Clinique keeps adding more and more beautiful shades and textures to their Pop lineup and it always excites me to see what new they’ve come up with next! Say hello the Pop Lacquers!

Clinique describes their Pop Lacquers as “a luscious pop of liquid, high-shine colour in one, full-coverage coat. Luxurious yet lightweight formula with built-in primer glides on effortlessly, wears for up to six hours”. Sadly, I kind of struggled with these.

My first complant is that the applicator isn’t the usual doe-foot, and instead it’s more like a lightbulb shape. It’s round the entire way around which seems to really facilitate poor application. I ended up with streaks and too much product pushed out to the edges of my lip line (so it kind of gave me that lip liner look…).

When I finally did get the lip product on right, it definitely didn’t wear anywhere near six hours and instead started to fade off within about an hour. Even worse was that after only an hour I had intense lip line bleed out around the edges of my lips. And it’s not like I had been talking either when I noticed this. I had been sitting at my desk for the last hour, sipping water from a straw so as not to disturb the lip colour and I might’ve answered my phone once. If that’s what happened from such little activity, I absolutely cannot trust this to last me if I’m out having drinks – I would end up with this all over my face!

The colours, if you can make the formula work, are lovely however! They are intensely bright and beautiful to behold. These are definitely a tacky gloss and I found them very reminiscent of MAC’s lip glasses.

Happy Pop is a gorgeous vibrant mandarin orange.

Sweetie Pop is a vibrant pink that’s bordering on neon.

Love Pop is a muted mauve/pink with a bit of shimmer. The shimmer is not actually apparent on the lips though!

Peace Pop is an intense purple with hints of red.

Final Thoughts

Sadly, although I was really excited to try out the Clinique Pop Lacquers, they just didn’t work out for me. The very short wear time/fading off combined with the lip line bleed out make it impossible for me to wear these without constantly glancing in a mirror. Although my face shots above show a decent looking lip product, the reality is that those were taken in quick succession and were only worn momentarily (you can make any product look good for a brief moment in time!). In practice, they just didn’t hold up for me. 🙁 That being said, my friend Zoë over at Writing Whimsy had a better experience with these, so please be sure to check out her post!

The Clinique Pop Lacquers can be purchased on sephora.ca for $21 CAD each or on sephora.com for $18 USD each.

The products featured in this post were sent to me for consideration.

Clinique has got a good thing going on with their gorgeously embossed powder “Pop” line! When the blushes came out a few years ago, everyone was in total awe. I mean, how could you not fall in love with the beautiful clear acrylic containers alongside the beautifully embossed daisy imprint? I mean, the whole thing is basically a makeup lover’s dream!

More recently, they’ve extended that line up with their Lid Pop eyeshadows (and really, who didn’t see that one coming??). These eyeshadows contain as absolutely astounding 6 grams (well, almost! They have 5.95 grams each.) of product. When you compare them to a normal eyeshadow pan which usually contains about 1.3-1.5g, you realize just how much product you’re actually getting in one of these!

Clinique describes these eyeshadows as “a modern wash of silky, long-wearing eye shadow”. I do feel they pack more colour punch than a “sheer wash”, but there is some variety in intensity between all four shades I tried.

Easily the most unique shade out of the whole bunch, Willow Pop, is a gorgeous burnt gold with some kind of green shading in there. I really don’t think I have any other colour like it in my entire makeup collection!

Although this is called Cream Pop, there is a soft hint of orange to the shadow.  Maybe a bit champagne?

Petal Pop is the soft pink of the lot. It’s predominantly a baby pink, but it does have soft gold reflects in it.

The last shade I have is Grape Pop, a beautiful purple that fits the “colourful, but not too colourful” eyeshadow look that most people are looking for!

In the shot above, I’m wearing Willow Pop all over the lid with Cream Pop in the inner corner. Willow Pop is seriously such a unique shade. I love how it looks green, gold and bronze on my lid! Cream Pop was a lovely accent colour to the whole look and I applied it to the inner corner of my eye.

Above, I’m wearing Petal Pop all over the lid with Grape Pop through the outer corner and crease. I was able to build Grape Pop up, but it wasn’t as dark as I expected it to be right off the bat.

Final Thoughts

The Clinique Lid Pops breathe a breath of fresh air into Clinique‘s lineup of eyeshadows. They’re the perfect complement to the Cheek Pops and I’m so glad they decided to keep going with the “Pop” idea. The eyeshadows are soft to the touch and easy to work with, although some may need more building up than others. You will find that the daisy pattern will start to wear off pretty quickly once you start dipping into the pans regularly. Of the four I tried, Willow Pop was easily my favourite just because it’s so unlike anything else I’ve ever owned.

Although the eyeshadow price tag is a bit up there in price point, pound for pound, these are infinitely cheaper just because you’re getting so much product in each compact. (This is less important for makeup obsessors since we’re unlikely to go through a full eyeshadow any time soon, but rather this is a great point of interest for people who don’t tend to wear a ton of eyeshadow and instead stick to the basics – this eyeshadow, if used daily, will last you an INCREDIBLY long time!). My recommendation? Get a few shades you know you’ll love!

The Clinique Lid Pops can be purchased on sephora.ca for $22 CAD each or on sephora.com for $17 USD each.

The products featured in this post were sent to me for consideration.