Make-up Makes Me Happy
Posted by VickyC on January 12th, 2010
After writing about Jon and Kate and being super angry, I thought it would be a good idea to write about something happy… MAKE UP!!! 
Every time something new comes out, I have to have it straight away. I see commercials and don’t shut up about whatever product it is they’re trying to sell me until the next cosmetic commercial comes on.
So I got the L’Oreal Telescopic Explosion mascara shortly after it hit the shelves. Read my initial review of it here… I’ve been using it since I got it, and it’s good, but the brush gets SUPER goopy really quickly. I find that I have to keep cleaning the excess mascara off it all the time. It’s a little annoying. I still love Maybelline’s Define-A-Lash the most though. The brush and the actual mascara are amazing!
So, since I love Maybelline, I want to try Maybelline’s Lash Stiletto. The ads make it look VERY cool – what with all the fake eyelashes and all.. But I’m curious to see if it’s good or too clumpy.
Another thing I’d like to try is more of the L’oreal HiP shadows. I have a few of them: Rascal (pink/grey); Forgiving (blue/brown); Flamboyant (yellow/purple). What I found was, a lot of the duos have duplicate colours, so instead of mass buying all of them, it’s better to pick and choose carefully, just so you don’t end up with 2 sets of shadow with the same colour in both of them. I just like them because they actually stay on your face, they blend well and the colours are really bright.
Also speaking of L’Oreal, I want to try the Double Extend Beauty Tubes mascara. I’ve never tried any of the ones where you put a layer of white and then the black on top. I’m scared it would end up looking like clumpy spider legs.
And I have a lip-gloss problem. I don’t know how many I have.. It seems that every time I’m in a store, I have to buy a new lip gloss.. With that being said, I want to try CoverGirl Outlast Lipstain. It looks like a kid’s colouring pen What isn’t fun about that?! But the word “stain” worries me a bit. There was one that I brought, I think it may have been a CoverGirl Outlast Lipcolour one, but I couldn’t get it off 
If I remember correctly, I think I used a combination of eye makeup remover with vaseline. Yuck!
But let me know if you’ve tried any of these and what you think.. Is Lash Stiletto awful? Does L’Oreal Double Extend leave your lashes looking like cockroach legs? Can CoverGirl Outlast Lipstain really deliver?
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[...] And finally, this isn’t really health news, but I’ll throw it in anyway. According to yet another useless study, the weight of the average woman’s purse/handbag has decreased by 50% over the last two years. Apparently, this is due to the take-over of gadgets like BlackBerries and iPhones replacing the heavy cell phone and bulky address books/planners. I don’t know about you, but my purse always weighs a ton! And it’s full of so much crap! I have to have about 5 lip glosses and hand cream, and maybe some ibuprofen, and maybe a book, and of course my glasses case, a nail file or 2.. and then there are receipts, loose change, old bus passes, Mentos <3 .. And what doesn’t help is the fact that the new hot thing is those great big giant purses – even “small” bags are still really big. So ok, your phone might not weigh 2lbs like it did before, but to me, if there’s more space, then I’ll cram more crap in there. Maybe an additional hand cream and a few more lip glosses!!!! Did I mention that make-up makes me happy??? [...]