant enemy.
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I love Mally and I usually love her products, but her Gemlights Lip Gloss? Not so much. Sorry, my love!
It's not that the glosses are bad. They are certainly beautiful shimmery colors - I especially love the deep, vampy red - but the texture is grainy (I understand it's because of the glitter, but I hate the sand-like feel on my lips) and the scent is really overpowering. It's not all that pleasant at all. Though I think these glosses do make your lips look sparkly and luscious, I just can't recommend them. Skip this trio and try any of Mally's other glorious glosses. It's not necessary to have glittery lips, anyway.
Y'all know I love me some Mally Roncal. And I love her Mally Beauty line. I think she has some really great products and they're all really fun and most work just as well, or better even, than she claims they do.
Mally is a regular feature on QVC's Saturday Night Beauty. Every time I watch her, there's a new product I'd like to try. This last time, it was her High Shine Liquid Lipstick. When I saw her applying this liquid lipstick to her models, I fell instantly in lust with it. I had to have it on my hot little lips. So, I ordered it in three of the four available shades: Perfect Pink, Summer Peach and Sweet Berry. I have extreme lovement for these, y'all! They offer all the opaque-y goodness of a lipstick with the high shine of a lipgloss. They're $20 on QVC.com, but if you buy more than once, you get each additional one for $17. My favorite of the three I have is the Sweet Berry, which looks great on brown skin. I am irritated by the click-pen application, as I think those things are more of a pain than they're worth - you always click up either not enough or too much and there's no way to get it back in the tube once it's out there and they get all messy. But the brush feels luxurious against the lips and the product itself is not to be beat.
Shenanigans.
So, DuWop has a "Twilight" version of their popular Lip Venom. The Twilight Venom contains the clear cinnamon-laced gloss, red globules of pigment that are supposed to look like blood and glitter. All mingled together, they look like sparkly blood. When you apply it to your lips, it burns and stings for a minute and your lips swell (from a reaction to the active ingredient), which is what causes the plumping effect. One layer leaves your lips a very, very sheer red, but if you layer a bit more you can achieve a deeper shade. In fact, after several layers, I actually looked like I had bloody lips (my brother asked me what was wrong with my mouth - ha!). So, other than the fact that this stuff makes you look like you've been punched in your mouth, the tingling sensation isn't awesome and, though it's supposed to be a stain, it wears off really quickly. Major disappointment.
While deodorant is not one of the things that I usually review here on The Life of A Ladybug, it is clearly a product that goes a long way toward beautifying oneself, wouldn't you say? I mean, can you really be beautiful if you're funky - I ask you?
Unfotunately, I am not in love with Secret Clinical Strength. I find that it's hard to get the product to "click" up enough for application, the product itself is somewhat dry and hard to rub onto the skin and the scent leaves a lot to be desired. I tried it in "Marathon" which is designed for athletes - it's supposed to renew itself through hot and sweaty conditions. What I have noticed is that, when I begin to sweat, the deodorant takes on a tacky, sticky feel, which is uncomfortable and, honestly, I don't think the scent renews itself at all (which is actually kind of fine with me, since I don't like the scent). I'm loathe to say that I don't really care for this product, however, I do like Secret's other antiperspirants/deodorants, so I would advocate going with one of their other products.
(This review was based on a free sample provided for me by a PR company. For more information, please see my Disclosure Policy.)
I have been blatantly obvious about my feelings on Maybelline Great Lash mascara. I am not a fan. I have never understood how it is the #1 best selling mascara on the market, unless it's because it's the most well-marketed and the cheapest. I'm also irked by Great Lash because Maybelline makes great mascaras, otherwise!
Well, let me just say that Maybelline has shut my mouth with this new iteration of Great Lash - Maybelline Great Lash BIG! As opposed to its older sister, Great Lash BIG is excellent at producing length and volume in just one coat. This is a great drugstore brand mascara and Maybelline finally got it right.
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Y'all! Y'all. I have found two magnificent mascaras to share with you! Of course, you know that yours truly is constantly on the hunt for the perfect mascara. I'm not sure that "perfect" exists, but darn good is out there and it is my pleasure to share them with you all.
The two mascaras I'm sharing today, L'Oreal Extra Volume Collagen Mascara and tarte Lights, Camera, Lashes do quite similar things. Both mascaras offer longer, lusher, thicker, sooty black lashes. Lights, Camera, Lashes has the added benefits of mineral pigments, being fragrance, petrochemical, paraben, phthalate and oil free. So if you're into all-natural make-up, it's a great option and the best mineral mascara that I've found to date. But if you're not all that much of a natural make-up gal, L'Oreal Extra Volume Collagen is an awesome mascara, offering the advantages of two of my favorite mascaras - L'Oreal Carbon Black and Maybelline The Colossal. Extra Volume Collagen Mascara leaves your lashes so thick and long that I don't wear it when I'm sporting my glasses, for fear that my bodacious lashes will bat up againt the lenses.
You can pick up L'Oreal Extra Volume Collagen Mascara at your local drugstore and tarte Lights, Camera, Lashes at Sephora or on www.tartecosmetics.com.
Bobbi Brown has updated her Long Wear Cream Shadows by adding the new Metallic Long-Wear Cream Shadow Collection. The original Long-Wear Cream Shadow is award-winning and these new highly shimmery, glitterfied versions are going to turn heads! I have Starry Night, which, in the jar, looks like a deep blue with loads of glitter. And that is, in fact, what it is. You put it on and it will last all day and you will look like a glitter queen. Which makes me unbelievably happy.
