Articles tagged with: lip gloss
Valentine’s Day Beauty: MAC Shade of Red for Every Heart Collection
Just in time for Valentine’s Day, MAC has put together the A Shade of Red for Every Heart Collection! Rather than release new collection of products, the brand has created a well-edited collection of red …
Ask Amber: Clinique Black Honey Dupe + Products for Short Natural Hair
It’s time for another Ask Amber! Today we’ll be dishing about makeup dupes and products for short, natural hair. Let’s get to it!
Q: Do you know of any dupe for Clinique’s Black Honey? I love …
MAC Bloggers’ Obession Collection: Review + Swatches
I’ve been enjoying my MAC Bloggers’ Obsession Collection items for a couple of weeks and love them! The collection has been sold out since pretty much the first week, but MAC announced this week that …
Summer Beauty: Coral Lips from Three Custom Color
The gloomy weather is (finally) gone, and it looks like warm weather is here to stay! I love to rock a strong red lip, but when summer comes I find myself reaching for other bold …
Beauty News: MAC Launches Bloggers’ Obsession Collection
Ok, I am seriously out of order for just now posting this to the blog. Especially since I’ve been writing about it on Twitter and Facebook all week. But I figured I’d share the news …
BBB Guide to Red Lip Color: The Best Red Lip Colors for Brown Skin
It’s been a long time coming, but I’m glad that this post has FINALLY come together! I announced a while back on Twitter (follow me @Bombshell_Amber) that I was planning a post full of red …
Get Her Look: Burgundy Lips at Gucci Fall 2011
Milan fashion week may be long over, but the stunning beauty look of Gucci’s Fall 2011 collection is still etched in my memory! Makeup artist Pat McGrath sent models down the runway with bold and …
Bombshell Beauty School: How to Wear MAC Viva Glam Lady Gaga 2 Lipstick + Lipglass on Brown Skin
MAC and Lady Gaga are back at it! Every year MAC releases a Viva Glam lip shade(s) to benefit the MAC AIDS Fund, which supports those affected by HIV and AIDS. Last week Lady Gaga …
MAC Mini-Haul: Fabulous Felines + Nail Trend F/W ’10
Hey Bombshells! I was able to get my hands on a few items from MAC’s new fall collections, so I thought I’d share what I hauled!
First, I got a couple of items from the highly-anticipated …
Amber’s Beauty Staples: Sephora
Hello Lovelies! While stocking up on a few of my beauty basics recently, I realized that I’ve never shared with you all my absolutely essential beauty staples. Where in the world have I been?! So, …
Beauty Steal: Black Radiance Ice Angel Refreshing Lip Gloss
While in Wal-Mart several weeks ago, I picked up a few Black Radiance beauty products. One that stood out the most was the new Ice Angel Refreshing Lip Gloss, $3.
I love this gloss becuase it’s …
Senna Cosmetics Giveaway!
Hey Bombshells!
Last October I had the pleasure of meeting Eugenia Weston, brow-guru
and makeup artist to the stars (I wish I had taken a picture!). I met Ms. Weston at the Senna booth while at The …
Holiday Beauty with Black Opal: Mosaic Bronzing Powders & Lip Liner-Lacquer Duo
Black Opal has always been one of my favorite drugstore beauty brands, and is certainly one of my favorite brands for women of color. I’ve found the quality of the products to be top-notch (I …
Cover Girl Blast Pre-Sale Today!
Hey Bombshells! I’ve got great beauty news! Cover Girl will begin an exclusive online preview of the new Blast Collection featuring Smoky ShadowBlast, ShineBlast Lip Gloss and LashBlast Length Mascara.
The line was created under the …
Beauty Review: Obsessive Compulsive Cosmetics Lip Tar
I had the good fortune to receive some Obsessive Compulsive Cosmetics Lip Tar, $12.50 while at The Artist Summit the other weekend, and I’m super hyped to share them with you! I’ve been hearing about …
MAC Posessed by Pink Lip Kit
I opened my inbox this morning to see a email from MAC, debuting their much anticipated holiday collection.
What stood out for me were all the palettes MAC is offering this holiday season. Palettes for the …
Beauty Review: Maybelline Color Sensational Lip Gloss
It’s been a long time since I’ve had this adverse of a reaction to lip gloss (Actually, that’s not true. You’ll see in an upcoming review). Maybelline’s new Color Sensational Lip Gloss was disappointing and …
Would You Use This? Battery Powered Beauty
I’m starting to think this whole battery powered beauty thing is getting a little out of control. First mascara, now this!
When I opened an email from Sephora this morning, I was a tad surprised (but …
40% Off Kissable Couture!
I’m all about supporting minority owned cosmetics companies (they’re so rare!), and Kissable Couture makes it so easy! I’m loving their new spring Le Fleur collection, and I’m also feeling the shade “First Lady”, inspired …
MAC Cremesheen Glass
I can’t believe I didn’t write about this sooner! I bought MAC’s new Cremesheen Glass lip gloss several weeks ago, and have been loving it. I’m kinda over lipgloss in general (The goopy, greasy, I-just-ate-fried-chicken …
Beauty Q&A
After writing about my current obsession with red lip color, reader Arionne wrote in with a beauty Q&A!
Q: Okay…so I think I might try this out. My only concern about red lips, which I also …
Red Lip Redux
I am sooo not over my obsession with red lipstick. Which is great since red lip color will be in this spring, in all its fabulous incarnations! This probably explains why I got so …
Red Hot!
It’s happened. It has finally happened! I have finally found the perfect red lipstick! Any woman will tell you that finding her perfect red lip color is darn near impossible, and for us brown-skinned beauties …


























