Coral Madness

I was feeling a little low today and Revlon is buy one get on ½ off at Walgreens so I went on a little shopping spree. I ended up getting 4 corals from Revlon: Blaise Apricot, Hot Coral, Siren, and Coralberry. I absolutely love corals for spring and summer it’s such a flattering happy color on me.

Arm swatches on a NC20-ish arm

Blaise Apricot and Hot Coral are both in the moondrops formula. I’m not really fond of the smell, but it’s nowhere near as horrible as the stench of L’oreal lipsticks, so I’ll live. These have the traditional the-kind-of-lipstick-your-grandma-wears kinda smell …powdery hint of floral. These lipsticks are fairly moisturizing and they feel comfortable on my lips. My one tiny tiny gripe is that I feel like they apply streaky on my lips if that’s even possible. (Though perhaps it’s just sad sorry dry state of my lips at the moment.) Blaise Apricot is a nice “neon” pinky coral when applied heavily, but applied sheerly, it’s a nice bright shade that totally wakes up my face. Hot coral is a lovely orangey/coral/red. It’s not as in your face as say a red lipstick, but it’s definitely not for the faint of heart. I have a feeling this is going to be a summer staple lippie for me!

Siren and Coralberry are in the super lustrous formula. These have little to no detectable scent which is nice. I think these feel a lot more moisturizing on my lips than the moondrops which seem a little “waxy” in comparison. These feel like a lip balm on my lips, very light weight and comfortable. Coralberry is a nice wearable pink that leans coral. It’s a nice tame daytime coral-y lip color. Siren looks tangerine-ish but goes on a beautiful peachy coral red-y on my lips. I actually really like this color a lot!!

Overall, I think these are fabulous lipsticks with great color selections. Way to go Revlon! I will definitely be buying more lipsticks from Revlon in the future! Anyone have any recommendations for other Revlon lipsticks to check out?

And the Bobbi Brown-palooza Continues

Soooo I know I said that I was going on a no buy until I finished 8 items but the hubby came into some money and said I could get some makeup. Who am I to say no?? I kinda feel guilty now, but just look at my new pretties!!!!


I got the lipstick in Salmon, the lip gloss in Golden Nectar, and the shimmer brick in Nectar. I really wanted both shimmer bricks, but I restrained myself.

So we'll start with the lip products. While lately I have become a big drugstore lipstick lover, BB salmon was just too pretty to pass up. It is a gorgeous pinky peach nude color, but not so nude it washes me out. Very natural and summery on my lips. It is very smooth and creamy to apply, but a touch drying on my lips. The dryness is easily fixed with the BB lip gloss in Golden Nectar. Together the color is just so pretty! A gorgeous golden pink-y peach. The gloss is a very pretty shimmery medium peachy pink color with LOTS of gold shimmers. Sooo perfect for summer. My only gripe has to be that god awful horrendous plastic icky brush. What the heck is up with that Bobbi??? For a gloss that price-y I kinda expect a better brush for pete's sake!

Left to right: Coral beach lip gloss, Salmon lipstick, gloss+lipstick combo

Moving on, the shimmer brick in Nectar. If I remember correctly this is one of the Nordstrom exclusive mini's. Normally I steer clear of these as they are chock full of crazy over the top shimmer and glimmer, but I was quite pleasantly surprised by these. While it is quite shimmery when swatched heavily on my hand but applied on my face it is just such a gorgeous coral pink shimmer. The Pink Quarts, which I didn't get, was a gorgeous beige-y color and I really still want it, but I guess I do have my MAC MSF in Perfect Topping. They are by no means dupes of each other, but I'd imagine they would accomplish the same thing. AGHH! I STILL WANT! >:(

I tried this over the pot rouge in Calypso Coral and it's just so pretty! Not too much shimmer but a gorgeous enhancing highlight. I think this might kinda compare to the MAC MSF in refined, only more pigmented and more golden. I unfortunately no longer own the MSF in refined or I would do comparison swatches.

I did my best to capture the colors of the shimmer brick, but it was really tough to capture. Pardon that awful orange overtone :(

left to right: colors swatched individually and all together