Archives: October 2010

Say hello to my little friend, Milani Lip Flash in Star Flash. Lip Flash is a new line of full coverage shimmering gloss that comes in a jumbo pencil.

The deets:

• Full coverage and highly pigmented
• Glossy, shimmery finish
• Not sticky and includes an anti-feathering formula
• Packed with moisturizing ingredients
• Sharpen-able
• Available in 8 shades

I am SUPER partial to pencil-like lip colors for a few reasons. A. they are so easy to apply and you usually never need a brush and B. it’s like a lip liner and lipstick/gloss all in one, fabulous!

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The MAC Venomous Villains release includes three new nail lacquers in the Maleficent collection.

These are glittery duochrome colors, really cool looking, but two we have seen before…

I do wish MAC had designed these bottles with Maleficent on them because it would have made them more special, and I bet more people would have bought them who already had the dupes.

The formula was pretty good. I did need three coats for all for maximum coverage. Tip: Don’t forget to wrap your nails when painting with these because as you can see from my Mean & Green swatch, I didn’t and it’s REALLY obvious!

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Hi!

Since I haven’t been able to do any nail swatching or much posting this week, I started getting restless, so I created this little collage of all the fall 2010 nail swatches I could think of. Just something to do. Watch out because I love this program so you might start seeing a lot of these Enjoy!

-VV

Despite the fact that I always read “calm” as “clam” I still love this poster. So much so that I paid a ridiculous amount of $$ to get it framed. Told you I was a Brit trapped in an American body ;D