With the entire cult following
stuff, I am very curious about Illamasqua’s products. The brand started as cult
British make up line famous for brave colors and crazy pigmented products.
As a novice to the brand, I decided to try
more subtle colors first… so I picked up their lip twin set which contains
Intense Lipgloss in Plentiful and Matte Lipstick in Obey.
Nothing fancy in the packaging
here… plastic lipgloss tube and simple-but-cool square lippie tube with curved
sides. I do love the simplicity and the cool factor of the lipstick tube.
Now the product… I was expecting
Plentiful to be one of those milky gloss which settles on my lips. But I was
wrong… it somehow manage to stay nice while showing off its pretty color when
worn. Plentiful itself is a borderline neon milky pastel peach. Worn alone, it
doesn’t show super neon color, but subtle yet noticeable milky peach. The color
stays on me for about 3 hours before starting to fade (I sip my tea a lot). It
didn’t just disappear, but leaving soft peachy tint by the end of 3 hours. You
can easily wipe off the peachy tint with plain tissue if you want to. I didn’t
taste anything, but it is lightly fragranced. What can I say… I am loving this
color right now…
Obey on the other hand is more
difficult to pull off. Mainly because of its matte formula. My lips are
naturally dry, and applying lipbalm underneath doesn’t help. In an hour or so,
I can see my lips feeling drier.
Obey matches perfectly with
Plentiful, hence most of the time, I wear them in layer. Layering gives me pop
of color with healthy gloss thrown in. perfect! For colors which are beyond my
comfort zone (the neon-ish factor), the duo is surprisingly wearable and
lovable for my skin.
Bottomline,
I totally would buy more colors
from the lipgloss range. But for the matte lipstick, I don’t think my dry lips
agrees with the formula. I am planning to try lipstick from other formula.
The colors are surprisingly
wearable. Pigmentation is perfect too.
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