This summer has been a season of nude lips and bold brows. I have found myself more amenable to brown lip liner, paired with a nude (or colored) lipstick. Mainly, I have been using my new Bare Minerals Mineralist Lasting Lip Liner in Calming Cocoa with an oldie but goodie: Charlotte Tilbury Very Victoria. It turns out to be the…
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I often wonder when the beauty industry will call “nude lipsticks” for what they are: beige. I’m guilty of it too, if only by social construction. However, it turns out, my lips are not beige; they are actually almost the same color as my face. So for me, a true nude lipstick is going to be something in the brown…
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I remember when this shade came out. I didn’t buy it right away, but it was on my list. Finally, I got around to purchasing it, and sadly I was disappointed in the shade. Be warned: Beeper looks absolutely nothing like it does on the lips swatch on the ColourPop website. Absolutely nothing like that on my skin tone. This…
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This post is all about nudes. Lipstick Queen nudes to be exact. I wanted my foray into Lipstick Queen to be a worthwhile one, so I picked up the nudes from the Nothing but the Nudes Collection ($24.00). There are three shades in the collection: The Truth, The Whole Truth, and Nothing but the Truth. Now I am a huge…
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I’ll say that again. The Sephora Cream Lip Stains ($14.00) make me want to abandon all other brands of liquid lipstick. You heard that right. Now will I actually do it? Nah. I like shiny new things too much and I’m way too impulsive of a person for that to happen but these liquid lipsticks are the BOMB. My skin type…
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