Another new Runway Eyes Baked Eye Shadow palette from Milani!
This one’s named Primary ($8.99).
Runway Rainbow
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New From Milani: Runway Eyes Baked Eye Shadows in Complementary
Do you like the colors in the new Milani Runway Eyes Baked Eye Shadows in Complementary ($8.99)?
Milani High Speed Fast Dry Nail Lacquer Turbocharges Drying Time With Eight Creamy Colors
Milani asks, would you rather wait an hour for your nails to dry, or just wait 60 seconds?
The drugstore brand’s new line of One Coat High Speed Fast Dry Nail Lacquers ($4.99 each) promises to save lacquer lovers time and money with eight rich, quick-drying colors and a creamy formula built to look beautiful after a single coat.
And that’s just I’m wearing in each of these swatches — one creamy coat.
Fast Fuchsia
Jiffy Orange
Violet Dash
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Milani’s New Spring 2012 Runway Eyes Eyeshadows for Spring 2012 Have Something Big in Common With Tabs
I like my kitty supermodels chunky…
E! True Hollywood Story: Tabs the Cat, from Stray to Supermodel
…and my eyeshadows smooove, like Ryan Gosling. 🙂
Last weekend I gave Milani’s three new spring 2012 Runway Eyes eyeshadows a try, but instead of marveling at their sparkly abundance and bodacious $6.99 price tag, I kept getting distracted by something in the mirror…
Chunks, and not the kind I like.
When I apply these dry, I can see the grains chillin’ on top of my eyelids. No, they aren’t the smoothest shadows at the rodeo, if you catch my drift.
Applied wet, using a brush moistened with MAC Fix+, seems to smooth out the texture. It also intensifies the shimmery colors of these shadows, in particular Golden Touch (the golden beige) and Peaches & Cream (the silvery peach), but I still see stray grains on my lids that I feel the urge to buff.
Golden khaki Antigua, on the other hand, gets closer to great. I think it looks and feels smoother than the other two shades, and at least for me, with its hint of gray, has the most star power among these three.
From the left, Antigua, Golden Touch and Peaches & Cream applied dry (the three shades on the left) and wet (the three shades on the right)
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Sparkly
From the left: Milani Eyeshadows in Golden Touch, Peaches & Cream and Antigua, $6.99 each. Available now at drugstores and online.
Milani Brightens Up With Three New Marbelized Baked Eyeshadows for Spring
What started as a marbelous gray, black, gold and dark blue dalliance last spring is now a much brighter affair. Milani is moving winter aside and making way for spring with three playful new Marbelized Baked Eyeshadows ($7.49 each).
First of all, I love their names! 🙂 Must Have Fuchsia, Copper Excess and Green Fortune just seem so perfectly apt. A minor thing, but sometimes for me it’s the minor things that make the biggest impressions.
From the left: Copper Excess, Green Fortune and Must Have Fuchsia
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$5.49 for a MAC Lipglass? Almost (But Not Quite), With Milani Crystal Gloss
Wearing Milani Crystal Gloss in Raspberry Icing
I was having dinner with friends a few weeks ago when one of the gals asked to see a picture of Tabs, and since that’s a request I’m always happy and quick to oblige, I grabbed my purse and reached in to fish out my phone, which at any given time contains at least 700 pictures of Tabs on the camera roll.
As I fished and fished, rooting around inside the purse, I kept coming up phone-less, with fistful after fistful of gloss.
“Um…” said one of the girls, “just how many lipglosses do you actually have in your purse?”
You know, I wondered, feeling my cheeks flush, that’s a good question… “A lot?”
And now, thanks to Milani’s five latest $5.49 Crystal Glosses, I don’t see myself scaling back any time soon. 🙂
Glittery fuchsia Raspberry Icing, hot pink Fruit Punch, the succinctly named Clear, pinkish coral Pucker Up and berry Sheer Dark Honey, all new for spring, have set up shop inside my current handbag.
Sometimes referred to as drugstore MAC Lipglasses, Milani’s line of Crystal Glosses have a similarly thick texture, slick when applied and slightly sticky on the lips, and come in a wide range of colors. They range in coverage from sheer to almost fully opaque.
Beyond that, they’re not big on bells and whistles, and that’s fine by me. A good price, a convenient doe-foot applicator, lots of colors to choose from, and I think they work really well.
I also like the shiny finish and how the pigments don’t seem to separate or do any other funky stuff as the day wears on. I get about three hours of wear time out of them, and all the while they feel comfy on my lips.
From the left: Clear, Sheer Dark Honey, Fruit Punch, Pucker Up and Raspberry Icing
Swatches from the left: Clear, Pucker Up, Fruit Punch and Sheer Dark Honey
Raspberry Icing
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With These New Illuminating Face Powders, Milani Might Be Making MAC Sweat
Wearing Milani Face Powder n Hermosa Rose along my cheekbones and Beauty’s Touch on my cheeks
Bargain loving babes and/or fellow fans of the $28 MAC Pearlmatte Powders, these new Milani Illuminating Face Powders do a pretty good MAC impression for $9.49 each.
Designed for all skin types, they even multitask, and can be used as blushes, highlighters and bronzers that deliver a hint of color and glow, just like the pricier Pearlmattes.
And they’re available in three easy-to-wear shades…
- Amber Nectar: a warm, peachy coral
- Hermosa Rose: a peachy golden tan
- Beauty’s Touch: a cool pink
Just look at those cute pans (it’s hard to go wrong with roses)! 🙂
Clockwise from the powder on the left: Hermosa Rose, Beauty’s Touch and Amber Nectar
The soft glow I get from Milani’s powders reminds me again of the Pearlmattes. The finish is somewhere between a matte and a sheen, and I think the powders from MAC are a smidgen more pigmented and maybe a tad more matte.
Milani even rocked the house with the texture of these. They’re so buttery and soft that I can hardly believe they’re drugstore.
Swatches from the left: Amber Nectar, Hermosa Rose and Beauty’s Touch
Wearing Hermosa Rose along my cheekbones and Beauty’s Touch on my cheeks
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