Get Familiarized With Different Cosmetics and Makeup Tools- Part 3

No makeup is complete without the decoration of the lips. What are the cosmetics made just for them? Well, just take a look at them below.

1. Lip Balm

If you have uneven lip skin tone with lots of dryness you need to use a lip balm to heal it. This product can be worn anytime and even underneath the lip makeup. If your lips are already moist you can skip wearing it. Lip balm is also sometimes known as lip conditioner.

2. Lip Liner

It highlights the lines of the lips to make them more artistic. Traditionally, it is available in pencil form. But if you wish you can also use its pen version. It is definitely not essential. Lip liner color must match the shade of the lipstick you wish to wear. Otherwise, it will not do its task well.

3. Lipstick

This is what you have to wear after drawing your lips. Lipstick usually comes in tubes, but sometimes they can also be found in tablet and liquid form. A specific brush is needed to use it. Now lipsticks have different textures. There is one called matt. It is said to be long lasting because of its dry texture. Then we have creamy lipsticks. They usually have a thick liquid like texture. Another lipstick which has gained popularity quite recently is called nude. It is worn to boost natural look.

4. Lip gloss

Not a necessary makeup product, wearing it can help you maintain your natural look. But for that, you have to skip using the lipstick. Lip gloss comes in various shapes too, but all of them have the shimmering liquid texture in common.

5. Lip Primer

This is the base product that prepares the lips for lipstick. You definitely do not require using it. But it does make the application of lipstick much easier. 

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Simple Trick to Easily Apply Lipstick on Cracked Lips

Cracked lips can be quite a hassle, but none of us is really free of this problem.  Yes, experts say that it can be taken care of by hydrating the body with water. But again, it does not work for everyone.

Of course, at home, when we are without makeup it does not look too much of an issue. But we all know that it takes time for the lipstick to fully settle on these bitten up spots. Is there a cure for this? Of course, yes. We will know it here today.

Trick

The cure is actually rather a trick. The thing you need to do is wear a good balm on your lips before you even start drawing them with your liner. Yes, just apply it on your lips. After that, draw the line and apply lipstick. I am not going to spend time talking about the result here because as soon as you will follow this trick you will see the difference.  You will also get to witness the color of your lipstick getting slightly more enhanced.

Note

1. You might be thinking that instead of going for a lip balm, it is okay to grab the petroleum jelly or lip gloss. Unfortunately, such products are too shiny and thus, you will not be able to get a desired result from this trick. As a matter of fact, they will have a tendency to make your lips slippery. Moreover, the lipstick you apply on them will turn out to be runny and thus, your makeup will get ruined.

2. Choose a balm that is not too watery and shiny. I would recommend that you try any of the following:

• Shea Touch


• Neutrogena Norwegian Formula Lip Moisturizer


• Mentholatum Natural Ice Lip Protectant


• Estee Lauder Lip Conditionar

3. When when you have cracked lips do not cover it entirely with your lip liner. Instead, keep the spots uncovered and wear lipstick on them. Actually, lip liner has a tendency to block the moisture from the balm. So it leaves cracked lips drier.

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Luscious Cosmetics Lip Polish Review

Three days ago, my little sister gave me a tiny makeup item.  It came in a tiny pink box. The name of this little makeup item is lip polish by Luscious cosmetics. To be honest, I never heard of this brand before. But its intention seems good. According to the lip polish’s label, Luscious cosmetics does not test its products on animals. In fact, they are very much in love with these species. Additionally, this lip polish contains Vitamin E and antioxidants.  Other ingredients include a wide range of oily compounds, vanilla, min and different kinds of seed extracts.  By the way, the one I have got has the color named as Bali. I will say it is a pale pink. Luscious Cosmetics reveals that this product can also be used for lip treatment. 

Now as mentioned in my previous posts, I always review a makeup product only after trying it out for 3 months. I will not do the same with this lip polish because it is just another lip gloss. So let’s begin with its benefits. Then we will jump to problems and verdict.

Benefits:

The tube of the lip polish is quite small. So it can be easily taken anywhere. Next, the color called Bali has a magical appearance. It reminds me of Britney Spears’ Oops! I did it video. I remember that she was one of the first people to promote the glossy lip trend. She just did it through that specific video.

Overall, the color of lip polish gives quite a good highlight to the lips. Just take a look at the gloss. It is so shiny that it is appearing blurry in the picture.

Apparently, the lip polish color is so thick that it can be taken as equal to a lipstick. At least when I wore it that is how I felt. Good news is that the color actually stays on the lips for several hours. So the lip polish can be taken as a great alternative to ordinary lipsticks.

I also think that the scent of the liquid is pleasing. It does not scream. Now there is something more interesting about this lip polish that I will share here. I noticed that it gives a cooling effect to the lips. I am guessing that it comes from the mint extract.

Problems:

Lip polish is sticky. It simply feels like thick glue on the lips. Does it heal cracks like lip balms? Unfortunately, no! My lip cracks actually went more visible after I wore it. They even seemed thornier.So I don't think that the healing properties Luscious Cosmetics used to make this item are utilized properly. Another negative thing that this lip gloss has is the applicator. See its image below.

It is just another brush whose soft bristles, during application, go here and there. I am quite sure it is something that will not last longer. The price of the lip polish is unfair also. It is $18. I don’t think such a tiny tube should be of that high price.

Verdict:

Luscious Cosmetics’ lip polish can be beneficial to all those who are looking for a product containing high volume of gloss and lipstick color. The cooling effect that this product gives is not unique, but very much needed for harsh lips. But again, it does not heal the cracks and thus, it cannot be used as a lip treatment product. Yet the color looks extremely beautiful. For all this, this lip polish gets a 3.5 star out 5 stars from me. 

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L’Oreal Infallible Le Rouge Lipcolor Review

L’Oreal is quite clever at coming up with a good packaging for its products. By and by, they are actually getting skilled at it. Look at L’Oreal Infallible Le Rouge lipcolor for example. The silvery tube wrapped in transparent plastic cap appears so elegant. Perhaps, that is why, I got tempted to buy its refined ruby shade. According to L’Oreal, this lipstick has 10 hours of staying power.  Its color is designed to appear luscious and defined. Additionally, the lipstick contains Vitamin E to keep the lips moisturized.  It all seems to make Infallible Le Rouge more advanced than other lipsticks. But before you can fall for it just read what I have found out about it.In general,  I test drive makeup products up to 3 months before I sit down to write reviews about them. This is what I tried to do with L’Oreal Infallible Le Rouge also.  But unfortunately, I failed! Yet just like before, I will explain the benefits I received from this lipcolor. Of course, we will take a look at why I failed in my experiment, but it will be in the problem section of this post.

Benefits:

The texture of Infallible Le Rouge somehow reminds me of my mom’s late 80s lipsticks. It is thickly creamy and slightly glossy. But time has changed and Infallible actually reflects the advancement of the cosmetics making technology. It glides very comfortably onto the lips. A little bit of hand shiver does not even make it over and out!

Once I wore it on my cracked lips. The result was amazing. There was basically no irritation whatsoever. Meanwhile, the cracks softened and disappeared under the color. So I can say that yes it is true that Infallible does contain Vitamin E. Another thing is that the lipstick does change the look of the face in a bold way.  There were actually times when I wore it without any makeup and still appeared fresh and bright!

Problems:

I mentioned earlier that I grabbed the refined ruby shade of Infallible Le Rouge. But after I wore it, I realized that I got cheated.  Refined ruby was not actually of ruby color. So be careful when you buy this lipstick. The mirror revealed that I was wearing deep magenta.

Now why I could not test drive Infallible Le Rouge longer? From where do I begin? First of all, this lipstick stains the teeth. It is embarrassing! Thank God, I found out about it right at home. What is more annoying is the fact that this stain is not easy to remove. Also the lipstick does not have any wish to stay longer on the lips. It goes away very easily especially with eating and drinking. As soon as I saw all this happening, I understood that I got my answer. No further experiment was necessary. I will still give here an example of how the lipstick does from one rub. Notice the image given below. I ran the lipstick on my hand.

Then I gave it a rub with my finger. Just one and nothing more. The result was this:

Do you see how it easily loses the color? This should imply to you that this lipstick color might look thick and creamy, but it actually is very thin. That is why, it loses staying power from touches.

Verdict:

L’Oreal Infallible Le Rouge does not fulfill its mission of staying on the lips for 10 hours, but it does have the power to make a face appear fresh and bright even without makeup. I will just say that it is designed to be worn for formal parties, for it is capable of complementing evening gowns.  But again, who wants to do deal with an embarrassing situation occurring from lipstick stain on teeth? Just think carefully before you pick up this lipstick for yourself. I myself will not recommend it to anyone. As a matter of fact, from me, it gets 3 out of 5 stars.  

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How to know You Are Allergic to A Specific Lipstick

It is hard for many to believe that lips can have allergic reaction. How is it possible? After all, lips never get pimples like our facial skin. But this is just a very general way of thinking. Apparently, lips are not programmed to withstand toxic materials found in some lipsticks. When I was in high school my mom forced me to use Estee Lauder lipstick. Her notion was that its ingredients were safe for kids. But once I wore it and went to school, I found myself in severe lip problem.

The reason behind this was that it turned out to be allergic for me. Although that day I decided to discontinue using that specific lipstick in the future I came with many others that almost killed my lips. Because of this, I believe I have a very good experience with the symptoms related to lipsticks and lip allergy. I am listing them here. If any specific brands of lipsticks give you these problems please stop using them immediately.

The lipstick takes off your lip skin and creates sweat around it
Sometimes a lipstick will not give you any pain, but will peel off your lip skin and give sweat around it. You basically have to look in the mirror to diagnose this problem. Remember if you catch it you have to rub off the lipstick from your lips. Otherwise, you will go through serious embarrassment in front of others.
After wearing the lipstick you feel sudden irritation in some areas of your lips

This irritation can be compared to heat that comes from the pepper and touches the lips. 
This basically occurs due to the fact that the lipstick you are using perhaps has harmful ingredients. Otherwise, it has gone bad.

The killer itch takes over your lips
This allergic reaction might not occur within minutes of wearing the lipstick. Instead it would take an hour or two. But one important thing that must be mentioned here is that sometimes the itch can happen because of other problems and thus, it might not be an allergic reaction coming from the lipstick. Under such circumstances, you need to be a little too alert. Just check if the itch occurs every time you wear that specific lipstick.

An area of your lip ends up becoming swollen or get a bump
This can be taken as a severe case. It can happen only if even after you see all the symptoms you do not make an effort to not wear the lipstick anymore.

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