Archives: January 2010

Morning all!

So it’s yet another dreary Monday morning here in the Bay, blech. How was your weekend?

Today I have Rescue Beauty Lounge’s new colors for spring 2010. These colors were inspired by the Proenza Schouler spring 2010 collection, which was all about the surfer vibe.

I cannot comment about the formula yet because these samples are not RBL’s actual formula.

Two of the colors have very subtle shimmer, so I posted two pics, one without flash and one with. Check them out!

Diddy Mow (without flash)

Diddy Mow is a gorgeous dusty putty green with very slight shimmer. I am in love with this color and do not own anything like it. No it’s not a dupe for anything else! Diddy Mow is an actual surf term for a harsh wipe-out. This was two coats.

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Happy weekend!

Have I got a doozy of a polish for you today. I am very excited to bring to you Lancôme’s Pop Petrol! This is a color that is being released in their spring 2010 Ô My Rose collection.

Now this polish is not being released in the US (at least that’s what they plan now). When I saw promo pics I was dying inside when I heard that it would be European only. Luckily I have a friend named Helen from Helen and Sheenie’s Nice Things who happens to live in England. When I asked her if she would do a swap with me (we did one in summer as well) she was happy to oblige! Thanks so much Helen!

This color wound up not being as green as the promo pics looked so I was a little disappointed when I first laid eyes on it. However I have to say even though it’s not as emerald as I thought it would be, it’s still an amazing color and totally worth owning if you love green and can get your hands on it.

The formula was really excellent. It was almost totally opaque in one coat, but I used two. The brush is a little more wide and flat than I am used to, but it wasn’t hard to work with. Peep it!

I took pictures of this under artificial indoor lighting because the sun hasn’t come out here in 114 million years, and I doubt it ever will. The color is a really deep green/blue shimmery teal. I saw another blog that had a swatch of this and her color looked exactly like mine. Then I saw other swatches and they looked much more green. I don’t know if somehow her formula was greener or maybe her lighting is different, but my bottle definitely didn’t look like an emerald green, it’s much more blue and almost smokey.

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Coming soon, swatches of American Apparel nail polish!

Ah ha! I caught these two love birds snuggling the other day. When Sammy isn’t trying to attack her by wrapping his mouth around her throat, he’s snuggling with her. He’s really a total loverboy at heart.

Hey peeps!

Have you heard of Sigma Makeup? Well I did a few months ago because everyone on Twitter and YouTube had been talking about their makeup brushes. They are very similar to MAC’s brushes, but more inexpensive. They are supposed to be really great quality also, but I can’t vouch for that because I don’t own any. However, they do have a new line of makeup out, which I have swatches of today.

The makeup line for now consists of 12 eye shadows, 3 blushes and 1 highlighter, and I got them all. The eye shadows are all sold in separate little square containers that you can pop into their palette, if you so choose. What I love is that the palette is open in the back (it’s like a frame) so you can still see the label on the backside of the palette. It’s also got a decent sized mirror. Very cool idea!

The color payoff is pretty good with these. They are very opaque and true to what they look like in the palette. My only complaint was that there is a little fall out on some of the eye shadows, but that’s not a huge issue. The blushes are seriously packed with color and trust me when I say you only need a little,  otherwise you’ll wind up looking like Charlotte the Harlot (a little Iron Maiden reference).

Onto the swatches (which were taken indoors so they look a little grey and cool sorry)!

Sigma Neutral Colors

This set consists of (clockwise from top left) Angie, Brown Sugar, Indian Girl, Brown-Eyed Girl

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