MakeUp: LASplash Cosmetics- Lip Couture Review ‘Poison Apple’

I purchased 4 shades of Lip Couture from LASplash Cosmetics, and I’ll be sharing my review from each day I tried them, culminating in a swatching video that I’ll be sharing from my YouTube channel.

Lip Couture Shades: Forbidden, Poison Apple, Latte Confession, Innocent Vixen
(There is more of an introduction to the product and brand in yesterday’s** post, here. )

Day 2: Poison Apple

First things first: I LOVE this color!  It isn’t exactly as the swatch on the website, but it’s gorgeous nonetheless.  It’s really beautiful.  The pictures do not do it justice.  At all.  Gorgeous.  I got this as a sort of Red Velvet (Velvetine from Lime Crime) dupe, even though I don’t actually have Red Velvet.  It seems a bit darker than Red Velvet appears, but I the Wicked Velvetine, and I think that Lip Couture’s Vampire is probably closer to it.  But since Wicked is the only Velvetine I have, I’ll use it as a comparison.

Who loves my sweatband?

I’m still figuring out what to do with my bangs as they grow out…

Now, with the Wicked Velvetine, I always have difficulty lining my lips, they never seemed to come out just right.  I watched YouTube videos, Instagram videos, did research.  It always seemed to run as I was applying it and I’d end up with some on my skin.

While I did have some of this on my fingers after the initial application, from spot checking when applying, I didn’t end up with it all around my mouth.  I used a tiny bit of coconut oil on a cotton swab followed by a tiny bit of concealer on one spot that I felt dipped a bit too far down on my lower lip, but still it came out great.  And this shade, when I put it on and waited the 2 minutes for it to dry, it did not transfer during the “hand-kiss” test like Forbidden did yesterday**.

We then went to see Jurassic World (BADASS!!!!).  I partook of popcorn and an Icee.

Obviously.

The unfortunate thing about this was that after eating, unlike the shade of Forbidden that I wore yesterday**, it had visibly reduced in color around the inner part of the lips.  Not a terrible amount, it wasn’t like a giant red ring around my mouth, like my experience with the Wicked Velvetine, but it was a noticeable difference, at least to me.  If my mouth was closed, then you couldn’t tell, but if I was talking, then you could see it.

After movie necessities, before reapplication

So I did reapply this, which I didn’t have to do with the Forbidden shade.  It wore a lot more obviously throughout the day, presumably because of the difference in color from my naked lips to the lip couture.  By the end of the night (seen in the below photo), I did have the dreaded RED RING OF DEATH. (Or something less dramatic.)

RED RING OF DEATH!!!

It also seemed to be more easy to actually remove at the end of the night.  There wasn’t any scrubbing necessary this time.  I just put coconut oil on my lips, rubbed it in with my finger, and wiped it away.  It did still leave a slight stain to the lip, but I tend to sleep with coconut oil on my lips, covered with Vaseline Lip Therapy anyway.  So by the time I woke up, there wasn’t any particularly noticeable staining left.  And I was a blank canvas for the next shade: Latte Confession.

From my experience wearing the Lime Crime Velvetine in Wicked, I’d say this wears very comparably, although with Wicked I’d have had a more noticeable ring after just the popcorn.

Again, I want to say that I LOVE this shade.  Poison Apple is one of the most beautiful reds I’ve ever worn, I think it works great with my skin tone, and I can easily see it being my go-to red lip.  At this price point, $13.98 USD, I can afford to have back up for my purse and the red ring of death will no longer be an issue.

(Sidenote Again: My husband liked this shade much more than Forbidden.  Guess how much I cared this time?  A lot more, because husband.)

**(Apologies for the lateness of this post.  Summertime + college coursework + taxiing children + a handsome husband with a little time off = Not getting side projects done on time.)

MakeUp: LASplash Cosmetics- Lip Couture Review ‘Forbidden’

I purchased 4 shades of Lip Couture from LASplash Cosmetics, and I’ll be sharing my review from each day I tried them, culminating in a swatching video that I’ll be sharing from my YouTube channel.

Lip Couture Shades: Forbidden, Poison Apple, Latte Confession, Innocent Vixen

Day 1: Forbidden

                          

I decided to do a little pampering.  My daughter and I put on Paula’s Choice Skin Recovery Hydrating Treatment Mask**, so I decided to go ahead and also try on my first Lip Couture color, Forbidden, and practicing a winged eyeliner tutorial.

Poorly applied winged liner, and freshly applied Forbidden Lip Couture. Also, how do you like the facial mask buildup above my lip? You’re welcome.

I’ve been reading up on this brand for a while, since I was introduced to it in a Goss Makeup Artist video on YouTube.  It’s apparently pretty comparable to Lime Crime’s Velvetine line, at almost half the price.  So I figured, why not?

They’re liquid to matte lip colors. Supposedly these are completely waterproof, won’t transfer, and stay on FOREVER (okay, maybe not quite forever), only being easily removed with their own removal product. (I did not purchase the removal product.) Supposedly this doesn’t come off while eating, drinking, even with greasy foods.  We’ll see.

I’m still wearing, as I type this, my first day color (Forbidden), and we had pizza for dinner. So far, the color is still there, even after eating and drinking.  But I have not found it to be completely non-transferable.  When I kissed my hand after putting it on, and letting it dry for 2 minutes, it still transferred a small bit.  And now, after eating, if I brush my lips, I can see the color on my hand or whatnot.  But, let me reiterate, the color on my lips is still very much there.

I do believe that it is of note that the color of the actual lipstick is not very accurately represented by the color swatch on the website.  I’d do some research for yourself (YouTube videos for the shade you’re interested in, if it’s not one of the 4 I have here, because I will be doing a swatching video after this written post) before committing.  Unless you have $15 to toss away, which I guess I kinda did because I wanted them no matter what they turned out like. 😀

I can say that, so far, I would definitely call this comparable in quality and staying power (if not better than) to Lime Crime Velvetine.  I have the Velvetine in Wicked, and it has never lasted an entire day for me.  It ALWAYS comes off in the middle of my mouth, where food or drink would enter, and I’d end up with just a ring around my lips.  Then I’d have to reapply.  With Lip Couture, so far, I have not had to reapply.

After eating dinner, drinking, eating dessert. Still there, no reapplication necessary.

Here’s a shot of the end of the night, before I attempted to remove the lipstick.  It took a LOT of work to get it off, and even after soaking my lips in coconut oil, and then using a makeup removing cleanser, AND a rotating exfoliation brush, there was still a faint color.  Additionally, in a lot of the research and reviews I read and watched on these, people complained about the smell of the product.  I honestly haven’t noticed any strong or displeasing smell.  I mean, the smell isn’t great, I’m not sniffing the hell out of the applicator.  But really I haven’t noticed much of a smell at all just while applying.

Sidenote: My husband did not like this shade. Can you guess how much I cared?  I wanted a pink statement lip, and this definitely delivers that.

*Added the next day, it did fade the rest of the way overnight.  My lips were practically bare by morning.

** Paula’s Choice is a brand of skincare products that I’ve been using for months now.  They’ve changed my life, and that’s not an exaggeration.  I’ll be doing a blog post on the products I use specifically, soon.  But, I wanted to provide my referral link now, because it will get a new customer $10 off their first order.  
Paula’s Choice Referral Link: http://goo.gl/VZqSql