Hard Candy Lipstick

A while ago, Hard Candy launched their ‘coffee’ inspired lipsticks where each lipstick is supposedly made to taste like coffee, apparently to kick your addiction to caffeine! It is these kind of gimmicks that make gullible consumers like me buy their products! The taste of the lipstick is sweet, but definitely not coffee-like. The colour which I bought was called café latte, a sheer, glittery nude lipstick. It is rather too retro for my taste, so I usually apply it on top of my usual lipstick to make my lips pout. Other than that, there’s nothing that special about this product unless you like glitter and metallic-sheened lipsticks. The packaging is ...  Read the complete review

These are my all-time favourite lipsticks - extremely high quality, excellent and unusual colours and glamorous and practical packaging. It's the metallic colours that totally do it for me though. I've never found a brand with such vibrant shades, such a totally unusual effect or, very importantly for me, great staying power without being overly drying. Best is probably Tramp, a deep dark blood-red with a very metallic sheen that stays on all day and never ever bleeds. If you're looking for something really unusual but not too 'weird' how about Squeeze - it's a darkish cool brown metallic shot with purple and green. Yes ...  Read the complete review