Lip Gloss

What’s good from Stila Cosmetics?

Paris B 15 Comments

With the Stila Clearance sale going on in Malaysia (Stila is leaving to return to the USA – no news on what’s happening in Stila USA) I thought it would be a good time to highlight some items I like from Stila and if you are lucky you might be able to pick them up at heavily discounted prices – call it a consumer service hehe… 🙂

Stila is not tops on my list of favourite brands but there are some things I like that I will be sad to see go and some things that some people really liked and made Stila the brand it was and still is.

Stila Eyeshadows are velvety smooth

Stila Eyeshadows

I like Stila shimmer shadows. The matte shadows are a bit meh in my mind but the shimmer ones are lovely and velvety smooth. The picture is from my review on Stila eyeshadows and I know you are wondering why I got Starlight when it appears as if I already have Starlight! The answer is simple – I goofed up the labelling of the colours 😛 Starlight in the picture is actually Cloud and what I called Cloud is a lovely lilac shade that has no name. Starlight is a gorgeous pink-beige with shimmer that makes a beautiful base or highlight shade. Highly recommended. Now don’t you all go clean out the counters of this color! 😉

Stila Lip Glaze is sticky but glossy

Stila Lip Glaze

The Lip Glaze by Stila has to be Stila’s most iconic prodct. The clicky pen with brush lipgloss inspired a whole host of similar style lipglosses – more so after it was highlighted that the Stila Lip Glaze was a favourite of Cameron Diaz. I saw a similar Revlon clicky pen with brush lipgloss in Hong Kong that we haven’t gotten in yet – possibly soon.

The lip gloss is thick and glossy without too much colour pay off as I previously noted but lots of girls love it. I must admit it gives a lovely sexy shine to the lips 🙂

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Review: Clarins Colour Quench Lip Balm

Paris B 20 Comments

I’d read many good reviews about the Clarins Colour Quench Lip Balm (link) but Clarins as a brand is always overlooked by me. No longer! I got me a Clarins Colour Quench lip balm to see what the hype is all about 🙂

Clarins Colour Quench lip balm

The colour I got is #05 (Cherry/Strawberry) which is a colour presently discontinued I think because I don’t see it on their website. Why I still choose to review it is not for the colour but for its texture, as this lip balm is still part of the Clarins line. It so happens however that I love the colour in 05!

Clarins calls this a lip balm. On the website however, they refer to it as a lipgloss. A little confusing yes? But I call this a lipgloss because even for a tinted lipbalm, the pigment is amazing! However unlike other lip glosses, this one is not sticky, and does not dry out your lips.
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Review: Makeup: Guerlain KissKiss Midnight Butterfly Lipgloss Shimmering Pink #802

Paris B 12 Comments

When I first saw the Guerlain Midnight Butterfly collection in person, the one item from the collection that caught my eye was the Guerlain KissKiss lipgloss in Shimmering Pink #802.

I have always been a fan of the Guerlain KissKiss lip products especially the lipglosses and I used to own them in the longer Divinora collection, with the beaten gold cap. It was one of the first high end lipglosses I owned and I liked them for being non-sticky, non-goopy but yet imparting a high shine and gloss factor and colour. It also turns out I’d never reviewed them here hehe…

Guerlain KissKiss Midnight Butterfly

The Guerlain Midnight Butterfly lipgloss in Shimmering Pink #802 is not a pink to my untrained eye. It is more of a purplish hue, with an iridescence when you catch the light. It comes in a square tube with a brush applicator. I like the brush applicator because it gives better control when applying gloss.

The metallic cap is embossed with the Guerlain name, and there is a butterfly etched on it. Very pretty and girly but it was not quite the reason I bought it. The reason I dug deep into my pockets for it was because of the colour. One look at the colour swatched on my hand and I knew it was for me. And I’m right! 🙂

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Review: Makeup: Revlon Colorstay Mineral Lipglaze Infinite Rose

Paris B 19 Comments

The Revlon Colorstay Mineral Lipglaze is part of Revlon’s Mineral makeup collection. It comes together with the Revlon Colorstay Mineral foundation, Mineral blush and Mineral eyeshadow. I’ve tried mineral makeup for all parts of the face before, but never a mineral based lipgloss, so the Revlon Mineral Lipglaze is my first.

Revlon Mineral Lipglaze

The colour I have is Infinite Rose, which is a shimmery cool toned rose-berry shade. I thought it looked a little dark in the tube, but it actually applies quite nicely. I am familiar with Revlon’s lipglosses, having been a great supporter of their Superlustrous Lipglosses for a long while. I like how they are so glossy yet not sticky since by now most of the regular readers will know that I’m not one for sticky lip glosses.

So, I had a lot to expect from the Revlon Mineral lipgloss and I was pleasantly surprised.

The colour of the lipgloss is pigmented. So pigmented that I’d safely say its close to a liquid lipstick more than a gloss. The swatch on the back of my hand is the mineral lipglaze swiped just once. Yep, its THAT opaque and pigmented!
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