Month of Vegan Lips: Week 3 Round Up

Is it Monday already? GAH!

Week 3 and I've realised, I'd accidentally saved some til the end of the month, so there might be a couple of crazy colours in next week's round-up! :) But for now, here's a round up of the last week.

Day 16: Tanya Burr Lipgloss in Party in the Park

Day 17: Barry M Loudmouth Gloss in Gossip

Day 18 - Revolution Velvet Lip Laquer in What I Believe

Day 19: Gosh Velvet Touch Eyeliner in I See You, with Sugarpill's Lumi pigment patted on top.

Day 20: Kat Von D Everlasting Liquid Lipstick in Berlin (Sephora ship to the UK!)

Day 21: Day Lippy Girl Lipstick in Abraca-Bam

Day 22: Gosh Velvet Touch Lip Liner in Flirty Orange, and a touch of OCC's Stained Gloss in Meta.

Can't believe I'm on the last week already, this month has flown by.

Don't forget you can join in and show me what your wearing on your lips by posting it on instagram and hashtagging it #monthofveganlips.

Sal xXx

Month of Vegan Lips: Week Two Round Up

Week 2 of my #monthofveganlips challenge on Instagram has flown by, here's a round-up for those of you not on IG.

Day 8 - OCC Lip Tar in Black Metal Dahlia

(I think they've discontinued this packaging :( so you will probably only be able to find the new Ready to Wear version, I am super glad they didn't discontinue this colour though!)

 Day 9 - M&S Autograph Lipstick in Nude Pink

Unfortunately it seems as though this shade has been discontinued

 Day 10 - MUA Power Pout Acrylic in Unwrapped

 Day 11 - B. Rich Intense Colour Lipstick in Watermelon

Day 12 - MUA Luxe Velvet Lip Lacquer in Halcyon

(They repackaged / reformulated these liquid lipsticks and discontinued this colour recently! (I'm not doing well this week am I, haha!). I messaged them on Facebook to check this and they said they have had a lot of queries about it so might bring it back. Fingers crossed they do!!)

Day 13 - OCC Lip Tar in Pretty Boy

(As I mentioned above, OCC appear to be discontinuing their old packaging. You can still find Pretty Boy on some sites, but I don't think it's been carried over to the Ready To Wear packaging yet, hopefully they will do because it's awesome!)

Day 14 - Another Lip Tar, this time it's Hush. 

This one is SUPER old packaging. Luckily this one IS definitely available in the RTW collection, whcih is good because by the smell of this, I don't think I should be using it anymore! :o/

 

Day 15: Barry M Gelly Hi Shine Lips in Orion

Don't forget I wanna see what you're rocking this month too. So Instagram it and hashtag it with #monthofveganlips or #alienontoast so I can see it!

Sal xXx

Month of Vegan Lips: Week One Round-Up

Have any of you seen any my #monthofveganlips posts on Instagram? Basically what I'm doing is posting my lipstick/gloss...etc every day during November, just to show what a great variety there is now for us vegans in the lip department. And I won't even be scratching the surface in this short amount of time, of what is out there.

Here's a round-up of week 1 and if you want to join in PLEASE do! I'd love to see what you're wearing lippy wise, even if it's the same colour you wear every day. Just hashtag it #alienontoast or #monthofveganlips or tag me so I can see it and to see mine, head to my IG page at https://instagram.com/sal_on_toast/ (there's pictures of food and sometimes my cat too, not just lips!)

Day 1 - OCC Lip Tar in Grandma

Day 2 - Wet & Wild Matte Lipstick in Cherry Bomb 

Day 3 - Milani Matte Moisture Lipstick in Diva 

Day 4 - Sleek Matte Me in Rioja Red

Day 5 - Too Faced Melted Lipstick in Melted Sugar 

Day 6 - Makeup Revolution Lip Lava in Shockwave

Day 7 - Too Faced La Creme Lipstick in Juicy Melons  

 

Sal xXx

 

 

Revolution Lip Lava Liquid Lipsticks

Last week I talked about the Revolution Radiant Lights Palette. This week I wanna talk to you about the Lip Lava liquid lipsticks (AV).  I think these are supposed to be a dupe for the Too Faced ones, but those are hella pricey so I don't have any of those yet to compare.  

I love these though.  

There are 5 shades available at £2.99 each, or if you buy all 5 together, you get all 5 for £11.96, so one free! Win.  Obviously I bought them all.

They are very pigmented and easy to apply with the applicator and they are great for mixing.  Some of them went onto my hand a bit chunky but I haven't found that when applying to the lips.

  

Here's a pic of the applicator, a kind of doe-foot applicator but the product is dispensed through the centre rather than it being a wand.

As such...

Hand swatch: these swatches are mostly a bit more true to life than the lip swatches, which got a bit more washed out.  They look super opaque, right? They are.  And you can see below how much I used to get each lipswatch.

Shades L-R: Unleash, Firestorm, Forgiven, Tremor, Shockwave

Bit of a crap blurry pic but just to demonstrate how much I used for each lip swatch, a diddy amount!

Lip Swatches

Unleash

This shade I was nervous of when I swatched it on my hand as it's quite orange, but it's a gorgeous peachy coral. It's bright though so not one for the timid. I love it.

Firestorm

Gorgeous, blue-based red. Crap rushed application, sorry. I love this colour, it's gorgeous. It needs a bit more work and is not as opaque as the other shades but it's worth it.

Forgiven

OK I totally expected to hate this one; it's really brown! I don't like brown lipsticks (flashback of terrible teenage makeup blunders in the mid-late 90s!) but I actually like this on. It's a lovely browny nude and I have surprised myself by wearing it and liking it!

Tremor

This is my favourite; not because the colour is anything mind-blowing, it's just a nice pink, rather because it's the most wearable. Also, it's brilliant for mixing with any of the other shades to tone them down. 

Shockwave

This is the crappest lip swatch (think the light was fading at this point), it's much more vibrant and true to the hand-swatch than this. If you love purple and are not afraid to rock it, go for this one. 

The first thing I thought of when I swatched this colour was OCC's Hoochie Lip Tar. So I swatched them together for ya! Shockwave is more pinky than Hoochie so if Hoochie is a bit too grey/blue for you, then this might be a good alternative. They are quite similar in texture too.

Left OCC's Hoochie, Right Revolution's Shockwave

That's all for today. Have a fab week all!

Love & Stuff
Sal xXx

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Love Lipstick!

LIPSTICK! I named the blog after it, so I figure I should write about it.  So this post is dedicated to some vegan lipsticks, in case you were looking for some options.

There's tonnes of vegan lip products out there, lots of them easily available in our drug stores but actual lipSTICKS that are both cruelty free and vegan? Whole different ballgame. But there are options out there and here are a few.

B.
I thought I'd start off with the option you can actually buy on the high street.

Good old Superdrug! Gotta give them so much love for bringing out a fully vegan makeup range that is affordable and doesn't totally blow. Their regular lipsticks are ace, they are nicely pigmented and smooth and have a decent colour range.

L-R: Watermelon, Doll's House

They also do glossy lipsticks, which are not as pigmented but then they're not meant to be, as they're shiny like gloss.

L-R: Flamingo, Raspberry

Lime Crime
I know I know, a lot of people wouldn't touch LC with a 10 foot pole and I get why. But I have to admit that they make some truly awesome vegan makeup products. Their lipsticks, I LOVE them. Look how adorable the packaging is for one - unicorns dammit!  They are also really opaque and they smell like MAC lipsticks, which isn't a bad thing.

L-R: D'Lilac, Geradium, Babette

ELF
Another company you can always rely on for (low-priced) vegan products. There's a bunch of different ELF lippies; my favourite being the moisturising ones, which I did a blog post about HERE if you wanna see swatches.

Then there's the mineral lipsticks, which I think are great also.

L-R: Runway Pink, Party Pink

And then not forgetting the super duper cheap as chips basic lippies, they're just £1.95 each! They smell a bit like sweet crayons which is weird but for the price, they're pretty awesome. Especial Nostalgic which is a gorgeous pinky nude (that I've even seen bloggers describe as a similar colour to Nars' Turkish Delight!). Packaging is pretty naff and cheap looking but for less than 2 quid, can you really complain about that? (No.)

L-R: Fantasy, Classy, Nostalgic, Seductive

Autograph by M&S

You know how much I love Autograph, I've said it before and their lipsticks are vegan and awesome! WOO! They have glossy versions of these too and I really really like them.  The packaging is nice and doesn't look cheap and I like the push in bullet, makes it a bit sturdier in a handbag than a regular lid, in my opinion.

L-R: Nude Pink, Pink Parfait, Very Pink, Raspberry

Too Faced La Cremes
OK these are the most expensive lippies in this post, which is why I only have 2. But omg are they ever freakin gorgeous! The packaging is beautiful, just lovely and the lipstick formula is creamy and glossy and pigmented. GUSH GUSH GUSH, they're great. They're just freakin pricey (£18 each!)

L-R: Juicy Melons, Marshmallow Bunny

Makeup Revolution
New kid on the block,  Makeup Revolution has a couple of vegan options for £1!  Not all of their lipsticks are vegan, check out this post for details of the ones to avoid.

I feel like I should also give a shout-out to OCC's Lip Tars even though they're liquid so not technically a lipstick but they are so damn awesome that you need them in your life. But I have tonnes of them so I think really they need their own post!  Leave me a comment on here or FB/Twitter etc if you want to see that!

Here's to an excellent week!

Love & Stuff
Sal xXx

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