Fail products vol.1 – lip glosses

Let’s finish this week with some more lip products, sadly again with negative review. I promise I’ll bring some nice products to your attention next week.

SEXY MOTHER PUCKER LIP GLOSS BY SOAP AND GLORY 

Price: 9£ (I bought it in the UK last January).

Scent: it has chocolate & fruit scent, when I smell it I immediately feel like going for some cake!

Sexy Mother Pucker lip gloss by Soap and Glory

Texture: this lip gloss is extremely sticky to the point that if you speak it becomes uncomfortable. It gives lot of shine and due to its plumping effect lips get bigger. The plumping action is strong, it stings like crazy. I had really hard time keeping it on my lips, they actually hurt and I wanted to get rid of the gloss right after the application.

Colours: 6 shades if I remember correctly. I bought the colour Punch Bowl which is pink shade with berry hint to it.

Sexy Mother Pucker lipg gloss in colour Punch Bowl by Soap and Glory

Longevity: only few minutes since I couldn’t test it due to the irritation effect. The plumping hurt so much that I had to take it off quite soon after the application.

Final verdict: it is sticky and it hurts so I cannot stand it on my lips. I will give it to somebody else although I would be surprised if they wanted to wear it.

PRETTY SMART LIP GLOSS BY THE BALM

I bought this lip gloss last November when The Balm was on sale and I wrote lightly about it in the post about that sale. At that point the lip gloss was new and it took some time to test it. Better late than never, here is the review.

Price: 13,50€ (quite expensive for lip gloss sold in drugstore, I bought it in Belgium).

Pretty Smart lip gloss by The Balm

Scent: it has fresh fruity scent.

Texture: it has creamy texture, little bit sticky but nothing extreme like the Sexy pucker I just wrote about. It is pleasant on the lips, very pigmented and shiny.

Colours: up to 11 shades, depends where you buy it. In Belgium drugstore they have only few shades. Mine is in Hubba Hubba, bright fuchsia – red colour.

Pretty Smart lip gloss in colour Hubba Hubba by The Balm

Longevity: It bleeds like crazy, on its own or over a lipstick, it doesn’t matter, it bleeds. I couldn’t properly test it since it didn’t look good soon after its application (and I couldn’t go out like that).

Final verdict: the fact that it bleeds around lips makes it difficult to wear. It is bright colour so it’s hard to hide that it crosses the lip line. I’m not going to purchase more of them, that’s clear.

Long lasting liquid lipstick trend

Why not continue with lip products this week, I tried so many recently that I think it’s time to reveal their deal.

There’s been always an attempt to create perfect long-lasting lipsticks, I remember 15 years ago it was for example Max Factor (and Cover Girl) and I see, now again, new liquid longwearing lipsticks releases. I’m a drugstore girl when it comes to lip products so of course I bought few new to test. Let me throw the spoiler in right now – I’m not happy what so ever.

I bought Matte style lip lacquer by Astor, Provocalips by Rimmel and Infallible 24h lip colour by L’Oreal.

Matte style lip lacquer by Astor

Price: Astor lacquer costs 9,49€, Provocalips by Rimmel 11,99€ and Infallible lip colour 17,49€ (L’Oreal either change your pricing or get out of drugstore! To pay 17€ for a drugstore lipstick that’s just too much!).

Colours: Astor offers 5 colours, mine is 215 Just so Stylish, Rimmel 10 shades, mine in colour 110 Dare to Pink and finally L’Oreal 14 shades in Europe, I stupidly bought two colours, 111 Permanent Blush and 121 Flawless Fuchsia.

Scent: all three lipsticks have paint-like scent, balms have sweet scent.

Matte style lip lacquer in colour 215 Just so Stylish by Astor

Texture:

Astor: it has light creamy non sticky texture. It glides very easily on the lips which, if you don’t pay attention, can lead to crossing lip line and to creating little bit of mess. It is not drying at the application but after few hours you can definitely feel that you are wearing something.

Provocalips by Rimmel

Rimmel: it has also creamy texture, but it is so sticky that I had hard time opening my mouth after the application. If you want to try to apply it, do not close and rub your lips, wait till it’s dry and apply the balm that comes with it (it has thick creamy glossy texture). To get even colour you have to reapply few layers which becomes difficult with that terrible glue-like texture. It feels dry after short time and you have to reapply the balm to survive all that stickiness and dryness on the lips.

Provocalips in colour 110 Dare to Pink by Rimmel

L’Oreal: light creamy non sticky texture at first but once it dries it becomes sticky (but not even close to stickiness of Rimmel one) and you have to immediately apply a balm that comes with it (it’s a creamy balm stick). If you reapply the balm very often you may decrease the dryness of the lips but I don’t think this is an everyday lipstick. What is nice about this one is that once it’s sealed by the balm it doesn’t transfer.

Infallible 24h lip colour lipsticks by L'Oreal

Longevity: this is where the problem gets worse. These liquid lipsticks last quite a long time but if you eat they don’t fade out completely (like for example Master drama pencil by Maybelline that I like) but they leave behind bright reddish colour at the outer part of the lips. You cannot get rid of that colorful ring, it’s glued like nothing I’ve seen before, it feels tacky, it accentuates all the lines and if you add more to even out the colour it becomes a lot worse looking and feeling.

Infallible 24h lip colour lipsticks in 111 Permanent Blush and 121Flawless Fuchsia by L'Oreal

Final verdict: As you can see these lipsticks are not my cup of tea, they don’t feel good on my lips. They look awful once you have eaten and adding more colour on the top just makes the lips look and feel worse. The worst out of bunch is Rimmel, absolute horror, which I couldn’t stand wearing more than one full day, for the testing purposes, and I don’t think that I would even pass it to somebody as I don’t want anybody else to suffer. The best out of these three is L’Oreal, at least it doesn’t transfer and doesn’t look as bad as other two although still drying and still patchy. I’m quite mad at myself that I bought 2 colours (considering their price). When Sephora offers 20% off I can actually get for almost the same price Smashbox or Makeup Forever long-lasting liquid lipsticks which may be better quality than these drugstore ones.

Color Elixir Lip Lacquer by Maybelline vs Colorstay Moisture stain by Revlon

I went to London last January and bought some lippies. The Maybelline Lip Lacquers looked similar to Revlon’s Moisture stain so I decided to try them and compare.

Price: 6,99£ for Lip Lacquer by Maybelline, 5£ on sale (otherwise 7,99£) for Moisture stain by Revlon.

Color Elixir lip lacquer by Maybelline

Texture and scent: 

Maybelline: The lacquers smell very sweet (maybe vanilla). They have creamy, non-sticky texture. They feel moisturizing; they look very shiny and smooth lips nicely. When they dry they feel very light weight and confortable.

Color Elixir lip lacquer by Maybelline

Revlon: Moisture stain lipstick doesn’t have any scent. It has creamy, non-sticky texture comparable to Maybelline’s lacquer and it feels moisturizing just like other ones. It gives less shine compared to Maybelline’s lacquer (right after the application) but at the end, when they dry, they look quite similar. For both of them the shine wears off after some time and you get semi matt look. I had little bit of problem with the Revlon’s application; it took some layers to even out the colour on my lips.

Color Elixir lip lacquer in colour 105 Petal Blush and 120 Fuchsia Flouris by Maybelline

Colours: 

Maybelline: 11 shades are offered in the UK. I bought 105 Petal Blush (light warm pink) and 120 Fuchsia Flouris (bright fuchsia).

Revlon: 8 shades are offered in the UK. I bought 001 India Intrigue (berry colour).

Colorstay Moisture stain by Maybelline

Longevity: 

In case of Maybelline I tested the darker colour, 120 Fuchsia Flouris, as it was easier to detect flaws (for ex. bleeding). It lasted long time, left behind little bit of stain so I didn’t have to reapply it unless I ate. It didn’t bleed and looked ok even though less shiny after a while.

Colorstay Moisture stain by Maybelline

Revlon: It worked similarly to Maybelline, it left little bit of stain behind and I didn’t have to reapply unless I ate. It didn’t bleed and looked nice as well.

Colorstay Moisture stain in colour 001 India Intrigue by Revlon

Final verdict: both products are quite nice but there has to be only one winner. I like Maybelline lacquers slightly more since they apply easier, they are shinier right after the application and the price is better too (unless you get Revlon on sale like me). Anyway they are very similar and I think the final choice at the end will depend on the shades the brands offer and shades you like.