Chicca Mesmeric Lipstick Part II

I really liked the Chicca Mesmeric Lipsticks I have and picked up another four colors late last year: 23 Garnet, 39 Carnation, 40 Rose & Love, and 41 Red Blueberry.

All pictures taken in natural light without flash.

The good news is that both the formula and packaging quality remain the same: tube is weighty and doesn't feel cheap, formula is thin but not too slippery, super comfortable and moisturizing on my lips, with a very glossy finish. The not so great news is that three of four colors are way too similar, and among them two are almost indistinguishable even in natural light =.="


Don't get me wrong, they're totally my kind of colors, all are along the orange-coral-red-berry spectrum. Sure, I have many similar lipsticks from multiple different brands, but there's something annoying about the same colors being recycled over and over in the same product of the same brand. I couldn't help feeling tricked when I thought I bought two different lipsticks and they turned out to be the same darn color (cough--Maquillage--cough!). And I get so tired of seeing the same colors over and over in different eye palettes (Suqqu Designing Color Eyes LE 114 花明 Hanaakari and the most recent LE 125 洸惚 Hikaribore--which I skipped, by the way). So yeah, no more Chicca lipsticks for me unless they release something really different.

- 23 Garnet: shimmer-free and warm-leaning pinkish red.

- 39 Carnation: shimmer free and very slightly warmer pinkish red if I'm splitting hair (*roll eyes*).

- 40 Rose & Love: shimmer-free pink-leaning coral and not at all rose.


- 41 Red Blueberry: a blue-based red with fine violet shimmers that don't show.

From left to right: 23 Garnet, 39 Carnation, 40 Rose & Love, and 41 Red Blueberry.

See my previous Chicca Mesmeric Lipstick post.