Panini's Takes on Skin Care & Make Up: TAG: Lip Product Addict (featuring the new NARS Audacious Lipstick!)

Hello lovelies! For this entry, I decide to do a Tag.. A Lip Product Addict Tag! A fellow Malaysian blogger Sabby Prue recently did this tag and I got curious. I automatically got tagged for reading her post (sneaky sneaky!) So here I go!

Lip Product Addict Tag Questions:

1) Favourite lip balm/treatment
2) Best eye-catching red
3) Best luxury & best drugstore
4) Best MAC lipstick
5) Most disappointing
6) Liner - Yes or No
7) Best gloss
8) Something extra - you can talk about anything lip product/care related

Since my favourites and bests change often, my answers are on my current rather than all-time favs/bests.

1) Favourite lip balm/treatment

Still a fav! Using up my second ball. ^_^

I am still faithful to the EOS Lip Balm. Mine is of course in Sweet Mint. I absolutely love the cool minty feel it gives to the lips - have yet to find another lip balm that gives a similar or stronger mint sensation. The level of hydration and moisture it gives are also up to my standard. 100% natural, cute and easy to use I apply it religiously at bedtime. You can find a more in-depth review of this lip balm here.

2) Best eye-catching red

Red is the least number of lipstick shade I own. Amongst all the “reds” in my collection, only 1 is a true-to-red shade and that is not my fav red. So if I have to choose the best eye-catching red lipstick I own, it will be Leslie from the latest Nars Audicious Lipstick collection. Oh-My-God. The formula of this line of lipstick is hands down my fav thus far from ANY brand I have tried. I prefer a more matte/semi-matte/satin/creamy finish on my lips.

I tend to stay away from glossy/shiny lip colours. Most non-glossy lipsticks I have tried are not the most hydrating. The Leslie shade I am loving gives a satin to semi-matte finish on my lips and so far has not given me any dry lips on the side.

3) Best luxury & best drugstore

At CAD37 + tax (thats CAD41.81 for me since I live in Ontario - yikes!), I consider the Nars Audacious Lipstick a luxury and is my current best luxury lip product.

NARS Audacious Lipstick - Best Luxury

As for the best drug store lip product, it will currently be the Rimmel Lasting Finish by Kate Moss Lipstick in the shade 08. The colour is rosy-mauve with a satin finish. Not the most hydrating or long wearing lipstick, however I do love the application and feel of the lipstick on my lips. The packaging is also beautiful.

Rimmel Lasting Finish by Kate Lipstick - Best Drugstore

4) Best MAC lipstick

Best MAC Lipstick - Amorous

MAC is a brand that I have stopped purchasing lately due to a personal cause. I have purchased many of their lipsticks in the past and the best one for me during this transitional season of Fall is Amorous (A93) in the Satin finish. On my lips, the colour is deep berry with a tinge of purple - perfect for a dark lip look for fall without looking gothic.

5) Most disappointing

Recently I bought a pack of Obsessive Compulsive Cosmetics Lip Tar Test Tubes. The Test Tubes are smaller versions of the originals- like testers I guess. Sephora often sells them in pack of 3’s. The pack I bought is called Pink Prism which contains a tube of Lip Tar Primer, Lip Tar Metallic in Lovecraft and Lip Tar Matte in Pretty Boy. I have used OCC Lip Tars in the past and love them. However, their Metallic formula doesn't seem to agree with my lips. On applying, it separates into small patches and looks awful. I was so disturbed by this that I returned it. So yea.. OCC Metallic Lip Tars - Most disappointing Lip Product.

6) Liner - Yes or No

Yes. I use lip liners mostly not as a liner but a full lip colour- either on its own, or to modify the colour of a lipstick.

Liner - YES please!

Lip liners tend to be too dry to be used over the entire lip but the one by Shiseido called the Smoothing Lip Crayon is quite creamy for a lip liner. The shade that I love is RD708 Mahogany.

7) ~~Best gloss~~ Best Liquid Lipstick

As mentioned earlier, I tend to stay away from glossy/shiny lip finish. So it is no surprise that I don’t really have a current Best Gloss product. I do however love the newer liquid lipsticks that has been coming out a lot recently.

So I shall share my current Best Liquid Lipstick instead which is another lip product from Shiseido called Lacquer Rouge. The shade I am loving at the moment is RD702 Savage - a rich earthy brown colour.

8) Something extra - you can talk about anything lip product/care related

Looking at my current fav lip colours above, you may have noticed that I am into bolder lip colours at the moment. In the past, I have always gravitated towards neutral lip colours. With more matte/semi-matte/satin formulations now available from many different brands, I think it personally makes it easier to experiment with bolder colours. Shinier, glossier bold colours on my lips weirdly make me feel uncomfortable and very self-conscious. I see myself buying and using a lot more darker lip colours in the next few months for Fall/Winter of this year. Ending this tag with pictures of 2 bolder lip colour products I recently purchased and love.