My lips' secret

I have been battling for more than a decade (a bit exaggerated lol) on my dry chapped lips. Especially when I was in High school wherein we were in the country with extreme weather. Yes, we were in Saudi Arabia before with my Mama and Papa then I just went home for college, but that's another story. The weather in Saudi Arabia consist of summer and winter and when I say extreme that means when it's summer it's really hot, you can probably leave an egg outside then after like 20minutes it will be hard boiled egg already. haha Well, I guess the hottest temperature that I experienced there was like 40 Celsius degree but of course we don't stay outside so we don't feel that. After 6 months of summer, winter will enter and it's also extreme wherein I wear 4 garments all at the same time, thick garments huh haha! Oh I miss Saudi. Anyway I am not here to talk about that! So on to my lips, considering the changing of weather in Saudi Arabia before it affected my skin and my lips as well they were really dry.The condition of my lips didn't change even when I was here but my skin did it became really oily. As I've said I had dry chapped lips since like forever so I always look for lip balms that will solve this problem. I have tried bunch of them, both expensive and not, some are okay but did not last that long, I mean they don't satisfy me. They will work for a while and then after sometime it will stop. When I got into the beauty blogosphere I have read a lot of raves on the Carmex lip balm.

I got the Carmex Lip Balm in tube

I bought this hoping that it will answer my prayers, hehe. Yes this product is okay, it moisturizes my lips and I love the minty effect of it plus the very affordable price but I need to reapply it every 10 minutes because the good effect doesn't stay long. Nevertheless I still use it so that I won't waste my 99 bucks. Then one time when I was in my 'suking' parlor I saw their display of Human Heart Nature Products and these were not new to me since I have read great reviews of them. So I got their feminine wash and Human Nature Lip Balm in watermelon.

 I got the watermelon

When I used it I fell inlove with them right away, it tastes yummy and wow my lips were super moisturized and noticed that they are not dry and chapped anymore. Yipee! I observed on how long will this result last on my lips and guess what they are still moisturized after 3 hours working in the office. When I use this, I swipe it on my lips for like 10 times hehe I think that does the trick but then I wanted my lips to look glossy and healthy at the same time because with this my lips look pale it is great if I put lipstick on but I am not used into putting lipstick when at the office or at home, so I use the HHN lip balm then topped it with Carmex and in my surprise they jived well into my lips, it gave the most moisturized lips and healthy looking as well, not the pale dry chapped lips anymore. I used these two then I just put what ever lipstick or lip gloss that I prefer and it doesn't dry my lips. Now I can say that my lips have found its soulmates hehe.

Mahalo :)

*Pictures were taken from google images. Sorry wasn't able to get pictures of them since I am still in the office and I really want to share the lip balms with you pretty ladies..hehe

My favorite lip gloss

Aside from natural shades of lipstick, I am now starting to like shades of pink on me. Last month I got my hands on this Nyx round lipgloss in Baby Pink. I have been reading a lot of great reviews about Nyx products, although they are not available locally, we can still get our hands on them thanks to local resellers.

Pretty ladies, presenting Nyx Round lipgloss in Baby Pink: :)

At first I was quite hesitant to put it on, I was really afraid that I won't pull it off. It is so light with shimmers on it. But when I tried it on,  I fell in love with right away.

So on to the short review...
Yipee! Factor:

• you will see the color right away in one swipe
• not drying
• cute packaging
• inexpensive (200 +, oh my I already forgot)
• sturdy doe foot applicator
• easy to apply with the doe foot applicator
• transparent tube so you will see how much of the product is still there

Boo! Factor:

• not available locally but thanks to Ms. Sol for making Nyx products readily for us
• there is a scent that really bugs me, I dunno it's like plastic
• it is quite sticky though I can't really compare it to other lip gloss since this is my 2nd lip gloss aside from Avon simply pretty lip gloss which is not that sticky
• staying power is not that long just stayed on me for about less than 2hrs but you can blame me hehe I keep on biting my lips

Enumerating the cons of this product will make you think why I still like it, well the pros still outweighs it. I just love the color it gives on my lips, with the shimmer and the right shade of pink, I feel like I'm a sweet lil' girl LOL!

Let me end you with a FOTD of me with my favorite pink lip gloss (as of the moment hehe!)

A vain shot of me in our office's ladies room haha, forgive me please!

Girls, I swear my contact lenses don't appear like that in person, it just turned blue because of the camera's flash..huhu! When I bought the lenses, my suking optical shop had ran out of my usual transparent lenses, no brown as well, they only have green, blue, gray and violet and that's violet by the way! (haha nag explain!) It just looks normal in person not that bluish hehe! 

Anyway if you want to get these Nyx round lip gloss or any other Nyx products you can visit Ms. Sol's online store at Digital Traincase. She is very accommodating with super fast transactions.

Until next time pretty ladies.

Mahalo :)