Why You May Want to Avoid Lip Gloss When Spending Time in the Sun

Red lips, especially orange-toned reds, are huge this summer 2016, but wear them wear.

Though lip gloss can beautifully enhance lips, you may want to avoid this particular lip product if you plan on spending some time in the sun.  The reason is how its shine can more easily attract the sun’s rays compared to a less reflective matte, cream or lacquer lipstick. Those can obstruct that light a bit more, but not totally.

Of course, you need not worry if your lip gloss or lipstick happens to have SPF protection.  However, you may want to buy a fresh tube since sunscreen in that lip product may have lost its effectiveness since you originally bought it.

What else that you can do is to buy is a lip balm with SPF to layer under your lipsticks. This is another way that you can keep your lips safe. Just from your same old stash of lipsticks, you can get a multitude of new lip color looks simply by sheering them out.  Be as creative as you like to use one shade or several colors to change at will like a chameleon!  

Review: IT Cosmetics NEW Limited Edition CC+ Bronzer SPF 50+

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IT Cosmetics Limited Edition CC+ Bronzer SPF 50+

The transition from Winter to Spring left most of us with paler complexions.  To solve that problem especially with my light coloring, I turn to bronzers for gradually warming up my complexion.  When I heard those beauty innovators at IT Cosmetics developed another anti-aging bronzer with their new Limited Edition CC+ Bronzer SPF 50+, I knew this IT girl had to try it.

This is a color correcting bronzer full coverage cream that is also loaded with serious skin care ingredients such as hydrolyzed collagen, peptides, vitamins, hyaluronic acid, niacin, algae, and nourishing oils to help anti-aging as well as serving as a physical sunscreen with titanium dioxide and zinc oxide. 

This is  what the IT Cosmetics CC+ Bronzer looks like before blending.

Here I applied enough IT Cosmetics CC+ Bronzer so you can better see the degree of richness after layering.

Their Your Skin But Better CC+ Cream is a top favorite of mine with its great texture and beautiful full coverage.  This product has the same wonderful consistency, only this one is a bit sheerer with more of a dewy finish in how it covers, which I really liked with how fair I am to keep that healthy glow more natural. 

The universal shade of Bronze Glow that it comes in captures radiance from the sun quite well with the balance of brown to orange.  However, if you want a darker sort of tan or to keep up as your complexion gains more color, then it is easily arranged by pumping out more of this bronzer and building it up.

Though you can use your fingers to apply, I prefer using a makeup brush for blending and insuring even distribution.  This method always seems to give me a better finish.

I liked this product because bronzers can be tricky to wear for those of us more on the fair side, but the depth of color can be adapted to suit practically all skin tones.  Therefore, I say try IT Cosmetics Limited Edition CC+ Bronzer SPF 50+ ($35) because you nothing to lose but that winter paleness!  You can find at IT Cosmetics, Ulta, and QVC.com.

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Review: IT Cosmetics IT’s All About You! Five Piece Collection + ONE DAY $59.96 SALE!

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IT’s All About You! Five Piece Collection

Being a beauty lover, you will want to start marking off the days from now until June 21 because IT Cosmetics has another exciting beauty bargain coming up.  On that day, IT’s All About You! 5 Piece Collection will be available to snag for just $59.96 when it is offered as a Today’s Special Value on QVC, the QVC apps, and QVC.com from midnight to 2:59 A.M. Eastern Standard Time the next day.

I’m so thrilled with this collection because you get three QVC Award winning IT Cosmetics products along with two new launches!  Now if that doesn’t give you a rush, I know that a full size Celebration Foundation, Brow Power Universal Brow Pencil, and a plush Limited Edition Heavenly Luxe Dual Ended Complexion Perfection Brush will please those that also know how wonderful these are.  

Celebration Foundation

I can tell you all three can help you create a flawless look effortlessly. Search through my reviews to learn why I am so taken with those products.  

In addition, you will be getting the new Waterproof version of Bye Bye Under Eye Anti-Aging Concealer that already won two Customer Choice Beauty Awards. The original formula was long lasting, but this version can hang in there for up to 12-hours and is perfect for when you hit the pool.   

This is the Neutral Medium, which is great, but too dark for me.

Also, you will find IT’s new CC+ Radiance Palette, which I have been wearing constantly ever since this box arrived. Like all of IT Cosmetics, the CC+ Radiance Palette not only beautifies with colors, but pampers the skin with anti-aging ingredients like silk, collagen, vitamins, grapeseed, green tea, aloe, amino acids, hyaluronic acid, seaweed extract, jojoba, cherry and plum oils at the same time.

What you get is a CC+ Brightening Finishing Powder, CC+ Flush Blush, and the CC+ Matte Bronzer with three shades that lighten and brighten your face with the softest heavenly glow of natural color that you can imagine. This amazing quality of what appears as color that surfaces through the skin with almost an inner light to cast over your cheeks comes from those light-reflecting microspheres and their Drops of Light Technology!  No random sparkles of glitter or a shimmery look, but a delicate pure radiance in this finely milled powder is the best way I can describe it. You are just going to love it–and so will he since he might mistake you for an angel.

CC+ Radiance Palette

Starting on the left is the CC+ Matte Bronzer, then CC+ Flush Blush (middle) with CC+ Brightening Finishing Powder on the right.

Take it from Mary B., if you want to wow this summer, then IT’s All About You! Collection is all you need. So if you don’t want to miss out on a real deal for $59.96 on these five awesome products, remember June 21 and QVC!