Purse Friendly Beauty

I am a live by what is in my purse kind of girl. Heaven forbid a beauty situation arise in which I am caught unprepared, without the proper tools in my larger-than-life (or me) sack. That being said, here are some of my handbag must-haves for beauty on-the-go.

Lipgloss(ary)- Avon's Glazewear Collection

While Avon is not a brand that I cover often here on Krasey Beauty, that is not to say that it doesn't have a lot of great products just waiting to be discovered.  This quickie review is for all of you Avon lovers out there. Say hello to the Avon Glazewear Collection.

A collection of 16 lipglosses in intense, high-shine, and sparkling finishes, the Glazewear collection has a shade and finish for every personality. The glosses themselves glide on with varying degrees of pigmentation, and provide just enough slip for a comfortable wear time of 2-3 hours .

Left to right, Glazewear Intense in Crimson, Cherry Liqueur, Intense Plum, Brown Sugar, Sweet Maple. Glazewear Shine in Mauve Movement, Darling Pink, Tickled Pink, Iced Pink, Island Glow. Glazewear Sparkle in Mocha Latte, Rave, Apple Cinnamon, Mirage, Dazzling Diamond, Clear.

Fun Fact: AVON Glazewear is America’s #1 lip gloss. Avon sells the equivalent of 8 Glazewears every minute, making it the #1 lip gloss in America. Pretty impressive, huh?

Swatched

Left top to bottom: Glazewear Intense in Crimson, Cherry Liqueur, Intense Plum, Brown Sugar, Sweet Maple.
Middle Top to Bottom: Glazewear Shine in Mauve Movement, Darling Pink, Tickled Pink, Iced Pink, Island Glow.
Right Top to bottom: Glazewear Sparkle in Mocha Latte, Rave, Apple Cinnamon, Mirage, Dazzling Diamond, Clear.

AVON Glazewear Lip Gloss is available exclusively through Avon Representatives. To locate your closest rep, visit the site and have a look.


*Product provided for post consideration

Summertime ColorTime with Hourglass Cosmetics

Hot breezy days, and the feeling is right,
it’s time to embrace the sun
With lipgloss and bronzer and liner in sight
Summertime has begun.

Bright, sunny days and warm, balmy nights, summer is fast approaching us on this great big North American continent of ours. With the impending heat, it is time to switch gears and have a look at the products that will get us through splashing, sunning, and even that steamy night out at the club. Let us welcome the sunny season with smiles, laughter, and some sunny-weather favorites from Hourglass Cosmetics

Extreme Sheen Gloss in Fortune

New and Exclusive to Sephora NARS Lip Glosses in Blush Shades- Swatches and a Review

NARS fans join me as I cheer, rejoice, and do cartwheels and other acrobatic-type maneuvers. A new addition to the NARS beauty bunch will allow us to play matchy matchy on the daily. This summer, NARS’ releases its newest lip luxury- five Sephora-Exclusive lipglosses created in shades that match the line’s most popular blushes. Excited yet?

The Beauty Bar- Liptini Double Shot

I am a sucker for a cute packaging concept, so imagine my elation when this package arrived at KB headquarters. 'Tini beauty is a brand that would make 007 proud.

OK, so maybe he is not the original 007, but Austin is just so groovy, baby.

A line of cocktail inspired cosmetics, every product in the liptini, nailtini, or eyetini family is made to be mixed and matched to pretty perfection. With cheeky cocktail inspired names, and equally fun color options, 'tini beauty sets the bar pretty high (hehe, get it?).

Obsessive Compulsive Lip Tars

 

Out of the cosmetic-grade muck, a new series of OCC’s wildly popular lip tars have emerged, much to everyone’s delight. Getting a makeover for spring with soft, demure shades meant to be mixed and matched to perfection, these new shades of lip tar can only be described as covetable. In the name of all that is pigmented in a lip product, I had to claim these three bad boys as my very own.

Rockin' Lip Glosses from Armour Beauty, Swatches and a Review

While lipstick might be back in a major way, lip glosses still reign supreme in summer popularity. No matter how you look at it, there is just something so pretty and youthful about a high-gloss lip. Contributing to the glossy lip cause is Armour Beauty.

Armour is the beauty baby of Theo Kogan, model/muse, rockstar, and entrepreneur. A small line that currently houses a total of 14 lipglosses, there are shades that run the range from opaque to sheer, demure to bold. Armour is a line all about unleashing your inner rock goddess.

Smashbox Lip Tips

Welcome to part 3 of our Smashbox Essentials series. This time, our goal is to fake a perfect pout.

Plump Pout- Fake a plump pout by dabbing a sheer highlighter on top of the cupid's bow.

Smashbox Must Have Product: Photo Op Under Eye Brightener


Pout Perfection- For a naturally full pout (without the use of harsh plumpers), apply your favorite lip color, then dab a pale, shimmery gloss in the center of the top and bottom lip.

Smashbox Must Have Product: Reflection High Shine Lip Gloss


Bold Lip Color- To keep bold lip color from bleeding, dip a cotton swab in translucent powder and trace around the lip line before applying lipstick.

Smashbox Must Have Product: Halo Hydrating Perfecting Powder

Long Wearing Lip Color- To help lipstick stay the day, first line then fill in the entire lip with a neutral pencil

Smashbox Must Have Product: The Nude Lip Pencil

Armed with the right tools, a perfect pout is not all that hard to accomplish. What are your lip favorites?


 *Product provided for consideration

Sally Hansen Diamond 12 Hour Lip Treatment

Time for another edition of makeup quickies. This time, I bring you the most glam dazzly drugstore gloss that I ever did see- Sally Hansen's Diamond 12 Hour Lip Treatment.

Bulky Lipgloss Begone, Hourglass Prodigy

A reoccurring scenario:

You are going to a party, and looking mighty fine if you do say so yourself. You are finished getting dressed and primped, and its time to accessorize. You pick an adorable bag to match your ensemble, and proceed to fill it with the essentials. Camera, keys, wallet, and before you know it your cute little bag is stuffed to maximum capacity. Where to put the lipgloss?! It won't fit in your bag unless that bag suddenly sprouts a black hole, so you pawn it off on your unsuspecting significant other. When he starts buying pants without pockets (because he will, once he catches on), you put it in your back pocket and hope nobody notices the bulge.

More often than not, that girl with the teeny, tiny, overstuffed bag just so happens to be me. Many a time, I have tried to shove my lipgloss into any crevice I could find to no avail. I would turn to my sweet boyfriend who would begrudgingly hold onto my things for me, until he caught onto my game and started stuffing his pockets with his own junk. Woe was me on the evenings I had to walk around with dark denim skinnies and a bulging tube resting on my derriere. No more with Hourglass Cosmetics Prodigy lipgloss.

Starlet Lips with LipFusion

Remember that old school bully? The one who would threaten to give you either a fat lip or a knuckle sandwich? You would cower in the corner afraid of the damage he/she would do, but little did you know then that having fat lips (albeit pain free) is actually a good thing?

*Fat Lips, no bully required

Whether natural or otherwise, plump lips are the flavor du jour. Wanting to mimic the ethereal pouts of Angelina Jolie and Anne Hathaway, I have tried every trick in the book in order to gain those plump, pillowy lips that beg to be kissed. Unfortunately, the cosmetic market is fully saturated with lip plumpers that have left  me feeling like I just made out with a Chili Pepper (the vegetable, not a band member), which is no bueno. I also find myself wishing something- a gloss, to give me that extra something. I have found the winning combination in Lip Fusion's InFATuation lipgloss which plumps sans burn, while giving me a heaping helping of shine and color that I love.

 

Stila Spring Jewel Lip Glaze Trio

The ultimate in bling for your lips, Stila has launched a brand new trio of dazzling lipglosses as part of their spring collection.

Thierry Mugler Beauty- The Plexi Gloss

On my many adventures both around North America and through the world of beauty blogging, there comes a time when I stumble across things that are so beautiful that they transcend Earth. So splendiferous, that they must have come from a different planet altogether.

Such is the case with Thierry Mugler Beauty, a brand I discovered during a trip to Montreal last year.

I want to get this party started by showing you my favorite product thus far, Plexi Gloss.

 

To see more of these beauties, take the jump!

Make Up Designory Lip Glaze

The time has come for me to once again dive headfirst into the amazing world of Make-Up Designory Cosmetics. This time, I want to introduce you all to the newest lip products, Lip Glazes in Bare and Java.

Holiday Beauty Gift Guide- Tarte

 

This holiday season, Tarte is offering up a wonderfully giftable collection of fifteen lipglosses that are meant to be divvied up and shared with friends. These make a great stocking stuffer if ever there was one.

15 Minutes of Fame, and Beyond with Lipstick Queen Pop Art Gloss

"In the future everyone will be world-famous for 15 minutes."

- Andy Warhol

Lipstick Queen Fifteen Minutes of Fame Pop Art Gloss

When it comes to celebrities, fads, and even fashion trends, I agree with Andy that most things experience 15 minutes of fame, only to quickly burn out and never be seen or heard from again. Fads, people, even products breeze in and out of our lives, rarely leaving any sort of impression. Not so with this amazing new lipgloss from Lipstick Queen, inspired by hyper color and; the Pop Art movement.

MAC Dazzleglass Creme Collection Review and Swatches

Better late than never, right? The latest lip launch from MAC combines the glitz factor of dazzleglasses that we all know and love, with the opacity of a standard issue lipglass. This new formulation is exceptional, and the result is nothing short of phenomenal.

But enough of my yammering, these babies were especially photogenic, and here they are in all their glory.

L-R: Creme Allure, Totally Fab, Luscious Spark
Amorous, Soft Dazzle, Sublime Shine


L-R, Bottom: Do It Up, Perfectly Unordinary
All Together Now

What say you, MAC fanatics. Yeah, or nay? For me, the answer is a resounding yeah! I picked up 3 of these babies (for now).

La Prairie Plumage de Nuit Fall Color Story, Review, & Swatches

Have you ever come across a product line that emanates luxury from every gilded crevice? I have experienced indulgent cosmetic bliss by way of the La Prairie "Plumage de Nuit" (feathers of the night) Fall 2009 colour collection. While La Prairie as a whole is a luxury cosmetics brand that has for the most part slipped past the radar, I knew as soon as I saw Plumage that I would never be the same.

Housed in elegant silver packaging that is chic but not bulky or heavy, Plumage de Nuit features shades of plum, brown, and copper. Colors range from neutral to bold, making the final look very customizable. The color palette reminds me of the rainforest meets African safari, simply stunning.

Plumage de Nuit includes:

Cellular Treatment Eye Colour Ensembles (Limited Edition):
• Les Sandpipers – a quad of warm golden colors
• Les Doves – a quad of cool silver and platinum hues

Cellular Luxe Lip Colours:
• Molten – copper
• Cardinal – rouge
• Velvet – plum

Cellular Lip Colour Effects:
• Maribou Glace – pink
• Firefly Glace – peachy copper

Cellular Treatment Powder Blush Duo (Limited Edition):
• Rosy Lovebirds – rose / pink duo
• Peachy Lovebirds – peach / bronze duo

Cellular Treatment Illuminating Face Powder:
• Soft Glow

You all know how I do it here on Krasey Beauty, here is a detailed review of some of the pieces, with photos for you to ogle.
Cellular Luxe Lipcolor in Velvet. Velvet is a gorgeous shade of plum, bordering on red with very strong pink notes. This lipstick glissades (slides) across the lips, enveloping them in rich, moist, pigmented color. Lasting power is phenomenal, and these lipsticks have a slight fragrance, but no taste that I can discern.

Swatches: On hand, then on lips.
Cellular Treatment Powder Blush Duo in Peachy Lovebirds. A duo of peach and bronze, this compact provides you with silky, smooth, soft focus color. You won't get intense pigmentation or clown cheeks with these powders, but rather a soft, lit-from-within glow. I love using the peach on the apples of my cheeks, with a bit of the bronze in the hollows of my cheeks for contour.
Last, but certainly not least,

Cellular Lip Colour Effects in Maribou Glace. A medium pastel pink, this lipgloss is very high on the shimmer and shine scale, in a sophisticated sort of way. This lipgloss is neither tacky nor watered down, but a blissful state in the middle that gives it the ability to adhere to the lips without gluing them together. Lightly fragranced and infused with light reflecting pigments, this lipgloss makes lips look plump and feel pillowy. This is what grown up shimmer looks like.
This collection is truly a feast for the high-end cosmetics lover. Plumage de Nuit is available now, both on the website and in major fine department stores.