Showing posts with label Red. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Red. Show all posts
"...You got that James Dean daydream look in your eye 
and I got that red lip, classic thing that you like."
-Style.Taylor Swift

I'm borrowing lines from Taylor Swift again. I do have a love-hate relationship with this girl. :) I have just finished watching the 1989 WORLD TOUR for the nth time on my computer (I wish it were live!) and  I suddenly felt like wearing red lipstick again since it's T-Swizzles trademark lip color. Geez! The "T-Swizzle" monicker is so Fearless-era BTW! Ha ha. Anyway, the 1989 documentary has one too many close-up shots of Taylor, hard not to get inspired by those puckers. So I grabbed my own current go-to red lippie and decided to do a review here in my blog. Chop chop after the jump!


Meet the ABBAMART Get Your Lip Crayon in shade Red Velvet. Before I get to the review, here's Taylor working the stage at the 1989 World Tour. ;)
It's the new soundtrack I could dance to this beat. Welcome to New York, y'all!
 ABBAMART Get Your Lip Crayon
Shade: Red Velvet
Price: Php 320.00
Where I Got It: The Althea Online Shop//www.ph.althea.kr

This one was part of my Althea mini haul back in November. I don't really wear red lipsticks that often but there are days when you need a pop of color, or you just feel bold and fierce, or you just feel inspired by Tay's style, so for me it's still smart to keep one in your stash.

The red lippie in my current stash is this one from ABBAMART which is a Korean brand. The packaging definitely caught my attention on first sight. It does look like a crayon or a pen. With the cap on, it could definitely pass for an office supply. (^_^)

It is retractable; no need to sharpen anything. You can see from the photo above that the bullet is pretty slim. It has a fruity smell that at first I couldn't put a name on but when I checked the Althea website it says it has grapefruit smell so I was like, okay, it is a bit tangy. 

Color description at Althea says that it is a cherry red color.

ABBAMART GET YOUR LIP CRAYON RED VELVET SWATCHES
Outdoor, natural light
Indoor, with flash
ABBAMART GET YOUR LIP CRAYON RED VELVET IN ACTION
Sorry about the baggies. :) This was taken indoor with no flash.
MY TAKE
It is a lovely bright red color with blue undertone. It instantly brightens up my face when I put it on. What you see on tube is what you get on your lips. It is matte but not drying. It easily spreads on the lips and easily blends. It doesn't emphasize lines, no patchiness. 

But, it transfers. The color stays bright, it can even survive lunchtime but has the tendency to move to the edges of your lips. It can be easily solved by pressing your lips together and it still looks vivid. I also struggled a bit with the rounded tip of the lippie because I couldn't apply on the tiny corners of the lip.

Here's how my lips look before applying, after and about 4 hours after application.

ABBAMART Get You Lip Crayon on my lips until 4 hours. 
Korean makeup and cosmetics have taken the world by storm and it's not bad if we Pinoys want a little piece of it for ourselves. This Lip Crayon is perfect for the K-Makeup fans out there who dig cute packaging and good performance from their purchases.
When we hear the term matte lipstick we think that it would be horribly dry on the lips but I have experienced none of that with this lippie. No chapping too so that is a big plus.

It's still available on Athea and it has other color varieties: Scarlet and Bad Girl (Burgundy)
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That song line at the start of this post is from Tay's Style and that's basically how red lips are: they never go out of style.

XO,
Carissa
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Hi! Thanks for dropping by fellow bloggers and beloved readers. If you are forever 22 like me, I'm sure you've heard that November marks the release of Taylor Swift's fifth studio album. So today I'm here to share my favorite songs off it and a whole lot of lines from each song. How does that sound? Ayt, let's do it! :)

"It's a new soundtrack I could dance to this beat."
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Album and singles covers for her songs included in Red
The opening track of her album 'Red' says:

 I'm walking fast through the traffic lights, Busy streets and busy lives
And all we know is touch and go
-State of Grace

And even the first line of the second song goes:

Loving him is like driving a new Maserati down a dead end street

Faster than the wind, Passionate as sin

Ending so suddenly

-Red
Shades and red.
And so she does it to me again. Weaving some magic spells through her songs that even in my mind I sing them quietly. Some tracks would sound great for those 'stuck-on-an-endless-road' moments and will likely make you forget about the long hours of travel. Other tracks would be great while you are *and I quote*, hanging out with your girlfriends and making fun of your exes. Other songs would put you to sleep while you're in the middle of dissecting the meaning of the lyrics. 
So what does red mean to you?
Well, were at it,  how on earth can we not discuss traffic when its all over her song? Red in traffic lights means stop for both pedestrian and driver. Different points of view but red conjures alertness in both. Don't be mindful and cross the street without paying attention and you'll be like a squashed 'red' tomato. Yikes! And then, if you are the driver, red also tells you stop or you'll turn someone or something into a dent in your fender and the police will 'see red' and catch you. Hmm.

Red means love as much as it means an overwhelming emotion (like anger, or fun) and there's enough of all those elements and more in this album. And since she's a genius with playing with words and fitting whole life stories into a four-minute song, you'll get your fill of her. Classic Taylor.

"So you were never a saint and,  I loved in all shades of wrong

We learn to live with the pain, Mosaic broken hearts

But this love is brave and wild."


"You call me up again just to break me like a promise."
I mean, you don't write and sing those lines without sounding like you're the cooolest girl on earth for saying that. Of course, there the remorse songs. You'll quickly recognize them  because the opening lines say: "Once upon a time, a few mistakes ago...". and from then on 'till the end there is "Trouble, trouble trouble." Wailing like the red siren lights. If you are still too angry at the last ex who left you, she has songs for that too. Lock your room and sing "We are never ever ever getting back together" in full blast and if he hears it he might just turn 'red'.

If you just want to be 'happy, free, confused and lonely at the same time", there is also a song for you here. Aah! Crazy feeling eh?! Sounds like a girl on her 'red days'. :)

And finally, if you just want to be a little bit laid back and all that, here's something to make you blush red.

Cause all I know is we said hello , And your eyes look like coming home
All I know is a simple name, everything has changed
All I know is you held the door, You'll be mine and i'll be yours

All I know since yesterday is everything has changed


Aahh, bring on the red roses and stuff. :)

"Like, ever."

Personally though, just looking at her shade of red lips makes my heart leap. I bet it's Covergirl. In Hot. And as a girl I dream of wearing Louboutin's devil red soles. However, I see signs of red lights probably telling me to shut up now. Well, not until I say, I bet that Maserati is also red. 

PS.
All lines boldfaced and italicized are taken from her songs namely: State of Grace, Red, I Knew You Were Trouble, We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together, 22 and Everything Has Changed. And I wish again for the nth time that I'd written every single one of those but I am bot as cool as her. :)

XO,

Cassie Swiftie :) 


*All images belong to Taylor Swift and Big Machine Records
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