[unpaid/sample/affiliate/ad] Anyone who is familiar with the lip ‘fondant’ texture that I’ve spoken about previously in Korean/Japanese make up posts, will immediately recognise the same ultra-melt consistency with the MAC Squirt Plumping Gloss Sticks.
There’s also something of a trick of the eye with these sticks – out of the packet they look much longer than they did inside it. If you buy one, I think you will really notice this little quirk.
I’m not sure if MAC Squirt Lipglass ever hit the UK shores but it was a very limited edition lime green glass and the inspiration for the Squirt collection which I think launched in the US way before here. The different shades are to enhance your lip tone – for example, blue gave a greyed look to my lips (which I would like over a lipstick but not dead straight onto my skin) and green gave them a warmer tone. We are talking tiny degrees here but it’s really a very nice look if you outline lips with a neutral lip pencil and fill in with a tinted gloss.
Curse of the fibre has hit this picture, tsk. The honey-ish, non-sticky formula is plumping but nothing ever plumps my lips so I can’t really speak for that aspect but you’ll definitely feel a tingle with ginger root, capsicum and menthol crystal. It’s very lip nourishing with shea, coconut and avocado so if you get the plumping too I’d say it’s a win-win. There are 6 shades – Jet, Lower Cut, Like Squirt (green, above), Hazard, Heat Sensor, Amped, Vilot (?) Beta, Nova (blue, above) and Clear (above). However, Boots, where they are exclusively for a couple of months, has an entirely separate set of names for them so someone is wrong. I think I’d like to try Heat Sensor which I think is red and Vilot which I can’t tell whether it’s supposed to be ‘violet’ in the name, but that’s the shade it seems to be.
They’re £22 each which seems a lot to me – these fondant textures are readily available on Stylevana and similar places but in much less adventurous colours. MAC has taken this trend to the next level and I think if you’re emulating existing products, you really have to do that and do it very well (which they have). You can find the MAC Squirt Plumping Gloss Sticks HERE.
non affililate link HERE
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