Make-Up Blog

Urban Decay has restyled their Liquid Liner (that means new colors, new bottle — new price). The new colors are:

• Acid Rain
• Crash
• Gash
• Honey
• Lucky
• Oil Slick
• Radium
• Revolver
• Roach
• Shattered
• Smog

Pretty packaging and pretty colors. I’m ordering the Oil Slick and Radium at ASOS.

This is the first Dior lip gloss I’ve ever tried out, and after giving it about a week or two, it’s now my absolute number one. For $20, it even got me a compliment! An incredibly sexy older man told me my lips looked (and I quote) “very kissable”. Yaay! Nothing happened though — just for the record, haha.

The colour was pretty, and it stayed. Went out for over 6 hours and only had to retouch once! To me; that’s a success!

I suggest shopping at La Preya or Strawberrynet.

They look like crayons, they taste like honey and they make your lips look like you’re a young Pamela Anderson. What more can you want? Maybe a top label product for a reasonable price? Well, found it! On dillards.com they have these for $14 a piece. Not bad if I may say so myself.

I’m getting one.

This is gorgeous. A compact makeup box with artsy fartsy blossom design in the center of the powder — love it! The Nordstrom website advertises it with a very lovely anchor text too — which I just have to quote here…

See your face bloom with the new Dior Flower Blossom Compacts. An exclusive, limited-edition pressed powder compact to illuminate and accent every spring look. Delicate flower, butterfly, gemstone and ladybird-shaped pressed powders embossed on a pastel background, a design inspired by Victoire de Castellane’s famous Dior jewelry collection. A delicate play of pink, lilac, rosy beige, peach and apricot. Sweep your brush across one or more to add the finishing touch of springtime radiance.

Just over $50 at Nordstrom, but worth every single penny!

Dior has always been one of my favorites when it comes to brushes — and this pretty chrome foundation brush looks so sexy, I think even men will see this is not your everyday best-buy product!

It’s professional s**t, so expect to pay for quality — price tag is just over $30 in most online stores…

Yves Saint Laurent is one of those beauty labels that just hits the nail right on the head every single time they launch a new and innovative product. This time, an ingenious “Easy French Manicure Kit” — consisting of two pens that’ll allow you to either draw a white or a pink line on the tip of your nail without any hassle.

The nails get some extra gloss, are stronger, and look great!

Price tag is only $42 for the complete set — a steal!

My mouth is still on the floor after finding this. This is the world’s most expensive makeup, and it sells for a whopping $14 Million! Now, you can choose mascara or lipstick (providing you actually want to pay $14 Million for makeup) and it comes in a bejeweled case, such as solid 18 karat gold with diamonds. H.Couture Beauty sells this creation. Their normal mascara costs $598, which is expensive itself, at least to me, and their lipstick is $150, but if you want it in the jewel studded case, then the price goes way up. I can’t imagine spending that amount on makeup, or much of anything else for that matter, but I thought it would be a great conversation piece to know that such a price exists for something that will eventually run out…

I’m sure you’ve seen the ads for Sheer Cover mineral make-up. If not, then the focus with this is on a natural looking make-up that does not contain chemicals or fragrances. It’s good for sensitive skin. The best thing is that you just brush it on, even the foundation, and it gives you a wonderful coverage. Coverage is most important to me, but the added benefit of knowing that it contains nothing artificial is great too. You can get the starter set for around $30, which includes everything that you need such as foundation, blush, concealer, mascara, and brushes, along with cleansers and other great items. This would make a great gift for someone, providing you don’t decide to keep it yourself

We got this comment from Sierra: I am new to mineral make-up and do not like to spend the big bucks on make-up, but i want the best ingredients for my skin. Pure Bliss Minerals has both and i am in love with these eyeshadow colors-found it online/ebay eyecandy-cosmetics My sensetive skin was very happy, no itchy eyes! yeah!

The Holiday Season abounds with deep reds and burgundy. This season, deep burgundy lips are at the height of the make-up world. The key is to fill in your lips with a pencil before applying lipstick, and always use a lip brush to make your lipstick last longer, for those all night Holiday parties. The picture here shows Blake Lively from the CW’s Gossip Girl with Chanel’s Rouge Hydrabase Lipstick in Vamp - $25, at Chanel.com, and Paula Dorf lip liner in Deco - $18 at Pauladorf.com. It’s a great look for the holidays, especially in light of all the mistletoe that will be hanging around

This is a great new product from Clarins. It’s a make-up palette that has absolutely everything you need to keep yourself beautiful, and it’s in the perfect size for taking with you when you go. With the holiday season coming it, it will be great for those many parties that you jet off to. It comes with a powder compact, a blush, 4 eyeshadow colors, 1 mini mascara in black, and 2 lip glosses, and it’s in a silver box topped with a beautiful ruby.

This would make an excellent Christmas gift, or just get one for yourself. Who says we can’t buy ourselves something pretty for the holidays? And, this palette is only $35 from Clarins, so it’s not like we’re breaking the bank.