Lipstickrules 100 Followers: CONTEST

I am still very pumped to have reached the 100 subscriber milestone this week. I still remember thinking how great it would be to reach 100, maybe by the end of summer. Thanks to my friend Linda who was my very first follower. When I started to post, I often wrote directly to her as [...]

UPDATED: My two loves together — Twilight and Makeup!

UPDATE: Reports today say that DuWop will be launching a line of vampire a.k.a. Twilight-inspired cosmetics. Central to the collection is a variation on the company’s famous Lip Venom lip plumper. Apparently, one-half of the plumper will be tinted red (to look like blood!). Limited edition. Launch date is TBD, some say summer, others fall. [...]

Turning a makeup ‘regret’ into a makeup ‘diamond’

I’ve seen many posts and videos about “products you regret.” I certainly have my share of those. But there are occassions when a makeup “regret” can be turned around to become a makeup diamond. To explain, take a lipstick like MAC’s Honeylove – beigey nude lippie. I bought it on a whim – and when [...]

Lipstickrules hits 100!

At the start of this month, my goal was to grow my ‘readership’ to 50 people by the end of June and maybe 100 by the end of July. I never dreamed that it would grow so fast in the span of a few weeks. We have officially hit 100 readers (Rocaille – it’s you!)! [...]

Beauty Addictions and the People in our Lives

My husband came up with a blog post idea when we were out on the deck last night. [As an FYI, I had said I hadn't been bitten by any mosquitoes...Alas, by the time I was done writing some posts, I had six bites on my leg and one on my wedding ring finger (in [...]