This is a new Avon product. It is a lip gloss from their line called Perfect Kiss. I already wrote about their Perfect Kiss Lipstick. You can find that post here.
The lip gloss comes in a nice plastic tube with a screw-on silver top, which looks like some sort of a diamond. It's a typical lip gloss tube with a little more of a classy shape on top.
The wand is pretty long, flat and wide enough to fit nicely on the lips. I personally don't like weirdly shaped wands that don't fit on your lips and transfer product evenly. This one I find to be a really good fit.
The lip gloss itself is some sort of sticky consistency. If you don't like the sticky feeling on the lips, then I wouldn't recommend buying this one. I actually prefer that stickiness over the non-sticky ones. The color is enough pigmented to leave some color, but not a full coverage, like some mat lip gloss may give.
I have it in the color Mauve Kiss and it is a pink color, but it has a bit of purple-plum undertone. This one doesn't have a shimmer in it. Some other colors however do.
The color range of these lip glosses is similar to the lip sticks. It has 12 colors. Pinks, nudes, plums, reds to even very dark plums and very dark browns.
The price right now, is 5.50€ and with that you get 6 ml of products.
As far as the ingredients goes, they are the same as in the lipstick from that line. I personally feel that the ingredients suit me very well. Butters and oils make my lips feel nice, not at all dry after using it.
If you decide to try it for yourself, let me know how you liked it:)
DIY: Lip scrub, body scrub and body butter/cream
13 Apr 2013
I have discovered natural butters and oils that are supposed to be very good and natural to use on skin. Since then I have made my own lip balm and I never looked for any other for my always chopped lips. I bought my butters and oils here: http://www.tovarnaorganika.si/
Natural butters and oils contain vitamins and other things that are good for the skin, but what I like the best is that is all natural! I know all the things we put on our skin, hair, nails... is essentially bad for us. It all gets in our blood circulation. All that is chemically produced and ingredients that may even be harmful. I am no exception in doing that. I love all that stuff that is supposed to be "bad". But every now and then, I at least try to make something good for my body.
I made some of my home made lip scrub, body scrub and tried to make body butter / cream. I decided to share it on my blog and maybe I'll give someone an idea to make it for themselves.
Lip scrub
I mixed 10 teaspoons of regular white sugar and added 4 teaspoons of extra virgin olive oil. Because I hate the smell of olive oil, I also added some vanilla extract. Don't do that if you don't mind the smell. Plus if you add this is not natural anymore. Then just put it in any empty container.
This is a pretty rough lip scrub and I like that. That way it takes off all the dried bits of the skin.
Since the rest didn't go into my container I decided to make some body scrub out of it.
Body scrub
To make body scrub use leftovers of lip scrub or just repeat the same steps. Then you add some coffee. Caffeine in the coffee is the ingredient that is found in all anti-cellulite creams, lotions and what not. The caffeine will speed up your blood circulation. So, after using this scrub, you will absorb your body butter a lot faster into the skin.
I added some grounded coffee. To add some more texture, I added some other coffee, the one that had bigger particles in it.
I put it in a glass container.
Both scrubs can be used for at least 5 months. They will be fine for even longer period of time. Just make sure that you don't keep them in a very hot room.
Body butter / cream
This was essentially to become body butter, but I added cream, because I think it can also be used for that. The cream is meant for anyone that have dry skin. I would not recommend it to anyone with oily skin.
For this I used:
100 grams of mango butter
50 grams of coconut butter
1 teaspoon of sweet almond oil
1 teaspoon of avocado oil
Which butters or oils you'll use, is totally optional and up to you. I recommend reading descriptions of butters and oils and use the ones that you think suit you, or what sort of preference do you have with it. I used those particular, because I still had some of them at home and didn't want to buy any more.
I put the ingredients together in a bowl and than put this bowl into a "steam bath" so that the butters and oils broke down together and went liquid.
Then I pour the liquid into the mixing bowl and put it in the fridge. After that you have to check on it every now and then, it depends on how cold is your fridge. When the liquid becomes solid, but is soft enough so you can stick a finger in it, it's just right.
After that, I mixed it with my mixer, so that it became a texture of whipped cream. Put it in empty container (use some old cream containers) and that's it.
This body butter or cream is moisturizing on the skin, but not greasy. It leaves a shine on the skin. Just make sure to massage it in and it will make your skin feel very nice. The best thing - all natural! :)
Review: Maybelline Color Tattoo 24hr
11 Apr 2013
I was buying some things and stumbled upon this product. This is a new one for me and I don't remember seeing it in our country before. Since I read a lot of raving reviews about this product, I had to try it for myself. The product I bought was Maybelline Color Tattoo 24hr gel-cream eyeshadow.
The packaging is a very sturdy glass with black screw-on top. I like it, because the glass is very thick so it would probably still be ok, if you dropped it. I also like the fact that it has a color swatch on both sides, top and bottom. On top is a sticker in the same color as is the shade and on the bottom is a see-through glass so you can see the shade. That's a nice quality, so that you don't need to open or turn the product to see what color it is. Plus, it would be a lot easier to put it in the drawers and still see the colors.
On the packaging it doesn't actually says the amount of product that is in, so I can't tell.
I've tried it today. Since I have very oily lids, I was pleasantly surprised when I came home after 8 hours and saw that the make up was still pretty much on. The eyeshadow didn't crease much, which after 8 hours of wearing it, is a total success for me. To say nicely, I didn't have any nice "relationships" with all my previous cream eyeshadows and I never wanted to buy any, because they just packed themselves in the crease and was no point in putting them on.
Of course it did started to crease a little, but still far from all the other so-called cream eyeshadows and stuff. I did however used an eyeshadow lightly over this cream shadow. That probably also helped it stay put.
This products comes in different shades. Although I didn't see all of them in the store. I remember I saw purple, black, white, light pink, turquoise and taupe. Don't remember all of the shades, though.
All in all, I like this product a lot. I like all the colors in the range, like that it dries really quickly and therefore prevents the shadow to crease a lot less and that it stays on for such a long time. I will probably purchase it in some other colors also. It made me fall in love with cream eyeshadow again :).
I bought it in this gorgeous shade called 35-On and on Bronze. It is a bronzy brown with slight gold undertone of shimmer in it.
It's a gel consistency, but it goes on like butter. Once you put it on it dries fast and it doesn't move. I had problem taking it off my hands, when I tried it for the first time.
On the packaging it doesn't actually says the amount of product that is in, so I can't tell.
I've tried it today. Since I have very oily lids, I was pleasantly surprised when I came home after 8 hours and saw that the make up was still pretty much on. The eyeshadow didn't crease much, which after 8 hours of wearing it, is a total success for me. To say nicely, I didn't have any nice "relationships" with all my previous cream eyeshadows and I never wanted to buy any, because they just packed themselves in the crease and was no point in putting them on.
Of course it did started to crease a little, but still far from all the other so-called cream eyeshadows and stuff. I did however used an eyeshadow lightly over this cream shadow. That probably also helped it stay put.
This products comes in different shades. Although I didn't see all of them in the store. I remember I saw purple, black, white, light pink, turquoise and taupe. Don't remember all of the shades, though.
Japanese Cherries inspired nails
10 Apr 2013
So you've probably seen the Japanese cherry trees in the blooming season. Since the spring has finally come, I decided to make me some spring blooming inspired nails :).
For this I used a neutral beige nail polish that has a latex finish (Essence - Rebel collection). To create blooming cherry trees I used red and white for the cherry blossoms and inside I used yellow. The branches are black.
This is probably the simplest nail design of mine. You can't go wrong with it, because the blossoms may even be messy and they'll look just fine.
Start by painting nails a light beige color. Add some lines to represent branches. I decided to have the blossoms only on my upper part of nail, but you can cover the entire nail if you wish so.
Then create a few blossoms with a doting tool. You can also make some dots to represent the fallen petals.
On top of that create a few white blossoms, also with fallen petals.
Then just create a yellow dot in the middle of each blossom.
I hope you like my spring inspired nails and maybe even try it for yourself. They are really easy to do and I hope they'll bring some spring in your life.
For this I used a neutral beige nail polish that has a latex finish (Essence - Rebel collection). To create blooming cherry trees I used red and white for the cherry blossoms and inside I used yellow. The branches are black.
This is probably the simplest nail design of mine. You can't go wrong with it, because the blossoms may even be messy and they'll look just fine.
Start by painting nails a light beige color. Add some lines to represent branches. I decided to have the blossoms only on my upper part of nail, but you can cover the entire nail if you wish so.
On top of that create a few white blossoms, also with fallen petals.
Then just create a yellow dot in the middle of each blossom.
I hope you like my spring inspired nails and maybe even try it for yourself. They are really easy to do and I hope they'll bring some spring in your life.
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