This Alverde Naturkosmetik Tinted Lip Balm was part of a giant care package Julia sent me a few years ago (thank you, Julia!). And no, it didn't take me this long to get to the tinted lip balm. More like it took me this long to post this post ^.^" The tinted lip balm was long gone. Ha.
This NARS Sur La Plage Lip Balm Set was a cart filler for a Nordstrom order a couple of years back. I guess I'd been curious about these for a while so that was a good opportunity to try out something new. The set came with three colors: the signature Orgasm, and Baja and Marbella.
I'd read lots of raves for these Yves Saint Laurent Water Stains and had been curious about them, so when Selfridges UK put them on sale (admittedly, a few years ago...), I picked up 3 colors to try: 605 Bain de Corail, 609 Submerged Coral, and 618 Wet Vermilion.
Been carrying these 10mL/0.3fl. oz. tubes of L'Occitane Delicious Lip Oils 020 Spicy Nude and 040 Pink Mecanic in my gym bag for the past couple of years and reach for them more often than not.
So far, Yves Saint Laurent lippies have been hit-and-miss for me, although admittedly I have only tried a few. The Volupte Plump-in-Colour Plumping Lip Balms didn't leave much of an impression, but I liked The Slim Sheer Mattes enough to go back for more colors. So when I kept seeing chatters about these Rouge Volupte Shine, I was game to try some. Thanks to Selfridges UK for their enabling promotions, I picked up Collector 76 Golden--Red in the Dark and Collector 80 Golden--Chili Tunique, both LE items, and 83 Rouge Cape, 85 Burgundy Love, 87 Rose Afrique, 129 Carmine Retro, and 131 Chili Morocco from the permanent line-up at the time. I have not gone back for more of these so I don't know if anything has changed since my last purchase.
Yep, I went right back for more of these Yves Saint Laurent The Slim Sheer Mattes, this time picking up 103 Orange Provocant, 110 Berry Exposed, and 112 Raw Rosewood, among other things. Accidentally purchased an extra 111 Corail Explicite too but am happy to have a backup of the color.
These Paul & Joe Liquid Rouge were released in the spring of 2021 with 2 types: a Shine Type in 8 colors that are pigmented with a glossy finish, and a Tint Type in 3 colors that are sheer and also with a glossy finish. I was starting to use more lip glosses around this time and picked the latter Tint Type in 01 Cocktail Cherry, 02 Tutu Ballerina, and 03 L’Heure du The.
After the success of Le Rouge Perfecto (released 2016), in 2019 Givenchy released these Le Rose Perfecto that were supposed to lip balms, versus Le Rouge Perfecto's sheer lipsticks. Of course I was curious. Seeing that they had several different reds, I picked up 4 colors to try: 301 Soothing Red, 302 Solar Red, 303 Warming Red, and 304 Cosmic Plum.
All pictures taken in natural light without flash.
