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.
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.
Back in the spring of 2021, I was browsing Harrods UK looking for a Suqqu lippie that was sold out at Selfridges UK and found these Givenchy Le Rouge Perfecto on sale instead ^.^ These were retailing for $37 at the time (now $39-49, depends on the source) but Harrods had marked them down to $18-26, so I happily picked up one of each color they had in stock: a Givenchy Le Rouge Perfecto Trio with 01 Perfect Pink, 03 Sparkling Pink, and 04 Blue Pink, another 01 Perfect Pink in LE packaging, 02 Intense Pink, and a LE 05 Spirited.
Emboldened by my experience with the luxurious Gucci Baume a Levres Lip Balm, I picked up these Giorgio Armani Ecstasy Balms in the spring of 2022. If I remember correctly, there were only 3 "colors" and I got all 3: 1 Soft Nude/Light Pink, 2 Neo Nude/Deep Pink, and 3 Deep Nude/Plum. The name/name is odd, I know. That's because GA's website and the product packaging don't quite agree on what the actual color names are. The packaging says 1 Soft Nude but the website says 1 Light Pink. Go figure.
Also, these balms were released in 2018, so by the time of my purchase, they aren't new and have been on the market for a few years. In the years since, they have been discontinued as well.
After my underwhelming experience with YSL Volupte Plump-in-Colour Plumping Lip Balm, I vowed to not go near non-Japanese "luxury" brands again. I felt the quality of the product doesn't always commensurate with the retail price, so if I was going indulge, I'd rather go for Japanese high-end instead, which has rarely disappoint in my experience. Of course I'm biased :P
Then came the 2021 holiday season and Selfridges ran their year-end sale, wherein I spotted something peculiar: these Gucci Baume a Levres Lip Balm. Yep, vow broken. I have zero discipline, or honor :P I figured there was no harm in trying some lip balms, right? There were five colors available and I picked three: 2 No More Orchids, 3 Rene Pink, and 4 Penelope Plum.
This is the last post for the Opera Sheer Lip Color, as the product has been discontinued for a few years now. The color 204 Pure Coral was part of the permanent lineup revamped in the fall of 2016, combining the previous "Basic" and "Color" varieties of the original lineup. I suspect they recycled the color names too, because the old "Color" line also had a 104 Pure Coral.
Been using this 15mL/0.5fl. oz. tube of Kiehl's Lip Balm in #1 Mint and liking it a lot!
Last year, I went through a stick balm phase and tried a bunch of different ones from different brands, the first of which was this 10g twist up tube of Isoi Intensive Energizing Multi Balm.
