Dupes? #L’Oreal Tangerine Crush and #Revlon Mad About Mango ~~ Revlon is a tiny bit more orange #nailpolish #swatches (Taken with Instagram)
I tried a gradient nail look with Revlon Mad About Mango, Essie Flirt, and Rimmel English Rose. The result is waaaay brighter than I expected but I kind of like it and it reminded me of a sunset. I think I picked shades that were too close to each other, because the gradient effect is really subtle unless under bright light. Even under flash it’s hard to see Flirt and English Rose as two separate colours.
I took a million pictures of this and I’m still (slowly) sorting through them so I may spam a few more pictures in later posts haha :>
I’ve been super busy/stressed/sleep-deprived over school projects recently, but finally, a new review!
Peacock Lustre was really an impulse buy: Ulta had buy one get one 50% and the colour was just so pretty and unique to my current stash of shadows. I don’t have a teal quite like this, since it leans more green than my other shadows. It sort of has a foresty-green base (I’m terrible at describing colours).
The large window on the packaging is great at showing off the colour and catching your eye at the drugstore, but overall the black plastic case feels a bit flimsy and cheap; I wouldn’t suggest throwing this in your bag where it could get knocked around a lot.
Not that it really affects my opinion of Peacock Lustre, but I personally I don’t feel it’s “peacock” enough—the shimmeriness is right, but it needs to be either brighter or deeper (see: Joe Fresh Peacock nail polish). For its price range, it feels fairly soft and smooth.
(Me wearing it + more info under the cut)
I picked up lots of drugstore goodies during an adventure to Washington state. I ended up buying a lot of Revlon products: two Luxurious shadows (Vintage Lace matte and Peacock Lustre Satin, ColorStay Brow Enhancer, lash adhesive, and a quad in Silver Fox. On the skin care side, I bought Garnier Moisture Rescue lotion and gel-cream, as well as the tinted anti-dark-circle roller. Everything else: Milani Baked Blush in Luminoso, NYX Jumbo Pencil in Milk, a WnW palette in Petal Pusher, and Burt’s Bees cuticle cream. I went back and got the China Glaze Sea Spray polish I really regretted not buying last time—look forward to seeing it tomorrow in a nail post!
Also, if you see a product here that you’d really like to read about, please let me know and I will try to put it on the top of my list :>
They may look stern but these turtle Pillow Pets I bought during the trip are ultra cuddly. They were so adorable I couldn’t not get them. One is a house-warming gift for my brother haha. It can lie flat to be used as a pillow and has a velcro strap underneath to pull the sides together and make it stand up like a normal stuffed animal (it is still super comfy as a pillow like this). If the two look different, it’s because they are. We bought them at two different Wal-marts and were shocked when we put them side-by-side. The colours as well as the shape of the head is different; my brother’s is also significantly fluffier/fatter.
Hmmm how to describe my feelings for this polish? It’s a hundred times brighter than I thought. If I had known how bright it was when I was picking it out, I might have shied away. But the colour is quite honestly growing on me.
I wish I could capture exactly how how highlighter-y neon bright this orange-red shade is. It’s super bright, at least to me. Great colour for when you’re poolside.
It was a bit streaky in places for me, and I wasn’t able to smooth it over with additional coats (as you might be able to tell). As for the scent, it’s sweet with a bit of tartness to it but nothing that reminds me of mango. For what it’s worth, the scent does last over a few days and is strong enough that you don’t have to have your hands right up against your nose to smell it. Note that you won’t get the proper scent of the polish unless it’s dry, so trying to smell it out of the bottle won’t work.
There are actually 24 shades in the Neutrals range, so here’s part one. This time I took the swatch photos with flash on, which I think is a bit more accurate.
Coralberry (creme), Champagne on Ice (pearl), Sparkling Cider (pearl), Caramel Glacé (pearl), Sandalwood Beige (creme), Highbeam Tan (pearl)
Fun fact: my first blush ever was the Revlon blush with the rectangular pan in a shade called Sandalwood. And yes, I did use the tiny brush included.
Copper Chrome (pearl), Toast of New York (creme), Rum Raisin (creme), Blushing Nude (creme), Chocolate Velvet (creme), Cocoa Bronze (pearl)
I unintentionally took this second photo with my arm at a different angle in relation to the lighting overhead so these swatches look like have less of a shine than those in the first one.
Again, a very pigmented shade range. The only one that sticks out is Coralberry. This bright pink is a lovely colour (especially for Spring!) but seems like it would fit better with the Pinks. It is too bright to be in Neutrals and doesn’t have brown tones to it like the others.
More Revlon Super Lustrous love:
swatches: Revlon Super Lustrous lipsticks (Plums)
review: Revlon Super Lustrous lipstick in Wine With Everything (creme)
swatches: Revlon Super Lustrous lipsticks (Reds)
Here are the long-awaited swatches for Revlon Super Lustrous lipsticks in the red range. You can see the swatches for the plum range here and my review for SL lipstick in Wine With Everything (a red!) here.
Peach Me (creme), Fire & Ice (creme), Ravish Me Red (creme), Love That Red (creme), Wine With Everything (creme)
Kiss Me Coral (creme), Wine With Everything (pearl), Spicy Cinnamon (pearl), Raspberry Bite (creme), Sultry Sable (creme), Blackberry (creme)
No duds here. I was quite impressed with the pigmentation, and they applied very smoothly. It was while swatching these shades that I fell for Wine With Everything, which I went on to love and review. It’s kind of strange that there are two Wine With Everything shades, but one is a frost/pearl (#520) and the other is the creme I own (#525). The creme is a deeper colour that doesn’t have as much pink.
I’ll try to take in-store swatches with a flash instead from now on. I think it captures the colour more accurately, even though it will probably attract more attention to the weird girl with lipstick up to her elbow 9______9
More Revlon Super Lustrous love:
swatches: Revlon Super Lustrous lipsticks (Plums)
review: Revlon Super Lustrous lipstick in Wine With Everything (creme)
swatches: Revlon Super Lustrous lipsticks (Neutrals)
Lipstick and I are still in the beginnings of our relationship. For so long, I avoided it in favour of glosses and tinted balms, thinking that lipsticks were heavy and “too much” (aesthetically speaking) for my preferred makeup style. Lipstick was this thing my mom wore to weddings and other special evening occasions.
Super Lustrous proved me wrong and I couldn’t be happier about it.
Actually, I was planning on writing a review on my first-ever lipstick Mauvy Night, the lovely and highly-wearable shade in the Super Lustrous Plum family. Then while swatching the SL Reds (coming up this week), I fell for creme-finish Wine With Everything and scooped it up on sale ($4!!!)
Temptress (creme), Rose & Shine (pearl), Berry Rich (creme), Goldpearl Plum (pearl)
Satin Plum (pearl), Plum Baby (pearl), Mauvy Night (creme), Icy Violet (pearl), Iced Amethyst (pearl)
Plumalicious (pearl), Berry Haute (creme), Va Va Violet (creme)
[Photo taken on the top side of my arm rather than the underside—that’s why the swatches don’t look as smooth!]
I’m not sure why some of these colours have been classified as plums (as specified by the Revlon Super Lustrous display) or what makes a colour plum in a technical sense. I’d call maybe the deeper half of the range plums, and the rest pink and red.
Most of the swatches here achieved lovely colour with 2-3 strokes, but there were a few exceptions. Satin Plum seems rather sheer and might not show up if you have pigmented lips. The swatch you see is about the most you can build this shade up to. On the other hand, Berry Rich was beautiful after just one stroke.
More Revlon Super Lustrous love:
review: Revlon Super Lustrous lipstick in Wine With Everything (creme)
swatches: Revlon Super Lustrous lipsticks (Reds)
swatches: Revlon Super Lustrous lipsticks (Neutrals)
