Review: Makeup Revolution Amazing Lipstick in Depraved and Make It Right

So much for concise post titles.

I dug up some old pictures of the Makeup Revolution Amazing Lipsticks (left to right: Make Me Magnificent, Depraved and Make It Right) back from when I first got them. Since I reviewed Make Me Magnificent in my previous post, I thought I'd round my tiny collection (I usually just buy all they have in purple when trying a new product, can you tell :) ).

The comparison doesn't truly show the different finishes. Make Me Magnificent is a frost, Depraved is a pure creme and Make It Right has a nearly metallic quality.

Depraved is a blue-based medium purple creme. I LOVE how it was one of the first lipsticks (before every company came out with a liquid-to-matte range) that was like, hell yeah, have som lavender lipstick that also incidentally isn't totally shit.

I have to say wearing Depraved makes me slightly uncomfortable. I still wear it out because I love the idea of bam! in your face (literally) neon purple lips but I prefer it applied sheerly, mixed in with some lipbalm and paired with a silver or a neutral smokey eye.

Make It Right is a very dark metallic eggplant (extremely true to colour of eggplant the vegetable). It has a lot more blue in it than your average dark purple lipstick and glistens with an almost mirror-like, highly reflective finish, It doesn't photograph too well, but it looks even and opaque in person, from a distance at which other people normally would approach you. 

I should note that Make It Right is part of the Atomic Collection (together with Make Me Magnificent and three other vampy colours) while Depraved was released in the Scandalous Collection among other unusual brights.

I'd rate these two lipsticks 7/10. 

I am not fond of the Atomic Lipstick formula (it feels downright plastic and hard to control around the liplines) , but these are true purple lipsticks and this fact alone makes me extremely happy. The staying power is great as well, especially with Make It Right, which has survived a four hour walk in a snowstorm (long story short: the public transport system collapsed) completely untouched.

Which shade do you like better?

Review: Makeup Revolution Atomic Lipstick in Make Me Magnificent

On the rare occasion of wearing Make Me Magnificent I thought I might share my thoughts on it as well. I also have five other purple lipsticks coming in the mail (yeah) and I am hoping to trick myself into actually reviewing those as well by beginning right away. 

The Makeup Revolution Atomic Lipstick in Make Me Magnificent is a medium lilac with a frosty finish. 

The official swatches on the Makeup Revolution shop site were a bit deceiving (I honestly still have this issue even after they changed the swatch style on newer products and I always check out beauty blogs before ordering a product of theirs) and I was expecting a shimmery true purple. Well, for under two euros I wasn't particularly sorry to go wrong. 

In the photos I am wearing two or three swipes of Make Me Magnificent  over a medium berry lipliner. On its own it doesn't suit me at all, sheer lipsticks and glosses make me look feverish/post-vomit.

Overall I'd rate this lipstick 5/10.

Pros:

• good lasting power
• very affordable 
• a unique, pretty colour
• moisturising formula
• a transparent sample jar on the lid allows easy identification among multiple lipsticks
• doesn't bleed or feather out of lines
• comfortable to wear

Cons: 

• sheer pigmentation (not cute on its own)
• the bullet shape is incompatible with my lip shape (which is obviously a personal thing but the Atomic lipsticks have a very classic bullet with a single slanted surface that I cannot do my cupid's bow with no matter what)
• the taste gives me minor acid reflux
• the consistency is plain weird, like liquid plastic that floats above your skin (I only get this sensation upon initial application, you get used to it quickly)

Although the colour and finish were far from what I expected I warmed up to it, especially now in the summer, paired with a neutral grey smokey eye and dark blue clothing. It manages to be weird enough to compensate the grandma vibes.

How do you like Make Me Magnificent? 

AnimeShow 2015 Day One Outfit & Makeup

I am attending a con this weekend! I know extremely little about anime but there are fantasy&sci-fi sections as well, which are more my thing, and obviously all the wonderful attendees in their spectacular costumes.

Today I wore black on black: a thrifted ruffled shirt, a thrifted H&M waistcoat, a brocade patterned circle skirt I got for Christmas and some fancy tights. 

I wish I had some more extravagant winter shoes but my regular heeled boots will have to do.

I did my makeup using the Makeup Revolution Salvation Eyeshadow Palette in Give them Nightmares (since the day it arrived in the mail I haven't touched another palette, it has virtually every colour/finish combination I need and is essential to my m akeup routine, though I do wish it had one or two very light shimmers) and my lipstick is a combination of MUR Depraved in the bullet formula on top of the lip lacquer (sadly the liquid lipstick is too drying to wear on its own for extended periods of time).

Closeup eyeshadow pictures were simply not happening today, sorry about that.

Have a lovely weekend! xo

What is your most versatile beauty product?

Christmas Eve makeup

Hello!

I apologize for the odd shadows but I am visiting my 'proper' home for the holidays and I could not find a spot with decent light conditions.
I do love to look all fancy up for Christmas Eve dinner (I get my presents on the 24th, ha!) even if I'm wearing slippers under the table :) I've been feeling cool purples a lot lately and all my brushes are dirty with purple shadow  . The matted magenta lip was a bit out of my comfort zone but I warmed up to it.

I hope that your December has been great. I ate tons of things I shudder to think about (while binge-watching seasons 3 & 4 of Once Upon a Time) and that is absolutely fine since I had fun times and pleasantly slow days. I've also read a bit into Die Herren von Winterfell (Game of Thrones) in German and I am extremely proud of myself for that.

Have you tried something new and scary this year?

Lavender FOTD

Since I still haven't found a way around my facial asymmetry and any attempts at close -up makeup pictures turn out reaaally skewed and horribly angled, have a full face shot :-) I was ridiculously pleased with how well the lid shade matched my new (I mean second-hand-acquired but new for me) lavender shirt which I see myself wearing often in the future.

I tried to mute my look somewhat for the occasion as I was celebrating my cousin's electoral victory as the mayor of our city district. The family gathering was adequately traumatizing.

I am wearing two of the eyeshadows I bought in the trio that you can see swatched in my previous post, and the lightest lipstick from that haul, which makes me slightly uncomfortable by how 'normal' it is :-)

How do you feel about family parties?