March Lip Love - Milani Brilliant Shine Lip glosses

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I forget things. That happens when you have 9 million lip glosses. You keep using the same brand over and over and forget everything else. You forget about all of the other wonderful lip glosses that you just had to have. You try to think of ways to solve this problem. A while ago I put all of my lip glosses in color order and thought that would help. Well, it kinda did.

Even though it almost helped, I felt that I could do better. So, what I did recently was pull out all of my NYX Butter Glosses and used them throughout the month. Now that we are in March, I decided to pull out all of my glosses in another brand and use them. I looked through all of my glosses and Milani Brilliant Shine Lip glosses won.

I've loved my Milani Brilliant Shine Lip glosses for a while now. They are very pigmented, they go on smoothly and they smell great. I reach for them a lot and I think I'm going to enjoy spending my March wearing them.

I own Black Cherry, Berry Tempting, Pink Lady Mai-Tai, Luminous and Mauve Fetish. I was actually watching a Favorites video and someone mentioned Pink Lady. That got me to thinking that I needed to change out my NYX glosses for these! The shade spectrum is going to give me a lot of colors to play with and I will be able to layer these over lipstick, lip liner or wear them by themselves.

And, I like the idea of being brand specific for a while. I really do have a lot of lippies and this will give me the opportunity to give these Milani gems some love.

Latest Lippie Love Combos

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Normally I keep all of my current lippies just scattered on my makeup counter. They get in the way but I like having them handy (rather than put away nicely, like a normal person) so I decided to put them in an old candle jar. Then, I thought wow, I've been wearing the same color combos a lot! It actually slapped me in the face when I was going to put on my Valentine's Day lip combo. I've actually been wearing my VDay lippie for several days cause it's so pretty. I posted it on my Instagram and thought maybe the good people that read my blog would like to see the rest of my lip combos (of course they would!). So this one is for you!

Let's start with the first lippie love combo. For Valentine's Day (and several days after it) I was loving a pinky red lip. It's crazy how I forget that I can actually pull this off. My complexion has so much red in it, I can pull off a red with very little effort. This one though...wow! It's KatVonD's Studded Kiss Lipstick in Bachelorette and Revlon ColorBurst Lipgloss in Adorned. I line my lips with Rimmel London 1000 Kisses Lip Liner in Cherry Kiss. Va Va Va Voom! I love this combo. So pretty and so perfect for the day o'love!

I like a "nude for me" lipstick combo. There is something sultry about just a hint of color on the lips. One of my favorites is Urban Decay's Ladyflower topped with Milani's Mauve Fetish. I use NYX Nude Pink liner to line my lips. Lovely! It's a light nude that stays in rotation.

My other "just this side of nude" has been Bite Beauty Lipstick in Pepper, NYX Butter Gloss in Angel Food Cake and NYX liner in Nude Pink (again). It's a soft, sweet color that doesn't look like I'm wearing anything but oh, wait, yes I am. Again, looking natural takes a lot of makeup!

My darker nude is a combo of Maybelline ColorSensational Lipstick in Untainted Spice, NYX Butter Gloss in Angel Food Cake (again) and Rimmel Exaggerate Lip Liner in Rich. It's not vampy or anything but it's a deeper nude that I've been loving for the winter months. The lipstick is matte but the Butter Gloss makes it moist. And, the look is day to night fantastic.

I have a ton of lipstick and I could/should be wearing it but these are my faves and they have been making the rounds more than any of the others. I guess it's probably proof that you don't need a ton of makeup to look 'purty' everyday. But really, having less makeup wouldn't be as much fun for either of us, would it?

What had your lips been showing off a lot? Do you have a favorite that you been rocking more than others? Or, are you just ready for the spring colors?!