Yearly Archives: 2016
Kat Von D Everlasting Liquid Lipstick in Lolita II (Review & Swatch)
This isn’t a new product by any means, but I was super late to try out the Kat Von D Everlasting Liquid Lipsticks so I figured why the heck not share my thoughts?
I’ll start this review out by saying that I have (slowly) learned over the last few years that I am not a tremendous fan of liquid lipsticks. I like the longevity of them, but I really, REALLY struggle with the dry as paint feeling on my lips. Oh sure, I *love* matte lipsticks, but they have a certain amount of give/pliability to them that a matte liquid lipstick just doesn’t have. So keep that in mind while you’re reading this review.
The Kat Von D Everlasting Liquid Lipsticks come in beautiful gothic-esque packaging that always makes me smile. The tube and handle itself are beautifully etched with designs that really help add to the overall feel of this product – much like KVD herself, this product oozes old world gothness that I’ve always appreciated.
The Everlasting Liquid Lipstick “gives lips long-lasting wear and high-pigment color. Its creamy, color-rich formula glides over lips like a gloss but dries to a true matte finish. It’s infused with natural comfort-enhancing ingredients, including vitamin E and sunflower seed so you can flaunt lasting matte color that leaves lips feeling comfortable.”
One of the things I like the most about this liquid lipstick is that the colour glides on flawlessly with the doefoot applicator. It’s opaque in one swipe and it layers really, REALLY well in case you make a mistake – this is rather unexpected with a liquid lipstick as I usually have intense layering problems that often result in crumbling.
The colour I have in this post is Lolita II. It was the original “manufacturer error” that resulted in a change in shade from the original Lolita. Lolita II is described as a terracotta nude, whereas the original Lolita was more of a chestnut rose. On me it goes very warm terracotta with a hint of brown.
The shot above is after about 6 hours of wear. It has been touched up on my inner lip, but the outer rim has not been altered at all.
The one thing I think worth mentioning with this liquid lipstick is that it does tend to fade on the inner rim of my lip quite quickly. For me, this is actually a good thing since I despise that paint-like feeling at the center of my mouth, but it does mean you’ll need to re-apply the colour there a bit more often. (Again, the shot above was taken after six hours of wear and the only place that had been retouched was the inner corner of my mouth.)
I think Lolita II is a beautiful shade, but I’m also a bit confused about the hype behind this. Is it because it’s a warm, deeper nude that has everyone excited? Or was it more because this colour turned out to be wrong shade when it was originally packaged as the original Lolita? I mean, don’t get me wrong, it’s gorgeous, but it’s not the “OMG!” shade I was expecting based on the hype!
Final Thoughts
For me, because of the fading on the inner rim, this ended up being one of the more comfortable matte liquid lipsticks I’ve worn in recent memory. It does beat out my Too Faced Melted Mattes, but not my beloved Melteds (which aren’t a matte liquid lipstick, so maybe the comparison is irrelevant). I also found it less drying than my Smashbox Always On liquid lipsticks as well. For me, being able to wear this lipstick for roughly six hours was pretty impressive – I’ve never managed to wear a liquid lipstick that long without wanting to scrape it off my lips! It also didn’t crumble or look patchy at all – huge blessing!
This is one of the easier formulas of liquid lipstick to put on and I think it must have something to do with the formula because the wand applicator is pretty standard. Overall, I like this product more than other liquid lipsticks I’ve tried, but I’m not like… jonesing to add more to my collection because I’m just not an enormous liquid lipstick fan, you know? I’m sure we all feel that way about certain products!
The Kat Von D Everlasting Liquid Lipsticks can be purchased on sephora.ca for $24 CAD or on sephora.com for $20 USD.
Okay so here’s the surprise that I neglected to mention at the top – lucky you for reading this far! 😉
I actually have two of the shade Lolita II and I’m giving one away! I picked one up as a sample from Sephora a month ago, and then I received a full size one from PR for review. I decided to test out the small sample one and left the big one alone (except to take the photographs you see here in this post – it has not been opened at all) so I could give it away to one of you guys. This will be a short giveaway since I do have a huge one happening right now as well.
Giveaway Rules
- This giveaway is open internationally!
- This giveaway starts on October 5, 2016 and runs for one week.
- Please be aware that all entries will be double checked to ensure fairness.
- One winner will win a Kat Von D Everlasting Liquid Lipstick in Lolita II.
- The winner will have 48 hours to respond to my e-mail. If they fail to respond within that time frame, I will pick another prize winner. (And so on.)
- “Giveaway accounts” will not be considered for this prize. (If you want to know what I mean by that, please click here.)
Good luck!
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VIDEO: IMATS Toronto 2016 Vlog
Another Random Giveaway!
As I’ve mentioned a few times now, I’ve got a big ole bag of goodies beside my desk that I throw brand new products into if I know I won’t get the opportunity to use them/try them out and/or they’re duplicates of items I already own. I spent my entire weekend at IMATS, I really didn’t have a proper review type post ready to go for Monday morning… so that’s where this giveaway comes in!
Here’s the current prize pack up for grabs:
- QUO Brush Up! Brush Set
- The Body Shop Oils of Life Intensely Revitalising Sleeping Cream
- Bite Beauty Luminous Creme Lipstick in Retsina
- Stila Color Balm Lipstick in Isabelle
- Estee Lauder Le Rouge Absolu lipstick in Crushed Rose
- Dior Couture Colour Lipstick in 999 Matte (mini)
- essence BB Beauty Balm in Keep It Real
- essence Keep It Perfect! Makeup setting spray
- essence 2-in-1 eyeshadow and liner in Peach Perfect
- essence Longlasting Lip Pencil in Ready For Red
- essence Longlasting Lip Pencil in Sweetheart
- Pixi Flawless Vitamin Veil Foundation in No.3 Tanned
- QUO Brow Palette
- GOSH Brow Sculpting Fibre Gel
- GOSH Lash Sculpting Fibre Mascara
- essence dip eyeliner waterproof
- Absolute New York Duo Stroke liquid liner
- Ready for Red Carpet makeup bag
- And if the winner is from Canada, I’ll throw in some nail polishes as well. (I can’t send nail polish internationally unless I use Fedex, which is a bit too pricey for my blood.)
Giveaway Rules
- This giveaway is open internationally!
- This giveaway starts on October 3, 2016 and runs for two weeks.
- Please be aware that all entries will be double checked to ensure fairness.
- One winner will win the Beauty Prize Pack pictured and described above.
- The winner will have 48 hours to respond to my e-mail. If they fail to respond within that time frame, I will pick another prize winner. (And so on.)
- “Giveaway accounts” will not be considered for this prize. (If you want to know what I mean by that, please click here.)
Good luck!
Skincare Saturday: Rodial Bee Venom Collection
Just in time for the holiday season, Rodial is releasing a few luxury skincare gift sets this month! I’ve been trying out their Bee Venom Collection because it sounded the most intriguing. I’ve never ever had something like bee venom in my skincare before!
The Rodial Bee Venom Collection was created to “rejuvenate the skin for a youthful looking complexion. Bee venom works in synergy with a unique complex of plant stem cells to help visibly improve skin tone and elasticity and plump out appearance of lines and wrinkles.” The “melittin peptide bee venom plumps and firms wrinkle appearance stem cells help improve skin elasticity biomimetic growth factors smooth skin surface appearance marine collagen helps reduce look of lines and wrinkles marimoist® provides immediate and sustained hydration”.
It comes with a Bee Venom Moisturiser (50 ml), Bee Venom Super Serum (30 ml), and Bee Venom Eye (25 ml). The whole kit comes in one large box with all three products inside. The two moisturizers are boxed individually within the larger box. The entire line cautions that if you are allergic to bee stings you should avoid using this line of skincare. All three products can be used daily.
The Bee Venom Moisturiser is an “extreme performance cream for mature skin with melittin peptide, stem cells, biomimetic growth factors and vitamin c”. It’s a medium thickness cream that smooths onto my skin really easily. It’s hydrating, but not overly thick which is an enormous blessing since I’m really over moisturizers that just won’t sink into my skin!
The Bee Venom Eye cream seems to be a thicker formulation of the moisturizer, although it does contain bee venom further down on the ingredient list. Although I don’t personally feel like I need a separate eye cream (I’m not especially dry in that area), I do like the ritual of applying a thick cream to that area and gently rubbing it in.
The item I’ve enjoyed the most out of this set was the Super Serum and sadly it’s the smallest product! Ack! I’ve been applying this before my moisturizer and it seems to work well under ANY brand as far as I can tell. It’s not too thick, not too thin and sinks in within a few minutes of application.
I was trying to pin point the scent of these products, and I realized it was kind of hard to do since two of the products smell the same, but the serum definitely doesn’t! The serum smells more like a floral perfume to me, whereas the moisturizers smell faintly alcoholic to me. Weird thing to say, but I can’t really pinpoint any other scent!
The Rodial Bee Venom Collection can be purchased at Murale and Shoppers Drug Mart for $180 CAD.
The products featured in this post were sent to me for review.