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This is one lipgloss that has some serious lasting power! The colours are all pretty sheer and just give a hint of colour but leave lips feeling moisturized and shiny for hours. I have it in Bloom and the sheer pink is just the right amount of colour and shine to look polished but not too put together.
A lip gloss that lasts for 6 hours? Sounds perfect for a lip gloss addict like me. But this fails to deliver such long-lasting results.
The color I picked up - Bloom - is a rose shade with subtle pinkish silvery shimmer. It's just as pretty once applied as it is in the tube; definitely one of the more pigmented glosses out there. It's not super shiny, but it does have a fair amount of shine to it. I normally prefer something with a glossier finish, but I actually like the more subtle shine of this for a change.
It does last longer than other glosses, but nowhere near the 6 hours it is advertised to last. And it doesn't survive a meal, either. It can last through a few drinks though - it does leave a bit of the glossiness on the rim of your glass but the color seems to stay pretty well. After wearing a while it gets a little dull looking, and tends to leave the same sort of "lined but didn't fill" outline around the edge of your lips like a lot of lipsticks leave behind as they wear off.
The biggest turn-offs for me are that it's got a very artificial almost sweet fragrance to it that I really don't like. And it's also very thick and sticky. Big thumbs down for the tacky, sticky texture.
The applicator takes some getting used to as well. I really hated it at first but I'm getting used to using it now. It's similar to the usual doe-foot applicators, except that it's shaped like a flattened triangle. It's kind of hard to get it out of the tube, too; like it's a bit too wide for the opening in the tube and you really have to pull to get it out.
Overall it's ok, and does last longer than ordinary glosses with more pigment to it. But it's nothing spectacular. The thick sticky texture will keep me from buying it again and trying other shades - if you don't mind sticky glosses it might not be so bad.
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