into: Korres lip butter in guava

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I mentioned Korres lip butter briefly in my post about lip balm but I’m going to mention it again. It has a great, creamy, emollient formula that, thanks to the shea butter, does absorb into the lips (rather than just sitting on top of them). And it does, unlike many products called ‘lip butter’, have a texture close to that of butter. From one month to the next I’ll favor certain lip balms over others, and this is the one currently featured on my dressing table. Great as a night treatment or to start the day.

Most of the scents in the lip butter line I don’t like, admittedly, though I am in general pro-Korres. They are too sweet, cloying, synthetic for me (although if you know about yourself that you like this kind of scentflavor, this needn’t deter you), and I only like the guava and plum scents. The guava is quite strong as well, a pungent tropical scent, and not without a synthetic element, but I am more tolerant of tropical fruit scents, maybe, because it doesn’t bother me, or perhaps I just like the formula enough to neutralize any faint misgivings.

lipstick: keeping things organized

top row: Maybelline, NYCbottom row: NARS, Lancôme, Shu Uemura, MAC, Lancôme
top row: Maybelline, NYC
bottom row: NARS, Lancôme, Shu Uemura, MAC, Lancôme
Rimmel, Revlon, Origins, Korres, Clarins, Victoria's Secret...
Rimmel, Revlon, Origins, Korres, Clarins, Victoria’s Secret…

I’d been sticking all of my lipstick in this drawer from a stackable set I got at Target (in a manner not quite but something close to higgledy-piggledy) but at a certain point it was more than a drawer is inherently designed to handle.

One night I got out the scissors and came up with this setup. It’s not the sleekest thing, using chopped up cardboard, but it was free (I am totally cheap about certain things), and it is effective.

Can you tell that I really like the Kate Moss Rimmel collections and the Revlon matte lipsticks? Ditto the Wet 'n Wild semi-mattes.
Can you tell that I really like the Kate Moss Rimmel collections and the Revlon matte lipsticks? Ditto the Wet ‘n Wild semi-mattes.

I’m pretty pleased.

I’ve seen instances of people standing everything up and being able to get at the individual bullets that way, but the drawers would have to be just the right height to avoid wasted space, and it sounds kind of troublesome to keep everything in a grid, not everything is the same height/size, etc. You can get those quite nice looking acrylic grids, but those cost the money.

I briefly considered organizing by color but that’s not how it works in my mind, so I went roughly by brand/price point and consistency. Is this quite dull? I can never tell with this kind of thing. I never tire of seeing how people organize stuff.