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New! Maybelline Baby Lips NY Fashion Edition (Limited Edition) and new flavours: Mango Pie and Cherry Velvet

May 25, 2012 Paris B 40 Comments

The day lip balm takes on a limited edition flavour is the day you know that the cosmetics world has gone a little boinkers. Oh wait. There already is a limited edition lip balm out there! The world has gone boinkers! 😛 (not bonkers – that’s too normal)

maybelline ny fashion week limited edition

The Maybelline Baby Lips lipbalms are quite highly raved among lip balm users. It promises to give you baby soft lips with regular use and many people agree with this claim. It helps of course that its affordable too.

Personally, I’m not much of a lip balm user but I do have a couple of these Baby Lips lipbalms and the few times I have used them, they do live up to their claims of keeping lips soft. The up side is that they don’t leave my lips feeling oily. You know how some supposedly moisturizing lip balms do that? Slick on a layer and you get this oily or waxy film on your lips. Eww!

Maybelline, being a sponsor of the New York Fashion Week that was in February 2012, released a limited edition flavour in Protecting Berry in limited edition packaging. Limited edition lip balm, yo!

Revlon Colorburst Lip Butter in Strawberry Shortcake and Fig Jam : Desserts that will not make you fat

February 8, 2012 Paris B 69 Comments

I didn’t realise everyone was so crazy over the new Revlon Lip Butters! 😀 I ran a quick poll on Facebook and Twitter to see what I should post today and the overwhelming choice was the Lip Butters so here we are! 😀 I swear, sometimes, I think I live under a rock 😛

revlon lip butter strawberry shortcake and fig jam

I’m bringing you just the Revlon Lip Butters in Strawberry Shortcake and Fig Jam because I think they are the two more interesting colours in the range, and 2 quite different textures so I can kill 2 birds with one stone 😉

I’ve got the low down on the Revlon Colorburst Lip Butters in my preview post so I’m not going to repeat all that. What I’m going to tell you about today is what I think about these lipbalm-lipstick hybrids that has taken the beauty world by storm.

New: Revlon Colorburst Lip Butters Are In Town – Are you going to pick them up?

February 3, 2012 Paris B 100 Comments

I had been reading so much about the Revlon Colorburst Lip Butters on overseas blogs. The raves have been outstanding! These have been hailed from everything from the best lipsticks ever to the best tinted lip balms. Quite a large contrast there don’t you think?

revlon lip butter

Well ladies, the Revlon Lip Butters are finally here in Malaysia so we can work out for ourselves if they are really all that! 😀 I spotted these only at Watson’s pharmacies for now retailing at a pocket friendly RM25 each (I found out they are S$15.90 in Singapore – quite a bit more pricey after conversion!). I looked in a couple more pharmacies but didn’t see them – I’m told they are only officially due here in March 2012, so I guess Watson’s got a special preview or something 🙂

I have here 3 colours in different ends of the colour spectrum to try out. Barring the red one, the other 2 are quite a challenge but I intentionally picked up Strawberry Shortcake (pale pink) because I wanted to challenge myself to wear something out of my comfort zone! 😀

Sangria that will not make you tipsy : Smashbox Limitless Lip Stain & Color Seal Balm in Sangria

November 11, 2011 Paris B 33 Comments

The Smashbox Limitless Lip Stain & Color Seal Balm or what I like to call the Smashbox Lip Markers or Lip Stains are quite interesting. What they are is a long lasting lip colour in the form of a marker pen. It comes in a few colours but you know what? I’m going to tell you to just not bother with the rest (I swatched them and they were blah to me but then, you may like them) and just head straight for Sangria.

smashbox limitless lip stain sangria

This is Sangria on me – a deep red. It is described as “deep red wine” but on me, I just get it as mostly deep red. Very flattering and neutral in tone and a very fascinating product. I’ve never been one for lip stains. I know they can help you keep your lips looking coloured in all day, but I tend to prefer wiping off and starting again. So, the Smashbox Limitless Lip Stain is my first real foray into lip stains.

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