RIMMEL LONDON Lastin Finish by Kate Lipstick swatches



TOP LEFT TO RIGHT -- 113, 14, 101 BOTTOM -- 104, 12, 110

NOTE: Number 12 and 110 are ALMOST the same except 12 has more of a coral undertone and
110 is more of an orange under tone. You can definitely get away with only buying one since
they're almost the same! 

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Let me start this post by letting you ladies know, I am a lipstick junkie, YES, yes I am.
I AM that person that buys lipsticks just because they're on sale and I convince myself that I don't have a similar color even though I already have it. It's a bad habit but I can't help it!

I recently went to Walgreens and saw that they had the Rimmel London by Kate Moss lipsticks for $3 each, regular price $5.49, soooo of course I had to try them out. It was seriously the packaging that caught my eye! They're just so cuuuute!! I had read a couplee of reviews on them before so I thought I would give them a shot. I must admit I don't normally buy drugstore lipsticks besides NYX Cosmetics because there's some drugstore lipsticks that look nice but have no darn pigmentation! So I picked up two colors to try out. I picked the two lipsticks with the black container, honestly I don't know what the difference is between the red and the black packaging.

FIRST IMPRESSION: All six of the lipsticks that I have are superrrrr creamy and pigmented. Even the nude color goes on smooth which is normally a hard color to even out. The consistency of these sort of reminds me of the MAC satin finish. They have a really nice sheen and they go on super smooth even if you don't prep/moiturize your lips beforehand. HOWEVER, OH EMMM GEEE, the smell on the red containers is SOOOOO strong. It's such a strong perfume scent that it's overwhelming once you put it on. The black ones also have a scent but that one I could surpass since it's not too bad BUT deimmm the red one is soo strong that the first couple of times I applied it I was grossed out. I ain't even lying, i'll keep it real LOL I got used to it after a while because the scent does fade but yeah don't say I didn't tell you so!
Anyway, here are the swatches!

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Melt Cosmetics: Review

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Hey Ladies!
LIPSTICK TIME!!!!
So I purchased two lipsticks from MELT Cosmetics a couple months ago and I'm just coming around to actually trying them, so I thought i'd write a review on them. The Melt lipstick line just came out about three months ago and I believe it was created and launched by two make-up artists from the entertainment industry. All their lipsticks are cruelty free so it's nice to know that no animals were harmed during the making of the products.

Okay, so there's five colors available: Belladona, Starlight, Darling, Stupid Love, and Summer! I bought Starlight, which is the deep purple shown in the picture above and Stupid Love (i'll do another post on that beautiful pink later because this purple is so pigmented that it stained my lips and the pink wouldn't show true to color due to the stain.)

Anyway, let me start by saying that these lipsticks ARE pricey. They're $19 each, making them about $5 more expensive than MAC lipsticks, BUT all of the Melt Cosmetics colors are so pretty and bold that I couldn't contain myself and I dropped $45 on two lipsticks including shipping costs. If it wasn't for the $19 price tag, I would've probably purchase all five Melt colors! I must say that I normally wouldn't wear this deep purple but I think it'll be a good color to rock on a night out to the club with an all black outfit!

I love the fact that they're completely matte and they're not hard to apply at all. I don't know about you ladies but for me, the MAC matte lipsticks are hard to put on and they dry my lips (yes, I'm still madly in love with all of the MAC though) I just added a bit of chapstick before I applied the color and ta-daaahh!!


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