issue 13// volume 44 life & style // no. ‘Wi Photos by Lauren Kelly Neva Ce Bs t-te Beauty on a budget: Mariposa Matte Lip Stain > This Dollarama-bought liquid lipstick is way better than it should be Lauren Kelly Graphics Manager enever I used to go into a Dollarama, I would check the makeup section for drugstore products that aren't selling. Usually there wasn’t much, but you could still score something fun for two or three bucks if you were lucky. However, over the last while those random, unwanted finds have been steadily replaced by the brand Mariposa. I’ve always had an aversion to dollar store make up, but “it’s so cheap it can't be good” feels like it goes against this whole column, so I finally took a chance on it. I grabbed four Mariposa liquid lipsticks at $1.50 each, and took them home—fully expecting to be disappointed. The lip stain claims to have a matte finish and be 24-hour long wear with all day comfort, so | decided to really put them to work and doa full day test wearing a bright coral. | put it on at nine in the morning with no trouble—it was incredibly pigmented like most other liquid lipsticks, and very easy to apply. The formula also quickly dried to the promised matte finish. To start the day, I ate a bagel for breakfast, with no residue coming off on it or on my face. I had multiple drinks throughout the day, including a hot chocolate from Tim Horton’s, with, again, perfect lips by the end of it. I’m sure I drove a couple people crazy going “I just ate something how do my lips look” but they always looked great. For dinner, I had hot tea and a bunch of sushi and again, it was fine. I got home at ten with my lips looking mostly good with just the smallest signs of wear, which is the first time I haven't had to reapply throughout the day ina long time, even with high-end products. I tried this again the next day with a bright red colour, but ate a hot dog for lunch and teriyaki for dinner, so by the end of the night the inner ring of my lips had started to wear off. | can’t expect it to be magic, I guess, but it still overperformed (and I got some compliments on this shade!). There are only two downsides to this product. First, if you want something that you can‘ feel on your lips, this isn’t it. I've gotten used to it after spending the week wearing various colours, but during my first application I definitely noticed the product, and for the first bit your lips feel a little sticky. They never get dry or very uncomfortable, though, even with it on all day. Second, the colours are really confusing. I bought it in four colours, and I'll describe them how the box shows: Angel, a light brown nude; Miss Paris, a bright blue-toned purple; Lollipop, a deep coral; and a dark but vivid red whose packaging I tragically lost, never to know its name. The tube for Angel doesn’t even match the box art for it, and the tubes for the other three do match the box but vary from the final product. Miss Paris, especially, looks like a bright pink instead of the purple I wanted. So the colours are a complete crap shoot, but the price is so low that if you do get unlucky and dislike the actual colour, you can just get another one. If you like fiquid lipsticks, you are doing yourself a disservice if you don’t run out and grab some, even as gifts. At $1.50, these cost less than a value menu burger at McDonalds. | Aa long as X is 19 X's oemer’s opponent's hand, X's owner may cost X and activate X's abilities. 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O68: Choose a cord you own from § outside the game that has been banned or My resiricted in a Constructed format, reveal & that card, and put it into your hand. 3 “Tust maw—f have @ resp.” Whenever you crank Bee-Bee Gun, A until end of turn, target creature 7 gains “2: This creature fights another target creature,” Unstable cards by Wizards of the Coast Magic: The Gathering's new parody set is one of their best yet > ‘Unstable’ is crazy, creative, and bold Greg Waldock Staff Writer very couple of years, Magic: The Gathering releases a joke set filled with game-breaking cards and hilarious concepts. These sets are always banned from any actual official games to prevent them wreaking havoc on the carefully- balanced meta. It started with “Unglued” in 1998, followed by “Unhinged” in 2004, and at long last, “Unstable” was released December 8. These “Un’-sets are staples of the Magic community, an opportunity for the creators to experiment and make fun of themselves. “Unstable” continues that noble tradition with an amazingly bizarre bunch of cards, and exceeds its predecessors by also having some brilliant and innovative mechanics. Magic’s parent company, Wizards of the Coast, got to experiment and get weird with the format, and they didn’t hold anything back. The aesthetic of “Unstable” is “steampunk science gone mad.” Crazed cyborgs, dastardly super villains, and film noir-style spies who are terrible at their jobs are the central factions with a ton of associated abilities. This is very much meant to mirror the style of the latest competitive set, “Ixalan.” There is also the glorious return of “contraptions,” which started as a potential future mechanic teased way back in 2007 with the set “Future Sight.” It’s been so long since “contraptions” were mentioned, it became an in-joke in the community, and so a perfect choice for an “Un’- set. They introduce some surprisingly sophisticated abilities—for example: “The Grand Calcutron’” functions as a primitive ticker-tape computer with stacks of cards as programs. The interesting mechanics are what separate “Unstable” from both other “Un’-sets, and other Magic sets in general. It’s incredibly creative and fun. There are cards that penalize you for not complimenting an opponent, reward you for receiving a high-five from a nearby stranger, activate effects when you throw the card from three feet away, and so on. Most of them could never function in a serious Magic game, but that’s what makes this “Un’-set so special.