Hi! I’m going to be reviewing NYC Cosmestics Kiss Gloss Lipgloss. I got my first tube of this lipgloss (yes I have more than one!) at a drugstore for around $3.00. It comes in a cute 0.32 fl. oz. typical lipgloss tube . Let me tell you, it smells amazing. Some people say it smells like chemicals, but yeah, I don’t think it does. It does, however, taste a little like chemicals as opposed to tasting like pink lemonade. Not that I expected it to taste like actual pink lemonade you know. It doesn’t taste bad either, you. Compared to other lipglosses I’ve tried, this one has a nice taste. But hey, we’re not supposed to be eating our lipgloss, right?

The applicator is a slant, flat surface with a little hole, which I’ve always found to be an uncomfortable way to apply lip product.When you press the tube to make the product come out, press gently! This is a very shiny lipgloss. Even if you are using a little bit, you’ll have super shiny lips for a long time. So don’t press the tube a lot or you’ll get a lot of product out and have a blinding, super shiny mess on your lips. It is that shiny. With the excessive shine of this product comes something else: stickiness. Unless you apply loads of lipgloss, it won’t make your lips stick together or anything that exaggerated, but… if the wind blows your hair to your face it will get stuck to your lips. And I mean, really stuck. Like, it won’t be enough to shake your head to get the hair off; you’ll need to take the hair strands with your hands and pull them away. That’s about how sticky it gets with a “normal” application. So it’s not really the kind of lipgloss I would want to be wearing if I were going to kiss someone. I do wear it for class because it is very long lasting and I don’t go around kissing people in my classes.

This is me wearing NYC Kiss Gloss Lipgloss

I got the color “pink lemonade” is a very light and very pretty shimmery pink. It smells very sweet and I love it! When I noticed I started running out of this lipgloss, I got a second tube in “cherry”. Cherry, unlike pink lemonade, is not shimmery at all. It’s a beautiful soft reddish color and it smells like pink bubblegum. I love them both and I guess the only thing I don’t like about the product in general is the stickiness that makes it a make-out unfriendly lip gloss, which is ironic considering it’s named Kiss Gloss!

Have you tried NYC cosmetics Kiss Gloss lipgloss? What do you think about it? If you haven’t tried it, would you consider trying it? Did you find this review useful?

Hi everyone! Today I’m going to be reviewing Maybelline’s Great Lash Mascara BIG. I saw this mascara advertised everywhere and I must admit, the picture in the ads is pretty cool (see the picture above). I mean, look at that wand. It’s humongous.  My sister and I were at Walmart  when the Maybelline promo girl spots us in the makeup area, and takes out of our cart all the products we had picked up and replaces them with similar Maybelline products. How rude is that? We ended up not taking any of the products she was trying to force on us, except,w ell… the mascara. We got one each. My sister looked at the picture in the package and said “Oh, that’s a pretty wand! It’s pink and green!”. I was excited at the big, green and pink want until I got home and noticed -”Oh yeah, the wand is actually pitch black since it comes inside the mascara tube”.

Moving on… the wand colors weren’t that disappointing. I got this mascara in “very black” and I have to give the product props in terms of pigmentation: it is an amazingly beautiful, rich black. I’m not used to wands as big as this one, so when I was going to apply the mascara it did feel a bit weird and uncomfortable at first, but nothing unbearable. The size does make it somewhat hard to reach the inner corner lashes, and applying it on your lower lashes must be done very carefully especially if you’re like me, who doesn’t have a lot of lashes down there.

My upper lashes are very long but I don’t have a lot of them, so what I look for in a mascara is fullness more than length. I was able to lengthen my lashes quite a lot creating a dramatic look, and it becomes more dramatic as you add coats. It is a very buildable mascara as it promises. This mascara, however, fails to separate my lashes. Like I said, I don’t have a lot of lashes – and what this mascara does, is it groups my lashes together. In a video review I saw for this product someone said it looked like you have “five fat lashes” or something. I was very skeptical, I thought “that can’t be!” – but I’m telling you… it’s true. At least for my ungenerous amount of lashes, it just groups them together in like five fat chunks. I’ve tried curling them, not curling them, wiggling the wand, wiggling it a lot, not wiggling at all… I always get the same results. It’s such a shame, I actually like everything else about this product except this. I rarely use it anymore, since it makes my eyes look strange, especially if I wear it during the day. You know, like if I had cartoon lashes. I haven’t tried using this mascara for a night look, maybe it wouldn’t be so bad if you have dark eye makeup on.

This is my eye with Maybelline’s Great Lash Mascara BIG on.

This is not waterproof mascara. As for removing, I simply use oil-free makeup-remover towelettes and it comes right off. In conclusion, I don’t hate the this Great Lash Mascara BIG, but it doesn’t work for my long-but-sparse lashes. I would really like to hear from someone with abundant lashes who has tried it, so that I know how it works for you! By the way, this product was around $7.00 for 0.34 FL OZ.

Have you tried this product? What do you think? Did you find this review helpful?

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