Quickie Review - Queen Helene Cocoa Butter Face + Body Creme

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I am obviously late to the party...AGAIN! I was in my local Family Dollar store and came across this Cocoa Butter Face + Body Creme by Queen Helene. It's for extremely dry skin. It soothes and softens with intense moisture. It was $3. I normally I use their cocoa butter stick for any dark or extremely dry spots (elbows and knees) so I thought I'd try this.

Yeppers, I love this stuff. First of all, it smells a-maze-ing. It smells cocoa buttery and coconuty and the scent lulls me into a blissful state. Secondly this stuff absorbs so well! When you rub your fingers into the container it looks a bit oily but when you smooth it onto your skins in goes in beautifully. It almost absorbs better than lotion! Almost.

And, it really softens your skin! I have been slathering this on my elbows, knees and a few dark patches at night and the next day my elbows don't look like I sat my arms in flour!

It's only three bucks so if you are in Dollar General or Family Dollar I think you should give this a chance. It won't replace your lotion or anything but it's a nice change -- almost a little treat for those neglected places.

Lip Loves

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I've had an item or two (or three of four) that I didn't have high hopes for and ended up in love with them. It doesn't happen too often but when it does I don't mind giving them a big thumbs up. It dawned on me last night as I was moisturizing my lips with my Baby Lips Dr. Rescue that I am a "I'll believe it when I see it type person." You might be a good thing but you gotta' show me first.

Case and point -- Maybelline Baby Lips Dr. Rescue products. I have several Baby Lips lip balms and love them with all my heart but when I tried out this Dr. Rescue stuff in Just Peachy and saw that it put a nude pink coating on my lips, I didn't have much faith in it. I put it next to my bed and decided it would be my night time lip balm. Good golly miss molly! That stuff is great! It keeps my lips moisturized all night and when I wake up the next morning, my lips feel great!

Before Maybelline Baby Lips Dr. Rescue, I used Nivea Lip Butter in Caramel Cream Kiss. I purchased this during a CVS sale with 2 other Nivea lip products. I'm sorry to say that at the time I didn't have many good things to say about the lip products. The only product that I liked was the lip butter but I didn't like the packaging. It comes in a tin and you have to put your dirty finger all up in the tin. I found a way around it though. Right after I finish washing my face at night (or on a Saturday or Sunday morning), I wash my hands and slather on some caramel cream kiss. As long as this is your only lip balm, you are ok. You can't exactly put anything over this. It also leave your lips soft and smooth but the difference is it doesn't last all night long. Still, it's a very good product -- just a poorly packaged one.

I always thing that ChapStick brand lip balm is going to be waxy and taste funny. And then, I see a new "flavor", try it out and go gaga for it. I say flavor because with scents like Pomegranate Gum Drop, Citrus Jelly Bean and Cake Batter, if you don't lick your lips after slathering this stuff on, your olfactory glands ain't working! I have at least one tube of this stuff in every purse. In fact, just to take this picture I had to find my "weekend" purse! This isn't the old cherry flavored ChapStick. This is great stuff that your lips deserve.

And last but not least, you could not have told me that I would fall madly, deeply in love with the CoverGirl Colorlicious Lip Glosses. I found them by accident but I've been loving them ever since. I could only find the original two that I purchased, Fruitylicious and Juicy Fruit, but I have 2 others floating around somewhere (not in my "weekend" purse because I looked there for my ChapStick). They have great coverage, they feel good on your lips and they smell slightly sweet and oh so good. The colors have just a hint of sparkle and this lip gloss girl likes it.

I try not to prejudge...nah. Who am I kidding?! I always prejudge makeup. These lippies showed me the light. I love them and I'm so glad I took a chance on them.

What did you try and fall in love with? Did you run right out and stock up? What won't you ever try again?

L.A. Girl Glazed Lip Paint

Blushing on top, Bombshell on the bottom.

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Too Faced came out with their Melted lipsticks earlier this year and at $21 a pop, I thought long and hard about these babies. Then I went into Sephora, played with them a little bit and decided that for the $21 price tag, this lip gloss girl would pass.

Then L.A. Girl came out with their Glazed Lip Paints. Those bad boys are $2.99 each. Totally. Different. Story.

Like I said, I played with the Too Faced Melted lipsticks but I didn't wear them or really get down to business with them. So, this is definitely not a comparison. There were 2 or 3 colors that I thought I might like but in the store I wasn't wowed by them. I did play with them enough to know that liquid lipstick isn't on my top 10 must haves for the summer so it was very easy for me to pass them up.

When I saw the Glazed Lip Paints, I decided that for $2.99 I didn't mind taking a test drive.

Blushing on top, Bombshell on the bottom.

I picked up two colors; Blushing and Bombshell. Blushing appeared to be a mauve color and Bombshell looked like a muted pink. I thought that both of these colors would match my skin well.

First, these glosses have a smell. It's a cross between fake mint and something else. I can't place it. They also have a tingle. I didn't really like that. I could deal with both of these things though but, I don't like the applicator. It's just a squeeze tube and the consistency isn't not suitable for a squeeze tube -- it's too thin. Both of the lip paints came out of the tube in a glob and I had to wipe half of it off. I'm not sure that I can deal with that. Both colors were very pigmented, just like the tube said ("super intense color") but I didn't see the "extra glossy finish". But, that could be because I had to wipe some of it off my lips.

The color was close to the color of the tube but not the same. Both of these colors have quite a bit of a pink undertone. I wasn't really expecting that, especially from the Blushing one. They weren't bad colors though -- just different.

So, I like these well enough but I'm fairly certainly I'll never finish the tube. But, I've said it a thousand times, I'm a lip gloss girl. These are not lip glosses.

I probably wouldn't buy them again.