Smashbox Lipsticks

I have a few smashbox lipsticks I have been meaning to try out they literally have been sitting in my makeup box for a few months.


One is from an older collection and the other is a newer one

They are both pinks but one is Fushia Flash and the other is Pout. I am def starting to try out of my normal wear to try new things! It's hard to step out of the comfort zone but hey thats the only way you can find new favorites!!!

Fuschia Flash is exactly its name a fuschia or purple-pink color and Pout is a light pink one

As you can see on the swatches Fushia Flash is a matte color and Pout is a creamy shiny one

Fushia flash looks really good and I feel like its a color that would look nice on both light and dark skintone 

Pout on the otherhand didn't go well with my natural lip color. I feel like it was blotchy. Not a big fan of it =(

Price- $20
Where to find- http://www.smashbox.com/ or any department stores that carries this brand

**disclaimer-these products were purchased by me **

Essence Makeup Review

As a student I love affordable makeup. So when Essence Cosmetics offered me the opportunity to review some of there products I said of course!

Check out what I tried below...


Price $4.99

The first product I got to try was the Stays no matter what 24 h volume mascara in black. As I say in every review I want mascara that will give me some serious length and volume. I hate flat lashes so I am always looking for dramatic looks!


The brush itself is good as you can see not a lot of excess mascara between bristles so that helps in regards to clumps. I am super shocked at how well the length and volume is with this mascara. I seriously wouldn't think a mascara less than $5 would give good results. I have been using this mascara for the past two weeks and have been happy.


Price: $3.29
The next thing I tried was the Stays no matter what 24 hr eyeliner

The tip is pretty good which makes it easy to apply

It comes off easily however I found it was not really waterproof. Right before my big move to Ca I had lots of emotions so of course I shed a few tears and noticed my inner eyelid area lost all of the eyeliner. With that sad I wasn't really impressed.

Price: $1.99
The next thing I tried was the Kiss Care Love Lip Balm. First thing I noticed was the bubble gum smell or something yummy it had. They really don't give much color to your normal lip color and the consistency is not too sticky/thick or too thing where you have to keep adding some on. I would say it is just good enough. 

Price: $3.49
Finally I tried the 3D eyeshadow in Irresistable smoky and Irresistable mermaids kiss

The shape of the shadow is cool bc if there is one thing I had in duo eyeshadows is there is no clear separation between the two and I always get the darker color all in the light one. Here there is a diff in one from the other so you could use just one only and not make a big mess in the other.

Here are the swatches of the colors. On the left is Smoky and the right is Mermaid kiss. I am not a fan of the shimmery shadows so of course these shadows on not something I would use but they do have good pigmentation. These swatches are just the shadow so with a good primer they would give good color.



Where to find: Any ulta store

**disclaimer-this product was provided for my 100% honest opinion**

EOS Basket of Fruit Smooth Sphere Lip Balm Collection

It wasn't until I started blogging when I first got introduced to EOS. Sphere-shaped these little lip balms are conviently shaped to fit anywhere! This fall EOS came up with a Basket of Fruit Collection that I got a chance to review. 

The Basket of fruit collection comes in a cute box that has the picnic basket kind of print with each lip balm showing in the front.


The four kinds of lip balm included in this collection are: Pomegranate Raspberry, a limited edition Fresh Watermelon, Summer Fruit, and Strawberry Sorbet


These lip balms are organic, made from 100% natural ingredients, and are made with shea butter and jojoba oil. I love the unique shape and can throw this literally in any bag. I also like that shape of the lip balm itself it helps so I get every area of my lips and I just love twisting it to close it. With other lip glosses were you twist to get more product out and I can't tell you how many times I forget and then my balm smashes you don't have to worry about that with EOS lip balms. Plus all the balms smell amazing!

This collection is here till October so if you love EOS like me get this collection def worth it considering each balm is usually $3 a piece.

Price- ~$10-11

Where to find- Target, Drugstore.com, EOS online

**disclaimer- this product was provided for my 100% honest opinion**

Almay Color + Care Liquid Lip Balm

When I first the display for the new Almay Color + Care Liquid Lip Balm I thought I have to have them all! The colors looked so beautiful with amazing pigmentation. What in intrigued me the most was the fact that it was a liquid lip balm. Now I don't know about you but I had to see what the texture was and how it differed from other lip balms and etc. The collection consists of 10 different shades of various purples, pinks, corals and nudes and since they only had 8 at my local store I went ahead and got them all.


The colors I got were: Just Plum, Apple-a-day, Pink, Apricot, Cantaloupe, blooming, rosy lipped, and nudetrients.

Don't the colors look amazing??

The first thing I had to examine is the texture. The wand looks like your everyday lip gloss one. The texture is a thick, when I touch it with my finger its a little on the sticky side so if your accidently touch it you def will have to wash your hands after. I like the feeling it has on my lips but def don't like the stickiness of it. And to me they felt like lip gloss I really didn't understand how they were considered liquid lip balm??

So how does the pigmentation look?? 

I picked 3 of the colors to try out

The first color I chose was Pink. This color looks very pink and let me tell you it looks nothing like it does in that tube. If you look at my swatch it really only added a hint of pink on my lips and instead just looked like a clear gloss on.

So I grabbed apricot since it was a deep color on the bottle and thought it def will show up on me. Again it adds a hint of color on my lips but I was expecting amazing bright color but you can still see my natural lip pigmentation on my lips.

The last one I tried was the nudetriments one because it was the lightest one and thought this one will def show on my lips which are darker. Again, you can only see a slight pigmentation which def doesn't represent the color it appears on the bottle.

I also tried the Apple-a-day and Just plum but forgot to take pictures of those two and those being darker colors also showed little pigmentation. I am not sure if its because my lips are dark or what not but I think the pigmentation could be a lot better! Also another thing I want to add is they didn't last long either so I had to constantly re-apply the balm. Overall, I would have to pass on the Almay color + Care Liquid lip balm. If they had better pigmentation, better longeivity, and a more lip balm kind of texture. I honestly thought I was wearing lip gloss when I applied it. Bummed bc they were almost $6 each and I probably won't use them again.  


What did you think of the Almay Color + Care Liquid Lip Balm??

Price: $5.99 ea
Where to find- Any Drug stores- CVS, Walgreens, Walmart, Target, etc.

http://www.almay.com/Home/products/Lips/lip-balm/almay-color-plus-care-liquid-lip-balm.aspx

**disclaimer-These products were purchased by me**

NYC Duel 2 in 1 Lip Color

I love love love lipstick now. My stash has grown from none to a whole bunch in a little less than a year. I love the variation in colors and types like matte and such. 

When NYC reached out to me about reviewing their City Duel 2 in 1 Lip colors I had to see what they were about.

 

The 2 in 1 lipsticks are exactly what they say they are. Each one has two shades in one that you could use individually or as a combination. It's really cool because its kind of like you get two for the price of one. Most of the 2 in 1 duel colors have a dark and light color and when you combine them you get a color in between the both

I received four colors in this collection: The Empire Lilacs, The Rock a Fella, The waldorf Roses, and The vintage pinks. Each swatch I will show you has the lighter color on top and the darker shade on bottom

Here are swatches of both shades in each lipstick.

For the swatches I thought it would be cool to show you how each color individually looks and then what color you get when you combine the two

The empire lilacs has a soft frosted pink color and a darker pink color on the bottom.

I combined the two colors to get a color a little lighter than the original darker pink

The Rock a fellas has a light baby pink on one side and a darker neon kind of pink on the other

When you combine the two you get a really nice pink color! This def was my favorite combination look!

The Waldorf Roses has a light baby pink on top and a darker pink color on the bottom. Weird how it looks almost red here but it def is more pinkish in real life.

When you combine the two you get a nice softer pink color. This was my second favorite combination look!

The vintage pink has a lighter pink on top that is barely noticeable on my lips and a slightly darker pink on bottomw. This was the most natural looking color of the four.

Combination of the lipsticks gave a natural pink that could be worn easily during the day

Overall, I like the idea of having a duel lipstick so you can essentially get 3 looks out of it. Most of the ones I got to review were pinks but I def want to check out nude or reds they might have. One thing I appreciate is how affordable this lipstick are. Pigmentation was okay but they don't stay on for too long if your drink, eating, etc as most lipsticks do.

Price- $2.99

Where to find-CVS, Target, Walmart, Walgreens or other drug store retailers

http://newyorkcolor.com/products/lips/lipcolor/city-duet-2-1-lip-color

Mac Ruby Woo vs. Riri Woo

I think everyone was trying to get there hands on RiRi Woo a remake of Macs Ruby Woo lipstick with a twist. I know I joined the part super late and left it on my work computer (I know bad bad girl) while I did work and I probably waited about 30 minutes and it went just in time to get my hands on it before it sold out! I literally got one right before it closed. I couldn't believe it. 

Since I purchased Ruby Woo about a year ago I thought I would do a post to see how different or similar the two are.

All pictures will be with Ruby Woo on the left side and RiRi Woo on the right

Lipstick shot of both Ruby Woo and RiRi Woo (this lipstick has an imprint of RiRi signature)


The first thing I wanted to do was a swatch of both lipsticks. The Ruby Woo looks lighter more tomato red but if you look at RiRi Woo looks more deeper of a red.

So let's see what each looks like on??


Ruby Woo


RiRi Woo


Sorry the lighting is really crappy...but I decided to take a picture of them side by side

Ruby Woo is on the upper lip while RiRi Woo is on the lower lip? 

Can you tell the difference? I hate to admit it but I really can't tell a difference when it's actually on. I can tell a difference with my arm swatches. So personally if you are own a Ruby Woo I would probably save your $$ for purchasing something else in the RiRi collection. I just hope she has unique stuff because if everything is just a remake of other old Mac stuff I will be sad. Since my Ruby Woo is looking nasty I prob will toss it. 

Do you think Ruby Woo and RiRi Woo look different of similar? Comment below. 

Price $15

They are currently sold out but more will be up soon in June. Sign up for their email list here


**disclaimer-this product was purchased by me**

Milani ColorStatement Browns and Nudes Part two

OMG I just realized I forgot to post the second part review of the Milani ColorStatement lipsticks I received to review. Here are the remaining Browns and Nudes I got to review


All the browns and nudes in the ColorStatement Collection

Last weeks post was more brown colors while this week is the lighter browns and nudes.

We got Bronze Beauty (BB), D'Oro (D), Teddy Bare (TB), Nude Cream (NC) and Dulce Caramelo (DC)

Here is hand swatches of all the colors listed above: BB. D, TB, NC, and DC

Bronze beauty is a darker orange-brown shimmer lipstick.

D'Oro is a very bronzy golden metallic brown color.

Teddy Bare is a nice natural cream color that would make a perfect work lipstick color

Nude cream is a lighter cream lipstick. Surpringly it still looks good on brown skin tone! Love it!

Dulce Carmelo is a pearl nude color that could also be worn in the workplace. Very nice and natural for people who are just starting to wear lipstick and want to start off light!

The two lip liners that are with the brown and nudes are: Cocoa and spice

Hand swatches of Cocoa (#10) and Spice (#8)

Overall, I def like the nudes better than the browns. There nice colors but just not that nice on me. I def will be wearing the nudes to work for sure! As I work in a profession where I can't wear any reds orpinks the nudes will be perfect so I can still wear some kind of lipstick!

What was your favorite brown or nude color?


Part 1 of the Brown and Nudes review can be seen here

Want to check out any of the colors in this review or other colors in the collection? Check out Milani's COLORstatement Lipsticks Here or Liners Here 

Lipsticks available at any drug store: CVS, Target, Walgreens, Walmart and Kmart
Price $5.99

Want to see swatches of the other lipsticks in this collection? 

Check out my older post links below

http://www.youhadmeatmakeup.com/2013/03/milani-colorstatement-plums-berries.html
http://www.youhadmeatmakeup.com/2013/02/milani-colorstatement-lipsticks-part-2.html
http://www.youhadmeatmakeup.com/2013/01/milani-colorstatement-lipsticks-and.html

**disclaimer-This product was provided for my 100% honest opinion**