Thank you so much for the great response for my last post on DRUG STORE BEAUTY MUST HAVES. Many of you wrote to me, asking for a few more posts related to Drug Store Beauty deals, picks and reviews. So I decided ,why not. Lets try to stick to a budget for some time.
NYX Butter Lipsticks have been around for quite some time, but it took me time to venture down that road. On an ULTA HAUL not too long ago, I picked up three colors: A Red, a Coral and a Hot Pink. If I had to see how a type of lipstick performed, I needed to test out a few colors from the collection.
A good part of NYX Cosmetics is that they have Testers at ULTA. Which just makes me a kid in the candy store with so many options. Drug Store Beauty items in the US do not have Testers, so the few brands which do provide testers, are surely a welcome change. I tend to gravitate towards Brighter colors, so that made me literally switch out every bright color in the collection.Could have also been the entire collection.I must have gone a bit overboard.
I picked out FIREBALL , JUJU AMULET and RAZZLE FIESTA.
As the name suggests, the lipsticks are very buttery. They do not drag across the lips at all. One of my biggest problems with Drug store lipsticks is that some of them tend to drag across the lips a lot. This was soft and was really gliding across. I was applying them straight from the bullet rather than using a lip brush.
The packaging is helpful. The Lipstick bullet is colored in the same color as the shade it hold inside. That make sit easier to sort through a bunch of lipsticks in my lipstick drawer. If you are like me, you will have multiple colors from any collection of lipsticks, so it makes organizing easier. You do not have to pick out every bullet to find out the color you want to wear.
Coming down to color pay off and pigmentation. They are very highly pigmented for the price they come for. The reds and pinks are brighter than the lighter shades. They did last for a long time when I had worn all three colors.
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| FIREBALL |
Now for the individual colors I picked out. Lets start with FIREBALL which is the coral shade in the trio. Its a very universally flattering shade I feel. A perfect Summer color. Its almost like a creamsicle color and has a nice shine to it. I had worn it for a whole day, for a barbecue out in the sun,and the color really stayed put.
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| RAZZLE FIESTA |
RAZZLE FIESTA is a bluish hot pink.Almost like a neon Barbie pink. This has to be the favorite of the colors I picked up. Its one of those statement colors which is enough to take an outfit from drab to great. But this color can bleed.So I used a lipliner to outline the lips to prevent it from bleeding. This cold is almost Demi Matte and does not have the shine like the other two colors.
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| JUJU AMULETTE |
The color I was let down by, was the Red I had picked up: JUJU AMULETTE . Not because its a bad lipstick, but because I prefer blue toned Reds,and this was not. This Red I felt was a bit of a dated shade. When I wore it, I felt like I was looking like I had stepped out from the 1980s. But personal biases aside, its a great shade of red to whomever might like. As with all the colors, its got great color pay off and I did get many compliments as well. this color also has a great shine to it, like the coral shade. Maybe because I like my Reds matte, I was put off a bit by it
Now for the question of whether I will venture further and get any more shades from this collection. I think I will. I am fairly impressed by his drug store beauty and want to try out the Nudes in the collection. I have seen a friend of mine swear by the nudes of this collection and its high time, I gave them a try.
ULTA HAUL : http://journotalk.blogspot.com/2015/03/ulta-haul-and-make-up-gifts.html
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