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MAC Viva Glam Nicki Minaj Swatches NC42 Reference

Feb 152012

So I really, honestly debated on whether or not to buy this because everywhere I looked, every site I visited, The lipstick looks different. I decided to go on and take the leap for more than one reason, mainly because this is for a good cause.

Viva Glam Nicki is a satin finish MAC lipstick, described as a medium pink with yellow undertones that makes it appear coral. This is a very unique shade to me because it looks one color, and totally applies another.

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Revlon Colorstay 16 Hour Quad- Inspire- Swatches and Review

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Feb 092012

Brand- Revlon

Product- Colorstay quad, Inspire #540

Price- $7.99

Availability- Drugstores, Ulta.com, Beauty.com

Inspire is a very spring inspired quad that can very well take you right into the summer. The quad features a vanilla shade to highlight, a lime green, a cool aqua blue, and a dark purple to contrast.

Packaging is a plastic quad with a clear snap lip so that you can see the colors from the outside, which is common with drugstore cosmetic packaging.

The shades are nice and shimmery but if you are looking for high pigmentation, look somewhere else. The colors are very faint, and hard to build. Using a primer underneath will give you somewhat of better color payoff, but building is hard, and blending is even harder, especially the green and purple shade.

Does it last 16 hours with no primer? No. Just…no.

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Julep Oscar And Viola- A Match Made In Heaven

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Feb 082012

If you are still sleeping on Julep then here’s a reason to wake up- Julep created some Oscar-inspired lacquers that left me in awe. They created what seems like a new collection of nail lacquers names after actresses in connection with the Oscars.

When I received my Maven Box for the month of January, I got Oscar, Viola, and Julep’s topcoat for hair (that I have not used yet).

Back to these lacquers- Oscar ($14.00) is a clear lacquer packed with chunky square gold glitter. When I saw the initial previews of this lacquer in the newsletter, I was honestly expecting gold flakes over glitter- don’t ask me why I honestly do not know. Anywho here are some swatches of Julep Oscar- I only did two coats but imagine how blingin’ your tips would be if you did 3 or 4 coats.

Viola ($14.00)- which I assume is named after Viola Davis, is a deep dark and sultry lacquer. Viola is deep dark purple with a crème finish. I have not swatched it yet because when I got my Julep package in the mail, I also got those few shades from Electropop and I did not want to risk swatching such bright shades with potentially stained nails. So my plan is to do a nail of the day with Viola over the weekend and share with you guys then.

Julep’s Topcoat for hair?? hmmm at this point Do not want but you never know!

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A Few China Glaze Electropop Swatches!

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Feb 032012

If China Glaze’s Up and Away and Kicks Collection had a baby, it would be the Electropop collection! This was a unique collection with a combination of brights and pastels to usher spring in the right way! Check out my swatches of 3 of the lacquers from the collection.

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Express Nail Lacquer Swatches- Spring 2012

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Jan 302012

I hope these swatches look good since I am using a new camera! My husband bought me a new camera and I might be in love! Don’t’ quote me on that. Now back to these swatches.

Express’s nail lacquers from the 2012 spring collection is a mix a soft and bold in three shades that will go perfectly with this year’s Spring fashion forecast. Soft pink, mint green, and bold blue! Let’s check out the swatches shall we?

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NARS Gaiety Blush Swatches- Spring 2012

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Jan 252012

I have tried the pink blush thing before and it’s not for me. I was talking with my readers like I normally do and we came to the conclusion that warm toned gals just cant pull off cool toned blushes. So warm toned gals look away, this blush aint for you. Yes it appears to be a hot pink, but it’s not!

Cool toned gals welcome to the party! NARS Gaiety is the blush for you! Gaiety is a cool toned, blue based soft pink. In order to achieve the bright vivid pink, you are going to need layer after layer after layer. It is buildable, so that is a good thing.

Gaiety is all matte no shimmer, no sparkle.

NARS Gaiety is available for $28.00 on http://www.narscosmetics.com/

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MAC Redhead Mineralized Satin Finish Swatch/Review- MAC Naturally Collection

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Jan 232012

MAC Redhead Mineralized Satin Finish was originally released with the Brunette, Blonde, Redhead collection back in 2008. It has made a reappearance in the Naturally Collection, probably because of it’s beautiful and natural finish to the skin. It was also the warmest of the collection.

MAC Redhead MSF visually is a quad-stripped skin finisher. Starting at the left with a pale champagne and progressing to the right with a bronze and ending to the far right with a frosty coral.

I wish I had the one from the original release to compare, but I don’t. The shimmer is light and natural, it does not photograph on the skin frosty or too chunked with glitter (Like, Glissade? Glitterbomb!)

I recommend apply with the MAC 187 for a flawless finish. I promise once you apply with that brush you will have glowing second skin!

This was swatched with my fingers, imagine using a brush!

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Urban Decay 24/7 Glide On Pencil Stash

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Jan 232012

Urban Decay’s 24/7 Glide-on Shadow Pencil stash is a set of 5 highly pigmented shadow pencils with multi purpose uses. It is honestly everything that we always wanted from the 24/7 liners that we couldn’t get because there just was not enough product (and duh they were intended to be just liners).

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Revlon Whimsical Swatches- Glitter In The Air Dupe?

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Jan 232012

So word on the beauty street is that this is the dupe to Deborah Lippmann’s Glitter In The Air, which I don’t own so I cant really compare. You can check out swatches to just Glitter In The Air from my lovely Polish Insomniac

I’ve seen swatches around and yeah it’s quite accurate.

Revlon Whimsical is a pale blue. almost on the borderline of creamy white with just a few subtle hints of blue. There are pink and blue larger hexagon glitter particles and smaller iridescent glitter particles. It’s what makes this polish so great!

This is a color you can wear alone or on top of a light blue or light pink shade. Here are my swatches:

This was after 3 coats, no base coat and no top coat.

Macro shot in the bottle

Check for this polish in your drugstores, and Ulta had it for sure the last time I checked! Tell me what you think! You have this polish? How does it compare to GITA?

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OPI Nicki Minaj Lacquer-Swatches + Review

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Jan 192012

I wanna first say sorry for the delay. There has been so much going on and I ended up ordering this collection late because the site I wanted to buy from was sold out.

OPI announced back in October that they would be producing a line of nail lacquers inspired by the artist Nicki Minaj. The collection was inspired by her unique style, her love of bright colors and her album, ‘Pink Friday’.

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