Sometimes you just want a bold lip, but you don’t want to spend an arm and a leg! I had seen the NYX Simply Vamp Lip Creams, but didn’t pull the trigger on these beauties until I saw the sets at Ulta. These retail individually for around $6.49, but the holiday sets are $5.99 for 3 shades. Each set also has a shade of the Simply Red Lip Creams and one set has one of the Simply Nude shades. I also grabbed a Soft Matte Lip Cream in the cult favorite shade “Transylvania.” Seven shades for under $20? OK!
Set 1: Simply Red “Leading Lady,” Simply Vamp “Temptress,” and Simply Vamp “She Devil.” Set 2: Simply Nude “Fairest,” Simply Red “Marachino,” and Simply Vamp “Bewitching.” Laying across the top of the boxes but hard to see, the dark vampy wine plum shade of Soft Matte Lip Cream “Transylvania.”
These pencils are in a plastic casing and do not need to be sharpened. They roll up by twisting the base. Fabulous – no wasted product! They are creamy and not drying, as far as I can tell – I have just worn one shade, Bewitching. It dried down to a satin matte that wears for many hours, though it did transfer onto my coffee mug when I drank. That’s ok…we are all used to my “marked mugs” around here!
What do you think? This is NYX Simply Vamp in “Bewitching.”
OK, so I’ve had this reproduction vintage tube of Revlon Fire and Ice lipstick for a few years now. When this came out, I went crazy for this gorgeous metal tube and had to have it. I’m into women’s history and that of course includes the makeup and fashion. This color has been around since the 1950s. Unfortunately, this red shade is very orange and just doesn’t look the best on my pink toned skin. But…the limited edition tube is gorgeous.
Yesterday I obtained the Maybelline Color Sensational Creamy Matte Lipstick in Siren In Scarlet. It’s pretty much the perfect blue-based matte red on me. I actually do like the packaging on the lipstick as far as drug store lipstick goes, but a lightbulb went off in my head. Can you put a lipstick into a vintage case? I turned to blog posts and youtube for the answers. This YouTube video by D Beauty Liv has the best tutorial on how to do it!
So, last night I put my 2 lipsticks in the freezer and hoped for the best. Today, I put down some paper towels on my desk and got to work! I washed my hands with antibacterial soap and cleaned out a little eye cream jar with alcohol to put the Fire and Ice lipstick in (in case I get crazy and decide to wear it…hey, you never know).
Before lipstick transplant surgery
You can tell the Fire and Ice is much more orange than Siren In Scarlet. It’s gorgeous, but I think it’s more suited to a warmer skin tone than I have. You can also see that since they’re frozen solid, they’re a little foggy/frosty. 🙂
I’ll be damned! It came out so easily and in one piece!
The inside of the tube has grips to grab the lipstick bullet, so when you gently slide the other one in, it grips the bullet. Nice!
Siren In Scarlet ready to go in the reproduction vintage Revlon tube.
It fit perfectly! Would you look at that!
Now it can be rolled up and down with ease and is perfectly snug in its base. You know, I remember reading somewhere that Dita Von Teese put MAC lipsticks in vintage cases and thinking, “yeah, but she can probably touch things and turn them into unicorns and if I tried it, they would break into a million pieces.” So, I am pretty damned happy that this didn’t turn into a disaster. Now I can stick this into my 1950’s vintage evening bag when I go to the club and feel all fancy.
(UPDATE: My lipstick has thawed out and I tried it on straight from the tube and it works perfectly well and did not tilt or break, etc – it works like any other tube of lipstick. And it looks awesome!)
FYI: If your lipstick tube is *actually* antique, as in from the 1950s or earlier, there’s a good possibility the diameter of the lipstick is going to be much smaller, so you will need to eyeball it to see if your desired lipstick is going to fit in there. Our modern day lipsticks are quite a bit bigger than they were back then. You can, for example, hold up an old Coty lipstick and see that they are very small compared to our great big lipsticks of today – so just keep that in mind!
What kind of crafty things do you do with makeup? Do you press loose powders, decorate compacts, etc? Or do you make your own shades? I would love to hear about your projects!
A Bad Homance 