Your New Purse MUST HAVE

I've already swooned about this a little bit here, but I thought it was high time to elaborate and get you all as excited as I am about this product. The bareMinerals Pop of Passion Lip Oil-Balm has a permanent reservation in my purse. I'm telling you, it will live there until it's time for a replacement, meaning I've scraped every last bit of it out of the tube.

Available at Ulta, Sephora, & Nordstrom

Let's talk details. These tubes of hydration come in 8 different colors. They are a hybrid of an oil and balm that provides a perfect combination of moisture, color, and shine. I don't even want to call it shine. They market it as a shine, but I would call it a sheen. Basically, it does not shine like a lipgloss, if that's what you're concerned about.

As it wears, it creates a beautiful lightweight stain on the lips that lasts even after you've wiped your lip color off. What does this mean? It means that after you eat that sandwich for lunch and have that feeling of lingering crumbs on your lips and wipe your mouth clean, your lips still have a hint of color!

I got Rose Passion. . . perfection!

In terms of color payoff, these oil-balms give your lips a beautiful color that mimics what you might find in an opaque lipgloss, minus that sticky lacquered feeling. You can swipe on one sheer layer of color or build it up a little bit. Because of the formulation, the color looks as if it has melted into your lips giving you that "my lips just happen to be this fabulous color naturally" look. I LOVE THAT!

I can put this on in the morning, have breakfast and notice that my lip color feels like it has worn off, and head to the bathroom to realize the following:

• My lips have a gorgeous stain left on them, so even though I can't feel the product anymore, those looking at me can still see it.
• I can refresh the color and not have that product build up issue that you get with lipgloss where it gets gunky and gross. You know the feeling. . . the one that makes you wipe all of your lip color off, put on fresh lip balm, and reapply everything again from scratch.
• My lips actually feel re-hydrated after swiping on some more!

And for $16?! Now that is my idea of affordable luxury for your lips! Skip the two lipsticks from the drugstore you "just threw in your basket to try", that will end up in a junk drawer after one awful swipe and get something you know will make your lips feel and look gorgeous!

What is YOUR purse "must have"? Tweet me @buzzwithkee and share your Instagram photos with me @thebeautybuzzwithkee.

Favorites Videos and How Is It June???

I truly feel like May just started! I didn't know how close June was until I woke up yesterday morning and looked at my YouTube subscription feed. What did I see?

May Favorites. . . EVERYWHERE!

I think it's the fact that beauty products get creamier, brighter, and more brilliantly packaged that made me sit glued to my laptop watching one video after another. Here's the thing. . . I don't really enjoy favorites videos that much. Most of the YouTubers I watch post regularly throughout the week and I watch them regularly throughout the week! Therefore, I rarely miss any of the beauty products that people are using all the time in their videos.

This is how it goes:

5:30 am: Alarm goes off

Turn on Keurig.

Open laptop.

Make hazelnut coffee.

Sit down with blanket.

Open YouTube and hit play!

Every. Single. Morning. Monday-Friday.

My favorites include Lily Pebbles, ViviannaDoesMakeup, Jackie Aina, Claire Marshall, I Covet Thee, HelloOctoberxo, Essie Button, and Pixiwoo. There's more, but the list is about 50 long.


I guess I just find monthly favorites videos unnecessary. The only time I really enjoy them is if leighannsays is doing them (she's so good!), or I'm trying to feel out whether or not I want to subscribe to a new channel by seeing what products they are attracted to.

I don't know that I will ever film monthly favorites videos, but I'm not saying that I won't. But as we enter June I'm excited by something I saw in Ulta this weekend!

More than 24 hours later and I still have the stains from these gorgeous lip oil-balms from Bare Minerals on my hand. I was swooning over Punch Pop, Rose Passion and Plumberry Pop. They are exactly what they say they are. . .a beautiful hybrid of oil and balm. They wear comfortably on the lips and give that "your lips but better" look without the heavy shine of a lipgloss or the intense pigment of a lipstick. After walking around with Rose Passion in my hand I put it back and walked out with all of my money in my wallet.


. . .cut to several hours later while shopping in Philadelphia and I ran into Ulta to pick it up after all! Simply brilliant!

What are you excited to try this month? Tweet me @buzzwithkee!