Great Lipstick Shades for Valentines Day!

Valentine's day is just one of those times a year where you want to look your best for that special someone! Lipstick can send out the signal that you are ready for romance!

Lipstick was first used to make women look more fertile and therefore attractive to the male of our species. When women are fertile or aroused their lips become flushed, which is what the first lipsticks were meant to mimic.

We have moved on since those days venturing into colours that really just mean we like to play with colour. With nude the look that many women want today it totally goes again the original purpose for adding colour to the lips!

Here are a few of my favourite lippies, great for completing that Valentines look! There is something for you here, whether you want to use a romantic red or a coy nude!

Besame Cosmetics in either Cherry Red, or Merlot.

MAC Russian Red

Gosh Darling

MAC Myth

My favorite gloss is Sally Hansen Lip Inflation in either Sheer Blush or Sheer Pink!

What colour are you planning on wearing this Valentines Day??

Gosh Darling Lipstick... Do You Love It??

Over the holiday's I picked up Gosh's lipstick in Darling. I just had to pick it up when Beautymarked19 said in one of her YouTube video's that it was a great nude colour. My favorite for years has been MAC's Myth and I really didn't think I would find anything I liked as much, but I may have found something I like even better!

This lipstick retails for $15 CAD so it is not a real savings over MAC but for many people Gosh (which is carried at Shoppers Drug Mart in Canada) is easier to find!  I decided to finally pick this up when I had a chance to swatch it in store and liked the consistency, which is something that is important to me and my dry lips.

Darling is a beautiful nude because it was a slight pink undertone which makes it appear more natural until many other nudes which can give a very artificial appearance due to their beige almost grey hue! You know what I mean, when you see that girl who's lips look like she those of someone from a zombie movie, not a beauty page!

The texture is great as well because it is creamy, while still being thick enough to be long wearing. This lipstick also has a very nice fragrance, slight vanilla but not at all overwhelming! Darling is one of the few nudes that looks good on my skin, and has replaced Myth as my go to for a perfect nude lip.

I am so impressed with the whole Gosh line and if you read this blog often you will note that Gosh makes another one of my favorite products the giant sun powder! I am looking forward to trying some other things from the Gosh Line in the coming months and hoping that they are as amazing as m favorite products have been so far!

Please feel free to click here to read my other Gosh review !

Gosh Cosmetics Giant Sun Powder Review

So this week I did a little shopping (hint, hint more reviews to come) and I bought a lot of new goodies! One of these goodies was Gosh cosmetics new Giant Sun Powder. This is a huge bronzing compact that has a very luminescent quality to it. I would say it is trying to be a more subtle version of Illamasqua's Liquid Metal bronzer, this is the closest comparison I can think of... now on to the review.

This bronzer is one of the largest I have seen, the picture just does not do it justice. It has a price tag of $25 which is bad for all the product you get in this powder. I wouldn't use this one as an all over face bronzer at least not for the daytime, it's luminescence is just a little too much. As a gold highlight for the face (tutorial coming soon on great places to use this product) as well as for the body this product is amazing. There is no oranginess to this one, only a wonderful gold colour that is just beautiful even on pale skin tones such as mine.

I think this is a great product and I am so glad that I gave this one a try. There may not be much sun so far the summer but at least it looks like I have a healthy glow!

Gosh Cosmetics Review

I recently purchased a few items from Gosh cosmetics which is exclusive to Shoppers Drug Mart in Canada. Overall this company has great colour selection as well as product selection for a drugstore brand. The three products that I am specifically going to focus on today is the cool jam lip gloss, eyeliner pen and effect pigment.

I purchased the cool jam lip gloss in the blue colour which is really promising to make your teeth look whiter and does not give your lips a blue look. I really liked this gloss but for those of you who do not like sticky glosses this isn't the one for you. The texture is very similar to MAC's gloss and for me though who has chronically dry lips I found this one to be really hydrating and I personally don't mind sticky glosses as I feel they stay longer on my lips. As for the blue colour making your teeth look whiter well I'm not sure but it doesn't hurt!

Next is eyeliner pen which I purchased in black star. It has a shimmery effect through the black which I found quite nice for certain looks but cannot replace completely pure black as an eyeliner. The applicator is a small brush which I found quite easy to control for application and much nicer then the sponge tip applicators that several drugstore brands are now using. The colour didn't flake or smear and overall I found it to be a great liquid liner.

Finally is the effect pigment which I tried in a variety of colours. This one I wasn't that impressed with. When applied alone they really didn't give a strong effect but more of a wash of colour. I also tried it with mixing medium but still found the pigment to be somewhat streaky and still a softer colour which I really don't think was intent considering the colour selection they carry. This one I wouldn't try again unless they reformulated the product as I just get a much better result from other brands.

Overall I think that Gosh does a lot of things right and I am looking forward to trying more of their products in the future.

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