Nyx Roundlippies Review

Hi pretties! huhu I've been a bad blogger, haven't login to my page over the weekend thus the lack of posts. Anyway as I have mentioned in my previous post here is my say on my Nyx Round lipsticks: Tea Rose and Circe. I have seen a number of bloggers that own the Tea Rose and I thought they really look pretty on it so I ordered it hehe. It is a pink shade that is not that loud, IMO you can wear it everyday especially when you are on a date, that you want to look sweet or pa-tweetums hehe. I am glad I have it because the hubby said it is nice and it looks pretty on me. :) Here's a swatch of it.

Tea Rose

 

 Now ladies be ready to be scared, here's me sporting my current fav pink lipstick: Nyx rd lipstick Tea Rose:

 

 

See it's not a pink loud color on me, doesn't look nude or natural either just the right shade of pink. In this FOTD I used the Ellana concealer that I got as a free sample and the Ellana Foundation as well, I love them because they made my skin looks flawless in this picture without whitish cast on the camera's flash.I also used my In2it Blush in Denial just to give a natural look. 

Now the second Nyx Round lipstick that I got was Circe, a pretty nude shade. It's a bit lighter than other nude lippies that I swatched before but that is on my skin I think. So here's the swatch of it:

Circe

 

I have to swipe it like 3 times before it will create a visible color on my lips. I can say that this shade is truly a nude lipstick, hehe look at the color on me:

(Warning: Picture is really scary!)

Took this on a Natural lighting since I really look like a zombie with the flash on

Sorry for the eyebags!

 

I hoped the swatches and FOTDs helped you on seeing the shade of the lipsticks.  So here' s my review on the lippies:

Yehey! Factors:

 

• very affordable (160 pesos for each tube)
• creamy texture, so the application is a breeze
• love the staying power, I ate and drink that time and it stayed the whole afternoon, didn't bother to retouch since the Tea Rose still looks good after lunch. For Circe I retouched it after 4 hours
• didn't dry my lips
• For Tea Rose, 1 to 2 swipes will gave my lips the fab look already but for Circe it took 3 to 4 swipes, so I guess it depends on the shade you will use
• there is a shade indicator at the bottom of the tube so you'll know the color of it without opening or reading the label

Boo! Factors:

• my number 1 will be the scent, it's like a flowery scent that really annoyed me, but good thing it disappeared after a while like 15mins I don't smell it anymore maybe because I put Carmex before the lipstick
• IMO I don't like the packaging, the color is nice it's in black but I don't like that the label is on sticker. Well taste is subjective right? hehe
• not available locally, I have to order it online and have to rely on swatches online
• Very creamy that I think it will tend to melt if not stored poperly

Overall, I think the cons are not that major except the scent, hehe so I love the lippies. I recommend it to everyone it's worth a try if you still haven't.

I will end this post with my eBay haul, I received yesterday:

My revlon blush and blemish concealer

 

Super excited to use them. Will review them after a week of usage hehe, will do another FOTD as well so I hope you don't get annoyed of my face..hehe

Mahalo :)

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