Review: Revlon Colorburst Lip Gloss

I have mixed feelings about the Revlon Colorburst Lip Gloss. I have two of the lip glosses - Peony and Buff. I find that the formulas differ greatly; Peony feels like a gel formula while Buff is more like a cream. I absolutely love Peony but Buff is just plain awful.

Peony is a light coral with gold glitter. It has a sheerer formula that gives my lips a tint light coral. The gold glitter is not fine enough to be deemed as shimmer but it is not chunky by any means. The gloss goes on very smoothly and levels itself quite nicely. It wears off very nicely as well and doesn't leave much of the gold glitter behind.

Buff is a nude with silver and pink shimmer. The shimmer gives the nude gloss more dimension and prevents it from looking too flat. The color does have a very slight peach lean but I will still call it a straight up nude. Despite being a nude, Buff is much more pigmented that I expected it to be. It's not sheer by any means and it can give you a concealer lip look if you are very pale. The color works alright for me but the formula is really bad. It doesn't glide on as smoothly as Peony and I find that it slips into every fine line of my lips. If you think that rubbing your lips together will solve this problem, you will find yourself in a nightmare. I tried to rub my lips together in an attempt to smooth out the gloss but instead of achieving the look I wanted, most of the gloss moved to the edge of my lips and because the lip gloss is rather pigmented, it creates a very messy effect. I've tried to use Buff on its own and over a lipstick or liner but nothing has worked so far.

The Revlon Colorburst Lip Gloss is a hit-or-miss depending on the color. I really enjoy Peony but I won't be picking up anymore of these lip glosses because of my bad experience with Buff. I love Revlon's lip products but this one just didn't do it for me. There are a lot of great lip glosses that have a good and consistent formula and some of my favorites are the NYX Mega Shine Lip Gloss. Do you have a favorite line of lip glosses? Let me know in the comments!

Review: Elizabeth Arden High Shine Lip Gloss

One of my favorite places to shop for makeup is at Changi Airport. I've made it a point to get at least one item every time I leave the country and I stumbled upon an amazing deal for the Elizabeth Arden High Shine Lip Gloss during one of my trips earlier this year. Needless to say, I couldn't resists a good deal and I got two of the lip glosses.

I have the Elizabeth Arden High Shine Lip Gloss in Rose Gold and Berrylicious. I actually picked the two up during two separate trips to the airport and Rose Gold was the first one that I got. The two shades are fairly similar in color and they both have fine gold shimmer running through them.

Berrylicious is the darker shade of the two and it's a lovely shade of berry. Rose Gold is a brown nude shade that has a berry undertone. The golden shimmer in the two lip glosses are extremely fine and they are not chunky by any means. They do add a nice touch of shimmer on my lips but in a very subtle manner. Rose Gold definitely has more golden shimmer than Berrylicious but the shimmer is still subtle. The swatches of Berrylicious and Rose Gold are pictured below.

The formulation of the Elizabeth Arden High Shine Lip Gloss is great. They're rather pigmented so they wear nicely on their own or layered over a lipstick. In terms of wear time, they do last for a good number of hours and they wear off very nicely with no flaky look. The lip gloss doesn't have the "wet look" that some high shine lip glosses have and I think that makes these a good option for more formal looks. 

The Elizabeth Arden High Shine Lip Glosses are great in terms of color and wear and I will get more of them in the future. 

Review: NYX Mega Shine Lip Gloss

I'm not a lip gloss kind of girl. I used to love it when I first started using make up years ago but as I grew older, I started enjoying lipsticks more and I think I might have stopped using lip gloss for quite awhile. I feel that lip glosses are much more high maintenance as they have the potential to dry out and cling on to the dry patches of your lips, creating the most disastrous lip look ever. I also really hated wearing lip gloss on windy days because my hair gets stuck onto my lips.

I started using lip gloss again after rediscovering my Revlon Colorburst Lipgloss in Peony late last year and I picked up the NYX Mega Shine Lip Gloss in Gold Pink just to get reacquainted with lip glosses. I really liked it and I went ahead to get it in three other colors.

The formulation of the NYX Mega Shine Lip Gloss is generally great. I say generally because I believe that the formulation of the different colors differ slightly as they wear differently on my lips. They are all rather lightweight and non-sticky but some of the colors will dry out and leave awful patches on my lips.

Gold Pink is my favorite. It's a shade of true pink packed with fine gold shimmer. The shimmer is very fine so it doesn't look too crazy on the lips. It's not very pigmented but it gives a nice wash of color on your lips and I like to wear this on its own. The formulation of Gold Pink is great and it wears really nicely.

My second favorite of the four that I have is Smokey Look. The color leans slightly towards a peachy nude and it has fine silver shimmer going through it. The peachy undertone and the shimmer helps to add dimension to the otherwise flat nude and it doesn't make me look dead. The formulation is rather similar to Gold Pink and it doesn't dry out on my lips, which is a plus!

I also have the NYX Mega Shine Lip Gloss in Nude Peach, which is not a shade of nude at all in my opinion. It's a bright color with very fine silver shimmer that does not really show up on the lips. It's a gorgeous color but unfortunately, the formulation is not the best and I prefer to wear this on top of a coral or peach lipstick.

The NYX Mega Shine Lip Gloss in Beige is a highly raved about product. If you've heard about this product, you would have most probably heard that the color is not what the name suggests. It's a shade of dusty pink that has no shimmer or glitter in it at all. Despite all the raves, this is actually my least favorite shade. I find that the formulation doesn't wear as well and it has the greatest potential out of the four to dry out and become patchy. In terms of the color, I find that this shade makes me look a little bit dead because the color is rather flat. Personally, I like my lip glosses to have a bit of shimmer to give them that extra dimension.

I find that these lip glosses can be rather hit-or-miss depending on the formulation. I do recommend these because some of these NYX Mega Shine Lip Gloss have great formulation and color. They are very affordable and they all have a really strong sweet scent which I love!