Rant: Revlon Lip Butter in Pink Lemonade

Sometimes, I don't think things through. I get overly excited and all logic goes out the window. This is especially true when it comes to beauty products. I see it and oops! Suddenly, I have 12 of something that I don't even like.

This happened with the Revlon Kissable Balm Stains - I bought 5 and only kept 1 (I gave the rest to my bf K).

This summer, it happened when the new Revlon Lip Butters came out. I got really excited and bought Pink Lemonade, thinking it would be a gorgeous semi-sheer pink that would look great and hydrate my lips. Oh boy.

So I have quite pigmented lips, but I look like a zombie when I put this on. The color choice is my own fault: I should have tried it on at the drugstore, worn it a bit, and seen that the color didn't suit me. That much I'll admit.

But the finish? Chalky. And matte. What? And hydration? Non existent. Before I realized I looked horrible wearing this (no one at work said anything EVER and I wore this all the time at first), I used up half the tube. It was quite easy: I felt my lips were abnormally dry whenever I wore this, so I would reapply, thinking it wasn't this product that was drying them out. I don't often get cracked lips, but I got a bad case of them when using this, to the point that not even my favorite lip balms could salvage them enough by the next day to make them look normal.

Although I didn't try layering this with anything else, I'm kind of afraid too, because of how it dried out my lips so badly. And I don't like the finish, so wasting gloss or another lipstick to make this look good is kind of...not worth it, for me.

Have you had better luck with this product?

S
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