Much Needed Nostalgia: The Lime Crime Penny Lane Collection

It's been two years since I restarted my blog. Life got ahead of me and I completely neglected blogging. But now I am back and returning to the year 2015 for some much needed nostalgia! I mean I feel like I need to. I'm a new mom. My baby has given me a new body that I am still getting adjusted to. And I'm craving it!

I'm craving something that can center me back to ME. Because it's 5 years later, we are social distancing due to the Covid-19 pandemic (which sucks by the way) and I am stuck in the house with no outlet! I totally miss when times were normal! So, I've decided to take it back to one of my most favorite years for makeup releases, to a time when lime crime was just...how do I say...everything to me! 

This was probably one of the most bomb Lime Crime collections ever released. It was only 3 liquid lipsticks but the colors, in my opinion, were perfect. They looked good on everybody, and I had to have them. Shroom is that 90's Brown that Kylie Jenner (supposedly) repopularized. Faded is a purpley mauve that looks really good on deep skin, and bleached is a nudey-pinky-peach that I like to wear sparingly because it is so bright. I used to wear it full on and now, I deeply wonder how...

When I wear bleached now, I realize that my 24-year-old self was much more adventurous with her makeup. Shoot, her skin was a lot clearer, and she loved bright colors...Well, fast forward to now. I'm 29-years-old with a kid, and I work in integrated healthcare.

..So I've had to tone my makeup down a lot. However! I still love these lipsticks and repurchase them whenever they expire, because I have honestly never finished a liquid lipstick in my life.

Here's what they look like on me, mind you, my skin is a mess because I just had a baby, I only get 3-5 hours of sleep per night.  And I'm foregoing face makeup to get my skin back together. So bare with me.

       

From Left to Right: Bleached, Faded, and Shroom

We are currently living in a crazy time. 2020 is dirty and ghetto and trying my last nerve. But the beautiful things is posts like this remind me that I can still have fun with makeup. That I can be forever young and that makeup, particularly lipstick, will always be my outlet. Now let me go get my face mask and run to the post office. I have to send out for my kids birth certificate because Vital Statistics is closed indefinitely. Wow, what a time to be alive!

Lime Crime Unicorn Lipstick: "Glitter City"

I so happened to be perusing youtube when I saw a beautiful brown blogger out of the UK named Brunellesp reviewing the most glittery lipstick that I'd seen in a long time...I mean I haven't seen a glitter lipstick like this since MAC released their dazzle lipsticks eons ago. I was a fan of glitter then and I am a fan of glitter now (I'm old, shoot me). Now, she did not like the lipstick, but I loved the way it looked on her and decided that I was going to find out where and how I could get a hold of it. Especially since I had not seen any advertisement for it and I know that most of the Unicorn lipsticks that have been releasing from Lime Crime have been limited edition. 

I looked on the Lime Crime website, I looked on the Ulta website, I searched all of the retailers that I associate with Lime Crime, and I could not find this beautiful sugarlike glitter lipstick anywhere. It was almost as if it didn't exist, but something clicked and I realized that Brunellesp is from the UK and maybe Glitter City (the name of this elusive lipstick) was a UK exclusive release. I did my research and it turns out that I was right. It was only being sold through FeelUnique, a brand based out of the UK. Luckily for me, they sell to the US!

So this is what it looks like in real life. Because that stock photo is as much of a fantasy as me being 135 pounds again. 

Now for the pretty packaging!

Lip Swatches

Without liner

With liner

I'm going to wear this to the mall, the supermarket, going to get the mail, laying in my bed, in the shower, EVERYWHERE! Am I doing too much? I really love glitter. The texture of the lipstick isn't the most comfortable. It actually feels like sugar when first putting it on but once it settles it becomes less noticeable.

Kat Von D Beauty: The Fetish Palette

I love a good sale and today's shopping was so amazing that I could cry. I got 2 Fenty Beauty Gloss Bombs for $12 each. I got a Kat Von D Everlasting Lipstick in the Shade "Dreamer" for $7, and I got the KAT VON D FETISH PALETTE FOR $21 bucks! How did I get a palette that once retailed for $63 for $21 bucks? Sephora is having a holiday sale and VIB ROUGES are getting $25 dollars off. Run to Sephora, girl, RUN!

Kat Von D Beauty Fetish Palette

The Kat Von D Beauty website describes the palette as follows:

"Lose all inhibitions with a collectible eyeshadow palette beyond your wildest fantasies. The Kat Von D Fetish Eyeshadow Palette features a range of silky-smooth eyeshadows in 4 finishes. These ultra-desirable shades create a truly sensorial experience—dip into any one of these eyeshadows to feel the rich, velvety texture. The matte, glimmer, metallic and mega-glitter shadows deliver intense pigmentation and superior blendability for a mind-blowing experience you’ll crave again and again."

This is what the colors in the palette look like. This palette is so huge that I couldn't get one cohesive picture. And there are so many shadows in here that I couldn't bother to swatch them on my arms...sorry guys. But I atleast found a stock photo. Got this from the Kat Von D Website as well.

   

 

I haven't used the palette yet, but I'm sure I can get a crapload of looks from it. I cannot wait to use the purple shadow on my lid! I definitely have a makeup fetish, so this is right up my alley. I'm not mad at this palette at all, although I'm sure some people are, as the names of these shadows are a little scary. I'm putting them on my eyelids...so I can care less. What do you think? Cute right?

Fenty Beauty Gloss Bomb Comparison: Fu$$y & Fenty Glow

I finally fell for the hype. For the longest, I had been hearing nothing but positive reviews about the Fenty Beauty Gloss Bombs but unlike the rest of the world, I didn't get what was so great about sheer lip glosses. When Fenty Glow released, I told myself "girl you are not about to pay $18 for some clear gloss" and when Diamond Milk came out I was like "So Sinead, you gone pay $18 for some silver glitter?...pish posh, nope!" 

BUT BABY, LET ME TELL YOU: I WAS WRONG. THESE GLOSSES ARE EVERYTHING THAT EVERYBODY SAYS THEY ARE. And today, we are going to do a comparison between the newest gloss bomb release Fu$$y and Fenty Glow, the first release.

 I felt like this was a necessary post since most people are saying that they look exactly alike and you don't need both. I'm here to show you on pigmented lips that they are different and that you do indeed need them. This is coming from a non-believer! Slather them all over your lips girl! Don't be like me, in denial, telling yourself that you don't need these glosses...BECAUSE YOU DO! THEY ARE THE BOMB. And now I understand their namesake. Light bulb moment.

 Fussy

 Fenty Glow

See. Very different right? You can see that Fu$$y is a shimmery sheer baby pink, while Fenty Glow is more of a peach with gold glitter. Besides the fact that these glosses look good on everybody and that they make your lips look OD juicy, they feel and smell so nice. I have had Fu$$y on for 4 hours and it's still comfortable, non-sticky, and glossy. I was so wrong Riri. See, because everything looks good on Rihanna, I always feel like I'll be let down when I put her products on me. It happened with Uncensored, her first Stunna Matte Lip Paint and I just knew that it would be the same when it came to these glosses. But I was wrong. You can't go wrong with a little gloss bomb.