Give 'em the old Razzle Dazzle

MAC and Double Dazzle Collection is the newest spring and summer offering from MAC. Lips certainly dazzle with this gloss. It is available in 18 shades, and 7 of them are new. If you want to check these out---go to your local MAC RIGHT NOW! I went the day after release and they were sold out of many, many colors. What did I pick up? Utterly Posh - Mid-tone orange with pink and gold pear and Bare Necessity - Carmel apricot with red and gold pearl. Both are gorgeous, MAC dose nothing wrong! The color is great, the glitter/shimmer is fine but visible. For me, it is not daily gloss...it is something fun to slick on your lips when you go out with the girls. It has a young and flirty feel. I would not wear it on a date...I think that sparkles on your lips may scare your guy or send him the wrong message, if you know what I mean.
If you are adventurous and can't live with out a little Dazzle in your life, pick up the new MAC Double Dazzleglass. Retails for $18 a tube.
If you check it out, let me know what you think!!

From the MAC press release:
All you need is Love… Lips and Lashes! Summer simplified for the modern makeup minimalist. Double Dazzle will daze the closest competition with colour-changing, light-reflecting pearl-shine lips; paired with a new formula for the ultimate in voluptuous lashes, et voilà! Lips lead: seven new Dazzleglass shades bring the scintillating selection up to 18! The flotilla-of-lights formula imparts the pearl combination with mega-glisten shine, creamy comfort and the subtle sensation of vanilla. Lashes follow: multiplied, volumized, utterly glorified by our newest eye innovation…This sly new small-and-mighty brush has been developed to capture and emphasize each and every lash. Lips, Lashes, Lovers…Look out!

Anwser: Celebrity Lips

Amy Adams! This picture is from the May 09 cover of W magazine. I just love Amy. Her lips look delicious and red....how beautiful is it paired with pale skin? Perfection is all I can say. Absolute perfection!

Celebrity Lips

Who is wearing this fierce color on their lips??

Be Good To Your Mother (and don't forget your lips)

How cute is this? I love tarte lip products, and this cute set is not exception. 3 24.7 Lip Sheers with SPF 15 and a totally cute reusable tote? Too cool. 24.7 Lip Sheers are a summer staple of mine. They have great texture, great color and the all important SPF! The colors included in this set are Reuse: sheer peach Reduce: sheer poppy pink Recycle: sheer beige. My favorite is Reduce. It is the perfect spring shade. A sheer poppy pink that makes lips look healthy and soft.
The packaging is also a plus, shaped just like chapstick, not only is it made of recycled aluminim, it fits perfect in your pants pocket, even if you are wearing the slimmest of jeans.
I have already took my tote to the drugstore :) and recieved no less than 4 compliments!
You can be fabulous and green....this set from Tarte makes it even easier.

Order from Spehora today...it is well worth the $35.oo!

Buxom Lips

I have to admit I have a love/hate relationship with Bare Escentuals Buxom Lips Lip gloss. I own quite a few in different colors: Trixie, Dolly, Amber, Brandi and the full color gloss Roxanne. First thing, it is supposed to be a lip plumper. I have never ever experienced any sort of plumping action from this gloss. There is a menthol tingle that accompanies the lip gloss but the "buxomness" is underwhelming. The scent/taste is what bothers me the most. I think it is supposed to be a cake batter-like flavor, but it just tastes so wrong to me. I also don't like the feeling it leaves on my lips and it doesn't have great lasting power. I know it seems like I hate this gloss, but I keep buying/trying because I desperately want to like it. The colors are fantastic, it is a more grownup gloss because it is shiny not glassy and the shimmer isn't overbearing. I like wand formula lip gloss. And the packaging for Buxom Lips is super cute. I love it. And I am pretty sure that everyone I know loves this gloss. I just think that I set my expectations too high for this one.

Buxom Lips retails for $18. Try it for yourself and let me know if you like it!
http://store.bareescentuals.com/Buxom+Big+Healthy+Lip+Polish/38776,default,pd.html

I say No to "Yes To Carrots"

One of the great things about recovering from surgery is I have to go to the drugstore a lot to buy new gauze and such, and I have been making it a point to always pick up some new lip junk in hopes of finding the next great drugstore buy. I have some hits, I have more misses and I have a lot of material to blog about.
Yes to Carrots is a line of Paraben Free products. (I will take this time to note that I am almost obsessed with the Yes to Carrots C-Through the Dry Spell Deliciously Rich Body Butter, I use it daily)
Anyway, I picked up the C Me Smile Lip Butter. It comes in a traditional "chapstick" like container, it is all natural and 95% organic. I was very excited to use it, and well as it goes I was disappointed. I can't get over the smell and taste. It smells nothing like carrot, has an oily sort of smell and whenever I put it on I have a craving for spring rolls because the taste on my lips is that of the spring rolls from my favorite Thai restaurant. I like spring rolls in my belly and not on my lips. I just can't get over it. And it didn't moisturize my lips any better than anything else I have laying around. I don't think I will even continue to use the tube. The Yes to Carrots Lip Butter made me frown.

Green Goes Glam

on10® Green Glam Gloss in Green Tea is interesting. I don't hate it. But I am not quite sure about it. I just got it in the mail today from Sephora. I was got it because I am a sucker for cute packaging. And it is cute. I expected it to be a little tin, but it is actually in a cardboard pot! So cute, so green! The flavor is just what is says, green tea and they are not joking. It has the taste and smell of a hot pot from your favorite Japanese restaurant. It has SPF 15, which is always a plus in my book. It is not greasy, and has no shine. Dont be fooled by the name, it is most definitly a lip balm not a gloss. It has average hydrating abilities, and over all it is so-so. But, I am sticking it in my purse beacuse I love the packaging! If you can' t live without green tea, go green and give it a try. It is $9 and sold exclusivly at Sephora.