RSSProduct Review : Lise Watier Plumpissimo La Base and Le Gloss
August 17, 2008
This is a pretty good product, but buy it for the right reason.
Lise Watier Plumpissimo Lip Gloss
I bought it to satisfy my fetish for the perfect bronze-peach gloss. To spend $20 on lip gloss, the product has to be special or I have to be feeling weak. In this case, it was both.
I broke one of my personal makeup-buying rules here because I bought the product in the evening. After 4PM, the light is so flattering with its softer yellow wavelengths that many borderline products will look good. If something looks good in AM lighting, with its harsher, bluer wavelengths, then it will look good anytime. An exception would be choosing lip color that will be worn in the evening, where you need deeper pigments for it to be visible.
This product comes in 5 colors. They are each very good, all pure, pretty colors. Good pigments are hard to find cheap. I bought Bronze but there are 5 others. They all shimmer. It takes a day’s search to find great lipgloss without glitter. I’m not versed in sparkle technology, but there are those glosses where the glitter complements the color of the gloss and seems to enrich it (like Chanel’s Glossimers) and others that just create a white/gray 1960’s frost effect ( I see Cover Girl Wet Slicks here). This one is somewhere between the two but leaning more to the good side depending on which color you buy.
I like a product that is creamy, not oily/slippery/thin/watery. Though this gloss feels more oily when applied, it has decent durability. It is scented of orange and cinnamon, but mildly so IMO. I guess this is what is supposed to do the plumping, but I’ve written before ( in Product Review : Maybelline Volume XL Seduction Lip Plumper) that I don’t think plumping products based on tingle work, at least not so as anyone else would notice. Either that or I have un-plumpable lips which is entirely possible. This gloss came out 3 months ago. I’m not sure why. The whole lip plumping thing has been done, unless someone comes out with a new gimmick.
I don’t care for brush applicators. You’d think they would work well, like a built-in lipbrush, but they don’t. With time and use, the bristles start going off in all directions and it’s just a mess. In this case, the bristles are quite long, perhaps to avoid that problem. Problem is the brush feels too long and the bristles are a little floppy and hard to control. I still like sponge-tips best, especially with gloss, the beauty of which is that precision is not necessary.
La Base is an accompanying product with the same type of brush application. It is positioned to “redefine contours, enhance lips, and hold lipstick color longer”. Once again, I must have uncooperative lips. Though it is very comfortable, I would not agree that it accomplished any of the above goals. It is also $20.
I don’t dislike Plumpissimo. I’ll use it all up and have gotten compliments. The reason-to-buy here is the color.
Because I love hearing what other women think, and appreciate nothing better than an honest review, here are some opinions from others, at I’m A Beauty Geek, Chick Advisor , and Kiss and Makeup.
-->This is a pretty good product, but buy it for the right reason.
I bought it to satisfy my fetish for the perfect bronze-peach gloss. To spend $20 on lip gloss, the product has to be special or I have to be feeling weak. In this case, it was both.
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