Maybelline ColorSensational Lipstick in Pink of Me #165

15th August, 2010

When I looked at it I had to have it and after I swatched it…it was the one for me. This is my first ever (I have a lot of first currently, huh?) Maybelline lipstick and I think I like this line A LOT! I just started getting into lipsticks I guess about six months ago because I didn’t like them at all before because I had a “thing” for lipglosses and balms. I am so over lipglosses and would rather not buy one unless it’s a cool colored, non-chunky dazzleglass from MAC, but other than that I’m over them.

I also found that I have a thing for purple, coral and orange colored lipsticks. Having the skin tone I have you would think I’d run from them. At first, yes and it was all about nudes because I have big lips, well not very big lips. I think these colors look good on me and then I love these color lipsticks so I tend to buy the same type of colors which is insane, but I can’t help it.

Moving on…this lipstick is called Pink of Me and it is a pink color and the only other pink lippie I have is Viva Glam Ga Ga (which I adore) so when I saw this toned down pinky corally color lipstick I had to have it. It goes on like a MAC cremesheen lipstick almost. It’s creamy, the color pops, very color rich and it lasts a good while. Does it get dry afterwhile? Not really, but I have to reapply rarely to add some moisture back. I don’t like putting lipglosses on top of lipsticks unless it’s a cremesheen glass from MAC because those goes on so smooth and thin and adds this incredible milky shine to the lips. My wig hairs get stuck on lipglasses and lipglosses…gross.

The packaging is really nice and I like it a lot – snaps on and off. The only thing I don’t like about Maybelline lipsticks is that you can open them in the store and swatch them and if you don’t like it you can put it back on the shelf. Gross. So make sure to open your lipstick before to check it for use before purchasing it. I wanted to get a second lippie in a purple color, but they were all sold out at the Target I was at so I’ll try again at a later time.

So this is my review (yes, I’m always late because there are so many products to try out with so little time…give me a break). Yesterday I came across the new Pearl colors from this line and I don’t like them. It looks like a lippie you should put on top of another lipstick to give it sheen maybe. I swatched a lot of the colors in the range they had (nude, brown, pink, peach) and they all swatched out looking like the same color on my hand – a very sheer shimmery yellow color ??? Maybe on the lips they look better…I don’t know. But I don’t care. If a lippie doesn’t swatch out right on my hand I don’t buy it.

Now for pics of my lovely lipstick…adore it.