Fake On The Outside

I purchased these three Intense Lip Lacquers a little while back (just over two months ago) and in true beauty blogger fashion hadn’t opened them until I had chance to swatch them. I bought 3 colours. Depravity, Rebel and Paparazzi. They cost £3 each and are available from the Makeup Revolution website.

They’re glosses that come with doe foot applicators. You can get quite a clean edge with these and the colour is nice and strong.
Depravity is perhaps the one with the poorest colour pay off. In the end I’ll probably use it for putting on top of my Matte Salvation Velvet Lip Lacquer when I don’t want the feeling of dry lips but want the great colour pay off.
Rebel ends up being a lovely shade of crimson and Paparazzi is a lovely shade of Barbie pink. They’ve got good coverage and don’t need much product to achieve it.
As they’re glosses, they’re not very long wearing but they do make you lips feel nice without that sticky feeling.

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So while the colours are nice I have one major issue with these products.

On opening Depravity. I had no issue. It applied like a dream. It did need a second application to get a good colour but all in all, it was okay. Then I opened Paparazzi.

Oh. The plastic stopper had come out as well, meaning most of the gloss was now covering the wand and the stopped was stuck at on the lid. So I wiped the gloss off onto a clean finger and then tried to get it back in the tube. Once I did that I pulled the stopper down and off the wand, placing it back in the tube. Only of course this gloss is so thick and the magic of pressure meant it all forced it’s way out of the top again.
Which is demonstrated in the next four pictures.

So the excess has ended up in one of my spare empty pots. That’s fine it happens. Only it happened again. This time with Rebel. So that’s two out of three that this happened to. Add to that, there’s only 2 ml of product in these and I’ve wasted a whole lot of these products on the first time I’ve opened them. I was left with a serious sense of disappointment.

Would a recommend these? After this not really. There’s nothing really wrong with the products themselves. They’re decent glosses but you don’t get a lot of product. The normal colours have better coverage.
I am really disappointed with these due to the problem with the packaging.

Make Up Academy’s Smokin Palette is currently on sale for £6.00. If you’re a fan of smoky eyes you’ll love this.

There’s two matte shades in light skin shades. The rest are simmer shades in various colours. It also comes with a black eye pencil. The pencil is really soft and great for smoking out. It really is a stunning palette for the price.

I’m going to be totally honest here, these have been sitting on my computer for a while and I forgot to post them. Looking at the link now it’s currently out of stock. It’s quite possible with the high turnover of palettes by MUA it won’t be back. So I’ll just leave it here.

Illamasqua’s Intense Lipgloss in Gender is the most glorious sky blue in colour. At £16.50 for a 7ml it’s not an impulse purchase but it certainly is worth the cost.

It’s more teal in person but sky blue is a nice descriptor. For most people, it’s not your everyday lip gloss. It would be fabulous for a Halloween or costume party.

It’s quite opaque but would be a much more solid colour when using a blue liner underneath. Occ’s Pool boy pencil would be perfect for this. The brush is a little large to apply precisely so a smaller brush will also help create cleaner lines.
It has good staying power for a gloss. It won’t survive a meal but a drink or two won’t shift it too much.

All in all, it’s a fabulous colour and worth the cost.