Illamasqua not only has killer nail polish colors, but they also have a great line of cosmetics, including some lip glosses called Intense Lipgloss.
After pining away for these for about a year I decided to try two of them out and I am pleased to say I really like them!
While the name might not be politically correct (or one I think is “cute”) the products by Obsessive Compulsive Cosmetics are pretty darn cool. Oh and also they are Vegan & cruelty-free, yay!
As you may or may not know, OCC has this really cool lip stuff called Lip Tar. It’s kind of a mix between a lipstick and a lip gloss. You get the opacity and vivid colors of a lipstick, while still getting the ease of application and glossiness as you would with a lip gloss. I reviewed their gorgeous red Lip Tar called NSFW and their black one called Tarred in the past here. I have also reviewed their very nice nail polishes as well. Note: I saw a Tweet from them that they are coming out with new nails colors soon, I can’t wait to see what they have in store!
I decided to try some more of the Lip Tar’s since they now have a few more wearable colors. They have about 26 colors in total now. The great thing about these is that you can mix them to create pretty much any color under the sun. But I am lazy, so I prefer to wear them straight out of the tube.
Speaking of the tube, these come in an 8ML tube with an angled tip to squeeze the product out of. You only need the SMALLEST amount of the product to get serious coverage. I’m not kidding, a tiny amount. I find that using a lip brush is much easier than applying straight out of the tube.
Most of the ones I tried recently were really smooth and evened out really nicely. Two of them were on the “chalkier” side and I had some issues with, which I’ll discuss below.
Have you ever heard of Jordana Cosmetics? Well I hadn’t until recently, but they have been a family owned business for 18 years, based in Los Angeles, CA.
Jordana has a range of over 1,000 products from eye colors to nail colors to lip colors. I’ve got some of the LOL Lip Out Loud glosses for ya’ll today.
There are fifteen different colors in this particular line so far and I was REALLY surprised by how much I liked them; especially considering I had never heard of the brand.
L to R: FYI, ASAP, TTYL, GR8, OMG
MAC’s new Dare To Wear collection has six new limited edition Lipglasses. These aren’t the same Lipglasses of ‘yore though, these are different!
If you have been reading my site for awhile, you know I am an avid reader. I read all kinds of things, but mostly contemporary fiction, crime/thrillers and historical fiction. However when I heard that New York Times Bestselling Author Brenda Novak was coming out with a new book alongside a lip gloss, you KNOW I had to check that out!
Confession: I had never read anything by Brenda Novak until this past week. I have seen her books for years and years in stores, but because they were labeled as “Romance/Suspense” I overlooked them. That was a mistake on my part because she writes a really gripping story!
White Heat is her new book which just came out on July 27th. It’s the first in a 3-book series. White Heat might be labeled as romance/suspense, but don’t let that fool you. A bodice-ripper it’s not. It’s more what I would consider a thriller or action story with a little romance thrown in, as most books have.
The book is about two special operatives, Rachel Jessop and Nate Ferrentino who work for a private security company called Department 6. They might be boss and subordinate, but they also have a romantic past…Or maybe it’s not so “romantic”. Either way, they have to work very closely together on a case involving getting inside a cult called The Church of the Covenant in an Arizona Ghost Town called Paradise. Hence the name “White Heat”.
I don’t want to give any fun details away, but the story is a really good one, and it was a very gripping, fun, fast read.
If you are looking for a fun summer read, I would suggest picking this one up. Please know I would never, ever recommend a book that I didn’t actually like and read myself!
The follow up novels called Body Heat and Killer Heat will be released in August and September, respectively. I will be checking those ones out now for sure!
