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City Lips has been on a tear lately! In addition to the City Lips Plumping Oil that just launched a little over a week ago, City Lips has just introduced their brand new City Lips Defining Lip Liners! City Lips Defining Lip Liner Packaging & Shades The first thing I noticed when the new City …
Before I get too far behind in this year’s Project Pan mini-reviews, here’s what I used up in January. Maybe I’ll make my 100 product goal this year! Skincare City Beauty Barrier Rescue Firming Night Cream: If I had to choose my favorite barrier creams, City Beauty Barrier Rescue Firming Night Cream would be …
Launching today is the newest member of the City Lips collection: Plumping Lip Oils in soft colors! Lip oils are having more than a moment in the beauty world. This new duo from City Beauty adds to its sister products, City Lips Night Oil and City Lips Plumping Gloss with a daytime glossy, plumping oil. …
Whew! Found my empties in my linen closet in a sealed plastic bag. Yay! Now I can finish off Project Pan for 2024 for real and recycle the containers. Here’s what I used up in September: Bath & Body Korres Pure Greek Olive Showergel Olive Blossom: I bought this Korres Olive Blossom shower gel …
As the years have gone by, my dry lips have gotten drier. During that time, matte lipsticks have come and, sort of, gone (thank goodness IMHO). Also, by and large, lipsticks have gotten more pigmented, lighter weight and somewhat more lip-friendly, ie more hydrating. The Wayne Goss Luxury Cream Lip Collection Wayne Goss The Luxury …
Yes, I am behind schedule, but now I am trying to catch up on my empties reviews! I want to tally up the number of products I used up in 2024 so I can go on to 2025. After finishing these mini-reviews, I’ll still have December to do. Ugh. Skincare Empties As usual, skincare …
After my longtime favorite eyeshadow primer, Urban Decay Anti-aging Primer Potion, switched its squeeze tube for a wand, I’ve been searching for new eye primers. Although I understand why some brands prefer wands (e.g. keeps your finger clean, prevents the primer from burping out on occasion etc.), but I prefer the control of using my …
Last week, the RMS Beauty Green Friday Sale with 30% off was enough to get me to order one of their incredibly lightweight Legendary Serum Lipsticks (reviewed here), but this time, from their new Nudes Collection. Looking at The Nudes Collection on their website, I noticed that it’s composed of 5 shades that look like …
Here are a list of more Black Friday Week Sales almost all of which are going on now: Artis Luxury Makeup Brushes: on Friday 11/29, 75% off the entire website!!!! Can you imagine giving Artis brushes as stocking stuffers?! You can be sure I will be shopping Artis for gifts, and I know there will …
City Beauty Mix ‘n Match BOGO Sale of either/both City Lips (all shades) and Beyond Mascara through 11/22; it never gets cheaper than 2 for 1 Florasis is a Chinese brand of primarily makeup that I’ve written about in the past (here). It’s stunning and great for a special gift (check out their eyeshadow palettes …
It seems like every brand and every store is having an early Black Friday sale. I guess it’s because Thanksgiving is so late in the month of November this year. So it’s a great time to get an earlier start on your holiday shopping. Not to be outdone, City Beauty too is having a Pre-Black …
On Thursday, I had to go to Boston for the day. Once I boarded the train in the morning, I realized that MailerLite didn’t send out my new post from yesterday, grrrr! The missed post was about the launch of two new shades of City Lips for the holiday season. If you’re a fan …
For some of us, it’s a tough day to develop enthusiasm for almost anything, but hopefully, life and America’s democratic republic will go on. And now that my website has been moved to its new home, I don’t feel like I should give up on blogging now. As I mentioned a couple of days ago, …
At the end of the summer, there was a sale on RMS Legendary Serum Lipsticks. Although I don’t love everything I’ve tried from RMS, I do love Rose-Marie Swift, the makeup artist behind RMS Beauty. She’s a wonder! And she wear RMS Serum Lipstick in bright red Ruby Moon. Because the sale was 2 for …
In the spirit of Halloween and in the category of what was I thinking when I was shopping at Sephora a few months ago, let’s take a look at Danessa Myricks’ DM Colorfix Foils in the shade, Alien, a highly-pigmented cream duochrome in Rosy Gold foil. Although I have used it as an eye shadow, …