Maybelline Color Whisper by Color Sensational Review, Photos & Swatches

Maybelline Color Whisper by Color Sensational is a fairly new line of lip products. The concept of this line is that there is less wax yet the colour payoff and the gloss factor is still to be amazing. I am not much of a lip product person so it did take me a while to try these out. I purchased these three when they were on sale for $6.99 CAD and on a buy 2 get 1 free promo. London Drugs (a Canadian drugstore) had only a limited selection so I had a bit of a hard time deciding which ones to choose. A lot of them were the red shades so I had to stick with the nudes and a mauvey pink one. I picked up Lust for Blush 25, Some Like it Taupe 15 and Petal Rebel 60. I intended to pick up Bare to be Bold 10 but I accidently got Some Like it Taupe instead. I have since exchanged Petal Rebel for it.

I rarely use Some Like it Taupe because it is a bit too brown and orange for me but Lust for Blush is the one I keep in my purse and is a lip product (besides lip balm) that I actually use.

I prefer my lip products to slightly blank out my lips and I perfer them to be not be super glossy and shimmery (ie. With glitter – which is a problem I find with the Revlon lip butters and L'Oreal's Colour Riche Balms and Colour Caresse).

Lust for Blush is perfect because it is a mauve pink so it's not like a bubblegum pink like Petal Rebel and I can just tap it onto my lips if I don't want a full out pink lip and if I don't want too much of a gloss. I love how it looks on my lips because it blanks out my lips just a little bit without making me look dead. I never thought about using pinks to blank out my lips but I really love the look I get with this product.

XO Nicole

C.O. Bigelow Rose Salve Review

The C.O. Bigelow Rose Salve has become a staple for me. I bring this everywhere I go because it is multi-purpose, cute and it works. I use it mainly for my lips to keep them mositurized and to prevent them for being chapped; however, according to C.O. Bigelow, this can be used for practically anywhere else of the body where extra hydration is needed. During the winter months when I had a few dry patches on my face, and when I didn't have any face moisturizer with me in my bag but this, I put this on and those dry patches were relieved and disappeared the next day, and what was also so awesome was that I did not break out! Another use for this is that you can use it on your cuticles, although this product will leave your fingers more greasy than other products that are solely intended for your cuticles (ie. Burt's Bee Lemon Butter Cuticle Cream). However, this makes no difference if you only hydrate your cuticles at night before bed! The rose scent is quite strong but it's not overwhelming. Thankfully, it is very pleasant - unless you detest the smell of roses, then this product is not for you. From the photo below, you can see that the actual product looks pink but it is actually not - you do not see any colour payoff when applied. You can find this at Bath & Body Works store.

What: C.O. Bigelow Rose Salve
Where: Bath & Body Works
Price: $5.50USD

XO Nicole

Sephora Beauty Insider Birthday Gift 2012: fresh Sugar Lip Treatments

If you are a beauty insider then you must have redeemed this already for your birthday, unless your birthday is really late in December! While my birthday is not in December, but in September, I have been too busy to put this up. Regardless, I wanted to share this with you because Sephora seems to be constantly improving their little perks and gifts for us beauty insiders and VIBs! The gift for this years' birthdays was a lip dup by fresh. I loved that they included two, the original clear one and a tinted one. This way, one can decide if they like the colour payoff enough to buy the tinted ones and/or if they like the original enough to buy the full size! In addition, because the full size product is quite pricey for a lip balm/treatment, it is such a luxury to get two, quite good sized samples. I have yet to give either of them a try but I am afraid that when I do, I might fall too much in love with it that I will have to get a full sized one!

XO Nicole

Revlon Super Lustrous Lipgloss - Peach Petal Photos, Review and Swatches

Peach Petal is absolutely lovely. I love the milky peach shade and its consistency (so smooth and creamy). Again, it is opaque but it’s not overwhelming such that you look ill. It is able to neutralize my pigmented lips while giving a nice glossy finish without drying my lips. For the perfect nude pairing, use this over Revlon’s Soft Nude lipstick!

Soft Nude, Peach Petal

J.E

Revlon Super Lustrous Lip Gloss: Pink Whisper & Peach Petal Photos, Swatches and Review

These were all the rave a year or so ago: I remember literally everyone on YouTube talking about this and this was always sold out in drugstores - it was just madness trying to get my hands on this. It took me quite a while to find Pink Pout and even later to get Peach Petal. 

These glosses are the best drugstore glosses I have ever tried. The packaging is simple but not cheap looking at the same time.

I am not the biggest fan of lip glosses but even I was super enticed by this. An affordable but good quality lip gloss? Why not? This was the route to go to purchase the two “necessary” shades, a pink and a nude (and probably a red too if you can rock a red lip). Thankfully, Revlon had these shades in this collection. 

Pink Pout is the perfect pink - this gloss is ‘that’ pink every girl should have in their makeup collection. This is a pale milky pink-nude shade that is great on its own, as it is quite opaque, or over a nude or pink lipstick. It definitely gives your lips a really nice hint of colour and shine. 

Peach Petal is absolutely lovely. I love the milky peach shade and its consistency (so smooth and creamy). Again, it is opaque but it’s not overwhelming such that you look ill. It is able to neutralize my pigmented lips while giving a nice glossy finish without drying my lips. For the perfect nude pairing, use this over Revlon’s Soft Nude lipstick!

Pink Whisper, Peach Petal

Pink Whisper, Peach Petal, Soft Nude

XO Nicole

Revlon Nude Lipsticks (Soft Nude, Nude Attitude, Just Enough Buff) Photos, Swatches and Review

Soft Nude, Nude Attitude, Just Enough Buff

Recently, I've been gravitating toward nude lipsticks and lipglosses, simply because since my lips are really already super pigmented, I don't want to add more colour to it and also, I am just into the nude-ish lips phase right now. Yesterday, I was at the drugstore and I picked "Just Enough Buff" up on a whim - not recalling that I already have quite a collection of nude lipsticks at home. Specifically, I have a mini nude lipstick collection from Revlon!

Soft Nude, Nude Attitude, Just Enough Buff

Out of these three, Soft Nude is definitely still my favourite as the packaging is adorable, the formula is super smooth and applies nicely - and it's just the perfect nude!

Of course, Nude Attitude is a total nude! The fact that it's matte too, makes it even more less wearable for me but I just had to buy this for my collection. This one is good for layering and blanking out your lips for some other coloured lipsticks.

Just Enough Buff

Just Enough Buff is the most wearable one for me though. It is quite sheer and does not instantly make me look dead nor does it look like I've obviously put on some fake looking nude lip. I throw this lippie in my bag for when I want to tone down the natural red pigmentation of my lips. However, I do find that this lipstick is slightly too orange for me at times.

Soft Nude, Nude Attitude, Just Enough Buff

XO Nicole

Cherry Culture Haul (Jordana, NYX)

I was watching Nurberxo’s blogTV one evening and she was mentioning how much she loved the Jordana Best Lash Extreme Volumizing Mascara so me, being the mascara junkie I am, I gave that mascara a quick google only to find outstanding reviews on it on makeupalley. The reviews were superb: lengthening, long wearing, volumizing, easily available, and dirt cheap. I could not pass this up - the only thing that did keep me from running out the door and stashing a few tubes of these was the fact that none of the drugstores here in Canada carry the Jordana brand. Thus, I had to resort to google, again, and I found that Cherry Culture sold this. Because international shipping on Cherry Culture depends on the weight of products purchased, I had to decide whether I should buy multiples, just in case I fall so in love with it that I would want/need backups or if I should just try one and if I didn’t like it, I would have no extras to get rid of but if I did like it, fork out some extra bills for the proceeding shipment. I bite the bullet and ordered three. Along with that, I picked up two lip products that were not readily available here as well. I do not own any lipliners whatsoever so I thought with Jordana’s unbelievably affordable price, it would not hurt to give it a go. The Jordana Easyliner For Lips shade I chose was "Tawny" - I had thought that this would be more of a nude colour but it's really a dark pink with mauvey undertones. The NYX Tinted Lip Spa was an impulse buy though ... and it's one that I regret! The color box on Cherry Culture had this shade looking like it would be a nude, peachy tint and the swatches I looked up was not what was reality for me; the lip spa turned out to be a bright and sheer pink I have a lot of sheer pink lip products so this one, I could have really done with out.

I am keeping my fingers crossed that the Jordana mascara is all that it is hyped up to be! I'm always on the hunt for an affordable HG mascara! ;)

XO Nicole

My Collection: Revlon Colorburst Lip Butters

Revlon ColorBurst Lip Butter

When these first came out, I thought people were crazy to be hauling at least 5 of these lip butters. Yes, they are drugstore and therefore, considerably a lot more inexpensive compared to lip products you buy at department stores, but these babies retails for $8.99-$11.99 (for CAD prices at least), so for people to be buying almost the whole collection would easily total up to $50+...

But once I bought the first one, I couldn't stop. I looked at a bunch of the reviews about these and decided on two that I liked, Creme Brulée and Creamsicle. At the store, they sold out on Creamsicle so I decided that maybe it was destined that I could only try one and that would be Creme Brulee.. Well, after the first try of these, I instantly fell in love and had to buy another. I ordered Creamsicle on Well.ca.

Yup, you've guessed it, one thing turned into another and my collection has expanded. However, although I do love almost everything about these little babies, I am very picky about lip colours. As you can see, I really only wear peachy/nudes and my-lips-but-better shades as to not emphasize my lips so much, especially in school settings. So while I have seen that their reds and plums are gorgeous and super pigmented, I am going to stop the collection here.

Revlon ColorBurst Lip Butter

Revlon ColorBurst Lip Butter

XO Nicole

My Collection: Pink Lipstick Swatches

I do not have the biggest lipstick collection - if you even consider this a collection at all. It just consists of some ‘here and there’ lipsticks that I picked up along the way for occasions that I feel requires a more put together look. Most of these lippies are permanent and therefore, are still accessible at drugstores or online!

This is part one of my swatch series that I will be posting this summer. Enjoy!

Think Pink, Party Pink, Pout, Pink Gold, Copacabana

1. wet n wild MEGA LAST LIP COLOR - 901B Think Pink
2. e.l.f. Mineral Mineral Lipstick - Party Pink (discontinued)
3. Avon Ultra Color Rich Lipstick - Pout
4. New York Color Ultra Moist Lip Wear - 318B Pink Gold
5. NYX Tinted Lip Spa - Copacabana

XO Nicole

My Collection: NYX Goddess of the Night Lipgloss (Swatches)

Unfortunately, this line of glosses by NYX have been discontinued but I decided to post this anyways just for those of you who do have access to these products and wanted to see swatches of them!

Natural, Lollipop, Pink Frost

Natural, Lollipop, Pink Frost

1. 122 Natural
2. 111 Lollipop
3. 127 Pink Frost

XO Nicole

My Collection: Nude Lipstick Photos and Swatches

These are the nude lipsticks that I own. It’s not a big collection but I definitely gravitate towards these shades more than the other ones. I love that these do not make me look like a corspe and they neutralize my pigmented lips to the perfectly!

Fire Alarm, Fire Alarm, Soft Nude, Nude Attitude, Just Enough Buff, Creme Brulee, Creamsicle

Fire Alarm, Fire Alarm, Soft Nude, Nude Attitude, Just Enough Buff, Creme Brulee, Creamsicle

1. Hard Candy Painted Lady Lipstick - Fire Alarm
2. Hard Candy Painted Lady Lipstick - Fire Alarm
3. Revlon ColorBurst Lipstick - 070 Soft Nude
4. Revlon Matte Lipstick - 001 Nude Attitude
5. Revlon Super Lustrous Creme Lipstick - 613 Just Enough Buff
6. Revlon Colorburst Lip Butter - Crème Brulée
7. Revlon Colorburst Lip Butter -  Creamsicle

J.E

Revlon Colorburst Lip Butter in Creamsicle Photos, Review and Swatches

Creamsicle was one of the lip butters I have had my eye on from all the swatches I've seen but as we all know, swatches do not always appear as they seem, especially on the lips because of the difference in pigmentation so I was a bit skeptical of what this would actually look like on my lips. I was quite worried that it might be too sheer, too orange and/or too pale! When I went to go pick one up to try, this did not even have this in stock so I went with my other choice, Creme Brulée. Thankfully, I was ordering some products online and needed something else for free shipping so I threw this in the cart, and boy, I am glad I did! Upon the first application, it instantly became my favourite lip butter and I knew it would be coming everywhere with me.

The formula is very smooth and almost creamy when applied. It is also buildable so I am sure that I can definitely make this super nude if I wanted to! I love this because it mutes/tones down my super pigmented  lips! And the fact that this is a lipbalm-based kind of formula, it's not over the top for settings like school and work. You get the colour payoff but at the same time, it's not like something that would make someone think, "giiiirl, calm down on the lip products' in places where crazy makeup can make you feel and look out of place. I keep this baby with me in my backpack for a good pick me up!

Check out my blog post on my nude lipsticks/lip product collection for a swatch of Creamsicle here.

XO Nicole

Revlon Super Lustrous Lipstick Creme Just Enough Buff Photos, Swatches and Review

Revlon Super Lustrous Lipstick Creme, Just Enough Buff

BLABBLE:  I already have very pigmented lips and I just don't want to add even more colour to it so lately, I've been really getting into more "nude" shades.

THE GOOD: This lipstick shade is not too nude that it will wash you out like the way say, Nude Attitude (also by Revlon) would, however, there is an orange tinge/undertone to it. For my lips though, as I mentioned, because they are pretty red, they seem to cancel it out so it ends up being a good nude for me. It has shimmer to it but not a crazy amount.

THE NOT SO GOOD: There are some more downsides to this lipstick though. This shows every flakey skin on your lip so beware! Also, it is quite sheer - but it is buildable!

Revlon Super Lustrous Lipstick Creme, Just Enough Buff

OVERALL: I really like the fact that it mutes out some of my natural deep lip colour but reading other people's review, the turn out really results depending on skin tone and natural lip colour so just make sure to swatch this in stores before purchasing - and it's also definitely not a creamy formula.

Revlon Super Lustrous Lipstick Creme, Just Enough Buff

 XO Nicole