Stila Colour Me Glossy Lip Glaze Set (Photos and swatches)

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If you are someone who have a long list of Christmas gifts to strike off, why not consider the Stila Colour Me Glossy Lip Glaze Set!

 

 

Taken from Sephora.com

A festive collection of nine Lip Glazes, packaged in three trios.  


To give or to keep? That is the question. Give this Lip Glaze collection in its entirety or break it apart and cross three names off your holiday list with individually packaged trios. As always, Stila's famed Lip Glaze delivers a glossy shine on lips with delicate flavors and scents. These iconic click pens are perfectly portable for a glistening pout anytime, anywhere.

- 0.45 oz x 9 Lip Glaze in Cranberry, Persimmon, Melon, Dazzleberry, Wildberry, Strawberry Cream, Passion Fruit, Kaleidoscope, Amaretto

A close up shot

From L-R: Persimmon, Melon, Cranberry, Dazzle-berry, Wildberry, Strawberry Cream, Kaleidoscope,  Amaretto, Passionfruit

 

 

and of course, swatches!

From L-R: Persimmon, Melon, Cranberry, Dazzle-berry, Wildberry, Strawberry Cream, Kaleidoscope,  Amaretto, Passionfruit

 

 

Retails for USD$28 ($124 Value), that's a little over $3 per pen, full sized! What's convenient about this set, it is already individually packaged in 3 packs of 3. All you need to do is just write the receiver and giver name at the back! Great stocking stuffers! And I do not need to say how much these lipglazes are already loved by many.

So the question now, to give or to keep?

Thanks for reading!

Ida Erin Chan

Sephora Favourites - Give Me More Lip Set (Photos and Swatches)

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In today's post, I will be showing you swatches and details on the Sephora Give Me More Lip Set.

Taken from Sephora.com , the Give Me More Lip Set  consists of:

- 0.12 oz bareMinerals ® Marvelous Moxie™ Lipstick in Never Say Never
- 0.05 oz Bite Beauty High Pigment Pencil in Pomegranate
- 0.04oz BUXOM® Full-Bodied™ Lip Stick in Menance
- 0.07 oz BUXOM® Full-Bodied™ Lip Cream in White Russian
- 0.03 oz Hourglass Opaque Rouge Liquid Lipstick in Icon
- 0.03 oz Kat Von D in Everlasting Love Liquid Lipstick in Backstage Bambi
- 0.042 oz Kat Von D Foiled Love Lipstick in Adora
- 0.1 oz Laura Mercier Lip Glace in Bare Naked
- 0.05 oz Make Up For Ever Rouge Artist Natural N45
- 0.33 oz Obsessive Compulsive Cosmetics Lip Tar in Strumpet
- 0.1 oz Smashbox Be Lengendary Lipstick in Nylon Nude
- 0.14 oz Smashbox Lip Gloss in Pout
- 0.03 oz Stila Color Balm Lipstick in Sonya
- 0.03 oz Stila Stay All Day Liquid Lip Color in Dolce
- 0.009 oz Tarte Glmazon™ Pure Performance 12-Hour Lipstick in Inspired
- 0.11 oz Too Faced La Crème Color Drenched Lip Cream in Marshmallow Bunny

 

Retails at USD$59 (Value of $209), consisting of 16 lip products (4 Full Size) ranging from pinks, nudes, plums and reds, you can layer the products within the set or just wear them on its own. Each colour family has different types of lip products from lipglosses, lipstains and lipsticks.

Afraid of wearing loud and bold lips? Fret not as this set has a fair amount of sheer and opaque products within each colour family

Here are the swatches:

Nudes

Clockwise: Smashbox, Laura Mercier,

Buxom, Stila

 

With Stila being the most pigmented, I thought I was gonna dislike the Smashbox, but surprisingly, I like the way it looks when applied on my lips. As for Buxom and LM, they are still wearable and great for layering even though they are the sheerest out of all 16 of them.

Pinks

Clockwise: KVD, Smashbox,

Too Faced, Bare Minerals.

 

As much as I like the Smashbox from the nude family, I totally dislike thes Smashbox Lipgloss. It makes me look so ghostly and unflattering on my lips. The KVD was a little too dry on the lips but will work just find if you apply some gloss on top. It has the most matte finish and can look super "unnatural" and "chalky". With Too Faced being the least opaque from this group, my favourite will have to be the Bare Minerals. It glides on smoothly and a pretty wearable everyday pink.

Plums

Clockwise: Tarte, OCC'

Buxom, Stila

 

Perfect for fall, the plums are my most favourite. I love all four of them. From sheer (Stila) to opaque (BM) to all day staying power (OCC) to an everyday fall colour (Tarte), you cant go wrong.

Reds

Clockwise: Bite, MUFE,

KVD, Hourglass

 

These reds are also my favourites. I can have a 'BAM IN Your Face' red with the Hourglass or just a hint of red with the MUFE.

So there you have it!

All in all, this is a great set to give or receive as you get to try different brands, finishes and types of lippies. Great for lip junkies! You can also gift each colour family or pick a product from each colour family to 4 different people for a great stocking stuffers! Or just keep them all to yourself!

Have you got this on your Wishlist already?

Thanks for reading!

Ida Erin Chan

Huge Beauty Haul!!!!

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Holiday season are always the best time to shop for beauty products. Not only you get pretty limited editions, you can also save money with value sets, discounts or gifts with purchase! My Christmas shopping started as early as October! With companies already bringing out the holidays specials, I could not resist waiting or risking it going OOS! And I did a major haul.

Disclaimer: All of the following things were bought with my own money and I am not showing off. All the products are bought partially for reviewing purpose and of coz as a treat to myself.

In this post, I will only be providing links to where I purchased the products. Detailed reviews and pictures will be done individually as I do need time to play around with all of this. Hopefully I will be able to do a post on X'mas Gift Guides after I have completed individual reviews on all of these items. If you have anything that you would like me to review first, let me know in the comments. Also, if you have other products that you would like me to try or review, let me know in the comment section as well... So lets start!

I did a lot of damaged at Sephora.com  and here is what I got:
- Philosophy Hope In A Jar Day & Night Duo (link)
- Bumble and Bumble Thickening Serum (link)
- Sephora Favourites Give Me More Lips (link)
- Stila Colour Me Glossy Lip Glaze Set (link)
- Urban Decay Vice Palette 2 (link)
- Benefit Cosmetics Gettin' Cheeky (link)
- Hourglass Ambient Lighting Palette (link)
- Tarte The Tarte of Giving Collector's Set & Travel Bag (link) and Off The Cuff Amazonian Clay 12-hour Blush Palette and Bracelet (link)

From Nordstrom.com, I got only one value set
- Clarins "Firming Experts' Age-Control Trio (link)


And lastly from Drugstore.com/Beauty.com
- Philosophy Purity Made Simple Duo (link)
- Sally Hansen Airbrush Legs Leg Makeup (link)

Keep a look out for the individual reviews in the next few blog posts.
I hope you enjoy reading my haul!

So what have you hauled so far? Let me know!

Thanks for reading!

Ida Erin Chan