Beauty Product Reviews

Beautiful brown with copper flakes lipstick

This is a beautiful lipstick! It has the neatest packaging I have seen in a long time. The tube is a pretty pink color with a faux gemstone in the package. The smell of the lipstick is nice...not chemical and not overwhelming. The color is great and lasts well into my day, especially when layered over lip liner. To be quite honest, I have been a MAC girl for about ten years when it comes to lipstick. I was very devoted to one shade...Shiitake. This was the first tube of lipstick I ever finished and I bought them three at a time. However, in the ways of the fickle world of MAC, my beloved lipstick was discontinued! I bought tube upon tube of other colors and brands to try and resurrect my lost love! Everything was too brown, too nude, too pink. Then I found this little gem in Cougar! Am I happy! It is the most like MAC Shiitake that I have found. It is a perfect warm brown with copper shimmer. I will definitely repurchase this product...probably three at a time...just in case!

A great mascara...if you tweak it a little!

First, know this. I am always on the hunt for a great mascara. It has become like a personal challenge for me. This one isn't perfect but it is one of the best I have used. I bought this on the recommendation of a consultant at Sephora and had problems with it the first time I used it. I found it to be very sticky and my top and bottom lashes kept trying to fuse together, making me do this weird winking thing all day in an effort to pull them apart! Needless to say, I looked a little weird. I went back to Sephora and talked with the same consultant - super helpful and super sweet - and she told me NOT to use it on my bottom lashes. I used it the next day...only on the top...and it worked out great. Then I began to experiment! Here are some recommendations that may work for you. 1. Wear it on your top lashes only. 2. Wear it top and bottom, but use another product as your final coat. The new Anastasia top coat that makes any mascara waterproof works well for this method. 3. Use the tube of fibers with a totally different mascara. I tested this with Benefit's They're Real due to the wonderfully separating brush...worked like a charm. I hope these tips are helpful to someone! This mascara is not my holy grail,but it is a good one.