Buxom recently launched their Plumpline Lip Liners in a whopping 20 shades! These new lip liners promise a plumping full coverage formula with a creamy matte finish.

The Plumpline shades cover the usual suspects in a lip range: nudes, to pinks, to reds and a handful of purply-vampy shades. Although they claim to be creamy, I’d argue and say they’re really not. While they do glide on the lips smoothly (which is fantastic), these are very much a drying matte formula once they’re locked in place.

Most surprising to me is that the Plumplines are an incredibly fat pencil. Most lip pencils tend to be on the skinny side for preciseness, so I wasn’t really sure how this was going to work out. Also, due to the size, I felt more like these should be used in place of lipstick.

They also come with a brush which… honestly had me scratching my head a little bit. I’ve never felt the need to use a brush with a lip pencil before. Since this also isn’t a creamy formula, you can’t really use the brush to blend anything out. I tried it, and the lip pencil really wasn’t going anywhere after I’d applied it.

Buxom Plumpline Lip Liner Swatches

My Thoughts

As a lip liner, the Buxom Plumpline Lip Liners do their job: my lipstick stayed in place and, rather amazingly for me, I didn’t have any lip line bleedout even with the vampier shades. I also really love the colour range – of the ten I tried, there wasn’t a single shade in there that I wouldn’t wear on the regular.

But honestly… I think this is a really weird product. The fatness of the pencil makes for some awkward application and it’s far less precise because of it. I ended up sharpening the pencil quite a bit in order to keep the tip as precise as possible. I also don’t understand why there’s a brush attached to this pencil.  It’s a dry formula when it gets on your lips, so you really haven’t got a hope in hell of using the brush to blur out any edges. It also claims to be plumping, but I can’t figure out where on earth that would come from unless you’re overlining your lips. There is nothing in formula to support the look of plumper lips.

I’m sad that I don’t like how fat the pencil is because it really makes it difficult for me to get a precise line (and I’m already not that great at being precise in general!). I love the shade range and I would absolutely love to wear these under lipsticks, but the lack of preciseness absolutely ruins it for me.

The Buxom Plumpline Lip Liners are available on sephora.ca for $20 CAD each or on sephora.com for $17 USD each.

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