The first thing you'll probably notice about the picture above is that two of those lipsticks are doing it wrong. And the first thing you'll probably notice about the photo below is that two of those swatches are gross. The exciting part is that only one lipstick is guilty of both offenses!
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| L-R: Pale Roses, Tropical Pink, Red Blossom |
The advantage of doing a review of makeup I've had in my collection for a while versus brand-new makeup is that it allows me to give you an idea of how well the products keep. Granted that they could be flukes, I'm afraid the news isn't great for these Elegant Minerals lipsticks. Two of them have definitely gone off (they have a rancid oil smell and a sticky texture that drags across the skin). Thirteen months passed from the time I ordered them to the time of creating this post. I'm not entirely sure when they started turning, since I didn't reach for them that often, but I would really like my lipsticks to stay in useable condition for at least 2 years. The one that hasn't turned (Tropical Pink) is the one that actually showed up in the mail already broken. This is something that can happen with (natural, especially) lipsticks and not a huge deal, but these seem to be particularly prone to breaking. Application is relatively sheer with one swipe, but can be built for opaque coverage.
As far as colors go, Elegant Minerals has a pretty nice selection. Of the ones I own, I particularly like Red Blossom, which is very wearable for everyday, sort of a reddened MLBB. Elegant Minerals' color descriptions, for these colors at least, are spot-on, while their swatches are decent approximations. They don't tell you about the finishes, though – Pale Roses and Tropical Pink are both frosted.
If you take a peak at the ingredients down below, you'll see phenoxyethanol. At this point, the inclusion of this ingredient would actually be enough to make me strongly question buying the product, since it's an ingredient I greatly prefer to avoid.
At this point, Red Blossom and Pale Roses are going in the trash. I have an (embarrassingly) enormous lipstick collection, so sometimes there are ones that get neglected. Unfortunately, I didn't get to wear these many times before it was too late. Tropical Pink will stay in my collection. One lipstick with phenoxyethanol certainly won't kill me, and the breakage can be dealt with by depotting (sorry, bejeweled pink tube!).
Ingredients: Organic Jojoba Oil, Organic Avocado Butter, Stearyl Palmitate, Candelilla Wax, Carnauba Wax, Organic Meadowfoam Seed Oil, Organic Castor Oil, Titanium Dioxide, Mica, Iron Oxide, Phenoxyethanol-SA, Provitamin B5, Vitamin C L-Ascorbyl Palmitate.
Have you tried the Elegant Minerals lipstick and perhaps had a better experience?
Have you tried the Elegant Minerals lipstick and perhaps had a better experience?
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