NYX soft matte lip cream review

Ok, so I don't usually write about reviews, and I tend to be very cautious when buying lipsticks, lipgloss, etc, BUT, I had a target gift card and had heard from really good reviews about the NYX Soft Matte Lip Cream, so I went, I'm going to try it!
Target only had like 4 colors... which was upsetting, but I also bought them, today...and I think most stores stock their shelves for things in the beginning of the week.  I got Addis Ababa and San Paulo today, and I'm contemplating checking other stores for some other colors because I'm obsessed with this cream.
NOW! I REVIEW!  Here goes.

Firstly, it is not a gloss.  It's a cream and it feels like baby powder on my lips.  Its nuts.  I love it.  It really feels like mousse if you touch it, and like I said, I love it.  If you let it dry, its not transferring.  You can kiss everyone and it won't come off.  I kissed my hand like 12 times testing it, and the longer I had it on, the more it dried, the less it transferred, until it just didn't anymore and the color was still just as vibrant and pigmented.  Like I said, I love it.  The color San Paulo looked mauve-ish when looking at the bottle, was reddish when I put it on my lips, but on the website looks like a rose color...  All in all, its kinda red...  I still like it, but was not what I was expecting when I bought it.  Addis Ababa is like magenta, hot pink, very awesome color, I love it.  Its similar to Clinique's Pudgy Peony Chubby Stick color.  I love wearing that when I go out, so this may be a new staple for me too.
I LOVE the smell.  I put it on and immediately went, "oh! it smells like vanilla!  Thats awesome!"  and was losing my mind telling the hubs about this stuff.  I had to take a couple minutes and freak out over this lip cream when talking to him.  Basically it was love at first sight.  It goes on very easily and with only a small amount.

Cons (aka I didn't like this...)
Its not very forgiving when putting it on.  It glides on very easily, as I said, BUT! You need a mirror to put it on, or you end up looking like you let a child do you lipstick...  I actually put it on however I felt like, then used my makeup remover to clean up around my mouth.  As I said previously, the San Paulo color was confusing.  I bought it expecting a mauve-ish color, put it on and its almost a dark red... Had I purchased it straight from their website, I would have bought a different color simply because it looks pinkish, like a dusty rose, I can't even describe it.  It just doesn't look like what I bought in the store... (I double checked to see if it was the right color too...)

I DO recommend this to people.  I only had to problems with it, and my good feelings about it REALLY outweigh my bad feelings about it so...  Basically I love it.  I do plan on going to buy more of them as I previous stated.

If you want some as well, go HERE!

All for now!
taxikab

sorry everyone, no pictures this post...

Good morning, good morning....its coupon clipping time...

Good Morning readers!  Its Saturday, its before noon, it looks like the weather is going to be nice today, so here I sit typing to all of you, with my coffee in my new mug.   I went to the Poconos over the summer and they had out all there Halloween stuff in September, and I got this super cute Halloween mug.
This is the link for the Mug and Coffee set but I just bought the little blue mug.

ARENT THEY CUTE!

I'm big on Halloween and have been waiting and waiting to use this mug because it was September when I got it and was like, "way to early for spooky Halloween mug... must wait until after my birthday..." SO I DID.

I half miss getting up super early and getting things done... I've actually tried getting my groceries done this early because theres sometimes less people at my store.  This thought inspired todays post because, I've decided my next "life project" is going to be couponing.  I like cutting coupons, I just end up not using them or go, "well thats a waste of money!" when I do use some... BUT my tiny stock pile of items has dwindled on certain everyday items and I want to get more!  I don't know about you guys, but I HATE having to constantly go to the grocery store and buy things like toothpaste, shampoo, soap, stuff like that.  So I usually check the sales during my regular grocery trip and if its a good sale, I stock up!  I do the same thing with yogurt, but end up having to really clear my fridge for that one because I have to clear a whole shelf.

Anyway OFF TO PINTEREST I WENT and found a nice blog talking about coupons, and a reader commented saying there was a website you can BUY the coupon ads they put in your newspaper each week.  So you can spend like $1.00-$17.00 and get all these different ads and coupons, and they tell you what coupons are in there.

Here is the original website, its a craft blog too apparently, which is awesome.  Its Katie's Crochet Goodies and Crafts.

The coupon purchasing website i had to search "whole coupon inserts" and its literally "wholecouponinserts.com"

This should be a fun new venture, and hopefully will save me money.  Hubs and me are trying to eat healthier and since fruits and vegetables don't keep very long, I see myself shopping more often, or buying more frozen foods... which I'm not too excited about.  I'm also not very excited about having to clean out some closet space for the stuff... but! ADVENTURE!

Pumpkin and Apple picking today! Yay!  Seriously, I love fall.  Best time of the year.

til next time! Happy Crafting! Happy fall!

taxikab

p.s. working on another Right Brain Bunch article, so check here soon for a new update there too!

We made it a year?

So, coming up this month (actually on Thursday) is the anniversary of my hubs and I moving into the lovely apartment we are still living in.  We got a crash course on adulting without help and how to cook, which you lovelies have gotten sporadic updates about.

Recently my adult lessons have included bug massacre, bathroom fixing, and how to use an IMac thanks to the people who were getting rid of it and said to my hubby, "want one?" and he said, YES! but then gave it to me, because frankly he hates Mac computers... so here I am typing to you from my newish IMac.

Want to hear about my bug massacre? OF COURSE YOU DO!  I'm actually going to do a nice little review of one product I used because I am loving the results.  IF YOU DON'T! scroll down, read about my awesome trip to Penn State!

I think I'm jumping around a bunch here but everything makes sense.  My birthday was October 5, so I of course, in tradition of my birthday, took the day off, AND my sister just had her new baby, so now I have a nephew and a niece to love and spoil and hand back to their mother when they scream too much.

BUG MASSACRE!!!

On my birthday, I took a lovely trip to Lowes at the suggestion of my BFF for Bug killing products.  I had told her I wanted like bug REPELLENT and he went,
"Go to Home Depot, they have that stuff everywhere!" but Lowes was closer, so I went there and bought not only basic ant traps and roach traps (we THINK we saw roaches, but I'm not an exterminator, and I'd rather be safe than sorry...), but I got Ortho Home Defense and it said to spray it around doors and windows, so I did.

I also sprayed it around the vents in my house because I saw a couple bugs near one of them.   No Joke, I LOVE this stuff.  Our maintenance guy fixed out screens, and I sprayed this EVERYWHERE and I have not seen a single bug since...

We had a big ant problem too (I'm making us sound like dirty people and we're not! Bugs just really seem to like our place).  Exterminator was coming, nothing was helping, and I finally realized that they were coming from the cracks in the bathroom tiles, so I also went out and got some squeeze tube clear sealant and got that issue solved.  Only saw one or 2 today and they were all dead.  I'm thinking I may have to check the bathroom again for cracks where they could be coming in.

WE ARE.... EATING CREAMERY ICE CREAM!

So I went to PSU for my birthday weekend with my lovely sister and BFF (not the sister with the babies, the other one with the degree about fish and teaching people).  My sister is currently living up there and so BFF and me stayed with her.
We drove up Friday (10/2) and were there all day Saturday and part Sunday.  PSU won (of course...) and we actually had really good seats, even though we were sitting down at the Army end...

Those are the Army cheerleaders, fyi.

It rained the ENTIRE game, no joke.  It rained and rained and rained.  Thankfully my sister got us poncho's and i was warm under my little plastic poncho and like 4 layers.  I seriously was wearing, two hoodies, a t shirt, a thermal shirt, sweat pants, leggins, socks, and snow boots, WITH my hat and scarf my sister gave me for my birthday! because she called Hubs and went, "what does she want!?" and he said, "she is kinda bummed she doesn't have a PSU beanie for the game" basically because I went there and have like NO PSU apparel for cold football games... BUT now I have a scarf, beanie and hoodie for the next one!

My hoodie I got on Sunday so I couldn't wear it to the game...

ON SUNDAY we got possibly the best bagels I could have eaten... and while my sister went to swimming, BFF and me went shopping.  Gots my hoodie, gots some magnets, bought a PSU planner, mainly because it was only 4 dollars and back home a regular one would be like 8 or 9 dollars...  Also got hubs a tshirt, that he is wearing right now, and looks good on him.  He may not have gone to Penn State like I did, but he sure looks good in their clothes!

Jumping around again...

We went to this INSANE church on Saturday, because we are very good Catholic girls who go to church every week.  The priest started mass late, and was really upset we didn't all like SHOUT 'good evening!" at him when he said it so... and then he talked forever, and then they had a guest speaker, but it was definitely not what ANY of us are used to so that was an experience.  Got mexican food, which was good.  I've had better I think... but was still good.

Of course we got creamery ice cream on Sunday, and I brought some back for hubs and myself, and I am very sad to say it has all since been eaten...

So I forgot to tell them I wanted Jimmies on my ice cream, so they legit gave me a bowl of Jimmies... I lost my mind.  I got jimmies in every bite and it was GLORIOUS.

THEN before heading home we stopped at  CIDERY.  Did NOT know they existed, but it was AWESOME.  I personally love Ciders.  They are usually gluten free because they used apples, rather than wheat to make the drink, unlike beer.  They served it like beer, but bottled it like wine, it was crazy!

Here is our samplings of Ciders.  I brought home two bottles, not gonna lie...

FINALLY!

This place we went to on Saturday used MEDICAL FILE FOLDERS as their menus.  I was seriously confused when someone handed it to my sister, and then went, 'OMG THATS THE MENU!' had to text it to a friend because I was like, "thats crazy!" 

Clearly I am easily entertained...

SO basically besides BFF and me getting lost and having to drive way out of the way to come home, like we added another half hour to our drive... BUT we knew where we were and how to get home, so we are now referring to it as "that time we got really lost but not really because we knew EXACTLY where we were and how to get home...", I HAD A PRETTY GOOD TWO WEEKS.

I hope everyone is doing awesome and enjoying MY personal favorite season FALL!!!    Enjoy this lovely photo of a mountain I took.  You can see the leaves starting to turn colors!

taxikab