REVIEW: MILANI COLOR STATEMENT LIPSTICKS IN PRETTY NATURAL, PLUMROSE & UPTOWN MAUVE

I think that I have been watching and reading reviews of the Milani Color Statement Lipstick line for about 2 years now and I have never seen or read a bad review of the line. So of course my expectations were high when I finally made my purchase of Pretty Natural, Plumrose and Uptown Mauve.

It is really hard not to have high expectations of a product when you have been reading such good reviews of them for such a long time. The risk of course is that the product can never match up with those high expectations.

Did these meet my high expectations? I have been wearing them exclusively for two weeks now and I am a little confused by my reaction to them.

I think that the best way to describe my feelings is to say that “the whole is greater than the sum of it’s parts”. Aristotle may not have had lipstick in mind when he said that but it nevertheless seems appropriate when I consider my opinion of these lipsticks.

Read on for the review. 

MINI HAUL: MILANI COLOLR STATEMENT LIPSTICKS

Would you look at these beauties! Milani Color Statement Lipsticks in Naturally Pretty, Plumrose and Uptown Mauve. 

I have been watching YouTube videos and reading reviews of the Milani Color Statement Lipsticks for longer than I can remember. In all the reviews I have ever read/seen, people seem to rave about them. Cora from Vintage or Tacky on YouTube claims that they are the best reasonably priced lipstick available and that they are in fact better than a lot of the high end lipsticks that she owns.

That's a pretty glowing recommendation.

For years I have been looking at these online, adding them to carts and then never actually buying them. I think this is partly because I know I have enough lipsticks and partly because I can't help but feel that I would prefer to swatch things myself before I take the leap and purchase them.

Anyway, clearly, I took the leap and purchased them!

It was very exciting to finally receive them in the mail.

I have been very suck recently and haven't left the house, so definitely no makeup for me.

I have however, put all three on my lips just to see what they look like. The colours are beautiful and so opaque. I have only worn it one so time will tell but I think that Naturally Pretty might be my perfect "my lips but better" colour.

I did notice a few negatives that I wasn't expecting - they applied quite patchily. They sort of dragged across my lips and then when I removed the bullet from my mouth there were patches that had no lipstick on them at all. They also have that awful plastic smell some lipsticks get (Rimmel lipsticks - I'm looking at you). I also feel like they are going to have some transfer issues.

But, only time will tell. As I said, I have only put them on my lips once each and they haven't had a test run during a full day yet. So I am reserving judgment until I have tested them properly.

My enthusiasm is still high. I can't wait to take these babies on an outing and give the a proper test run.

BLOGLOVIN'

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I have heard about Bloglovin' for a long time but had yet to really investigate what it was.

I first started blogging about 5 years ago on my other blog: Page Turners. If you are ever looking for a good book to read I highly recommend heading over there and checking it out.

Anyway, back in the day I followed other people's blogs just through blogger, which worked fine.

Now that I have started blogging again I found that that particular system just didn't seem to work as well for me. So, I started following other people's blogs on Bloglovin'. I have an app on my phone so that all I need to do if I find a blog that I like, is to hop on the app, search for the blog and start following it. So far it has been working really well for me.

Today I decided that I needed to get my act together and claim my own blog., which I have now done. So if you are looking for an easy way to follow My Red Lips and Freckles you can click on the Bloglovin' link in the side bar and whether you use Bloglovin' on your desktop or on your phone, you will be able to receive notifications whenever I put up a new post. Anything to make our lives that little bit easier, right?

ESSENCE EYEBROW STYLIST KIT: MY BROWS BUT BETTER

Image from the Essence website

I think that the Essence Eyebrow Sylist Kit was the first kit of brow powders that I ever purchased.

I've always been more of a brow pencil kind of girl. Mostly because of the convenience. I always found the pencil faster because you didn't need a brush and more convenient because you could easily just put it in your bag for top ups if required during the day.

The problem was that all of the brow pencils I had purchased were from cheaper brands and the colours were never quire right and the longevity was never quite there.

Not one to give up (and not one to buy a more expensive product if I can find a cheaper one that works), I thought that I would branch out and try the Essence Eyebrow Stylist Kit after seeing it reviewed by Goo Roo Beauty on her You Tube channel.

It is a decision that I never regretted. This is my go-to brow product. I LOVE it.

Read on for the review.