What We're Sweet On: A Lip Exfoliator That's Unrefined


Updated 05/10/12 3:48 PM · Posted by · 0 comments

Fresh Sugar Lip Polish Review

Rough, peeling lips underneath your favorite matte lipstick (or any lipstick for that matter) are never a good thing. Enter your salvation: Fresh Sugar Lip Polish ($23). Unlike most lip scrubs, Fresh's formula doesn't shy away from coarse crystals. The brown sugar granules slough away dead skin, giving your lips a smooth finish, while shea butter, jojoba oil, and grapeseed oil lend moisture. Read more

Benefit Debuts Its First Liquid Foundation


Updated 01/19/12 4:15 PM · Posted by · 1 comment

Benefit Cosmetics Hello Flawless Liquid Foundation Review

Benefit has always stuck to powder-based foundation, but no longer. After four years of research and development, the brand is premiering its first liquid foundation, and we got to be among the first to try it out. Our biggest takeaway: this is not your average foundation. To see what it's all about, check out our review below. Read more

What We're Sweet On: Tinker Bell Gets a Perfect Palette


Updated 02/23/12 10:17 AM · Posted by · 1 comment

Tinker Bell Makeup Pixi Palette Review

If you were the rogue Disney girl who chose Tinker Bell over the long list of available princesses, you aren't going to want to miss the latest cartoon/makeup collaboration. Pixi Beauty, the aptly named brand known for its sweet, girlish packaging and shimmery shades, just teamed up with everyone's favorite foot-stamping little fairy. Putting Pixi and Tinker Bell together was a stroke of Read more

What We're Sweet On: Larger Than Life Lip Gloss


Updated 11/02/11 12:41 PM · Posted by · 0 comments

Review of Flirt Cosmetics Big Flirt Lip Gloss

Flirt Cosmetics' Big Flirt lip gloss ($16) is not for those who like a light-on-color, light-on-texture gloss. Not only is the tube, wand, and applicator much larger than your average gloss, but the shine factor is off the charts as well. But this isn't the superslick, full-on wet look that dominated red carpets, magazines, and just about everywhere else circa 2000. Instead, it's all about a Read more

What We're Sweet On: Lipstick That Does It All


Updated 02/09/12 3:15 AM · Posted by · 0 comments

Lola Duo Lipstick Has Two Colors and a Mirror

Usually we consider ourselves lucky if a lipstick looks good on us and doesn't make our lips dry like the Sahara. Perhaps our standards are a bit unusual, but we've been doing this a long time. Even hard-eyed beauty editors, though, know a cool find when they see it, and Lola Duo lipstick ($22) is exactly that. It's a typical columnar lipstick, but each side is a unique shade that works on its Read more

What We're Sweet On: Great Lip Stuff, Weird Names


Updated 02/03/12 3:05 AM · Posted by · 0 comments

The Best New Lip Gloss and Lip Stain Colors

Nobody would ever really be keen on the idea of putting blood or tears on our lips, so Rain Cosmetics is really lucky that its new lip stain, Blood ($12), and gloss, Tears ($12), are so superlatively great. Blood is a deep pink gel-based stain that's like a thicker, less-red Benetint. The lasting power is excellent when applied on the lips, but it works well on cheeks, too — even though it's Read more

See a Week of Makeup to Break Up Your Beauty Routine


Updated 04/22/11 11:56 PM · Posted by · 11 comments

Makeup For Every Day of the Week: Pixi Wakeup Makeup Review

For the last week, I've been trying makeup artist Petra Strand's new Week of Makeup Wakeup ($34), a palette-a-day kit that promises to get you out of your beauty routine rut. I wore all the color palettes faithfully, and now you can see how the shades look on and find out how each day's colors wore. The kit definitely did shake up my beauty regimen, and even changed a few perceptions I had about Read more

Eureka! I've Finally Discovered the Easiest, Fastest Brow-Filler Regimen


Updated 04/14/11 1:10 AM · Posted by · 0 comments

The Best Products For Filling in Brows

I've tried many brow-filling products as a result of a decade-old mishap involving an overly zealous tweezing experience, but recently I've struck gold (uh, taupe) with It Cosmetics' Brow Power Universal Eyebrow Pencil ($24). Lots of eyebrow pencils look harsh, but this one, thanks to its smooth, glide-on texture and natural-looking hue, appears faint and realistic on the skin. Even better, the Read more

Benefit's New Eye Cream Is a Worthy Successor to Eyecon


Updated 03/29/11 4:42 PM · Posted by · 5 comments

Comparing Benefit Eyecon to New Benefit It's Potent Eye Cream

I've long been a fan of Benefit Eyecon ($30), because it really does a good job of de-puffing and brightening up under eyes. Now though, it's being discontinued and Benefit is premiering a totally different set of skin care. The new line, B.right, has its own eye cream called It's Potent ($32). Since I have a jar of both creams, I decided to compare and see how the new product measures up. So Read more

MAC Jeanius Eye Shadows Are Positively Riveting


Updated 03/09/11 10:57 AM · Posted by · 4 comments

Testing MAC's New Jeanius Denim Eye Shadows

MAC's new Jeanius collection is all about denim. But the cutest and most noteworthy pieces have to be the denim Jeanius eye shadows ($20 each), which look like the corner pocket on a pair of jeans. I tested all four shades, so to find out what I thought and see a picture of how the pans stand up to use, just keep reading. Read more