The FabuLipStick is probably the product that I’m the most happy I bought. The Naked Beige color is a perfect my lips but better shade, has great staying power for having a satiny-matte finish, and isn’t drying. All for a stinkin’ steal of a price. My only complaint is that I didn’t buy it in more shades. Especially since I’m unable to not only not find this formula online on sites that ship to the US, but it’s also missing from Boots.com… Which makes me thing they are discontinuing the formula?
I’m pretty outspoken about my love for Benefit’s Push Up Liner, but I am really trying to give otherliquid/gel liners a chance. After reading so many wonderful things about the Super Cat liner, I had to give it a go. While it’s not as easy as stamping on a cat eye as my go-to option, I can manage a decent enough flick with this baby. I mean are they completely even? Probably not, but close enough that most people won’t notice. And in all fairness, you can’t really hold that against the product when it’s utter user-error. The felt tip is pretty easy to use, and doesn’t drag during application. The staying power is also fantastic – the swatch lasted through the smudge test, and the makeup remover wipe test, and in a faint but still visible line – was still there the next morning. It may not be my HG, but it’s definitely worth picking up and having in your beauty arsenal.
I didn’t realize how important to me having an attached spoolie on a brow product was before now. The Archery Brow (I want to say Brow Archery so bad) stick has a pencil side and a tint side, but no comb/brush to blend everything together. I honestly quite like the pencil part because the formula glides on nicely, but have barely used the tint side at all. Plus the tint side seems way warmer, almost golden, compared to the pencil side. Maybe I had super high expectations because I’d seen so many people dub it as a dupe for the Anastasia Brow Wiz, but I was underwhelmed to say the least. If they made the point of the pencil a little finer, and swapped the tint for a spoolie, I’d probably give it a chance based on the name alone. I mean, Love is Blonde? Yep, it tickles my punny bone.
{Edit: I stand corrected! The lovely Libby pointed out that there are apparently two Archery products by Soap & Glory, the one I picked up, and then also Brow Wiz dupe with a spoolie called Archery 2-in-1 Brow Filling Pencil & Brush. I am now bummed that I grabbed the wrong one, but super excited that there is in fact the product I wanted out there. Now I just need to get my hands on it!}
If you missed the first couple of my London haul posts, you can find them here and here. After doing some extended research, it’s surprisingly hard to track down specific items (even on amazon, but there def appears to be a heftier markup). If you’re in the US like I am, Sephora has a handful of Soap & Glory products (see their brand page here). In the UK you can totally just pop into Boots. For everywhere else, you can check out this handy dandy guide on their brand website of where they are stocked. Based on how much I’ve loved their scrubs and body butters, plus now the lipstick and eyeliner, I would love to try out more of their products. Hopefully they will be easier to acquire soon (Soap & Glory if you read this you should totally open a store up in PDX and hire me to work for you #WishfulThinking#ThisWillNeverHappenButImStillTypingItAnyway)!
♡Em
