[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.
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8 comments
Looks very moisturizing
Yes it is.
As a squirt historian I just wanted to point a couple things out! The original squirt lipgloss was by no means limited edition – it was one of Mac’s core shades in that formula for years especially as mac was really known then as the one place you could get *funky* colours and what not. It was my favourite as a teenager and I had many tubes. They even released a very similar shade called spring bean except that it had shimmer in a formula called lustreglass (it was all shimmery glosses but with a brush tip instead of a doe foot).
What I don’t know is when they were phased out but a couple years ago mac did do a very limited release (I believe 1000 units) of what they then called the squirt balm, as they were calling it then. I never got my hands on it but it seemed a touch balmier and less glossy than this formula but I could be completely off base on that one. They then did a second limited release maybe a year or so ago but I think was a bit wider than the initial launch, again I missed it.
To say I am excited about this new launch is an understatement!! Came here to see the Nova swatches (as my other favourite teen 2000s gloss was a sheer blue gloss from Dior that smelled like cotton candy and which I can find no record of online haha). So just figured I’d share some squirt history and thank you for the swatches!
Wonderful, thank you for the clarifications! It’s a very, very loose texture and super shiny. I’ve got – I think a Lancome blue gloss from years ago that I can’t bear to be rid of. Also, I am sure Elf has blue gloss. x
This has to be the worst makeup name ever. There is nothing about the name Squirt Plumping Gloss Stick that’s even remotely appealing and god forbid the name ends up in the hands of trolls (shudders).
haha – I agree.
I just went to the max site and the only ones in stock where the clear and the green but I saw a girl put the green on and it looked really good so hopefully fingers crossed it will look good on me. And moisturize my lips as well. Does anyone have any experience with the green tube? I don’t remember the name…
Sorry spell check I meant Mac