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MAC Tartan Tale: A Fabulous Fantasy Lip Kit

MAC Tartan Tale: A Fabulous Fantasy Lip Kit

MAC Tartan Tale: A Fabulous Fantasy Lip Kit

A Fabulous Fantasy Lip Kit ($22.50) is a trio of lip products, featuring one sheer lipglass and two lipsticks.  There's a nice variety in the finishes, and they do seem to coordinate well--they are all a touch...

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MAC Tartan Tale: Dazzle the Lads Lip Bag

MAC Tartan Tale: Dazzle the Lads Lip Bag

MAC Tartan Tale: Dazzle the Lads Lip Bag

Each year, MAC puts out a couple of lip products in specially designed/packaged bags, and this year is no different. The Dazzle the Lads Lip Bag ($36.00) includes Moth to Flame (sheer neutral beige; dazzleglass), Baron's...

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MAC Tartan Tale: Vain & Glorious Lip Bag

MAC Tartan Tale: Vain & Glorious Lip Bag

MAC Tartan Tale: Vain & Glorious Lip Bag

Each year, MAC puts out a couple of lip products in specially designed/packaged bags, and this year is no different. The Vain & Glorious Lip Bag ($36.00) includes Baby Sparks (sparkly baby pink; dazzleglass), Mellow Mood (sheer...

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Bobbi Brown Beauty Rules Face Palette

Bobbi Brown Beauty Rules Face Palette

Beauty Rules?!

Bobbi Brown Beauty Rules Face Palette ($45.00) has me at odds! I do and don't like this palette. I do LOVE the new and exclusive Pot Rouge shades to this palette. I also adore the packaging--I just think it's cute and fits so well with the theme. I...

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Guerlain Beatrix Rouge G de Brilliant Lipstick

Guerlain Beatrix Rouge G de Brilliant Lipstick

Pretty in Pink with Beatrix

Guerlain Beatrix Rouge G de Brilliant Lipstick ($46.00 for 0.10 oz.) is an ultra-wearable petal pink with yellow undertones and white micro-shimmer. It has a glossy finish like other Rouge G Brilliants, and the color itself is...

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Dolce & Gabbana Amethyst Classic Cream Lipstick

Dolce & Gabbana Amethyst Classic Cream Lipstick

Dolce & Gabbana Amethyst Lipstick

Dolce & Gabbana Evocative Beauty: Amethyst

Dolce & Gabbana Amethyst Classic Cream Lipstick ($30.00 for 0.13 oz.) is a semi-opaque, dark, reddened burgundy with a glossy finish.  It's kind of like a cream, but there's so much shine, describing it as a cream seems...

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Chanel Pleasing Glossimer (Holiday 2010)

Chanel Pleasing Glossimer (Holiday 2010)

Chanel Holiday 2010: Pleasing

Chanel Pleasing Glossimer ($27.00 for 0.19 fl. oz.) is new and limited edition just in time for the holidays, and it's the most pigmented shade of the three holiday Glossimers.  I always find this kind of color difficult to describe, but I...

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NYX Purple Smokey Look Kit

NYX Purple Smokey Look Kit

More Purple Than You'll Know What to Do With

NYX Purple Smokey Look Kit ($11.00 for 0.32 oz.) is an eye and lip palette; it contains nine eyeshadows and two lip colors. If you're a fan of cool-toned, purple eyeshadows, this is a palette with your name on it! The palette...

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Philosophy Everything's Coming Up Rainbows Set

Philosophy Everything's Coming Up Rainbows Set

Looking for Rainbows with Philosophy

Philosophy Everything's Coming Up Rainbows Set ($28.00) includes a 4 oz. Rainbow Sherbet Shower Gel, 4 oz. Rainbow Sherbet Body Lotion, and 0.5 oz. Rainbow Sherbet Flavored Lip Shine. It pulls more like orange sherbet but it has that...

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Illamasqua Disciple Lipstick

Illamasqua Disciple Lipstick

Illamasqua Art of Darkness: Disciple

Illamasqua Disciple Lipstick ($22.00 for 0.14 oz.) is a deep navy blue with a near matte finish.  It's pretty opaque, but it is a little dry, so it's best applied with a lip brush.  Between the opacity and the more clinging nature of...

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