Posts Tagged ‘lip gloss’

Laguna or Super Orgasm super fans get excited…NARS are launching some brand new colours to their Illuminators (£21.50) range for Spring 2011! These luscious creamy products can be used for a variety of exciting things, on your face, neck, shoulders and décolletage to highlight bare skin or over makeup to add a healthy glow. They comes in 3 shades – Super Orgasm (infused with gold and peachy hues), Copacabana (pearlescent) and Laguna (a golden/bronze shimmer like the bronzer). If you like Benefit’s High Beam…you’ll fall head over heels for Copacabana.

Being an obsessive lip make-up junkie, my makeup bag is always full of far too many lipsticks, lip glosses, lip balms, lip liners… And NARS have answered my prayers. They have launched the Velvet Lip Gloss Pencil (£17.50), which acts as a dualism between a lipstick and a lip gloss and even better it hydrates your lips with Vitamin E and a blend of special emollients. It comes in a Jumbo ‘crayon’ pencil in 6 shades including Baroque (raspberry pink), Happy Days (coral pink), New Lover (Strawberry pink with gold), Frivolous (seashell pink), Hopi (Honey beige) and Club Mix (sheer grape). As it’s beginning to brighten up, and Spring is finally arriving, try some of the subtle, fresh shades like Happy Days or Frivolous to delicately brighten your complexion. Cult Beauty especially loves the Copacabana illuminator and Frivolous Velvet lip gloss pencil…we’re in love! nadine bourne

The new Illuminator shades will launch online and in stores on the 1^st March 2011 and the Velvet Lip Gloss Pencil are available online now.

Ever thought that the one thing missing from your make up bag is a light up lip gloss? No, me either. 

Bizarrely, the product development folks over at MEMEME got it in their heads that a lip gloss that lights up as the wand is pulled from the tube is exactly what women are lusting after.

The Light Me Up Lipgloss promises to be an “absolute essential for a girl’s night out”, providing the “perfect solution” for ladies who wish to apply their gloss in the bar queue of a darkened club. 

Err, as often I may be wondering what state my make up is in after I’ve been busting a groove on a sweaty dance floor, I’d like to keep these fleeting moments of vanity to myself, thank you very much. Not even if I found myself squished against my crush-du-jour (Robert Pattinson, if you’re wondering) while queuing for a Gin n Slim would I whip out a Light Me Up Lipgloss for a touch up. The message would be less, “Look at my sultry pout, do you fancy a snog?” and more, “I’m so vain, I must reapply this lipgloss that no one can actually see in such dim light. High-maintenance? Moi?” 

Even Victoria Beckham would cringe at such self-obsession. 

For WAGs in-waiting, MEMEME Light Me Up Lipgloss is available at Superdrug stores nationwide, £6.99

Bourjois has launched the Effet 3D Max lip gloss which claims to have 33% more shine thanks to shine micro-activators (a bit techy but we’ll go with it). What’s great is that not only is it ultra glossy but it’s not at all sticky, so you won’t be peeling your hair off you lips every five seconds when there’s a bit of a breeze. It glides on easily leaving a silky smooth layer of shine to make your lips look more than kissable and has a lovely sweet smell.

Something else we love about this lipgloss is its clever applicator. Its spatula-like shape spreads the gloss on quickly and evenly so that you need less gloss for that perfect pout. Hurrah – Jolie lips in a jiffy! Put a bit of this on and you are guaranteed an immediate confidence boost.

The Effet 3D Max Lipgloss comes in six shades that all contain a touch of pink and a dash of shimmer. Our favourite is Rose Gold.  

£7.82 from Boots and other leading retailers.