Shimmer Shimmery Pappady Do! Review: Burt's Bees Lip Shimmer in Watemelon

Ahh lipbalms. How I adore them. They were my first discovery into the land of beauty at the tender age of 13. I remember pooh pooh-ing the idea of lip balm and golly.. How wrong I was, n years later. 

Now my lip balm collection is out of control, with the last check being around 100+ lip products, inclusive of balms, gloss, stick, butter. I am genuinely afraid to count further. Anyway, less babble and onto today's review.

Enter Burt's Bees Lip Shimmer in Watermelon.

I apologise for the lack of swatch pictures beforehand. My camera just managed to capture a decent enough picture, (the one above) and after that it just refuses to take any other pictures. I will try my best to describe the colour as accurately as possible.

Where do I start? Right.. Product Information

Name: Burt's Bees Lip Shimmer in Watermelon

Weight/Price: 0.09 oz/ 2.6g / USD 4.99 

Packaging: Twist up lip balm with cap. Note: Don't over twist the lip balm. It doesn't come back down!

Repurchase: Not very likely. I have a gazillion more to go through!

The lip shimmer is best described as a frosty light rose lip balm. On my lips it leans towards frosty pink. Applied onto lips it has a slight tingly/minty taste which I like and also apparent in my other Burt's Bees lip balm. As a lip shimmer I say it would have worked up to its claims, being shimmery and being coloured. But for its moisturising properties, I have to comment on the lack of it. Applying it on is a dream, with just enough slip when you smack your lips together but it is not as moisturising as an ordinary lip balm would. This would be the trade off between having colours on your lips and having a moisturising lip balm I gather. I like this lip balm on days where I go out at night because this doesn't have SPF. 

Overall, this is an alright balm with nothing much to really write home about. I bought it purely because I liked the colour and nothing else. It gives a nice colour to my lips and its not as reflective on my lips than it is on my hands but I can't see myself repurchasing this lip balm simply because I have a gazillion more to go through. Note: This contains lanolin and carmine.

Ingredients are as below,

Ricinus communis (castor) seed oil, helianthus annus (sunflower) seed oil, beeswax, euphorbia cerifera wax, methe piperita (peppermint) oil, lanolin, theobroma cacao (cocoa) seed butter, copernicia cerifera wax, butyrospermum parkii (shea) butter, fragaria ananassa (strawberry) seed oil, prunus armeniaca (apricot) kernel oil, ribes nigrum (blackcurrant) seed oil, rosmarinus officinalis (rosemary) leaf extract, sambucus nigra (elderberry) seed oil, tocopherol, canola oil, glycine soja (soybean) oil. May contrain: mica, iron oxides, carmine, alumina and titanium dioxide.

Hurray for Hurraw! Sun Protection Balm SPF 15

Okay, while spending half of the day playing outside in the sun under an umbrella outside of my house I decided since I'm spending so much time outdoors I might as well update my blog about the sun protection balm that I've been using for awhile now.

Introducing Hurraw! Sun Protection Balm SPF 15!

I've always been on a quest to find lip balms with SPF cause as much as I love the sun, I hate the damages it can cause to the skin, especially the lips as its usually neglected when we apply sunscreen on our body. Imagine my excitement when I discovered Hurraw!'s SPF 15 lip balm.

This is how the packaging looks like. It's oval shaped too ladies so it does not roll away when stored in jeans or on the dresser. Personally I bought the balm because of its shape, I never had an oval-shaped lip balm before! :D

This is how the balm looks like, and it smells heavily of tangerine which is fine with me cause I'm a big citrus fan. And did I say anything about the glide of the balm? Simply heavenly!! Cause it just glides on beautifully and smoothly, no nasty rough glides like some lip balms with SPF has. And because of its glide I keep on reapplying on my lips heh :P Yes and it's also vegan! So it's like awesomeness in awesomeness. Especially with a glide so gooood.

However, the only minor gripe I have with this lip balm is that it gives a white cast after applied. I think it's because of the titanium oxide in the balm but it doesn't really bother me cause I use this lip balm as a base before my lip gloss and the white cast does not affect the colour of the balm, so it's okay for me. :D

Repurchase? Definitely. And other flavours too (:

Hurraw! Sun Balm retails at RM20 but for purchase of 4 balms and above, customers are entitled for 15% discount until 31 August 2011.

Link here:

http://forum.lowyat.net/index.php?showtopic=1882035&hl=

Pucker up girls! Review: Crazy Rumors Lip Balm

Hello girls! I'll be reviewing one of my favorite lip balm today; Crazy Rumors. I don't have a specific flavour that I love from Crazy Rumors cause they're all so yummy its pretty difficult to decide which one I really like! ): Oh well, onto the review.

Crazy Rumors has 8 ranges lip balm and they are :

Perk (captivating coffee inspired lip balms),

A La Mode(decadent ice cream inspired lip balms) ,

Freshly Squeezed (refreshing citrus inspired lip balm),

HibisKiss (Enchantingly Fragrant Hibiscus Inspired Lip Colours),

Soda Pop (Fizzy Soda Fountain Inspired Lip Balm),

Brew (Rejuvenating Tea Inspired Lip Balm),

Gumball (Classic Bubblegum Inspired Lip Balm)

Candy Cane (Festive Peppermint Infused Lip Balm) .

Price: USD 3.99

Availability: Only in USA.

Glide: Simply awesome. I love the fact that they are colourless and gives a glossy finish! Oh and they're more solid than MLS. So far none of my CR lip balms have melted on me before but MLS has. 2 out of 3 in fact. Boo!

Net weight: 0.15oz

CR prides itself in being vegan and also cruelty free. It's written on their lip balms. All ingredients used are natural,

Isn't the rabbit cute?!

This is how the balm looks like,

thoughts:

I would say that this is a pretty decent lip balm, and I love the Perk range because I love coffee! However, because they are not available locally tainted any possibilities of owning the full Perk range. And its not very often a spree-er places orders with CR as compared to MLS, so having CR lip balms are a rarity. If you see a CR spree anywhere, do let me know kay! (:

Apart from that, CR lip balms are really moisturising. I often go to sleep with lip balm on and some of them will wear off in the middle of the night but CR doesn't. It keeps my lips wonderfully coated on with its balm and when I wake up in the morning, its still there! And I wake up to softer lips every day. Cracked lips are a day of the past, I am happy to say! The smell is absolutely to die for too (: They smell EXACTLY like what they're names are. For example my Mocha smells exactly like Mocha, same goes to Raspberry Sherbet and all the other lip balms I owed from CR. Which makes me go 'aahhh, so lovely'.

I don't have anything bad to say about this lip balm, but I wish they could make it available locally too cause these are just simply divine! And also, inject some SPF into the balms. Due to the fact that they do not have SPF, I only use them at night. ): But all in all, its a really good balm and I wouldn't mind recommending it to friends and readers. (:

I got my balms from Rowena of MalaysianBeautyStore. But she's not doing a spree on CR anymore, so I don't know where to find my balms anymore! Boo. If anyone knows of current CR sprees, do let me know kay (: Need to stock up! Lol

Kris Allen - I need to know.