Wednesday, September 1, 2010

Lumene Smile Booster Lipsticks

Thanks to my uber-annoying, makeup-loving insistence look what i found today:

Nude Beige, Satin Coral and Heather Pink


Nude Beige
Satin Coral
Heather Pink
LtoR: Nude Beige, Satin Coral, Rimmel's Coral in Gold and Heather Pink
Nude Beige, Satin Coral, Coral in Gold and Heather Pink
  Swatches (flash):
Left to right: Heather Pink, Satin Coral and Nude Beige

Meet the new Lumene lipsticks, Smile Booster(s) is their name (and they surely made me smile!) and they were on sale for 49 crowns today (around €5). A real bargain.
I was looking for...nothing in particular (as usual) at the drugstore stands, checking out some (really) overrated L'Oreal pink lipsticks; i saw a hidden little shelf with a colorful tag that indicated 'on sale' and well, i did what i had to do. I was EXACTLY looking for pink lipsticks, a nude maybe, too, just something pretty. I didn't think i was going to find anything for less than €10 or nothing remotely beautiful (sometimes it's hard with drugstore lipsticks...not to mention i was in a clothing store that doesn't usually have a big woop of makeup).
Putting my usual exuberance aside, i am really in love with these. Apart from the colors (which are all i was looking for-something wearable, light pinks/corals/nudes) the creaminess- it's VERY good for a cheap lipstick. They don't stink either- it's a mild whiff of raspberry (obviously, fake, but instead of plasticine...) and are very pigmented without looking or feeling like a slick of makeup on the lips.Wow.

03 Nude Beige 

 This is lighter, a bit more sheer than the other two. I bought it because i want to wear it on top of other lipsticks i'm hoping i can get warped to a more decent tone (unwanted shades, porny bubblegum pinks, etc). It's very very creamy and 'shiny'- it doesn't contain neither glitter nor shimmer. However, it gives a creamy, satinated effect.It can absolutely be a perfect nude even when worn by itself. I think this is my first (and only) purely nude lipstick.


 04 Satin Coral


 A hint of coral and that's it. Very similar to Heather Pink (it's quite hard to make the difference actually). A little bit more wearable. It isn't the coral i'm hoping to find anytime soon because nothing compared to the Rimmel Soft Coral one (my HG coral lipstick....THE coral), but it's a cute pink-ish coral.

09 Heather Pink

Flash
Flash
 A liiiiiiiittle bit too much (at least for me), light pink-wise. I'm not used to wearing such light, pigmented lipsticks (i feel closer to the girls i used to make fun of for their clown lips), but this is definitely pleasant. I wanted to get Fuzzy Pink from Lancome (Heather Pink is a glitter-free Fuzzy Pink to a certain extent. I like to see it as a dupe; they're not identical but very very similar fyi) but hey, you can't beat this price. Plus the pigmentation. The real Heather Pink shade i guess would be the one in the swatch pictures and not what it looks like on my lips. I don't know why but my camera didn't manage to get the real thing.
.....perhaps i should be getting the rest of the collection as well. I had my eye on nr 1, a beige nude with a bit of shimmer in it which was out of stock (i can imagine!) and nr 8, a bubblegum pink, a tad more intense than Heather Pink.

1 comment:

  1. I have a Lumene lipstick too. It smells weird and it broke off today...

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