Wearing Clarins Joli Rouge Lipstick in Poppy Red
Quick! — your three favorite flavors of fruity candy and gum?
If grape is on your list, these Clarins Joli Rouge Lipsticks from the new spring 2012 Colour Breeze Collection ($24) were made to chew for you.
Especially if you like your grape candy with extra servings of shiny, moisturizing lipstick on the side.
Available in four faintly grape-scented and flavored shades, Poppy Red, Baby Pink, Sheer Pink Magnolia and Sheer Pink Coral are more than just delicious. They’re also creamy and — no, not nutritious. 🙂 I was gonna say rich.
I can’t get enough of the two shades I’ve tried, Poppy Red and Sheer Pink Magnolia. Luckily, I like the flavor and scent, which fade after about 15 minutes of wear, and I don’t find them cloying, too artificial or overwhelmingly strong.
Joli Rouge in Pink Magnolia
Joli Rouge Lipstick in Poppy Red, $24
Joli Rouge Lipstick in Pink Magnolia
Joli Rouge Lipsticks in Poppy Red (left) and Pink Magnolia (right)
But adding flavors and scents to lip products is always a risk. You just never know how your nose and taste buds will react, and since these are $24 each and not $2 drugstore fare, you might want to sniff test one before bringing it home.
It’s weird… These feel rather thick on my lips, so I was expecting stellar wear time, but I’ve only been getting about 2-3 hours. Good thing I like the scent, I guess, because it makes having to reapply them so often less of a chore.
PRICE: $24 each
AVAILABILITY: Available now at Clarins counters and also online
MAKEUP AND BEAUTY BLOG RATING: B
Your friendly neighborhood beauty addict,
Karen
P.S.
Antonia at Swedish Love Affair says
Love your look in this post! The Poppy Red one is my favorite lipstick here:)
Karen says
Thanks, Antonia!
Nina says
Poppy Red is gorgeous!
Karen says
It is! So fun. 🙂
Nina says
to me that would be a perfect spring/summer color! 🙂
corallista says
The wear time isn’t so impressive even though the the colors are pretty. All the spring collections seem to have a majority of deeper pinks, I’m longing for some popping corals and oranges!
Karen says
Just wait for summer! You’ll have all your lovel corals then. 🙂
gio says
They are both gorgeous!
Karen says
Yes! Happy Friday!
Sunny @ Mostly Sunny says
Yay TGIF!
Pink Mongolia looks so sheer in the swatch, but on your lips it’s fantastic!
Karen says
TGIF indeed! What are your plans for the weekend?
Crystal says
Poppy Red looks beautiful!
Karen says
I know! I can’t wait to wear it with cat eye liner.
Chris25 says
The wear time makes me sad. The colors are so lovely, but I wouldn’t buy these even if they were $5. 🙁
Karen says
Well, at least there are lots of other great things in the new Clarins spring line that you might like. 🙂
Olfactory Obsessed says
I really like the color Poppy Red. For $24 I would expect wear time to be longer. Not so sure about the scent and flavor of fruity candy and gum. It seems juvenile to me, it reminds me of lipsmackers. Think I’ll pass on this one.
Kristi says
Poppy Red is gorgeous! But grape scented? That seems to cater to a younger set than who will shell out $24 for a lipstick. Hmm……
Karen says
But it’s classy grape! LOL