Drugstore lipsticks worry me just a little bit - because they’re not sealed. I once had an overly helpful SA at my local drugstore blithely pop the cap off a lipstick, test it on the back of her hand to show me the color, then put the cap back...
Limited edition kit, released the weekend of Comic-Con 2011. (I’m more of a DragonCon kind of gal. A little too much media frenzy at SDCC, no Nasa panels.) I admit, I was wavering on this kit, because it had two reds and a purple…and I’ve got lots of...
I picked up three colors from this collection quite a while after its initial release. (Like...a decade after.) This collection was released alongside the Sparkle collection, which caught my eye a bit more than this one. These colors didn't feel super-unique to me, and didn't excite my magpie-reflex. I...
I started out not buying any colors from this collection. Then on a whim, about a year after its release, I bought Ivanka and liked it. Then I picked up Ivanka and Charla from one of Zoya’s promos, and a few months after that I added Alegra to my...
I didn't think I would like this color, so originally I didn't get it. Apparently, though, everyone else did think they'd like it, because it was the first color to sell out - and it sold out within about a week. I think that part of the attraction was seeing...
I really wanted to like this color more than I do. Actually, that's a bit of a misstatement: I love the color. It's the polish I don't love as much as I'd hoped. With four coats, you can still see a little bit of VNL! Luckily this Designer Series polish...
Apparently it's not just me…lots of people have problems getting yellow creme/matte nail polishes to apply smoothly. I'd love to know: is that something in the overall mixture? Does the largely unleavened yellow pigmentation somehow affect the product consistency? Whatever happens, or why it happens, I know I...
If you've wanted to try Morgana's lip balms (and you should) but been just a little concerned about judging colors and wanted to pick a “safe” red to start with, this is an excellent choice. It's a softer deep red, but not sheer. It's somewhat close to Burt's Bees in...
Ordinarily I wouldn't have looked at these very much - I tend to distrust drugstore lipsticks because they're unsealed, and you never know who's doing what to them (like the store employee at Walgreen's who tested them on the back of my and her hand before just putting them right...
I like the shade, and the sparkle is nice…but all of these lipsticks just feel odd on my lips. Don't know quite how to describe it. They don't dry my lips out, but they feel like they probably should. (And yes, I know that makes absolutely no sense.) The...
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