Glossing it over. (L'Oreal Glam Shine Diamant)

Member Name: Emmald

Product:	L'Oreal Glam Shine Diamant
Date:	25/09/09 (49 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: A high shimmer .

Disadvantages: Not for mature lips !

I have a lot of L'Oreal cosmetics lurking in my drawer, some have been well used and others were an impulse buy that backfired.
The L'Oreal Glam Shine Diamant lip gloss was one of those that fell into the second category - not because the product is inferior in any way but I think it is definitely a cosmetic that is aimed at the younger end of the market.

The bottle is lovely, it is chic and elegant and the contents look very tantalising, the small glass bottle has a long silvery coloured cap which holds the wand.
Now when I first looked at the L'Oreal Diamant lip gloss it didn't look too sparkly, maybe the light in the chemists was masking the actual amount of `sparkle` that was inside of the bottle.
I just thought that I would like to try something different and ended up buying the Diamant lip gloss in a shade called Pink carat.
I paid just under £6 for my little bottle and as lip gloss prices go I thought that was top whack ( for my budget anyway!)

The L'Oreal Diamant lip gloss is not an everyday cosmetic, it is meant for evening wear.
The first thing I looked at was the wand, I have seen many oddly shaped wands but this had to be the best of the bunch !
The stem on the wand is quite long which helps a lot but then the tip of the wand is shaped like an upside down heart that has had the middle section removed. L'Oreal say that the shape of the wand is designed to make application easy. Sorry L'Oreal but I failed to see the point that you were trying to make, the hole in the middle of the wand seemed to complicate the whole issue.

I had put my normal layer of pink lipstick underneath and once a light layer of the L'oreal lip gloss went on top the colour was lovely. The pinky gloss certainly made the very best of my lips but when I looked in the mirror I felt very concious that the gloss contained a bit too much `sparkle` for someone of my age.
When the lip gloss is on your lips it feels very soft and slightly oily and the colour that shows on your lips is the exact colour that you see in the small bottle. That oily feeling soon dries and the gloss is not sticky.
The sparkly lip gloss feels very moisturising, it has a very light fragrance but next to no taste and
the sparkly bits in the lip gloss are so fine that they have practically `melted` into the gloss.

I loved it and if I had felt confident that it suited me then I would have gone out wearing it, I even tried to blot it with some tissue to calm the sparkly element down a bit but that didn't work either.
Lip glosses tend not to last too long and I would imagine that this one from L'Oreal would be no different but it only takes a couple of seconds to retouch lip gloss anyway.'

I thought that the high shine may form `crinkles` but it doesn't, it is quite happy to stay where you put it. I took my layer of shiny gloss off easily and replaced it with a layer of normal lip gloss ( minus sparkle).

Yes, I was a bit miffed that I had spent nearly £6 on a lip gloss that I wasn't going to use but then again it was my fault for looking at myself through rose tinted specs.
L'Oreal have created a great shimmery lip gloss that is filled with colour but in my opinion it is one that looks far better on much younger lips than mine.

I have just been on Ebay and noticed that the L'oreal Diamant lip gloss is on the site and it seems a bit cheaper, plus it comes in another three shades.
A four star product but one for the younger skin.

Summary: A great product but just not for me.