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Revlon Kiss Cushion Lip Tints (Review & Swatches)

Makeup, Reviews, Swatches

Revlon Kiss Cushion Lip Tints

Revlon makes some of the greatest lipsticks at the drugstore, and it’s been fun to watch their evolution over time. From their Super Lustrous Lipsticks (still a staple in my collection) to their much beloved (but sadly no longer among us) Lip Butters and Just Bitten Balm Stains, Revlon knows how to hit the right notes in the makeup world. Just recently I tried out their Kiss Cushion Lip Tints, which ended up being an interesting hybrid of a lipstick consistency with a staining component!

Revlon Kiss Cushion Lip Tints
Revlon Kiss Cushion Lip Tints

The Revlon Cushion Lip Tints come with a pull off top (no need to twist) and an absolutely MASSIVE pointed nozzle tip that dispenses the product. You twist up the product up from the bottom and it comes out the doefoot-like tip.

Revlon Kiss Cushion Lip Tints with a large nozzle tip
Revlon Kiss Cushion Lip Tints with a large nozzle tip

It does take a while to get some of the product to come out when you first use it, but once it starts flowing you need VERY little product for lip application.

Revlon Kiss Cushion Lip Tints - swatches
Revlon Kiss Cushion Lip Tints – swatches

Because, as you can see, once I twisted these up, I got a LOT of pigment on my arm when I swatched them the first time! The two shades I have, Extra Violet and Wine Trip, are pretty close in tone, but Extra Violet is more purple whereas Wine Trip has more red in it (fits, right? lol).

Wearing Extra Violet
Wearing Extra Violet

On the lips, Extra Violet has a little bit less pigment but it looks absolutely gorgeous. These work best if applied lightly, not globbed on. The shot above is after having worn the lipstick for about twenty minutes, just before I started filming. You can see it’s more matte with a hint of luminosity when compared to the swatch shot which shows a lot more gloss.

Wearing Wine Trip
Wearing Wine Trip

And here’s Wine Trip right after I’d applied it. The Kiss Cushion Lip Tints definitely go on quite strongly and glossy, but start drying down within the first ten minutes and start wearing down to more of a stain finish over the next few hours.

Wearing Wine Trip after blotting it down
Wearing Wine Trip after blotting it down

This is Wine Trip blotted down with a tissue not long after application. So you can choose to wear it full on out of the tube, or blot it down immediately. That being said, if you wear it full on, you’ll eventually end up with a more blotted down lip over time (which Revlon indicates is the intended look over time). It wears down fairly evenly, except around the five hour mark where I’d say that you end up with more of a ring around your lips where the product will cling to the more dry areas. Applying a little bit more of the product will help hide that!

Final Thoughts

The Revlon Kiss Cushion Lip Tints are an interesting hybrid lip product. They apply like a true liquid lipstick (although I did find that the applicator is a little cumbersome), but wear down like a true lip stain. I liked the comfort of these – they feel more like a balm than a thick lip product, and I was happy that it retained colour over several hours. I did find that reapplication was necessary to avoid that telltale ring, but the ring wasn’t so bad that I felt I always needed to reapply it. I often just let it fade away naturally and never thought it made look weird. I know I reviewed two dark shades in this post, but Revlon does have some brighter and lighter shades too.!

The Revlon Kiss Cushion Lip Tints can be purchased on shoppersdrugmart.ca for $12.49 USDshoppersdrugmart.ca for $12.49 USD each or on ulta.com for $9.99 USDulta.com for $9.99 USD.

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What’s In My Makeup Bag At Work

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I’m not traditionally one for a makeup bag – I don’t carry a purse and therefore if something comes with me, it has to fit in my pockets. At the office, I used to just leave makeup bits and pieces in my desk drawers…. but, about a month ago, my office moved into what is called an active work environment, which means we no longer have our own desks. It’s a fluid workspace – you pick and choose what desk you’re going to work from depending on the hour, the meeting, or the work you’re going to be doing for the day. I’m still adapting to it (and after 15 years of having my own desk, it’s very discombobulating!), but one thing I knew I needed to figure out was how to carry my laptop around with me (I’ve got a cute, chic backpack I use for the office now) AND what I was going to do with the makeup I normally kept in my desk drawer.

I don’t usually need much makeup throughout my workday – I usually bring the lip colour I’m going to be wearing in to work with me and bring it back home that night and that’s it. However, there have been instances over the years where something goes wrong and my mascara flakes off, my eyeliner or brows rubs off, or a patch of foundation disappears around my mouth when I’m having my lunch, and that has necessitated having some backup makeup at the office in case of emergency. So that’s what’s in my makeup bag – emergency makeup.

All of it is housed together in a monogrammed makeup bag from Sephora Collection with the letter “R” on it. While my full name is Rachelle, I prefer going by the nickname Chelle – however, I have never associated myself with having the initial “C”, so the “R” on the bag makes much more sense to me, even though it may seen a bit bizarre to people who know me only as Chelle!

The item I definitely have the most of in my makeup bag is lip products. Why I have so many lip products in here is actually a bit of a mystery since I’m more likely to grab my lip colour for the day at home and bring it in to the office with me. But these sit here in case I NEED something… which is funny because I don’t generally feel like I NEED lip colour.

Anyway, since I usually wear a bright eyeshadow look, I have a bunch of “safe” lip colours that fit most occasions. Bite‘s Glace and Fig, alongside Charlotte Tilbury‘s Bitch Perfect are the kind of shades that will suit nearly any eye look. Fig is my most used colour I’d say, as I’ve finished a full size bullet of it in the past and have a few minis and another full size sitting in my collection at home.

MAC‘s Russian Red is sitting in my bag because I’ve made it a point to wear this particular lipstick at least one day a week because I’m trying to finish it up. The Paul & Joe Limited 003 shade is a fun juicy red/pink that wears just like a balm, so I love popping that on for an easy look (usually if I’m wearing a neutral eye look). And lastly, I’ve got the Clarins Lip Oil in Tangerine in my bag. I absolutely LOVE those lip oils (I’ve gone through two other tubes before of various flavours) and having one on hand for the cold winter months always feels like a must.

Perhaps the most important thing in my work makeup bag are my liners. If anything is likely to go wrong with my makeup on any given day, it’s either my eyebrows disappearing off my face because I wore a toque in to work (seriously – I often lose the entire tail of my brows to my freaking hats), or my eyes will tear up due to the wind on my walk in to the office and my liner will start to dissolve – wreaking havoc on my eyeshadow look. So I keep two brow pencils in here – the Revlon Colorstay Brow Pencil in Blonde, and the It Cosmetics Brow Power Waterproof Perfector 5-in-1 Waterproof Eyebrow Pencil in Universal Taupe.  These are adequate products, although not my favourite brow items ever, but they are primarily kept in here because they’re so bloody LONG that they don’t actually fit in my acrylic drawer at home! They work well in a pinch, so I keep them at the office for emergencies.

As for liners, I have the Jesse’s Girl black liquid liner (it’s a brush tip, and lovely to use), as well as the Annabelle Skinny Gel Eye Pencil in case I need something that isn’t in a liquid format.

I was hesitant to even photograph these two because I have no idea how old they actually are… I’m fairly confident Covergirl no longer makes their Simply Ageless Eye Concealer, and I’ve likely owned it for… 7 years? Maybe 8? It doesn’t smell funky though, so I continue to use it. I’m not much of a concealer person, and heck I don’t even actually use this under my eyes – this is solely here in case my foundation decides to patch off anywhere on my face. Usual culprits are my nose or my chin, and I just dot the concealer over those areas and blend it out with my finger.

The mascara has also lived a very long life. It’s a mini size of the Smashbox Full Exposure mascara that I think I got with my PR sample of the Double Exposure palette back in the day. Oddly, this is my least used product in my makeup bag, but it does come out to play every now and then if I’ve missed a gap in my mascara, or, heaven forbid, I’ve completely forgotten to put on mascara that day. (It happens! I have no idea how, but it does!)

And lastly, these are what I call “my tools”. I’ve got a Sephora Collection set of blotting sheets (something I reach for frequently in the summer), a small Real Techniques mirror, a pair of tweezers (because you just never know when you’ll need a pair), a Sephora Collection lip brush (which also has a lid so that it stays mess free in my bag) and an ARTDECO Lip Primer which works really well to keep my lipstick in place.

So that’s what’s in my bag at the office. All laid out it looks like a freaking ton of product, but it actually all fits rather loosely in the makeup bag I have it in.

Do you keep makeup at the office like me? Or do have a makeup bag in your purse that you bring with you everywhere? Let me know!

Some of the products in this post are PR samples that have been mentioned in posts in the past. Post contains affiliate links.

Revlon Super Lustrous Matte Lipsticks (Review & Swatches)

Makeup, Reviews, Swatches

Revlon Super Lustrous Matte Lipsticks

Revlon‘s Super Lustrous lipsticks are a main stay at the drugstore and in my collection, so I’m always happy to try out new finishes within that range. I’ve fallen particularly in love with their Super Lustrous Cream formula (Fire and Ice NEVER gets old!), so I was super excited to try out the newer Super Lustrous Matte formula as well.

Revlon Super Lustrous Matte Lipsticks
Revlon Super Lustrous Matte Lipsticks

Housed in the traditional Super Lustrous black tube with gold rim, the matte version has a slightly more matte outer packaging. The other change is that there’s no see-through top to show what the colour is on the inside – which was handy… but honestly the bottom sticker does a fairly good job of telling you what the shade is anyway.

Revlon Super Lustrous Matte Lipsticks
Revlon Super Lustrous Matte Lipsticks

While Revlon definitely has plenty of nudes to choose from, I’ve been trying out some of their more exciting shades – colours that are definitely more up my alley than a nude!

Nemo!
Nemo!

By the way, if you’ve been wondering what that black blob has been in the background of these photos… well, it’s Nemo! He looked comfy on the sofa so I didn’t shoo him away. 🙂

Revlon Super Lustrous Matte Lipsticks in So Lit, Femme Future Pink and Power Move - swatched
Revlon Super Lustrous Matte Lipsticks in So Lit, Femme Future Pink and Power Move – swatched

Swatched out you can see how intense the pigment is on the Super Lustrous Matte Lipsticks… except for Power Move. The texture on Power Move was completely different from So Lit and Femme Future Pink. It was more of a cream finish with a lot more slip which unfortunately causes some patchiness in the product. The other two though? Holy cow are they ever smooth with solid opacity!

Wearing So Lit
Wearing So Lit

So Lit is a shade that is very much ME. It’s a strong orange with a faint hint of red. The colour on this one was unreal – full pigment and very comfortable to wear. Lasting power was well over 5 hours.

Wearing Femme Future Pink
Wearing Femme Future Pink

Femme Future Pink is a beautiful bright medium pink-leaning-fuchsia. Pink lips are not usually for me, but this one has enough neon in it to make it interesting to wear. Staying power was exactly the same as So Lit.

Wearing Power Move
Wearing Power Move

Sadly, Power Move was the oddball in the bunch. This lipstick wore more like a cream finish which meant that it had a lot of slip. The cream texture combined with the dark shade made it a bit of a nightmare to wear – it moved around a LOT, and I found it gathered at the corners of my mouth. I also found that it separated a little bit on my top lip, just under where my lip starts to curve in towards my mouth. It wasn’t a pretty look. 🙁

Final Thoughts

Although Power Move gets a total pass from me, So Lit and Femme Future Pink are huge winners. The colours and textures on those two are absolutely wonderful. They don’t feel thick or heavy like the mattes from the olden days – these are smoother and more buttery. They wore down nicely and didn’t gather at the corners of my mouth. They were also still incredibly comfortable to wear past the five hour mark. I don’t really understand what went wrong with Power Move, but the other two are definitely worth getting!

Oh! And they’re unscented too, which is FANTASTIC. I love scented products, but I’d rather have no scent in a lipstick than a nasty one, which is sometimes an issue at the drugstore. Revlon has never had a scent on their Super Lustrous lipsticks (in my makeup wearing years anyway), and I’m glad they’re continuing that trend.

The Revlon Super Lustrous Matte Lipsticks can be purchased on shoppersdrugmart.com for $9.99 CAD.

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