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CoverGirl’s New Online Conversion Tool

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MAC Viva Glam Swatches, Lady Gaga and Cyndi Lauper

All proceeds from sales of MAC cosmetics Viva Glam go to AIDS charities through the MAC AIDS Fund. This year, the MAC Viva Glam spokeswomen are Lady Gaga and Cyndi Lauper. Great choices in my opinion! Also this year, the lip shades are not deep reds, unlike many past years.

The new VIVA GLAM collection has two lipsticks – Viva Glam Cyndi (Light Coral Red) and Viva Glam Gaga (Light Blue Pink), as well as corresponding makeup bags.

Both MAC Viva Glam shades are quite nice. For the pink lovers, the Lady Gaga is a pretty, but still a bit vibrant light pink. the Cyndi Lauper Viva Glam shade is my favorite though. It is a nice coral red that gives a sheer neutral to warm rosy red look. It lean toward coral, but not as much as the description would make it seem.

Below are swatches of the two shades. It is a total coincidence that they happened to perfectly match my Hello Kitty Band-Aid. Yes, I really do wear Hello Kitty Band-Aids (blush)!

Here is a better look without the Band-Aid

I suspect that I will be wearing the Cyndi Lauper Viva Glam shade quite a bit this spring.

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The Best Lip Plumpers and the Worst

Lip plumpers are rather hit and miss when it comes to effectiveness. The article below, syndicated from Total Beauty focuses on trying to find the best lip plumpers, which they apparently define as a “pain free” lip plumper that works. Frankly, I don’t think such a thing exists. Lip plumpers that actually work do so by irritating the lips, causing them to swell. Although I would not use the word “pain” for the sensation, the best lip plumpers do tingle and such, some rather strongly! But I actually like the lip plumping sensation.

Anyway, apparently Total Beauty readers don’t care for Maybelline Volume XL, which I happen to rather like because, as far as lip plumpers go, it actually shows some results. They liked Patricia Wexler, which I think is a nice gloss, but not a very effective plumper. In fact the reader favorites tend to be nice glosses, which make for nicely kissable lips, but I don’t find them to actually do much plumping. I have not, however, tried the favorite in the list.

Do you have a favorite lip plumper? If so, please share it in the comments!

Lip Plumpers: The Good and The Bad

See which plumpers gave readers full, kissable lips (and which ones did absolutely nothing)

Jealous of Angelina Jolie’s lips? Our loyal readers share the lip plumpers that gave them just the right amount of plumping, shine and color, as well as the ones that gave them red, swollen, bee-stung lips. Ouch.

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Duwop Lip Venom Plumparazzi Kit

The DuWop Plumparazzi Kit is a great way to try out several Duwop lip products at once.

Duwop lip venom is one of the better plumpers out there. not the best, but pretty good. this kit includes a mini lip venom and also has three additional DuWop items.
The set contains:
- 0.35 oz Plumping Paste
- 0.07 oz Prime Venom
- 0.12 oz Lip Venom
- 0.17 oz Venom Gloss Lantana

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Contest! Win a Beauty Fix 2 Kit!

This contest is now closed. Congratulations to the following winners!: Deanna, Scarlette, HilLesha, Linda Fish, Mindy, brandlyn, Tabitha M., mj, Lucy Schwartz, Sherri B., jayne, Denise, emily l, Kathy Pease, and Kerri R.

I have sent you all email!

Beauty Fix is a great subscription service that delivers a sampling of full size of deluxe sample size products every three months (Read Review). Now you can win the second edition package from the service (this is not a contest for a full subscription, just for the second edition kit). It contains a sampling of great products and comes with its own fabric case. Beauty Fix was nice enough to provide a whole bunch of kits for contest giveaways. So this contest will have 15 winners! Also watch for contests on Beauty and Fashion Tech!

To enter, visit the beautyfix website and then leave a comment here by noon central time on Tuesday, May 26, 2009, stating which item in Beauty Fix 2 you would like to try the most. You don’t need to say much, but you must answer the question. Just saying “hi” or giving one or two irrelevant words won’t cut it!

I will randomly draw the winners and will notify them by email plus post them here. Once I receive the winner’s shipping addresses, I will give that to the folks at Beauty Fix, who will ship the product sampler.

This is limited to continental US residents only (sorry!). One entry per household. Duplicate entries will be deleted or disqualified. Winners must respond to email within 3 days or the prize will be redrawn.

Good Luck!