So it’s been a while since I’ve updated this blog. Work has just been crazy. Anyway, Thanksgiving Eve, I was on my way back from Manhattan and a fun-filled, happy…cold…wet…and exhausting evening fighting my way through the crowds around the parade balloons getting blown up around Central Park with my 4-year-old twin nephews, my brother and sister-in-law and her friend and her friend’s 2 year-old son, when I decided to stop at CVS to check-out the latest beauty sales. (I’m a sucker for them). By the way, anyone who tries to convince you that going to watch the parade balloons get blown up is a fun and memorable activity is a liar or has never actually gone. It is less fun and more nerve-wracking. There were so many people you can hardly move and if you have children, you have to carry them through the slow-moving crowd so A). they can see and B). so they don’t get lost. It is certainly a once in a lifetime experience because I’m never going again.
So, CVS was having “Buy One, Get One Free” on all Revlon makeup. Nice. Sold. And wow! They have a 2-pack of the new Colorstay Ultimate Liquid Lipstick! I picked up the 2-pack of “#1 Nude” and “Brilliant Bordeaux”. For my “free” product, I opted for Colorstay Lip Liner in Nude. I could hardly wait for my lipstick to never fall off.
The day after Thanksgiving, I decided to wear “#1 Nude” to my dad’s house for my family’s Thanksgiving dinner of Chinese take-out. (We did that this year because everyone was in various directions on Thanksgiving). I eagerly ripped off the plastic wrap on the tube, untwisted the cap and applied. Ohhh, very nice and silky application. Cool. Check myself in the mirror and like the color. A good nude, perhaps a little to brown for me, but still, a nice neutral. Within 20 minutes, however, my satisfaction with this product quickly dwindled. My lips felt as dry as the Sahara. I started licking them and (stupidly) re-applied the lipstick. Well, my the end of the afternoon, the color was still there, but too bad my lips were so dry that there was literally nothing I could do to make them feel better. I spent the entire weekend applying everything from Chapstick, to Smith’s Rosebud Salve, to regular old olive oil. I even tried to exfoliate away the dry skin with an olive oil and sugar scrub, but it was as if the skin on my lips was permanently going to stay…taught and dry. It was not until Tuesday that my lips stopped feeling so awful. Yeah, so I do not recommend this product…unless you want to spend a few days licking your lips.
