MAC Viva Glam Gaga

MAC recently came out with 2 new Viva Glam lipsticks, Viva Glam Cyndi for Cyndi Lauper and Viva Glam Gaga for Lady Gaga. All the proceeds from the sales of this lipstick goes to the MAC AIDS Fund which supports the fight against HIV/AIDS.

I've only picked up Viva Glam Gaga so far, but will probably go back for Viva Glam Cyndi at some point.


I like that their signatures are printed on the box, as well as on the lipstick packaging.



You can see the signature on the tube.



Swatched on my skin.


Here it is on my lips. It's more wearable than I thought it would be. Applied heavily, it's a bit pale for my skintone, but it can be easily worn a bit more on the sheer side as well. Just make sure your lips are well moisturized when you're wearing this, I found that it can accentuate any dryness.

Did you pick up either of the new Viva Glam lipsticks? What do you think of them?

China Glaze Re-Fresh Mint

I'm a big fan of mint green nail polishes. Mint Candy Apple was my first Essie polish and that colour has me hooked on them. When I saw that China Glaze was coming out with a mint in their Up & Away collection, I knew I had to have it.


China Glaze Re-Fresh Mint
Re-Fresh Mint is a bit on the thick side, but does apply quite easily. I used 2 coats here.

I also did a comparison of the couple of similar colours I have in my collection.


Essie Mint Candy Apple, China Glaze Re-Fresh Mint, China Glaze For Audrey


China Glaze For Audrey, Essie Mint Candy Apple, China Glaze Re-Fresh Mint
Please excuse the messy application, seems like the macro setting on my camera captures the little mistakes that aren't so noticable to my eyes! :)

As you can see, Re-Fresh Mint is a nice clean mint green, where Mint Candy Apple has a bit of a blue undertone. For Audrey really isn't that similar on the nail. I used 2 coats of each here.

Essie Van D'Go from the Art of Spring Collection

Hey everyone, I hope you're having a great weekend! I had a bit of a tiring week so I decided to stay in tonight and just relax. Part of my relaxing included working on swatches and here's one of the polishes I did:


Essie Van D'Go

Essie Van D'Go from the Art of Spring Collection. This applied a bit streaky. Here I've applied 2 coats, but I guess maybe I should have applied a 3rd to even it out completely. I do really like this colour though, a nice peachy pink that totally reminds me of Spring.

Toronto Beauty Blogger Meetup

I was lucky enough to be one of the attendees of the Toronto Beauty Blogger Meetup (TBBM) held Sunday, February 21st. FacesByFarah worked very hard in organizing this and deserves a million thanks for putting together such a great event! Almost 20 beauty bloggers and I think 8 company reps were in attendance of the brunch which was held at Milestones.

Here's a list of the attendees:
Faces by Farah
Rock That Look
Makeup Junkie
Spiced Beauty
Nancy Power
Lipstick Rules
Beauty by Naz
Davida Gregor
MakeMeOver Services
Lelo the Artist
WaterColourSky
Mariana
If I was a Rich Girl
Makeup by Delia
Dare 2 B Yourself
Love Lipstick & Lime

As well as reps from the following companies:
CARGO Cosmetics
Cover FX
Balmshell Cosmetics
Face Atelier
Vasanti Cosmetics
Annabelle/Marcelle
DaLish Cosmetics


It was so nice meeting so many wonderful ladies! I only wish that there would have been more time to get a chance to talk to everyone!

There were tons of prizes given away as well, I was the winner of a great Cargo gift basket. All the bloggers also got great swag bags and I am still amazed at the amount of goodies that were in them!


I can't wait to play around with it all!

Brunch lasted a few hours, and then a bunch of us headed over to the MAC pro store. I was pretty well behaved and came away with only the new 130 brush. I'm excited to try it out.

Thanks so much to all the companies that were generous enough to sponsor the event as well as Farah for putting it all together!

Essie Pop Art Pink

Essie Pop Art Pink

Pop Art Pink is from Essie's spring collection. It's a pretty sheer colour, I used 3 coats to get it to look like this. I tend to like my polishes on the opaque side, with no visible nail lines. I don't mind having to do 3 coats though, and it is nice that it can be worn a bit more sheer if that's how you like it.

I can't believe it's only recently that I bought my first Essie polish. I've got 6 colours now. Do you have any Essie favorites?

MAC Spring Colour Forecast Colour 3 & Colour 4 Quads

I bought both the quads from the MAC Spring Colour Forecast Collection.


Colour 3 quad
Mink Pink, Bruised Plum, Jungle Moon, Black Tulip (clockwise from top left)


Mink Pink, Bruised Plum, Black Tulip, Jungle Moon

I really like purple eye shadows, though I don't have that many. I was excited to get Mink Pink in this quad as well, it's a colour that I'd been wanting for a while that MAC had discontinued. I like that there is a mixture of different eye shadow finishes, I like to mix it up when I do my eyes.


Colour 4 quad
Manila Paper, Flip, Creole Beauty, Aztec Brick (clockwise from top left)


Manila Paper, Flip, Aztec Brick, Creole Beauty

I'm all about neutrals. They're easy, they're great for work. The shadow I like the most from this quad is Creole Beauty, it's such a gorgeous rich brown colour!

These both come with the new quad packaging. I must say, I'm not really a fan. They are a lot bulkier and hold fingerprints like crazy. I have barely touched my quads except to get these swatches and pictures, but already you can see my fingerprints all over them. They are a lot thicker than the older quads as well. I suppose one advantage is that they seem like they may be more durable. If you're into depotting your quads though, I'm not sure how to go about doing that with these, if it's even possible.

I'm still happy with these though and can't wait to play with them some more. Did you pick up either of these?

China Glaze Heli-yum

Here's another gorgeous polish from the China Glaze Up & Away collection.


China Glaze Heli-yum
I am in love with this colour. It's so vibrant. Application was great too, this is 2 coats.

I hope you're all enjoying your Saturday!