Stila Stay All Day Liquid Lipstick Review

Happy May everyone! I am such a bad beauty blogger. I never realized Stila has liquid lipsticks until only one month ago. I wanted to buy them at Sephora but they had no stock at all at that time. Like literally they didn't have a single stock. That made me want the lipsticks even more. Until two weeks ago I went to my Sephora and I found some nice colors on stock. I immediately grabbed them. You know I love my nudes. I got the color Dolce (only one left!) and Bellisima. Dolce is a brownish nude color while Bellisima is baby pink color. Each of them retails for $32 and they have 10 variations of colors.

These lipsticks dry to matte finish. The first thing I noticed was this lipstick is super creamy and the pigmentation is insane. One swipe you literally get the color in the bottle. It is too creamy even. Sometimes you can get a big lump of product. With one swipe I will have a very very thick layer of product and it is just too much. However, I feel like the formula for each color is different. Bellisima is thicker and creamier, I always get a super thick layer with one swipe, but not too much with Dolce surprisingly. But this lipstick doesn't make my lips flaky even though it dries to matte. And Stila was serious when they called this product Stay All Day because this lipstick stay all fucking day. It doesn't move a bit. It dries fairly quickly, I tried kissing my palm several times, no product transfer at all. I drink from a cup, no product transfer. This is by far the most long lasting lipstick I've ever tried. No joke. It is though smudges a little bit when I eat greasy food. Can't help it because oil dissolves makeup. Science, bitch. Anyway, 32$ I would say they worth the money considering the price is not so different to MAC lipsticks and because liquid lipstick is the it item of 2015, and since I cannot get my hands on ABH's.


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NYX Soft Matte Lip Cream Review

I swear, it's only April, but I can say liquid lipstick is the makeup item of 2015. This NYX matte lip cream has been my favorite for a while now. I started buying them when I saw on Instagram that 'Istanbul' is a good dupe, like totaly similar to Anastasia Beverly Hills liquid lipstick in 'Lovely'. I was like, bam, I'm sold. And now I have 9 of them. 8 here, because I forgot the other one was in my purse and I only realized it after I finish taking picture. The other one I have is 'Abu Dhabi' by the way, brown nude color. Because I couldn't get my hands on the ABH ones, why not have the cheaper alternatives. They're 12$ each at Sephora and they are incredibly awesome!

These lipsticks are amazing, but they are not so pigmented on the lips you kinda have to build them up and they can look a bit patchy, because sometimes you will find like a lump of products. Like the 'Istanbul' swatch above, it's not so smooth. But doesn't mater, small problem. The lipstick smells good actually, kinda like a vanilla scent, and they last so long. The problem I have with matte lipsticks, it's that they make your lips so dry and they cling to the dry patches, and when you re-apply the product, it's like the worst thing ever. Hot mess. But this one is not. I notice it goes on smoothly even after a re-apply. Another thing to note it takes a while for them to set on your lips, like 2 minutes. They have been favorites of mine, they should be yours too.


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MAC Toledo Lipstick and Blush Review

MAC Toledo finally arrived in Singapore!

This time MAC collaborated with Isabel and Ruben Toledo, they're a couple, Isabel is a fashion designer and Ruben is an illustration designer. Very talented couple. I mentioned this collection about three days ago, so you can see the whole collection there. 

First thing first, I got a blush and two lipsticks. It was easy to decide which color to get. I definitely need Oxblood (33$) . I've seen people going crazy over Oxblood everywhere. The hype was real. The rest of the color was similar shades of red, and Sin, which is a dark purple color. Sin was on the main, permanent collection so I wouldn't bother buying it. So I got Victoriana, a nice vibrant red. It took me a good amount of time in the store debating which blush should I get. The blush is 52$ each so I couldn't get more than one. All three of them are so pretty, I'm not even joking. It was a torture for me to pick only one.  

All the lipsticks have matte finishes. The formulation I would say is no different than the permanent line. The pigmentation is amazing and super matte. The colors are beautiful. No complain at all. The packaging is beautiful! It also has a matte finish. One problem though, because of the matte finish, it would get stained very easily. Especially when we have excess makeup on our fingers. Do I make any sense? This packaging is similar to NARS matte packaging, you can see a well-loved NARS packaging from the makeup stain.

Can we talk about the blush now?

I seriously couldn't stop taking picture of the blush. I've never had a MAC blush before so I can't really compare in term of formulation. I wore this blush today and I have to say I am pretty impressed. It is very long-lasting. The color looked beautiful on my skin. The swatch I have above is a heavy swatch, so you can really see the color. I bought this blush 90% because of the packaging. It's such a bad thing to say, but really, I'm a packaging sucker. Judge me. Actually, Estee Lauder also came up with this ombre blush thing, I saw one on Sephora with the same price. But the fact that this is a limited edition, I'm sold. But thank God, the formulation was not a disappointment. So what are you guys having from this collection?

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MAC Cinderella Lipsticks Review

Can I get a whoop whoop? Apparently from what I see on Instagram, we are luckier than those people in the US. I have mentioned everything about this MAC Cinderella collection in my previous post, and we are so lucky to have the collection in a physical store rather than in an online store because there is no delay, no waiting every minute to refresh the page. As I mentioned in my previous post, I'm not getting a lot of stuff from this collection. I decided to get the lipsticks because I collect lipsticks, they are so gorgeous, the colors are lovely, and they are not too expensive. I got one each at 33$ from MAC Vivo City.
 









Before I bought these lipsticks, I have seen swatches online, and I have to say I wasn't liking them so much because they look too sheer and glossy. I went to MAC this afternoon, contemplating on the way whether to get them or not. But when I got into the MAC counter and swatched Royal Ball, I was like, I'm sold. I'm buying this thing. The color look so much better in person and not as sheer as I thought, or maybe because I have weak mentality for beautiful-looking stuff. I immediately went to the cashier and got the two of them.

Both of these lipsticks have lustre finish, so they are suppose to be glossy. Actually I'm not really liking Free as a Butterfly, because it doesn't have much color and too glossy for me, but I feel uncomfortable buying only one without the other, it's like choosing your mom over you dad or the opposite. I have OCD. I know.

If you're missing some products that you want, worry not, because this collection is going to be released for the second time at March 6th at MAC Ngee Ann City and Bugis.


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Too Faced Melted Kisses Lipstick Set

Well hello to another lipstick review. I have to say this is one of the best investment I've ever made in makeup area. I got this set for... geez I forgot again, 49$? I got this in December 2014, okay. My memory is super bad. I think this is one of Too Faced holiday collection in 2014, and this set contains four, yes four, melted lipsticks. Last year, or even this year, still, Too Faced Melted lipstick was a big thing, a must have for makeup junkies. I first saw this set from beauty youtubers in their holiday haul, a lot of them got this set and I couldn't find it anywhere. I didn't set high hopes to get this set, this set would never be available in Singapore, it was just impossible. Until one day in December I went to Sephora ION and I saw this set and I was like, you're coming home with mama. I just put that set inside my basket without a single ounce of hesitation. 

This set contains four minis, they are not full size lipsticks, but I don't care because honestly, I've never ever finished a full size lipstick, ever. The colors are gorgeous, we have nudes, bright, and bold. As you can see in the packaging, we have Melted Nude, Melted Peony, Melted Fuchsia, and Melted Berry. Considering the price for the individual full size lipstick which is 30$, this set is a very good deal.

These lipsticks are very easy to apply, very pigmented, and yes they are liquid lipsticks. So sorry for the sloppy lip swatches though. These lipsticks, surprisingly, are not as long wearing as they claimed. The colors that I've used the most are melted nude and peony. They feel good on the lips but after three hour they tend to cling to dry patches on my lips and just look really bad. And no, I don't have dry lips, and my other lipsticks work just fine without making dry patches on my lips. And they wear off so easily, even without eating and drinking for two hours. I don't know, maybe it's just me, because people are saying good things about these lipsticks. I though admit the colors are really pretty and during the first hour I couldn't stop starring at my lips because they were just gorjess.

So far I would say they score 7/10. Recomended, yes, but I'm not that brave to invest in the individual price. But they are having new colors and maybe I'll get them when Sephora have their 20% off.


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Marc Jacobs Love Marc Lipsticks Haul

Just a few days ago I was visiting Sephora NEX and I encountered these beautiful babies sold for only 29$! Marc Jacobs lipstick with the price of a MAC? I am soooo in the market! At first I couldn't believe my eyes, I thought they displayed them incorrectly. But the label matched the lipstick name, Love Marc Lip Gel. I asked one of the staff and she just said that they have been reduced from regular price but she didn't know why. Well, hell I knew why. 

I've been following @marcbeauty on instagram for a while now and they are releasing a new range of lipsticks called the #LeMarc. They came up with new shades for #LeMarc but they are not discontinuing the Love Marc shades (which I have now). The Love Marc with will be discontinued but the shades will be reincarnated into the #NewNudes. The #LeMarc will have the black packaging and the #NewNudes will have a new nude packaging, and they said the formula will be different, even though I am already so pleased with the old one. 

PS: I found that Love Marc in other Sephora, in Sephora ION, the price tag is still 42$. I don't know if they forgot to display the new label or is it only happening in Sephora NEX?

Needless to say, I did a pretty big damage to my wallet. I couldn't buy just one, I need at least two, but three is always better. Because it's not everyday you can bring home Marc Jacobs lipsticks with 29$ each, not even with the annual 20% sales. I love nudes. Nude lipsticks all the way. I always wear nudes. Nudes for live. Long live nudes. Amen. I got the shades (second picture from left to right) Strange Magic, Severine, and Role Play. Role Play is my favorite /winks.  

I am a sucker for packaging. The packaging is one of the main reason I bought these lipsticks in the first place. The packaging is so sleek and it comes with a magnetic cap, like the NARS Audacious, which I think makes it even more more more luxurious. 

I am totally in love with the formula. It gives satin finish, very long lasting, and moisturising. I have nothing bad to say about these lipsticks, but the formula is more on the oily moisturising side not so much on the creamy, pigmented side. If you're looking for more pigmented, dramatic lipstick, this may not be the one for you. But I will definitely recommend this for everyday use. 

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