Random Stuff Sunday

Hey everyone. I have about one minute to get a post up and then I must run. Geeze! Not a moment of peace, I'm telling you. Oh well... As they say, I can sleep when I am dead. :P

Dude, this was floating around on Facebook, so I don't know whom to credit. 

Heh heh. 

Okay, I have ten thousand things to get done, today and almost no time in which to get them done so I must run. See all you lovely creatures on the flip side. *muah!*

Review: ROC Multi Correxion Lift Anti Gravity Eye Cream

Hello gentle readers.

Today's post is a review on an eye cream that I recently purchased and tried.

In my eternal search for skin care that is both effective and affordable, one of the brands I have hit upon and grown quite fond of is ROC. This brand is targeted to those of us who are, shall we say, a little more..."experienced". At 47, I have myself a gracious plenty of that. Experience. I have been around the block a time or three and my poor face is showing the signs of my travels. It is unavoidable. I am trying to accept aging gracefully. For now. But that doesn't mean that I won't use whatever I can to stave off the worst of time and it's relentless march forward.

I use and love the ROC Retinol Correxion eye cream and so when I saw this cream in my local Walgreen's on sale I remembered that I also had a three dollar off coupon and decided, what the heck? I'll give it a throw. After all, it is ROC and so it should be just as good as the eye cream I have been using and loving for about a year, now. Sadly, this cream wasn't at all as lovely as my cherished favourite.

I borrowed this image from Amazon. I forgot to photograph my own jar. 

When I opened this cream, the consistency was thick, yet soft. It gave easily under my finger but wasn't too mushy. This cream applied nicely and sank readily into my skin. This cream has a slight luminescence, it brightened the skin under and around my eyes a tiny bit tho it came nowhere near brightening my awful dark circles. (I honestly didn't expect it to.) This cream is hydrating and it made the skin around my eyes feel soft and look smoother and plumped up and it didn't irritate or sting my very sensitive eyes. A definite plus! This cream was effective as both a night cream and it worked well under my makeup for day, too. This cream does not contain an SPF. 

Unfortunately, this cream did have one fatal flaw. It really burned my skin as I applied it. Not a mild stinging; this stuff really hurt! The burn was brief but it was bad enough to really bother me and make me very reluctant to use it, after the first application. I don't consider my skin to be sensitive and I don't normally have trouble with too many ingredients in the majority of skin care products and I even tolerate the sting and mild burn of treatments and peels that contain Retinol and Alpha Hydroxy Acid. But this stuff... Ow! It was a cold burn and it was extremely unpleasant. I gave this cream a solid week of use, hoping that the burn was just a temporary thing that I would get over before I gave up and returned it. In my not so humble opinion, eye cream should be soothing and hydrating, not painful and make you dread applying it.

When I returned this cream, the gal told me that she had processed several returns of this same cream and in every case, the complaint was the same as mine. Now I understand why this cream was so steeply discounted. I didn't like this cream and I can't recommend it. There are so many nice eye creams out there that soften, hydrate and temporarily reduce the appearance of fine lines and wrinkles around the eyes. There is no reason to suffer twice a day with this one. None, at all.  

Have you tried this eye cream? What did you think of it? Do you have a great eye cream that you use, love and recommend? I'd love to hear your thoughts on the subject. 

Revlon ColorStay Delicious: Swatch and Review

Hello gentle readers.

Happy first day of June. Summer officially begins, soon. It is setting in very nicely, already in my neck of the woods.

Today I have a swatch of the other Revlon ColorStay polish I bought at my local CVS, recently. This is Delicious, a hot, hot, hot coral red. Like it's name, this polish is delicious. It is warm, bright, squishy and so hot you could swear you were standing on the surface of the sun. Yes, indeedy. Mama likes this one.

I applied three coats and topped it with top coat for this swatch. The photographs were shot out in the sun.

Danged camera washed this out. Darned ornery old thing, anyway. 

As difficult as Revlon ColorStay in Buttercup My swatch and review of that polish is in my previous entry, just scroll down) was for me to apply, this one was a pleasure. Smooth, silky and jelly-licious this polish sat sweetly down where it was placed, whispered up my nails without any nasty nonsense and dried in good time. The brush on this one was better than the other one, too. Maybe that other one was an anomaly. I hope so. 

What do you think of this bright, hot coral red? Like it? Please do share your thoughts. 

Thank you so much for coming by and reading. Have a great day and may your polish never bubble. 

Revlon ColorStay Buttercup: Swatch and Review

Hello gentle readers.

Today I have a polish from the fairly new Revlon ColorStay line. One polish colour that I really get a kick out of is a great, soft yellow. I saw this polish in my local CVS and I thought that it might make a nice addition to my handful of yellow polishes.

I don't know about nice...

I have no complaint with the colour. This polish is a soft, creamy pale yellow. This is the kind of colour I like to see on kitchen walls or swirled, in thick, sweet buttercream all over a cake. This yellow is fluffy baby chicks and the first daffodils of early Spring.

For this swatch, I applied three coats and top coat. These photographs were taken in full sun.

How I wish that the formula on this polish were as sweet and lovable as the colour. Sadly, it is not. I had to apply three coats to get this polish opaque and fairly streak free and this baby fought me every inch of the way. It dragged and streaked and pulled bald spots, it ran and pooled stubbornly on my cuticles and even had the nerve, after all that to bubble as it dried. Thank heaven for Seche Vite. It was the saving grace, for this swatch, as it melted and smoothed the polish and made it look much better than it did, before I applied it. Dry time on this polish is decent, Seche Vite definitely helped.

I liked the brush that is included with this line. It is flat, slightly wider than your typical round brush and the bottom edge is curved, to help assist in painting a neat, smooth gap curve. The brush in this particular polish was in need of a little trim, as it had a bad spot, so I cleaned it off and grabbed my scissors and solved the problem. As you probably know, I am a bit of a hardass when it comes to polish brushes and I didn't appreciate one bit having to trim the one in this polish. No, I did not. I think that if a company is going to demand around seven dollars for a bottle of nail polish, especially a drugstore nail polish, that pettyfogging brush had better be about as perfect as it can get.

Do I recommend this polish? Yes, with reservation. Revlon ColorStay in Buttercup isn't the best yellow polish I have ever laid my hands on, but it certainly isn't the worst. This polish needs to be applied carefully and topped with a good top coat that will melt and smooth it out to give that lovely finish that we all love so much. Since I use top coat, anyway, the somewhat difficult formula is a minor irritant, it isn't a deal breaker.

Will I buy polishes from this line, again? Probably. This line has a pretty nice sized selection tho the colours, while pretty, aren't all that unique. I currently own one other polish from this line and it is a beaut, both in colour and formula so yes, if I catch a good sale and preferably have coupons, I would pick up more colours from this line. I will say that I don't think that this line equals the other "regular" Revlon line either in colour selection or formula.

Revlon ColorStay polish is available at drugstores and other mass market-type places and online. In my area, it runs in the seven dollar per bottle range. I live in an area where prices tend to run on the high side, prices do vary by location, the price may be lower where you live. I do feel that for a drugstore polish, the price point is really pushing the envelope. I can buy Orly and China Glaze for less, at my local Sally Beauty Supply. Two brands with superior formulas and much larger and more unique colour selections. If I am going to buy polishes for that price, I would much rather have the China Glaze and the Orly. Sorry, Revlon. That is just the harsh reality.

Do you own this polish or any others from this line? What do you think of them? Like them? Meh? I'd like to hear your thoughts.

Thank you for popping in. Have a terrific day and may your polish never bubble.

Oh, hai! I guess that I should publish this. lol I was just about done and I got sidetracked. I had to go to use the bathroom and while I downstairs, I decided to just go ahead and jump in the shower and as I turned the water on, I decided to clarify my hair and do a treatment with my new Babyface protein treatment (if you would like a review, let me know) so I mixed that up, got my shower done, hair clarified and coated in moisture and protein then I decided to make a second cup of coffee and put my brekkie together. So, finally, I am sitting here, my head slathered in goop under my heating cap, breakfast of coffee, yoghurt and cantaloupe at my elbow, finishing this up by yapping about things no one could possibly be in the least bit interested. :P Okay, I am going to post this now.