Urban Decay Oz The Great and Powerful palettes

Beauty News:

For the past few weeks, many people have been talking about Urban Decay's new Oz Palettes inspired by the movie coming out in March. The two palettes are focused on the two witches, Glinda and Theodora.

Image from Urbandecay.com

The two palettes are in their own build your own palettes. The Glinda palette consists of more pastel/light colors, and the Theodora consists of more neutral/dark colors. They each retail for $49 and are now available on urbandecay.com (link).

What do you think about these palettes? Are you Theodora or are you Glinda?

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L’Oreal Colour Caresse Wet Shine Stain: Berry Persistent

Swatches & Review

When I was shopping at Ulta over a week ago, I saw a full display of L'Oreal's new Caresse Wet Shine Stains. Since I heard some good things about these, I decided to purchase one to try for myself. I have been loving purple for lips lately, I picked up Berry Persistent.

The applicator is a tear-drop shaped doe-foot applicator. It is kind of thin as well.

The first layer of Berry Persistent applied sheer, but it is build-able. I used thin layers to build up the color. By the third layer, it is a gorgeous berry color.
Since I used three layers to try it, it felt kind of heavy and uncomfortable on the lips. After an hour of wearing, the color started being uneven.

These Caresse Wet Shine Stain's are supposed to leave a stain afterward, which made me think of stains from Revlon's Balm Stain, but for me, these did not stain too much on me. The feeling of these are kind of interesting. When applying, they feel very wet/watery, but they do not bleed. After a while, it starts to dry a bit, but it has not fully dried on me (I have tried it on for 6 hours), so whenever I have my lips together, the color starts to look uneven.

Overall, I thought these were okay. They had a very strong artificial fruit scent that lasted through wearing, which really bugged me since I am sensitive to scents. The tube is golden plastic, and attracts a lot of fingerprints, which is also something that I do not like. The color itself is very pretty though. It reminds me of MAC's Rebel (which I do not own), and Wet n Wild's Sugar Plum Fairy, but in a super shiny finish. When I purchased this, I thought it would be more purple since the tube shows it as more of a purple, but it is a berry shade on the lips. I probably would not buy this again since I do not like the scent and I would not recommend this for people who do not like very strong scents.

On lips compared to color in tube.

What do you think about the L'oreal Caresse Wet Shine Stains? Are there any colors you are interested in?

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Butter London at Nordstrom Rack

Deal alert!

I went into Nordstrom Rack today and spotted some Butter London holiday sets with a discount!
The items I saw were:

The Holiday Remover collection: $8.97

Rosie Lee, Fairy Cake & The Black Knight

Shambolic, Jack the Lad & Scuppered.
Both of the Holiday Sparkle Sparkle collection: $14.97

The Sparkle Sparkle Lippy Collection: $14.97

I think the Holiday Nail Lacquer is definitely worth it because each nail polish on its own is already $14, so a set of three for $14.97 is almost like buy one get two free! These are available at Nordstrom Rack.

What do you think about these? Are you thinking about getting them?

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Wet n Wild Raisin' The Roof Megalast Liquid Lip Color

Swatches & Review

When I first heard of the new Wet n Wild Liquid Lip Colors, I really wanted to try them because they remind me of Lime Crime's Velvetine's, so when I saw them at my local Walgreens today, I was super excited!

This has a doe foot applicator.

The color I purchased is Raisin' The Roof. It is a berry color with golden sparkles to it. It applies on wet and glossy, but after a while, it dries down into a flat-ish matte finish. Since there were sparkles in this liquid lip color, it did not seem as matte, but it was.

The color itself is gorgeous. You can see the golden sparkle on this picture better.

However, the texture on these feel kind of weird. They kind of remind me of Violent Lip Tattoos. After applying, my lips felt normal like if I were to have normal lipstick or lipgloss on my lips. After it dried, it felt kind of stiff and hard on my lips to where it was kind of hard to move it unless I am not worrying about it peeling. My lips are very wrinkly so after it dried, I was able to see all the imperfection of my lips. Even when it was fully dry for me to touch, whenever my lips rub together, it would stick to each other and make it all patchy, which did not feel comfortable at all. After about an hour of wearing it, no eating or drinking anything, it started to flake off on me, which was very unattractive. I think Wet n Wild coming out with an affordable liquid lipstick is a good idea, but I was hoping it would be kind of like OCC Lip Tars as well. To me, this is definitely something that I would not recommend because it feels very uncomfortable on the lips & the flaking is not attractive at all. After it was flaking, I tried to remove it, but it was definitely really water-proof so it was hard to rub off until I used an oil-based makeup remover for lips. I think the next time I try it, I am going to try to top it off with a lip gloss to see how they feel with those.

Overall, I would not recommend these. I really wanted to love these, but trying this was a huge disappointment. I purchased this for $2.49 at my local Walgreen's (it is originally $3.49, but the tube had a $1 off sticker on it), which does not make me feel too bad able purchasing these.

What do you think about these? Is there anything from Wet n Wild's 2013 release that you are looking forward to?

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