Laura Mercier Lip Glace

I'm pushing hard to get through the last few items from the Sephora Favorites Give Me Some Lips set. This one is Laura Mercier Lip Glace in the color Rose.

All pictures taken indoor with flash unless otherwise noted.

Smashbox Lip Enhancing Gloss

A post for Smashbox Lip Enhancing Gloss in Pout, in the spirit of more lip color posts this month ^.^ It's a tiny little sample/travel sized tube from the  Sephora Favorites Give Me Some Lips that's been taking me forever and a half to go through, simply because I've been totally distracted with a bunch of other lippies :P

All pictures taken indoor with flash unless otherwise noted.

Korres Mango Butter Lipstick SPF10 Part II

More Korres Mango Butter Lipstick SPF10 ^.^ I just realized I've been posting a ton on lip colors this month!

Within the past several months, I've had more time to play with these Mango Butter Lipstick. To my surprise, they actually grew on me! This may have something to do with my "new" way of wearing lipsticks, as in not wearing them like lipsticks at all but rather like a stain, i.e. applying only 1 layer on the bottom lip then press my lips together to spread and that's it. It's actually not that "new" as this was my way of wearing Lancome Color Design Lipstick in First Crush, since it's a gorgeous translucent red without any shimmers and perfect for staining. I just hadn't thought of extending this staining method to my other lipsticks too until around this summer. Yeah, I'm kind of slow when it comes to these kinds of things.

Korres Limited Edition Mango Butter Lip Collection, which comes with 45 Coral, 47 Orange Brown, and 52 Orange Red.

Lancome Color Design Lipsticks Part II

Several more Lancome Color Design Lipsticks ^.^ I've already explained the different lipstick finishes in my last Color Design Lipsticks post so I won't go over it again. All pictures taken indoor with flash unless otherwise noted.

- Love It: Cream finish, moderate coverage, a beautiful cool rose.

NYX Jumbo Eye Pencil

These NYX Jumbo Eye Pencils can attest to my current obsession for eye and lip pencils. I have 12 of these right now and am still eyeing other colors ^.^

I think it's funny that I go through phases like this. I'm not so much all consuming with a particular product from a particular brand, but more like a type of product in a range of brands. In the late spring and throughout the summer I was going nuts for liquid/cream/gel eye colors, and now it's pencils ^.^ Do you go through phases like this too? What's your current obsession?

Milk and Cottage Cheese 

Horseradish and Baby Blue 

Stila Kajal Eye Liner

I've had these Stila Kajal Eye Liners for a while now too but haven't paid much attention to them. Until now, that is, and as it turns out, I really like these ^.^ I only have 2 with me right now in 21-Aquamarine and 20-Antique Silver, but have since gotten 4 more colors waiting for me at home in the US of A (Pearl, Amethyst, Sapphire, and Tiger's Eye). I really can't wait to get my hands on my new acquisitions!

21-Aquamarine 

20-Antique Silver 

NYX Jumbo Lip Pencil

On my brief visit home, I dug out quite a few things and brought them back to Japan with me. Among them are a bunch of NYX stuff, and I'll start with these Jumbo Lip Pencils.

I got these Jumbo Lip Pencils a while back, but it wasn't until the Stila Lip Glaze Sticks that really got me to pay attention to eye and lip pencils. And even then, by eye and lip pencils, I don't mean eye and lip liner pencils, but the actual coloring pencils. I think they're convenient, with the exception to the sharpening part, allows the kind of control that results in a precise application. I really am enjoying using them! I haven't used these NYX Lip Pencils very often, but that's only because I'm all taken with the Stila ones right now.

Vanilla Ice

Hot Red

Lancome Color Fever Lipstick

Not sure what prompted me to buy this Lancome Color Fever Lipstick when it came out, but the color Lancome Rosebud read like a pretty pink so I thought I'd give it a try.

Columbia Tower Club, Seattle

The Columbia Tower Club is on the top 75 and 76 floors of the Columbia Center, the tallest building in Seattle. We had a little party there, sharing the floor with some kind of benefit on the other side that started off with a fashion show ^.^ So several of us were standing on the other side of the stair stealing a peek at the show while the party was going on LOL!

All these pictures belong to mum in law and aunt D. I couldn't bring my camera that night so I missed out on some photo-ops. Oh well...

The view was spectacular! 

Etta's Seafood Restaurant, Seattle

Etta's is one of Tom Douglas's many restaurants, and I don't know about Tom Douglas and didn't quite enjoy my lunch at Etta's either, but I did have what must have been the best chicken wings I have ever had! And erhh...sorry, those disappeared so fast I couldn't take a picture of them. And we had 2 plates of them too ^.^ Yes, they were that good.

Dad in law ordered a burger.