So anyway, I ordered my things from Cocktail Cosmetics on the 19th, which was a Saturday, but the Saturday of the Easter weekend so I was expecting it to take a little while to come. I received an email on the Tuesday evening saying my order had been dispatched and that because of Easter to expect my items to take 3-5 working days to arrive, which was fair enough, because the post would be behind and whatnot. I was pleasantly surprised to find they actually got delivered on the Wednesday, which is cool. I don't like waiting for things to arrive, i'm super impatient, especially when its something i'm really looking forward to. The lipsticks arrived in a small cardboard box filled with cute purple shredded paper stuff, and they were lined up super nice so that the boxes made a whole unicorn which is really cool, I don't know if that was just coincidence or on purpose, but I like it regardless.
I ordered Airborne Unicorn (Medium purple with a neon note. Hue as mysterious as the animal itself...), Great Pink Planet (Pastel pink with a neon note -- think Malibu Barbie!), Coquette,(Pale, peachy-nude.) and Cosmopop (Soft orange -- think creamsicle.).
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| From L to R: Airborne Unicorn, Cosmopop, Coquette, Great Pink Planet. |
Everyone knows the packaging is super cute so I'll ignore that, as for the lipsticks themselves, they have a faint vanilla smell, and to apply they're hard, but creamy, its quite odd! They feel a little heavy on the lips too but that could be because I don't usually wear anything on my lips. They do apply super opaque though, one coat is plenty to get a really nice finish and normally within half an hour I've licked all the colour away but i've had the same one on for 2 now and it's not budged at all, which is really nice.
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| Top left: Airborne Unicorn, Top right: Great Pink Planet, Bottom left: Cosmopop, Bottom right: Coquette |
These are all (badly) applied with one coat straight from the tube, all very opaque and not matte, but not frosty or shiny either. The only one thats not completely opaque is Airborne Unicorn towards the middle of the bottom lip, but that may well be because I didn't take off Great Pink Planet, which I applied before, properly. Strangely enough, the one I find hardest to wear is Great Pink Planet, I thought it was going to be Airborne Unicorn because who does purple lipstick? but I think the Barbieness of Great Pink Planet just makes it look a little strange to me. I was pleasantly surprised by coquette too since every other nude shade I've tried has looked awful on my skin, but I like how this one looks. I really like these lipsticks and I can definitely see past the price and drama associated with them, especially since they're made in the USA and are cruelty free, I would quite like to get the rest of the shades, not that I could pull off mint green and yellow!
