Products which I use: red lipsticks

Always I like to have painted my lips, but I think that usually the black colour doesn’t look so good, because it rounds the face, but even it transform it in a pale face.

On the other hand, I love red colour, it does that your teeth will have an intense white colour and I think that it is good for almost every people, for all type of faces and hair colour. My hair is blonde and that colour was good for me before I dyed it to black colour… and yes, red colour was great too. Currently my hair is turquoise and I thought that maybe that colour will not adjust with red, but after test it I think that red colour is always the best option.

In my life I have used a lot of red lipstick, but I was changed my opinion of the brands during this time and currently I choose only that have a long durability and the most red tone. Certainly I have some lipsticks which are a bit more purple, rose or orange, but I try to buy only red pure colour lipsticks.

Red lips

Red lips

Currently I use some lipsticks, the most used is one of MAC type dual (red permanent by one side, transparent gloss by the other one) and I love it. It was chosen as the best one of its type on 2013.

I like a lot its tone and durability. Barely it is moved when you eat and you can paint yourself in the morning and return at night with almost the same colour. Almost. That is the problem because the internal part of lips will be “removed” in small flakes. If you don’t bite them with your tooth (as I do) maybe it can resist a bit more, but in the case, you will have a problem. And you should think that you can’t retouch over it, because it will be so “heavy” and it will crack. You should never forget to hydrate it sometimes with the gloss which it incorpores, because it will resist more time. About its price, I think that it was near to 25 € (34 $).
I can’t say exactly its name because after to carry it inside my handbag, some letters have been dissapeared, but if I don’t have a mistake it should be something like “
PRO Longwear lip colour” and the tone is “Lasting Lust”.

PRO Longwear Lip Colour MAC, Lasting Lust tone

PRO Longwear Lip Colour MAC, Lasting Lust tone


For the second position I can’t say a lot of things because currently it does not be made. It is a lipstick of the ARTDECO brand which I have bought during a lot of years until a day which I discovered that it didn’t exist anymore. Now I am trying to finish off the last lip brush.

It was a durable lipstick which I used to mend the imperfections of the previous one (as well as to use it directly).

The tone which I used was “08” and I don’t put pictures of it because it is in its last moments…

As I said before in my post about the lasts shoppings of cosmetics and make up of Autumn 2013, recently I have discoveres a shop with the name “Lush” where, between other things, I have bought a red lip tint (I think that the tone was “Ambition”).
The colour is pretty, but maybe a bit light for my taste. It is enough with a thin layer over the lips and, very important, remember to leave it completely. If you don’t do it, it will be vanished and it will be a disaster. It is sold as a tint, but it doesn’t work as it. And it does not resist as time as I want but without the previous one, I use it to retouch MAC lipstick (only with a few quantity of it, because the tone is not exactly the same) and when I will go out only for a moment and it is not important to forgive it in some hours.

Lush lips tint, Ambition tone

Lush lips tint, Ambition tone

Other slipstick which I use for the same is one of Miss Cop. This one has bought in an Internet shop (but I don’t remember where…).

The aspect which I like of this one is its sweet odour. The bad things are that it is a bit fuchsia and it does not a long life when it is applied, but it is enough for a day which you need your lips hydrated.

I’m sorry that it is a bit ugly in the picture, but usually I applied it with a brush and it is taking strange shapes…

It is the 11 tone and the name is not visible, but it is too similar to the 12 tone of Miss Cop Lipstick (Cream) which is currently in the shops.

Miss Cop 11 lipstick

Miss Cop 11 lipstick

Recently I have bought two lipsticks of the Kiko brand, which I have to say that I am buying some things from it because it has good prizes and a big quantity of tones and products.

I knew one of them because I had it in another tone and the truth is that I like it so much. As the MAC one, it is a dual lipstick, but with an important difference: it is lighter than the other and it is easy to apply it. You can retouch over other or even use it alone because it has a long duration (they promise 10 hours but I shouldn’t say it). The only problem which I see (maybe other people don’t say it) is that if you eat some oily food, it will dissapear in some time, but remember that you can retouch it again.
It is the “Double Touch” of Kiko, 111 tone.

The other one which I have bought was a better substitute for ARTDECO (the rest are good but I don’t trust them)

In the shop they promised me that it will have a big durability and that is very important for me.

The tone could be better, because they have two reds, one near to orange and the other near to cherry which was that I bought.
It has a good durability, but when you eat a part of the colour will be lost. My prefer part of this one is the lock because sometimes the lipsticks can be opened inside the handbag. But this lipstick has a lock in two parts and it is not possible to open it for an accident.

It is “Velvet Mat Lipstick”, tone 607.

Double touch 111 and Velvet mat 607 of Kiko

Double touch 111 and Velvet mat 607 of Kiko

Also I say that I always outline my lips before to make up them.

Before I used a lip liner of Sephora (red colour), but now it is smaller and it mantains the same price, which transform it in an expensive product. It is the Sephora Lip Liner, tone 20 Real Red.

Sephora Lip Liner 20 Real Red

Sephora Lip Liner 20 Real Red

Now I am using another one which is cheaper but with the same features, and the tone is similar to the other one. It is 24 ORE of Deborah, tone 10.

Deborah 24 ORE tone 10

Deborah 24 ORE tone 10

Recently it was the sales time in Spain I went to a H&M. There I bought, between some make up products, a Dual Lipgloss of red colour. It is a dual shine, one part is shine colour, and the other part is the same but with something like glitter. It is a bit sticky and it is vanished easily. The final colour is not a pure red, it is a like a dark pink, but I like to use it daily, when I don’t want to stand (for example when I go shopping) or when I need to finish fast and I don’t want to spend time outlining and filling with a brush.

Dual Lipgloss H&M red/red glitter

Dual Lipgloss H&M red/red glitter

Feb 10, 2014 | Posted by in Cosmetic and Make Up, Reviews | 0 comments

Sunscreen

At this time it is very important that we protect our skin of the sun effects. It is not matter our color skin or our tolerance of the sun.

Personally I am very pale and it is the usual that to be gothic you should have a pale skin, but it is possible that you have a dark skin since you was borned or that you like a sunbathe.

Goth girl on the beach

Goth girl on the beach

It is proper to visit your doctor or go to a pharmacy to know what phototype we have, before to use any sunscreen.
If we do not want or we do not have enough time to do it, I am recommend you that it is better more than less because if we use less than we should use it, we will burn. Maybe it seems that if we have a pale skin we should use a higher sun cream and the opposite if we have dark skinned but that is not correct because our resistence does not depend of it.

Prawn under sun

Prawn under sun

As well as to be burned as a prawn under sun is a bit ugly and later begin to peel like a snake, it is not healthy. In that moment it seems that everything is okay but some brush with the burned skin because it sting, but really we can finish with dried out and wrinkled skin, or even with a skin cancer (melanoma).
We have to watch for moles, especially in summer, checking if they grow, change their form or fester and if some of these sympthons appear, go as soon as possible to the doctor.
Take care about it but remember that if you go quickly to the doctor it is possible to remove it or manage it with medication.

Mussvital Macadamia +50

Mussvital Macadamia +50

In the past it was usual to say that sunscreen were so difficult to extend them because it oils our skin, but nowdays there are a lot of different types with different textures.
We can find them in atomizer, which are so easy to apply, especially when we are with few clothes, like on the beach or swimming pool. Also there are in cream format which there are not as oiled as before, because there are for dry, combination or oily skin types.

One of the things which more define me is that I like to be always make up and, if we put me a sunscreen, it is difficult to put correctly the make-up. Now it is not an excuse, because it is possible to find sunscreen with color or even some makeups with a part of sunscreen. These last types are better, at least for me, for Spring, but for Summer it is better a higher protection (higher SPF) because the ray sun affect directly over our skin.

Isdin SPF +50 fluid make-up

Isdin SPF +50 fluid make-up

I have always preffer to buy these kind of products in pharmacies because they can advice us about them.
Usually I ask for samples to have a small bottle in the handbag or, if they don’t have it, I buy a small bottle and fill it with the sunscreen.

My favourite brands are Mussvital, with they sun cream with macadamia oil of +50 protection. It is very nutritious, help to the elascity of our skin, protect a lot and smell so weel. The only problem is that it is so thick and a bit diffitul to extend it over the skin.

Isdin SPF 40 compact powders

Isdin SPF 40 compact powders

Other brand which a like is Isdin, with their products over +50. In addition, they have a new product: Gel Cream Dry Touch Color, a protector with color which it is so easy to extend and produce an matte effect. It is easy to absorb it and it does not have mask effect. If we do not like fluid makeup, we have the option of compact powder makeup, also from Isdin, with 40 sun protector.

Avene Couvrance SPF 30 compact makeup oil free

Avene Couvrance SPF 30 compact makeup oil free

If we want to have a strong pure compact makeup, for example for special event like a wedding, we can try with Couvrance compact makeup from Avene, with a +30 sun protector. There are two versions, one for oily skin and another one for dry skin; also there are different tones (usually I use the porcelain tone). It is a very good brand and it is valid for sensitive skins and it has a lot of products (I will talk about them in another post).
In this style we can find anothe compact make up with sun protector: the Capital Soleil SPD 30 of Vichy, which have two tones (gold beige and sand beige).

Vichy Capital Soleil SPF 30 compact makeup

Vichy Capital Soleil SPF 30 compact makeup

Aug 23, 2013 | Posted by in Cosmetic and Make Up | 0 comments