Tag: lipstick

Product Review: Sally Hansen Colorfast Tint + Moisture Balm in Happy Berry

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Sally Hansen is famous for its nail-care products, but it also offers a few color cosmetics. Colorfast Tint + Moisture Balm is Sally Hansen’s entry in the increasingly crowded field of “chubby pencils” or “crayons” for lips. (Lipstick Queen seems to have started the trend, with the Chinatown collection, but Clinique popularized it with their Chubby Sticks.)

I picked one up in Happy Berry (#25), a cool medium-raspberry shade.

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Product Review: ILIA Lipstick Crayon in Dress You Up

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ILIA Beauty’s newest product is a twist-up Lipstick Crayon with a semi-matte finish and a healthy formula that includes sesame oil, rose hip oil, papaya seed oil, and candelilla wax, among other natural ingrdients. I’ve been trying it in the shade Dress You Up, which ILIA describes in this way:

Our first true mauve that will suit most skin tones. This rose-berry hue is just enough color to take your lips from a day to night look.

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A Visit to the Bite Beauty Lip Lab in NYC

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On Friday afternoon I decided to visit and review Bite Beauty’s pop-up “Lip Lab” boutique in SoHo. I’ve always been curious about Bite’s lip color line (food-grade ingredients! shades named after different wine varietals!), but I usually find the atmosphere in Sephora too chaotic for any sustained browsing. The Bite pop-up seemed like a perfect opportunity to learn more about the brand and maybe, just maybe, to purchase a lipstick…

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Product Review: Josie Maran Love Your Lips Hydrating Lipstick in Berry Bliss

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I’ve written before about my love for Josie Maran’s Argan Daily Moisturizer SPF40+ (you can read that review here), and I own a tiny sample bottle of Josie Maran 100% Pure Argan Oil, which I occasionally use on my hair. For some reason, I don’t own any other products from this brand; at least, I didn’t until last week, when I made an impulse purchase of Josie Maran’s new Love Your Lips Hydrating Lipstick.

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Product Review: Lipstick Queen Hello Sailor

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Did you hear that Fleet Week was cancelled in New York City this year? I have to say that I was disappointed to hear this. Not that I actually spend any time interacting with the visiting sailors, but I like to see them roaming around town for a few days.

Plus, it was going to be the perfect tie-in to this review of Hello Sailor, the newest product from Lipstick Queen.

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