Saturday, February 25, 2012

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

Thursday, February 23, 2012

Fyrinnae Ultra Phantom

Knocked another off the ol' wish list... this is only my second Lip Lustre and I have to say I am in love. The formula for these things is amazing, so comfortable to wear. LLs are not glosses or lipsticks but something in between. They're basically a cream. The only problem I have with mine is they're hard to use when cold. I keep mine in my pocket instead of my purse when I plan on wearing it all day.

Ultra Phantom is described as a pink- blue duochrome. It's definitely more blue than pink on my end. It's sheer and full of superfine micro glitter so it's perfect for layering! It gives a great icy glow when used on top of other lip colors. Due to the slight pink duochrome it looks especially great over light pink lipstick.







BB Cream Update

Update for this review

After using it since the beginning of February here's what I feel it has done for my skin:
+ My skin is less dry, most of my dry patches are gone
+ It covers my pores really well
- It doesn't do anything for pimples
- It doesn't really help my oily forehead

Tuesday, February 21, 2012

BITCHes and Pointer Sisters

Ah, the acting challenge. This episode was hilarious mainly thanks to Latrice Royale, neck roller extraordinaire.


Latrice needs her own show.

I was howling with laughter watching her, naturally she won the challenge. FULL RECAP HERE!

Sharon didn't pull any goth looks this week but still looked gorgeous both in the challenge (wearing a beaver suit no less) and on the runway. The annoying director hated her just on the basis of being spooky and she had a fight with the also annoying Phi Phi. Boring! All I can say is thank Ru Phi Phi is the only uber confrontational queen this season. I can't take much more of her stupid barking... Any way, Sharon was quite funny and played the ditzy girl stereotype very well. A little Lucille Ball and a Little Rose Nylund.

Milan and Madame LaQueer were in the bottom and served up a boring "lip sync for your life". Madame just pointed her finger all over the place and ripped off her wig. Milan went crazy all over the place and ripped off her dress and her wig. Ladies, keep ya clothes on and keep ya wigs on please. Milan shantéd and stayed and Madame shashayed away. The best part of the LSFYL was when Willam said of Milan, "she swiffered the floor with her taint". She really did too- go to logotv.com right now and watch it!

I'm starting to like Willam a little more each week, her delivery of those one liners is great. Latrice had a great one liner about BITCH being an acronym about being in control of yourself in Untucked. While Jiggly delivered one of the best lines of the night when she made the comment about Madame being a "pointer sister". Spot on!


Thursday, February 16, 2012

Bow to the Queen


Congrats again to the fabulously spooky Sharon Needles! I love her campy goth character, it's entertaining and well above the other girls in the competition. She knows who she is, she's not still trying to figure out what kind of queen she wants to be. Sharon Needles is polished, ghoulish, and deadly funny.

If you're not watching RuPaul's Drag Race head on over to logotv.com and see what you're missing! This week's Lip Sync for Your Life was amazing!

My Pretty Zombie MDMA Blush

Knocked one off my wish list!

Let me start by saying I have a love/ hate relationship with blush. I am very pale and have horrible blotchy and extremely dark rosacea on my cheeks. The wrong blush brings this out in the worst way. It can make me look like a tomato instead of just a flattering flush of color. The right blush can help conceal the splotches and even out the redness.

This is definitely the right blush. My Pretty Zombie MDMA Blush is so pretty and is perfect for my skintone. It's a fairly pale rosey pink with gold shimmer. Applied sheer and blended out it would make a nice highlighter. This blush, unlike the L'oreal one I just reviewed is very pigmented. It's soft and blends really easily.


gorgeous as Morticia Addams



When I put this blush on my cheeks I don't even have to bother with shading under to bring them out. It instantly gives me Anjelica Houston cheeks.










My one complaint is that it's not perfectly blended, the first time I used it I got a streak of coral pigment across my cheek. It blended away easily enough at least. I've had this happen before with a few other indie face powders, it doesn't bother me too much but it might be a huge turn off for others.

Overall I really love this and will probably use it every day. 

I look awful at this angle, just focus on the blush!



Ok... I tried REALLY hard to get a good picture of this stuff on my face. The lighting in my apt is crap and I can't get anything useful unless I catch the sunrise and it's not cloudy. This is the best picture I could get, hopefully it does a decent job of showing the color.





Monday, February 13, 2012

L'oreal The One Sweep Sculpting Blush Review

I bought this in "poppy", which is a rosey pink for the blush side. I'm just going to cut to the chase and say don't waste your money on this piece of crap. I knew going in that the novelty brush wasn't going to do anything special and didn't even plan on trying it. This blush is pure rubbish even with out the silly brush.

As you can see from the picture one side is blush and one side is for sculpting. Applying blush to the top of your cheeks and a darker pigment under the cheek bone really defines them and brings them out. This product is a bit gimmicky, it comes with a special (and stupid looking) brush that is supposed to apply both products at once with a single sweep across your cheeks. I knew that was not going to look good, I would either end up with unblended streaks or barely visible product.

Click here to see the ridiculous brush, it's like one of those annoying and useless flat brushes a lot of compacts are coming with these days only with a curve so it can ride the cheek bone. The brush is really small and it's soft and fluffy. It feels fine across the face but it really is useless. It doesn't pick up product and it's too flimsy.

The brush, however, is not the reason why this product is terrible. The reason this product sucks is there's pretty much no pigment! I don't have any of my own pictures to show you because there was nothing to take a picture of! NOTHING shows up on my skin. I used my own brushes to apply it to my face and to the back of my hand and there's just nothing... the product is very powdery and just blows away or falls off. Even if I could get it to stick it's really just so poorly pigmented I still don't think I'd have much to show. I've tried rubbing my finger on it and then trying to pat it on my hand over face primer and I still can't get anything.

I can't believe I paid around $10 for this crap! Since I lost the receipt I'm stuck with it too. I never expect much from drug store products and usually I'm not too disappointed by them. I guess I was expecting too much to actually be able to see this product on my skin. Reading other reviews I see I'm not the only one with nothing to photograph.



I will be reviewing a REALLY awesome blush in the next coming days to make up for this junk.