What? is she serious? Does it actually make your lips swell? Ooookkkaayyy.

Margarita Shampoo is brilliant.

Avoid Lip Venom. I was given a tube as a gift (free cosmetic swag--there are few things better) and threw it away.

I reviewed it with a bunch of other products a while back here.

In a word, scary.

DuWop has another product, though, that looks both clever and more likely: Hands 2 Hair, which is a hair grooming product that doubles as hand cream.

As long as you're shopping, buy me some duck slippers.

Fat chance. What have you done lately to deserve giftage? Hmph.

My witty banter brightens your day.

Well now that's the first thing you've said with which I completely agree.

Aww, you're too nice, given my concerted effort to become MEotW.

Well, I blame you. You were too nice to me first.

It makes your lips swell? That's so scary.

Although I do like Burt's Bees balm because it's kind of tingly. But not swell-inducing tingly.

Did you read the review for the Kiss Me Red? Guess you don't like you lips, huh?

Heh. I don't lick my lips excessively, but I don't find the taste of Kiss Me Red unpleasant, either.

I have to rebut the advice above to ditch the Lip Venom. I know of a few females who use it and I have to say I find it incredibly attractive on their lips. Makes them look sparkly and fuller and shinier. Okay, I need to go take a cold shower.

And the fact that the "fuller" lips come from irritation -- a minor manifestation of the same painful swelling you'd get from, like, being punched -- doesn't give you the creeps? I mean, if you really want to see a woman with prominent lips, you could always just encourage her to take up boxing.

I just think it's weird. I mean, eyebrow plucking is painful enough, and I recently bought a nifty-looking differently-styled eyelash curler that it turns out I can't actually use, because it POKES ME IN THE EYE. (Yes, I know the concept of curling your eyelashes makes jaws drop in some circles, but trust me, it's at least as good as eyeliner.) (Speaking of ways to poke myself in the eye.)

And have I mentioned pantyhose?

Man, I should have just written a whole entry on suffering for beauty.

That was an awfully chipper review of some really scary-sounding side effects. "Be careful, if you slather on an excessive amount, it becomes almost too painful to speak. Otherwise, it's very nice!"
Very nice!

I like Lip Venom, and I am a woman who puts it on her lips.

I like how it feels. I haven't noticed particularly that it actually makes my lips swell. It just feels good. And it smells great. On the other hand, if it hurt me, I would never wear it.

Oh, and it's a good idea to wash it off before kissing someone, since most people emphatically don't like the tingling feeling.

I like how Linda will shave her legs, wear pantyhose, buy nail-shining kits, pluck, burn, curl and primp, all in the name of beauty (though she's no doubt naturally got it all), yet putting on lip venom is WHERE SHE DRAWS THE LINE! Got that, men of Minnesota? She will not be a slave to girliness! Those other things? Oh, well.. yeah, okay, but NOT lip venom!

Good to see you put you take a stand, Norma Rae.

;-)

Wait, why is my refusal to wear Lip Venom aimed at men? In my experience, the men who dig me do not expect me to wear Lip Venom. The ones who do not are not going to change their opinions of me based on anything as fleeting as that. I don't blame men for Lip Venom OR pantyhose OR the fact that I curl my eyelashes. I pretty much curl and primp whatever I want, and I don't want to wear Lip Venom because it sounds like it would hurt. I'm not, like, fighting the patriarchy.

Well, not to rattle the cage, but you made a joke about writing about suffering for beauty in the same post about not using Lip Venom because it might make your lips puffy or painful (which I'd never heard until today). Yet, risking curler burns, eye-pokings, and cuts on your stems from razors are acceptable prices to pay. I just found it amusing.

As for "doing it for men," I guess you got that from my "attn, men of Minnesota" line which really wasn't meant to imply that you only look nice so men like Raphael will scoop you up and take you home as a plaything. While I don't know you personally, I can tell that you're not like that.

Clearly, this whole debate is one of those that manifests because of a lack of desire to do real work. Which I, sadly, have plenty to do.

Oh, I'm not mad. I was just saying, I'm not trying to be all social-activist. I just don't want pouty lips that much.

And . . . curler burns? You know eyelash curlers aren't heated, right?

The margarita scent must be a new big thing - I didn't know Philosophy had it. A friend of mine who has her own beauty product business said that she's selling a lot of margarita-scented stuff right now. Maybe because it's summer and we'd like to smell like margaritas when we can't be drinking them?

I just love, "After applying one coat of the gloss, my lips began to swell noticeably" ...and that's a good thing?

I just love Sephona, I'm addicted to it. I just got the Philosophy Margarita yesterday - its part of the 3 Cocktail set.

>>And . . . curler burns? You know eyelash curlers aren't heated, right?

Given that (dammit, PoolBoy) I don't curl my manly eyelashes very often, I guess I never thought about it. I was thinking about "curlers" being the kind of curler my sister used to leave plugged in next to the sink in our bathroom growing up.

Regardless, much like many women in my life, you chose to focus on my mistake ("curler burns") rather than my accurate comment ("eye-pokings"). As old people say, that's neither here nor there. Cheers.

Okay, I just wanted to make sure I hadn't left the impression that I was curling my eyelashes with anything hot, because that would be scary. But indeed, yes, eye-poking is certainly correct, and I have done it many times. Ow. Stupid eyelash curler.

I need to point out that there ARE heated eyelash curlers, for those brave, foolhardy or desperate enough to go here
or here at Sephora.

OWWWWW on the heated eyelash curler!! Heats to 99 degrees and they don't consider that "excessive" heat????? Just OW.

My best friend SWEARS by the lip venom. She says it's one of those "hurts but it's worth it" kind of things.