As many
of you know, I am obsessed with swatching a product before I am interested in
buying it. This has caused me to track down sets in Sephora with the precision
and persistence of a celebrity stalker. While some of the bitchier girls who
work at Sephora have greeted me with “Oh, it’s you again” I think a once a week visit while trying to track down
limited edition products is perfectly reasonable. Recently, I broke that rule.
I bought the BITE Beauty Collectors Edition Lip Layers set for a whopping $98
dollars. I love BITE lipstick, and the
idea of getting 20 colors that were half the size of their normal bullet was
too much to resist.
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| If anything, the Kat lipstick is larger... ARRGGG! |
Well,
there was a problem. As you can see in the picture, these bullets are small.
How small? They are the exact same size as the Kat Von D Spellbinding Lip Stick
set. (The Kat is the reddish color and the BITE is the brown/nude) So what is the big deal? BITE claims the lipstick amount in their bullet
is .07 on one side, but Kat Von D claims that this bullet is .04. I know which
one I believe. A full sized lipstick at .14 is about 4 times this large. While
the quality of BITE lipstick is amazing, the minute I feel lied to, it is all
over. I am returning this product. I wish I could have seen it and sampled it
before buying, because I never would have. To make matters worse, while the
formula is great, some of these pigments barely show on my skin.
KAAAAHHHHHNNNN!!!!
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| Sephora is on the top, Urban Decay on the bottom |
And, if
you think that just getting eyes on something is enough, getting your fingers
into something is even better. Every year, I get the Sephora Blockbuster gift
set, until this year. Now the Sephora has moved into China, I don’t feel right
buying their house brand. On the other hand, Urban Decay is not only still
cruelty free, and their eyeshadow formula is amazeballs. Here is a picture of
my fingers. Both are ‘reflective silver’ and both were swatches in the store,
but do you see how much more pigmented the Urban Decay is? (Hint: it is the one
that is NOT patchy). If they were both cruelty free and I had not swatched, I
might have been seduced by the fact you get more colors and some lip product
with the Sephora Blockbuster. In person, there is no comparison. Urban Decay
rules, Sephora brand drools.
The
moral of this little tale is that no matter how many ‘cute’ comments you get,
try out new products whenever possible. YouTube videos and beauty bloggers are
great (duh! ) but everyone’s skin chemistry is different. What works for me,
may not work for you. Test, swatch, and have fun. After all, Sephora is there
to make you feel beautiful, and nothing is more beautiful than knowledge.
BITE Beauty Collector’s Edition Lip Layer Set
http://www.sephora.com/collectors-edition-lip-layers-set-P383027?icid2=bite_beauty_holidaygifts_carousel_P383027_image
Kat Von D Spellbinding Love Lipstick Set
http://www.sephora.com/spellbinding-lipstick-set-P382562?skuId=1525575
Sephora Makeup Academy – Don’t BUY! NOT CF and a subpar
product!!!
http://www.sephora.com/makeup-academy-palette-P381158?skuId=1534858
Urban Decay Vice 2 Pallet – MUST HAVE!!
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