I’m not a daily lipstick user. I tend to always forget to wear it. But i like to experiment and try out colors. Since I was checking out cherryculture.com for lashes and needed 40$ for free shipping, I wander off to the lipstick section. I didn’t wanna buy 10 pairs and more of eyelashes!! Plus, the lipsticks were like 2$. What a bargain. Best way to experiment.
So i got a total of 7 lipsticks through some swatches from google. That’s the down side of shopping makeup online. Unless you go to a store in person to check out the color, there is no way of telling how the swatches are accurate. So, I just kinda trust the swatches (plus the skin tone makes a huge difference too!) and my instinct as well too. hahaha. Oh and sorry, NYX isn’t available around my area. If they are, it’s a TINY display.
So on to the swatches of my 7 lipsticks I got….
Daylight
Flash
Left to right
1-Doll
2-Herdes
3-Indian Pink:
4-Pumpkin Pie:
5-Milan:
6-Strawberry Milk:
7-Narcissus:
Overall review:
Like i said, I’m not a big lipstick wearer so I may not be a total expert here. These lipsticks are very smooth and moisturizing. They don’t dry out your lips. They tend to be oily…when i first opened them, they all had this oily shine on the actual lipsticks. Like literally, they had a tiny layer of oil as least that’s how they looked like to me. But once applied on the lips, this oily shine doesn’t appear. They are well pigmented. When I swatched it on my arm, I can’t even remove the stains with soap. hmmm, surely will budge with makeup remover. And of course, when i eat, it doesn’t stay on the lips! Which lipsticks do anyways? (yeah those crazy “permanent” lipsticks, that last for 7 hours or so). Personally, I prefer a lipstick that doesn’t last that long. Plus, it’s very unlikely that I’ll finish it, so applying frequently will help.
And….what is there to lose? It’s 2$!! (more and less, in my mind it’s 2$). It’s a great alternative to try many colors to see which colors suit you the best. Personally, I don’t like trying lipsticks from the counters, even if they clean them off for me. I don’t trust them hahaha.
So any regrets? Well…..to be honest, I don’t really like half of them on my lips. The colors are too strong. It’s ok, i just wanted to try it out. I thought Doll would be a bright red, but unfortunately, it’s more like a deep cherry red. I thought Herdes and Milan would be my favorite and as it turns out, they are my least favorite of these 7.
Indian Pink and Pumpkin Pie would be my favorite out of these as they are more the colors that i would normally wear.
Strawberry Milk and Narcissus are just for fun! I wanted to see how I looked like with barbie color lipsticks. Well, results tell me that I look like a “BUN BUN” more than a Barbie doll. “Bun Bun” is how Hong Kong people call Malaysian/Filipino maids. No racist connotation intended!! I had a great laugh and even tried to put on my mom and my sis. It was hysterical. We were like 3 bun buns! My mom looking like the best since she has the darkest skin among us and my sis looking like the least bun bun cuz she has such fair skin. So….strawberry milk isn’t for me! I even tried to wear it to local fast food restaurant, i reassure you all eyes were on me. LOL. it was that bad. I guess it’s good if you want attention, not the good kind though ;p However, the main thing I love about strawberry milk is that I can mix with other lipsticks and tone down the intensity of color. So Strawberry milk washes out the original lipstick applied. The effects are amazing! So i’m treasuring Strawberry milk!
As for Narcissus, I just wanted to try it since so many girls posted about it in their blogs. I wanted to see how it looked like on my lips! I want to wear it during when i’m all tan! Just like hyori lee in her You go girl MV. Of course, I won’t be looking half as good as her. But we shall see the results!
Just before i end this post, i wanna share my stupidity. I bought Misha BB cream a while ago and even blogged how it broke me out. Well, i was jealous how other girls could wear it and achieve amazing results. Plus i didn’t want to waste my tube. Don’t want to buy it for nothing! How bad could it be right? I mean my skin probably got used to the product after that. So i retried…..and omg….REGRETS!! My clear skin quickly became bumpy skin!! My skin even itched the day i applied it after 2 hours. And the next few days, all the reaction was shown on my face….
Lesson: Do not put stuff on your face when you already know it causes pimples.
Zuuchini
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Sending back the love…
Yumeko: Haha yeah he’s male alright. But old though. I thought of sticking my name on top of my head. haha
Shop N’ Chomp: I love his smile in the video hehehe. Lucky or not lucky for me, so far, all the students said stuff that are related to the subject.
freshelle: I had a class with participation marks before. and the professor took it very seriously…I got 0 out of 10%…..that means i could have gotten 3 grades higher easily…That’s why I am not messing up this time!! I SHALL TALK.
ning * star: cuz professors think it’s a good way to motivate the students to speak in class….
Zoe: Lucky girl ;p. thanks for commenting on my blog too.
Thanks for all the comments <3
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