Product Whoring – Bare Escentuals Buxom Lips

May 20th, 2009

Sephora: Bare Escentuals Buxom Lips: Lip Plumpers.

I got a free tube of this in “Claire” from Sephora, with a gift set I purchased the other day. I am not one for lip plumpers usually – my mouth is small and lip plumpers just make me look like I have a small mouth that someone smacked. Also, they have a tendency to burn and make the skin around my lips irritated.

Basically they make me feel like I’ve just spread some noxious toxic wasted on my face, and am courting some kind of skin disaster. Not really what I think of as comfortable and/or appealing. (I am looking at you, Too Faced Lip Injection Extreme.) But since I got this full-size sample I thought I would try it once and see if I liked it.

I LURVE it. It’s a pretty shiny neutral color, and it’s glittery without making you feel like a kindgergartener did a project on your face. It’s tingly, but not painful; it feels (and tastes) minty-fresh, actually. And at $18 it seems downright reasonable, compared to some of the products out there. So I am officially product-whoring for it, it’s pretty awesometastic.

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8 Responses to “Product Whoring – Bare Escentuals Buxom Lips”

Dim Reaper on May 20, 2009 1:31 pm
ok, Man question: Does it really make your lips plumper i.e. by making them swell up slightly? Or is it just an optical effect caused by it making them shiny?

On a completely unrelated note, if you haven’t already seen this then it might interest you.
Very different from previous incarnations, but I’m definitely going to look out for it:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k8OM1BA2PIU&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fsherlock%2Dholmes%2Dtrailer%2Eblogspot%2Ecom%2F&feature=player_embedded
SuperBadGirl on May 20, 2009 2:11 pm
Lip plumpers ostensibly work by coating your delicate lip tissue with some irritant, making blood rush to the area and the lips appear swollen. (That’s why I don’t think this one is an actual lip plumper, it just makes them look fully with all its shimmer and shiny.) Akin to corsetry, high-heels and lead-based foundations, lip plumpers are another way that women do themselves harm in pursuit of a look that they think men want. Though I have never heard a man say “Her lips were so plump and ultra shiny, I had to kiss them.” I think men think more on the lines of “She looks good and drunk and probably won’t object, I think I am going to lay a smooch on her.”

I read an article once that said that the real reason men are attracted to red and/or shiny lips is that it sets off a biological reminder of engorged female genitalia, and makes them think women are sexually available. I don’t really look at lip gloss the same way now.

And yes, the Sherlock Holmes movie looks great. Breaking w/tradition, but I love me some RD Jr.
Dim Reaper on May 20, 2009 3:38 pm
It’s a sad fact but you’re completely correct – women do a lot of things to attract men and the truth is that men probably don’t really notice. If a woman has put on her make-up for a night out then we do notice that there is something different about her, and we like it, but we probably wouldn’t put it down to the makeup.

It’s like the old joke –

“How to get a woman into bed” – Turn up for the date on time, impeccably dressed and groomed with a nice aftershave and carrying flowers. Take her for a nice meal in a romantic place. Drink wine with her and talk during the meal. Make her laugh. Tell her she is beautiful. Tell her why she is beautiful / interesting / attractive / sexy and so on as the evening progresses. At the end of the evening, you might get her into bed.

“How to get a man into bed” – Turn up naked.

On the film – RD Jr is a great choice and he’s a great actor. In the trailer though, I actually thought it was Alexis Denisof playing holmes (he would also have been a good choice).
Heidi on May 22, 2009 3:10 pm
I fail at weird makeup. :-( I have zero use for paying $18 for a product that makes me look like I’m having an allergic reaction to something I ate. Sorry.

So Dim, do you approve of the fake accent(s), then? (Both Robert’s and Alexis’s, now that I think on it).
Dim Reaper on May 22, 2009 4:58 pm
Alexis probably has the better accent, but yes they are both good. I have to say that though because they sound about as good as I would doing an upper-class accent. To be more honest, when I do effect that accent then I tend to lapse into Terry-Thomas or Leslie Phillips and start saying things like “Dong dong!”, “Oh Hello”, “Rather!”, “I say”, “Spiffing!” and my personal favourite under-used word: “Hullabaloo”

So probably best I stick with the Northern accent which gives one an aura of toughness compared to the posh Southern one.
Heidi on May 22, 2009 8:26 pm
ROFL!

What do you think of James Marsters’s Spike accent? Any good? It sounds good to me, as it’s better than, say, Amanda Tapping’s on Sanctuary. LOL.

Oh, and for my part of Buffydom, Elisha Dushku (sp?) not only sounds authentic, she is. 8-) I didn’t even catch that Faith was supposed to be from Boston the first time I watched her intro episode, but I immediately accepted her as one of us, subconsciously, anyway. (It also went over my head when she asked Willow if she thought she was wicked stupid, because everybody talks like that. lol.)
Dim Reaper on May 24, 2009 4:35 am
James Marsters’ accent on Buffy/Angel was very good, but peppered with odd mistakes – usually mispronounciations of particular words.

As for Elisha’s accent, it completely passed my by. Generally we only recongise three variations of American accents here – Northern US (the most common), Southern US (Dukes of Hazard) and the Bronx (Sp?)
Heidi on May 24, 2009 7:10 am
Hollywood Generic American. /nod Actually, most people here don’t pick up on a Boston accent, either. They except people here to sound like a Kennedy. Only the Kennedys sound like Kennedys. lol. The average accent around here sounds like her, or like Matt Damon or Ben Affleck.

But you can hear a particularly strong Boston accent from Jack Haley and Roy Bolger in Wizard of Oz. They were both from here.