Revlon Liquid Quick Dry Review

I've had this product for years but never got around to formally reviewing it. Well, here goes...

Heavy Red Vol. 2

The original "Heavy Red" look was bright red lips and dark blue eyeshadow (covered with pointed shades because the sun was trying very hard to scald my eyes to dust that day). This is a very similar look but I think it's a lot better, especially with the lips...

original

NOTD- Cauldron Bubbles

Double, double, toil and trouble
Cauldron boil and cauldron bubble...

How I Make My Nail Polish Last Longer

My job requires me to have my hands in water for the majority of the day, scrubbing away cleaning aquariums. My nails and my nail polish do not like that. If I can get past the 2 day mark at work with out chipping it's a damn miracle! My manicure typically lasts about 7 days with out chipping (possibly longer but I get itchy for a new color around the 5 day mark) with out the water and about 3 days in the water before I get some minor chips. By day 5 in the water my nails look like hell but as I previously mentioned I can't stand having the same thing on my nails much past that any way.

EOTD- blak n blu

I started this look with a base of Too Faced Shadow Insurance then a coat of NYX Jumbo Eye Pencil in Milk in the shape that I wanted to do.

I used Wet n Wild coloricon shadow in Panther (it's a matte black) to start the winged liner.

Above it I applied Hi Fi Cosmetics Super Sonic Overdrive (a bright blue that is slightly metallic when foiled).

At the outer V around the black I applied Sugarpill Afterparty (bright medium blue with low shimmer).

Above Super Sonic Overdrive I applied Meow Cosmetics Telepathy (super shimmery blue/green shift highlight).

Over the black shadow I applied Jordana Semi-Permanent Liquid Liner, and here's where it got ugly. I can not handle liquid liner. I don't know why this is but if I try to use it I will, no matter what, make a Huge. Ugly. Mess... and sure enough I did.

Any way, I continued with the look by foiling the blue shadows using Medusa's Makeup sealant. I then foiled Super Sonic Overdrive over the Jordana liner. Then I foiled Fyrinnae La Noche (metallic navy blue) over the Jordana liner and this pretty much evened it out to a point where it looked presentable.

Finished it up with a black liner on the water line and my newest love, Revlon Photoready 3D volume mascara. The formula isn't anything revolutionary, it's the brush. It has bristles on the tip of the wand! This makes it sooooooo easy to get the little lashes in the corner and to apply extra mascara at the base of the lashes for increased volume.

Heavy Red

It's not often I wear red lipstick, I just don't care much for the color on me. This is Revlon Love That Red Lipstick with Milani 3D Glitzy Glamour Gloss in Fashion Diva.

 

Eyes are Black Rose Mineral Nobodies, Larkspur and Meow Cosmetics Telepathy
Face is Skin Food Red Bean BB Cream in shade #1, Meow Cosmetics foundation in Himalayan, My Pretty Zombie MDMA blush

NOTD- Purple Smoke

Another gradient YAAAY! *waves arms around like Kermit*

Here's what I did:
1. 1 coat Glitter Girl Frappe to all except ring finger
2. 1 thin coat Nubar Hologram Glitter to all except ring finger
3. 1 thin coat Revlon Grape Icy to nail tip to all except ring finger
4. 1 thin coat Revlon Grape Icy to the top 1/2 of nail to all except ring finger
5. 1 thin coat Revlon Grape Icy from tip to 3/4 of the way down the nail to all except ring finger
6. 1 thin coat Nubar Hologram Glitter to all except ring finger
7. To ring finger, 2 coats of Color Club Teal Twinkle
8. To ring finger, 2 thin coats of Glitter Girl Frappe from cuticle to middle of the nail

the gang's all here!

Color Club Teal Twinkle is a pain in the ass to work with, it's a nail art polish so it has one of those super long and thin brushes. I don't have a problem doing a whole nail with one of those usually but this polish is THICK and kinda goopy. It's so annoying to work with which is a shame because it's a gorgeous grey with multi color sparkle.

Revlon Grape Icy is a polish I hated before I did this manicure. It's a scented polish that smells really good but it's too thin to use on the whole nail. It's impossible to get a full even coat (even doing this I had trouble). When I first got this I tried to use it, wound up doing 6 coats and it still was patchy and took eleventy billion* years to dry so I tossed it banished it like an evil queen to my polish drawer and forgot about it.

* Actual time it took to dry

Old EOTDs

 This EOTD is absolutely ancient! I think it must be from around 2006. The colors used are Fryrinnae OMGWTF in the inner corner then Makeup Enigma Starburst and finally Medusa's Makeup Purple Rain in the outer V.

This is from when I first started getting into eye makeup. I only owned one makeup brush (the small shadow brush from Medusa's Makeup) at the time and didn't have primer. I used a Hot Topic brand paint pot and Fyrinnae Pixie Epoxy. Gotta say, those Hot Topic paint pots worked wonders, I got no creasing when used with PE.

Brows are courtesy of Bare Minerals Coffee Bean.

Primer is Too Faced Shadow Insurance with Pixie Epoxy on top.

This is more recent, from last year I believe. If I remember correctly Hi-Fi Cosmetics Super Sonic Overdrive is the liner, applied wet. The Lid color is Hi-Fi Live Large with Medusa's Jail Bait lightly dusted on top. Purple is Medusa's Purple Rain (one of my favorite shadows).

 Fyrinnae Javan Rhino and a Mary Kay Grey

Same look with pink, Medusa's Jail Bait if I remember correctly.

This is a look I wore almost daily in 2008. Barry M Cherry Red cut crease with Medusa's Purple Rain.

The Blue in this is Medusa's Blue Balls. The other color I'm not sure about because it's a mix. I think I used a L'oreal HiP duo-Platinum 906 (both the black and silver) with Purple Rain.

Fyrinnae Koala in the inner corner, Fyrinnae Parental Advisory in the outer V. Parental Advisory is gorgeous, I wish I had gotten a full size instead of a mini. I will CRY when I run out!

This gradient look was done with pink, purple and black. Aromaleigh Sonic Rocks eyeshadow in Teenage Kicks is the pink in this look. The purple is... you guessed it, Purple Rain. The black is from the L'oreal HiP duo.

 This was done as a guest look for Le Gothique. A purple smokey eye. The liner is Wet and Wild gel liner.

Eyes: Fryrinnae herbivore, Medusa's Purple Rain, Mary Kay (grey), Makeup Enigma Black Lipstick


Lips: Revlon Silver City Pink

Fyrinnae OMGWTF, Bali Mynah
Medusa's Purple Rain
Unknown dark purple










Aromaleigh Sonic Rocks Teenage Kicks, Mary Kay greys, Fyrinnae Soot