discontinued: Rimmel Stay Glossy Lip gloss

One thing that really bugs me is that due to the fact I prefer to buy my makeup during sales, I sometimes wind up discovering things I love just as they’re about to be discontinued.

So this means that I am a make-up stockpiler as I find that the only way I can keep using certain items is to buy up lots of them during sales…

As I’m a sucker for lip gloss and the red lip look, the deep red one in ‘All Day Seduction’ was my gateway drug into the stay glossy range. I love this one so much that I HAD to buy a second one that I’m keeping aside as back-up for when I use up the first one.

As I wanted something I can wear when I feel like a more ‘natural’ lip look, I wound up getting another version of the gloss in a coral-peachy colour.

Then after telling my girl house mate how much I loved the two I have, she gave me hers that’s in a pale pink colour that looks a little clear

The good thing is that I know what features I look for in my ideal lip gloss, sheer-ish colour that’s nicely buildable, does not feel sticky, and is just ‘gloopy’ enough to feel moisturized but not thick like I have Vaseline on my lips…

Review: Lancome Juicy Tube - Moulin Rose

I remember the hype re Lancome’s Juicy Tubes lip glosses when they first came out back in high school, so for a long time I have been thinking about buying a tube for myself.

Well all I can say is this, they’re not worth the hype – at least for me.

As a general rule, I don’t much like squeeze tubes of lip gloss as the colour pigments don’t always mix well in the tube and so sometimes all you squeeze out is the clear liquid part of the gloss without the pigment. This tube was no exception when I first opened it.

Moulin Rose actually applies rather clear, with barely any colour. But the thing that brings to mind re disregarding the hype is the fact that the stuff is rather sticky on my lips and so if I’m not too careful, my hair sticks to it really easily. Or rather, it feels like I have slightly dried syrup on my lips, which is a feeling I kinda hate...

So for now, I’ve decided to hang onto it to use as last minute night time lip balm as I don’t really like throwing stuff out, and you can’t donate second-hand make-up.

DIY Lip Gloss / Lip Balm - What Not To Do

So it turns out that after going through my lip stuff collection, I realized that I had quite a few lip glosses/balms that I loved for a while and then somehow couldn’t bring myself to use for one reason or another.

One of these was a red lip tint from my local health food store that is a perfect dupe of Clinique’s Black Honey lip tint but at only a fraction of the price.

I loved the product but hated the tube – it’s super thin and there was something wrong with the twist up function which meant that whenever I accidentally twisted up too much, I had to push it back down into the tube…

Another was a almost clear orange Anna Sui lip gloss that I’d gotten as a Xmas gift. It was ok to use, but a little on the sticky end, so I tended not to use it too much as I prefer a little colour on my lips…

So given that it turned out I’d used up quite a bit of each, I had the brainwave of combining the two….

Big mistake…

I’d scraped the lip tint into a container and then simply unscrewed the cap on the lip gloss and proceeded to put both in the microwave on high for 2 min so that they would both be of a nicely runny consistency so that I could mix them together easily.

The mistake was that I’d factored all this in with the idea that it should have worked…all except the fact that the ‘foot’ of the lip gloss cap was actually a very thin plastic ‘spatula’…it melted clean off in the heat and there was a pungent smell of burnt plastic coming from the microwave…the applicator was now not much more than a short stick….

So…lesson learnt, and from now on I will make sure to check the containers before trying anything like this again…