I’m gonna hold my hands up and say this:  I bought this lipstick after a mad traffic accident in Geneva a couple of weeks ago (crazy french driver running a red light into me – joy!).  I was in town and had already decided that was the day to spend up all the vouchers which the boyfriend had saved up (from a credit card incentive scheme) for one of the larger department stores.  So slightly dazed after the car had been towed and I was left to find my own way home, I bought a couple of things including this Pro Longwear Lipcreme in You’re Perfect Already, which was part of the recent Beth Ditto Collection… the other items I got that day I am entirely happy with, but this, I really don’t know what I was thinking, or maybe I can.  

I mean it looks so nice in the swatch but when I wear it, it makes me look like a corpse, like all the creamy powder pinks lipsticks in the world seem to do (again, What Was I Thinking?)!  As you can see on the swatch this is a semi-matte, opaque slightly cool toned baby/powder pink.  In order to pull this off I have to apply to the lips (and yes it does show up every line on my lips) and then work with my fingers to get an even coverage by dabbing at it until the bulk of the opaqueness is gone and you can see some of my lip colour behind it (trying to make me look less corpse-y).  This reminds me strongly of those 60’s pink lips ladies you see in old movies and TV clips and I don’t think that look will ever suit me just because my lips are so naturally pigmented that I’m not used to essentially blanking that out.  If you like that blanked out – nude lip look then I would suggest going to check this out, the nearest thing I have in terms of colour is MACs Creme Cup, which is slightly more pink and doesn’t show up so nude on me (good!).  I can get along with this being used in conjunction with lippies such as Creme Cup and MACs Chatterbox, the matte finish does increase the longevity of other lipsticks, but I think for the price I don’t want to work at making something work.  So a bit of a miss rather than a hit and the wrong choice on my part!

This cost me 32 CHF (although I used vouchers, so it’s not too harsh for such an epic fail) and it contains 3.6g of product (ingredients shown below).  Obviously I won’t be getting this one again and I’ll be trying to steer clear of this type of shade range.  I think I’ll be trying out the formula again but in something which suits me better as the Pro Longwear Lipcreme formula was a nice consistancy (not too thick), didn’t dry my lips too badly and had good staying power.   If you have any questions or comments, just click the comments tab below!  Or you can get posts emailed to you by following the blog (click the tab above)!  Catch you later, Sarah xx