Strawberry Lover's Collection!...

... because strawberries are for lovers!  Specifically lovers of strawberries.  :3
This, and the Cupcake Lover's Collection (which I'll review later, because I picked them both up already), were made special for Lip Smacker's 40th birthday!

 Adorable zippered pouch!

I was able to pick this up at Walgreen's while searching for Eucerin and bandaids.  Six various strawberry flavoured lip balms in a cute little case!  Strawberry, Strawberry Vanilla, Strawberry Cheesecake, Strawberry Coconut, Strawberry Cotton Candy, and Strawberry Watermelon.  Even though they're all variations on strawberry, they all smell and taste very different.  And they all taste
good, and have a nice texture and shine.

Caps off!

Strawberry: Apparently the original Lip Smacker flavour (i don't know, it's not like i was around in 1973...)!  Smells like a tub of strawberries from the supermarket.  Doesn't taste like much... a little sweet.  That's about it.  I still really like it.

Strawberry Vanilla: Kind of icecream-y scented and flavoured.  I already had this one.  It gets used a lot because it's very good.  I like things that are ice cream, or that taste like ice cream, and this falls into the second category.

Strawberry Cheesecake: tastes just like the strawberry cheesecake Jelly Belly, if you're familiar with that.  I have a feeling I'll use this up rather quickly.

Strawberry Coconut:  I didn't think I would like this, because I'm generally not partial to coconut, but this is okay.  It's kind of like a fancy tropical drink, like a strawberry daquiri maybe?  It's decently yummy anyway.

Strawberry Cotton Candy: Smells the same as Strawberry Vanilla, but has a very different taste.  Another blogger compared it to Bubble Yum, but I actually do taste candyfloss in this.  It might end up being a new favourite because of that, especially since I'm temporarily giving up any sort of real candy.

Strawberry Watermelon: The watermelon flavour in this is a bit overpowering.  I can barely smell or taste any strawberry in it.  I still really like it though.  It reminds me of summer.

I'm really happy I picked these up, and I'll be writing about the Cupcake Lover's Collection sometime next week.  Later!  :3

Sugar Heart Nails!

I wish I had done a step-by-step of this, instead of just taking pictures when it was done.
Inspired by something I saw on tumblr a while ago.

But how I did it: First basecoat.  Always basecoat, especially if you're using dark colours.  I painted my nails black last year without using a basecoat, and I'm still growing the stains out.  Second, I used a black nail art pen to draw heart outlines.  Didn't panic if they got a bit messy.  Third, used the pastel colours to fill in the outlines.  Fourth, glitter over pastel.  Fifth, topcoat.  That's it.  I like that it came out decently on both hands this time.  :3  It'll probably have all chipped off (or more like I will have peeled it off) by Thursday, but I'm waiting on sort of a valentines day "lucky pack" from Julep (the first time I've ordered nail polish online) and might get it by then too.  :3

Coke Party Pack

I picked this up at claire's while I was out shopping with the kids last week.  8 different coke-brand-flavoured Lip Smackers!  Hooray!  This was probably a bit more expensive than it would've been at Target or Walgreens or Ulta (generally my usual places for smackery goodness), but they had one of those "buy-1-get-1" deals, and the little one wanted another pack of fake fingernails, so I got it anyway.

(sorry... i got excited and opened this up right away without photographing it...)


As I said earlier, there are 8 flavours.  Some of them fantastic, some of them surprisingly so, and some of them not terribly exciting.  There was obviously a Coca-Cola flavoured one.  And Sprite.  And then there were Cherry Coke, Vanilla Coke, Orange, Strawberry, and Grape Fanta, and Barq's Root Beer flavour.

Here's what I thought of all of them:

Coca-Cola: I normally really like Coca-Cola.  In fact, I'm drinking one right now, and totally breaking my "no caffeine after 4pm" rule.  But the Coca-Cola Lip Smacker is just a bit bland.  It smells and tastes more like Coke with lots of ice.  But some people do prefer lighter flavours, and think that most smackers are too "intense" in that department, so maybe this is for them.

Sprite: Kind of like the Coke one, only it's Sprite that has a lot of ice in it.

Cherry Coke: I had this flavour as one of those "squeezy" Lip Smackers, and while I really liked the flavour, I wasn't a fan of the consistency of the gloss.  It was sticky, and that's bad when you have long hair and like to drive with your windows down.  This classic Cherry Coke Lip Smacker is much better.  It's the same flavour, not exactly spot-on with actual Cherry Coke, but without the stickiness of the liquid gloss.

Vanilla Coke: I am surprised.  I do not like actual Vanilla Coke as a drink, but the Vanilla Coke Lip Smacker is really good.  It's like a more sweetened version of regular Coke.  I think this might be one of my favourites of the set.

Orange Fanta: Doesn't actually taste like Orange Fanta.  It tastes more like orange sherbet.  I really like it though.  Another new favourite?  Maybe.  I really like oranges and clementines and orange-flavoured things in general, so I imagine I'll be using this a lot.

Strawberry Fanta: Question: How many strawberry flavoured Lip Smackers need to exist?  Answer: ALL OF THEM.  Strawberry Fanta Lip Smacker is really good, a nice strawberry pop flavour.

Grape Fanta: I've never been a huge fan of grape-flavoured things, maybe because they remind me of Dimetapp cough medicine, but this Lip Smacker was okay.  Kind of like a grape popsicle (if you're familiar with those ones that are just flavoured sugar water in a plastic tube, more like one of those.)

Barq's Root Beer:  I've got the A&W Lip Smacker, and now I've got Barq's, and the Barq's is much sweeter and less "rootbeer-y" than the A&W one.  Also it seems like there's more vanilla in this one.  Maybe that's where the sweetness comes from.

EDIT: PICTURES!

 Coke, Barq's Root Beer

 Vanilla Coke, Cherry Coke

 Orange Fanta, Sprite

 Strawberry Fanta, Grape Fanta

My Collection... of Lip Smackers!

This is how it all looked as of a week ago.  Since then I decided I would get more serious about reviewing these, and blogging about them.  So I've acquired a few more, and reviews of those will be up soon.

Reviews of all these will be up at some point too probably.  There are some that are a few years old, and a lot of new ones. 

Hello.

This is my blog for lipsmackers and nail polish.
I'll have to learn how to upload pictures and stuff.
Later.