scores & horrors

Horror
This week's horror had such promise! I saw an eye-catching glimpse of a flattering lipstick in an online pic, and I was thrilled to learn this beautiful color was a Wet n Wild Mega Last lip color that was under $3! Good thing the price was right, because this lipstick instantly clumped and balled on my lips.  Sadly, it did the deadly corner-of-the-lips gunk-up.  Applying lip balm over it to hopefully smooth it out somehow made the problem more sticky and a lot more icky.   Bummer, but $3 is a pretty easy loss to take.

Score

Sinner / Winner

This week's score was the best kind - a freebie! It was in the Dermstore gift bag I got late November - Philopsophy's Help Me retinol treatment.  I'd run out of my current night treatment, and I was longing for Skinceuticals .05% retinol, but it was a steep price to pay when I had so many products to replace I'd run out of.  I've been using the Help Me for about a week, and with the exception of initial product-shock mini-breakouts, I'm really liking this product.  No redness, and any breakouts that have started to rise have been calmed overnight by using this.  It's even softening my hyper-pigmentation a bit.  And, my skin's overall a bit more smooth and less oily. Definitely a score so far.

Beautifully Simple,
Nicole @ Vanity Cosmetics