Showing posts with label drugstore. Show all posts
Showing posts with label drugstore. Show all posts

12.16.2011

BUTTAAAAHS : The New Revlon Lip Butters

So I'm pretty sure you've seen them or heard about them or even bought them.  The Revlon lip butters.  Om nom nom, BUTTAH!

I bought three shades.  This was actually the item that broke my no buy November, which I was very successful in - up until I saw the lip butters the 25th of November.  I was good for almost a month though ;).

You see, the US got them at least a month before we did.  Everything is always released weeks if not months later here in Canada.  

The first shade I bought was Cherry Tart, the one on the right.  I liked the consistency so much I went and purchased two other shades about 2 hours later.  



Pictured are Peach Parfait, Berry Smoothie and Cherry Tart.  The packaging is classic Revlon, but I like that the lids are different colors depending on the shade so it's easier to sort 'em out.  


So here are the actual sticks.  The application goes on really smoothly, as you would expect from a product that has butter in its name.  They're creamy and oh so delicious.  They retail for about 7.99$ a pop and there's 20 shades total.  In my drugstore they had a display of the whole 20 shades, with only 2 lipsticks of each shade.  

So if you see 'em and you want 'em, HOLD ON TO 'EM.  Because they will be gone sooner than later.  They are a permanent line though so your drugstore will eventually have them in their permanent displays... but who knows how long will that take!


Here are some swatches on my pale skin, the set on the left is one swipe, whereas the right group shows three swipes to build up color.  You can see Peach Parfait, Berry Smoothie and then Cherry Tart.  

Peach Parfait shows up nicely on the lips, it's definitely a MLBB shade.  It's very sheer and shimmery, like most of the butters.  Of the three I bought it's my least favorite shade.  

I actually bought it because of this...


She's supposed to be wearing Peach Parfait... well it sure doesn't look like that on me LOL.

Berry Smoothie is my kind of shade.  It's a plum shade that leans towards fuchsia.  It has great pigmentation and is on the cooler side, which I love.  It's my favorite shade of the bunch and I feel even though it's one of the more ''daring'' colors of this collection, it still has great wearability.

Finally, there's Cherry Tart.  I thought it would show up more red on the swatches, but it looks so close to Berry Smoothie, it's kind of hard to tell the two apart from the pictures. But you can see that it's more on the dark side, with more hints of red, but still looks very much like a plum lippie.  It's the most pigmented one.  I even had to tone it down a little when I first tried it on, because I was at work at the time.  

I don't think I'll purchase any more shades, because I got the ones I wanted, but it's a great formula that I recommend to everyone, especially lipsticks noobs.  The application is almost fool prof and the lasting power is not all that great so if you make a mistake it's not like your lips are stained all day.  

Points down for wearability because you need to apply every 2-4 hours.  Taste and smell is ok, definitely not a turn off or anything. 

Did you get some buttahs? 


Can you remember them saying : BUTTERRRRRRRRRR!





11.06.2011

Walmart haul... gotta love those savings!

Hi everyone! Today I had a nice relaxing massage and day at the spa, so of course, as soon as I got out of there, I was ready to shop 'til I drop. So I went at Walmart first, and purchased a whole lotta drugstore products.

Pictured: Burt's Bees Lemon Butter Cuticle Cream (7.97 $CAD), Montagne Jeunesse Red Hot Earth Deep Pore Cleansing Sauna Masque (1.87 $CAD), Sally Hansen Kwik Off Acetone Free Nail Colour Remover (3.04 $CAD), Maybelline Dream Mousse Blush in Peach Satin (7.86 $CAD) and Rimmel Vinyl Gloss in Fashion Icon (5.98 $CAD).
Not pictured: SPAresource Pro-Series Premium Wedges (2.58 $CAD)

I'm very happy with the cuticle wax, as I have a terrible problem my cuticles. I don't bite my hands, never have, but I do tear my cuticles whenever I can. This leads to pain, bleeding and unhealthy looking nails, and since I'm such a nail polish addict, I really must address this problem. I also bought a Sally Hansen kwik off, which is a must for someone who hates removing nail polish. It is very drying though...

I'm also very happy to buy a sauna mask, which I haven't used since I've been like 10 years-old, when I first started using beauty and skincare products. It's only for one use though, but it has - from what I can remember - a very nice hot soothing feeling when you apply it.

I've also been searching for a coral lip gloss and this one was pretty much the only one available there. I preferred the Revlon lip gloss in Papaya, but they had only one left and it wasn't sealed, so definitely wasn't going to purchase that.

As for the blush, I haven't tried it yet, but I will post a more detailed review when I do. I've been looking at NARS and MAC blushes for a while now, but can't seem to resign myself to shed out the $$$ to purchase them. So I figured I was going to try this one first and start my blush expansion project from there. A very evil project for my wallet, but such a beautiful journey.

xoxo, MiMu