Review- Luscious Hydrating Lip Primer

If you guys are following the Luscious cosmetics Facebook fanpage,Then by now, you would've read about their Signature Lipstick range that they are planning to launch soon. The interesting thing here is that they have,for the very first time in Pakistan,introduced a Lip primer in this range. This did catch my attention and I had an opportunity to try out the Lip primer.

My Experience:
This was my first ever encounter with a lip primer. Even though lip primers have been around since a while and are being offered by different international companies,I never really paid any heed to them because my makeup style is totally understated lips.Even sometimes bare. I normally prime my lips with a concealer if ever needed.

Starting with the packaging,It's totally different from their previous one. Now it's a plastic case with the shade of lipstick indicated by this round ball like thing. It actually reminds me of NYX black label lipstick. What you guys think?

In case any of you guys are wondering,a lip primer is something that's applied on bare lips before applying lipstick or gloss and it is supposed to help give a nice base for your lipstick to glide on and make it last longer without feathering or bleeding.

As for me,feathering or bleeding is not a problem since I never wear bold colors but yes,staying power is my major concern specially because I have weird habits of licking my lips and munching every second.

So I tested this with 2 products,1st with my rimmel vinyl max gloss which has a problem of feathering and accumulating in the lines of my lips and then with my NYX round lipstick which doesn't have a good staying power.

The bullet has no color and glides on smoothly. It's moisturising and makes my lips very smooth for the lipstick to be applied. I did like it with NYX round lipstick because it made it glide on more smoothly then it normally does and helped deliver the color  more quickly to some extent.
As with the vinyl gloss,It already is a very smooth textured gloss but what I wanted to test was the creasing of color. Normally after a while the dark pink color easily builds up in the lines of my lips,with this primer on,I would not say they completely vanished, but the amount somewhat decreased. Maybe if the texture of primer was more rich it would help it even more.
But It did help increase the life of both the products on my lips.

Over all my experience with this primer was very good keeping in mind that it's my first lip primer.It does provide a very nice base for your lip products to be applied and helps them stay in place.I'm waiting for the weather to change slightly and then I'll update you guys on how well it works in summers.But this is definitely a nice addition to Luscious cosmetics lip range. Its a good thing that they keep on experimenting and bring out new products every now and then.

This product will be launched soon so stay tuned :)


Do you guys use lip primer? Which one do you like?
Do let me know :)
xoxo



Sample sent for review

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Review+Swatch- CoverGirl and Olay Simply Ageless Sculpting Cream Blush

Today I thought I'd share the blush that has remained my favourite this winter. It's the covergirl and olay simply ageless sculpting blush in the shade Plush Peach. 

CoverGirl and Olay Simple Ageless Sculpting Cream Blush

Creamy color defines cheekbones and stays suspended over fine lines and wrinkles for flatteringly flawless coverage. The Olay Regenerist Serum inside is infused with vitamins, skin conditioners, and anti-oxidants that actually help improve skin texture to give you an instantly healthy-looking, youthful glow.

My Experience:

This was my first cream blush and I actually bought it out of curiosity for "cream blushes". I didn't have alot of choices It was a tie between this and NYX cream blush. Initially I had to order NYX but I stumbled upon this one on covergirl's site and  just couldn't resist myself from buying it. The swirls really caught my attention I don't know why.

So the covergirl and olay cream blush comes in a glass container and the upper portion is plastic containing a sponge.I've used it only once. I dont use the applicators/sponges/brushes that come with the product but Its nice that they provide you with it. I personally use sculpting brush for this one.

The white swirls that you see in there are Olay's anti ageing serum. So basically when you take your brush or applicator and swirl it around the blush it gets picked up and is good for your skin. but since I don't need any anti-ageing serum or cream right now It doesn't really matter to me but my mom likes it.

If we talk about the consistency of the blush then I love it. It's as creamy as a cream blush should be.I was thinking maybe the olay swirls are just on the top and may go away after I use it but no. They are all the way down till the end of the blush.

It's also very heavily pigmented. This shade is the lightest in the series and I've seen swatches of the others and they were even more pigmented than this one.It's staying power is pretty good too, stayed on my cheeks for the whole day while I was in university. But lets not forget here that it's winter season and the weather is horribly dry. lets see how well it works during summers.

The bad point according to me is that their aren't alot of shades that you can choose from.I wish their were more variations of pinks for those that usually use these kind of shades

I think now I'm happy that I didn't get NYX and the reason is that,even though it's more expensive than NYX,It contains more than double the amount of product. NYX has 5.3 grams I believe while covergirl gives you 12grams. In addition to that it also contains Olay's serum so I'm pretty happy that I got this.But honestly I will get NYX cream blushes for myself in coming months because they have alot of beautiful shades and I'm in love with some of them.I might get 2 or three shades that I have my eyes on.

Overall this is a very nice cream blush. Personally my favourite blush nowadays.

I got this for around 2000 Pkr through Le-desire. For those living in U.S it's easily available in the local drugstores I believe.

Where To Buy: Your Local Drug Store or Pakistani people can get it from Le-Desire.

Price: Around 2000Pkr

Which is your favourite cream blush?ever used this one?

Do let me know :)

xoxox

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Review+Swatches- Luscious Single Eyeshadows

Today I'm going to talk about Luscious Cosmetics' Single eye-shadows.The ones I have are in Royal and Limelight.

Luscious Single Eyeshadow
Are you sick of eyeshadows that fade after you apply them?
We’ve got the perfect solution!Luscious Eyeshadows are luxuriously creamy, rich, and blendable. They are packed with intense color that will never crease or fade. Enhance your eyes with delicate shimmer and a plush, velvety finish.

                                                           

L: Limelight

R: Royal

My Experience:

I don't have a lot of single eyeshadows in my stash except some basic colors.I think It's nice to have the colors that you use a lot as single shades so that you can pop them in your bag whenever you want to and not carry around palettes. Luscious has this range of single shades since a long time.

They have 12 colors as single shades,I have Royal and Limelight here. 

Royal is your basic purple shade with silver sheen.Limelight is a lime-green color with white undertones.

The texture of these shadows is smooth and soft. Royal gets picked up very easily and it's pigmentation is good too.I basically like purples and violets on my eyes so I like it on it's own or blended with another color.Limelight is also a nice shade but I did face problems with the proper building up of color since it's very light and has white undertones so it can be a bit tricky to make the lime green color show up on your lids.I used it wet and it was somewhat easier for me to work with it that way.Make sure you use a good primer underneath though. 

What I'm happy about is that I experienced relatively less fall out with the shadows specially Royal.I didn't face creasing for sometime.

The casing is simple and light weight and contains 2.5 grams of product.

I think I like to use them wet more than using them dry.Both the colors are attractive. The other 10 colors look interesting on the site too. I think I'm gonna get antique gold and baby pink for myself in future and see how they are.

Over all I think these shades are nice and pretty. I cannot talk about the pigmentation of whole range of these shades because I feel it might differ according to the color.But for the ones I tried they are pretty good

Where To Buy: Luscious Cosmetics Website

Price: 325Pkr for a single shadow.

So have you guys tried any color from the range? What's your favourite shadow?

Do let me know :)

xoxox

Sample sent for review

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Review- KQC X-Heat Tourmline Ceramic Flat Iron

I have this wierd obsession with hair tools and this reflects I'm not happy with my hair.Recently I tried this KQC flat iron from Flatironexperts.com  which really impressed me.

KQC Flat Iron

KQC is the fastest growing manufacturer of electrical personal care appliances, from hair straighteners,hair dryers and curling irons. KQC products are made in the Korea; they are known to produce the best and most advanced ceramic / tourmaline heaters. KQC flat iron is #1 choice for professional in British Columbia and is expanding around the world. It delivers high performance product design to help you achieve salon finish at home. Flat Iron Experts rated KQC flat iron as the #1 best flat iron ; we recommend KQC flat irons with confidence.

My Experience:

KQC flat iron is very popular all over internet if you ever noticed. Now I know why. I never thought I'd be this happy with a straightener.  

If I talk about the look of this Iron its very simple. Black all over with red plates.
The one I have has a 1 inch barrel. It has a 360 degrees swivel cord so that it doesn't cause you trouble while you're rotating the iron.
The temperature range is wide from 72-210 degrees. It's adjustable you can turn the dial to whatever temperature suits you. I usually don't go all the way upto 210 degrees because the texture of my hair is very thin and they are less too. So this works really well for me.It also heats up very quickly within like 15 seconds.
As a flat iron no doubt it does an excellent job.Straightens hair smoothly and brings a gloss to my hair . But what I love about it is that it curls my hair amazingly. That's right. I have never achieved such nice curls with any of my curling irons and I have tried a lot of them,the small ones and the big ones both.
There were two main problems that I had with my previous irons. First the curls were either too tight or way too loose. Second they my hair could not hold the curls.I did use a lot of different hairsprays but nothing helped me hold them for long.
This iron has solved both these problems for me. I love the curls I get with this one. They are uniform and beautiful neither too tight nor too loose. Because the barrel has round edges it makes it perfect for curls or those flipped bangs(which I love). It does retain my curls for a hell lot of time.So happy about that.
The thing I don't like about this iron is that the top part of the iron(above the plates) can get a little hot while it's on.So i do not hold it from there which sometimes makes me loose the grip when I'm curling.
When you buy the iron they give you the KQC thermal shine heat protecting spray. I always use a hair protectant before playing with hot tools because I have cause a lot of damage to my hair in the past.This one has a nice scent and brings out a shine in your curls or even when you straighten your hair.

Overall I think I'm not gonna be switching from this iron for a long time. 

WHERE TO BUY: Flatironexperts.com 

PRICE: On sale for $159.95  Original Price: $249.95

Which Flat Iron do you guys prefer? Ever used this one?

DO let me now :)

xoxox

Sample sent for review.Honest Opinion

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Winner Of the BH Cosmetics Giveaway

Hey you guys! the giveaway has finally ended and I have picked the winner. If you're following my twitter and facebook you would've seen the name of the winner by now but for those who didn't here's the official announcement

But before I announce the winner I just wanted to talk about why it got me a bit late to announce the winner. Well there were a hell lot of entries for this giveaway but I faced problems with the enormous amount of fake entries and some of the contestants entered 4-5 times. I went through each of them very thoroughly and made sure the fakes weren't included.  

So the winner that was picked by random.org is

Dragana Aksentijevic from Serbia

Congrats honey :) 

For my lovelies who didnt win,there's always next time :) Just know that I love you all. <3

xoxoxo

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Review- Too Faced Leopard Love Complexion Perfection Kit

I love collecting blushes/bronzers and if they come in the loveliest packaging ever, I just can't resist them. I'm talking about the Too Faced Leopard Love complexion perfection kit.

Pink Leopard

Candy Leopard

Peach Leopard

My Experience:

I have to admit this kit has remained on my wish list since forever. I mean just look at it! It's so pretty . I'm a huge sucker for leopard print and I love the site of this kit in my stash.

You get a bronzer(Peach leopard),blush(Candy Leopard) and highlighte(Pink leopard)r inside the kit.There's a mirror on the lid too.

As far as packaging and look is concerned,I couldn`t have wished for a prettier palette.But things are not all smooth here. If we talk about about practicality of this palette,than it may not be on the more practical side.

Their pigmentation is not how I had in mind.With candy leopard the least pigmented of the three,I've to work hard to bring a flush of color to my cheeks.  Peach leopard is okay in pigmentation and pink leoaprd serves somehwat good as a highlighter.

Pink leopard is a frosty highlighter but it doesnt look as frosty on cheeks as it does inside the pan.

The size of these three cheek colors is small with 2.5 grams of product in each pan. If you take the palette as a whole combining the three pan its not less but individually it may turn out less for you depending on your prefrence for use of any of the color inside.

The leopard print is not very deep.The design started fading away from candy leopard after some uses. Its still there though but just not as neat.For this reason I'm afraid of using it frequently.I seriously don't want the leopard design to disappear.

On the whole let me put it this way. If you want to beautify your blush/bronzer collection than there is nothing better than having this palette but if you want something that you want to use on daily basis or frequently,this may not be the one.

WHERE TO BUY: Apothica or Too Faced

Price: $29.70

DUPE: An inexpensive dupe for the peach leopard in this palette would be the NYX bronzer in "When Leopard gets a tan"

  

Have you guys used it? What do think about it?

Do let meknow :)

xoxox

Sample sent for Review.

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Giveaway Time- Win the 88 Color Tropical Shimmer Eyeshadow Palette by BH cosmetics- Closed

It's been a while since I've hosted a giveaway for you guys.So today I'm giving away something really awesome. It's the 88 Color Tropical Shimmer palette by BH cosmetics.

All you have to do is follow the rules below and you'll be in for a chance to win this palette.

The "Must" Options:

• You Must Follow My Blog (Hit the "join this page" button on the side bar)

The Optional Entries:

• Like My Facebook Page here (+2 entries)
• Follow me on Twitter here  (+2 entries)
• Follow BH cosmetics on Twitter here  (+2 entries)

This Giveaway starts today 22nd January and ends on 30th January 2012.
I'll choose the lucky winner through random .org and BH cosmetics will send the palette to the winner directly.
So Start entering and best of luck from my side :)

Sponsored by Tomoson.com

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Review-BH Cosmetics Topical Shimmer Palette

I really like Shimmer shades but I stopped buying them some time back because of the bad experiences I had with some of them. But my love for shimmer started again with this palette. I'm talking about the BH cosmetics 88 Color Tropical Shimmer Palette.

88 Color Tropical Shimmer Palette
Devastate them all with your sexy, tropical shimmer. Warm summer sands gleam with fresh ocean sprays of crystalline blues and sea jewel greens. Sunburst oranges and fiery pinks burn with glimmering glamour. Soft pelican grays and pearly browns add a hint of coolness.

My Experience:

As I said shimmer shadows have always remained my love. This palette adds to the liking. If we look at the packaging its a sleek plastic palette with mirror and two sponge applicators. The usual one that most of the companies who sell 88 colors have.

I love greens and emeralds in this palette they are truly enchanting and look equally beautiful on eyes.Other than that I'm so happy with the choice of browns this palette gives me. There are so many different shades of brown which is a plus for me because I'm a sucker for browns and neutrals on eyes. There's one true gold in there as well.It actually contains the shades of basic colors like blues greens and pinks rather than the colors themselves. You wont find the true blue pink or green in there.

I would've loved it even more if there was a pure black in the palette. I know its a subtle palette but even then, black is a necessary color whatever the theme of shades.Maybe its just me because I'm the kind of person who just can't live without adding black to eyes. There is a blackish charcoal in the palette but it's not intense enough.But the range of charcoals is just awesome.I think i should start trying charcoals on my eyes too.

I really like the texture and pigmentation of the shades. They are smooth,get picked up easily and deliver a good pigmentation. My favorite part is that the shimmer is not over the top. Its just perfect to add to the glam without making your eyes look like a shimmer bomb. Since the shimmer is so tiny,it wont fall off or spread on the entire lid.

I think this has to be my favorite shimmer palette with a great variety of subtle colors.Even if you're a matte fan,you'll most probably like it.

Where to Buy: BH Cosmetics

Price: Its on Sale for $13.62 right now. Actual price is $20.95

Stay  tuned because I'll be having this palette as a giveaway soon.

Have you guys tried this? Which shimmer shades do you like?

Do let me know :)

xoxox

I received one or more of the products mentioned above for free using Tomoson.com. Regardless, I only recommend products or services I use personally and believe will be good for my readers.

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