Tarte Amazonion Clay Lip products are fairly popular but not as popular as some of the other high-end brands. They seem to be gaining some recognition amongst the semi-celeb Vlogger crowd. The most well known of Tarte's lip products is their Amazonion Butter. I think this has to do with the fact that it is the only one of their lip products that is named for their signature Amazonion Clay. The Amazonion Butter lipstick comes in 8 shades all named a color or color and adjective; Golden Pink, Plummy Rose, Angelic Nude, and etc. The tube itself lists the name and reference number on it but a description is not listed online next to the choice in the drop-down list like with their other lip products. They seemed to have felt that the name was enough. Being a higher-end product Tarte is only sold in stores that provide testers. So you can test each shade on your lips with the provided applicators or on the back of your hand (the most common way to swatch and most accurate). With Tarte's Butter lipstick I did find that the name was enough for some, not all.
Tarte Amazonion Butter Lipstick Names- Not Descriptive Enough: my descriptions of the shades are included below
- Tulip- a rosey bright pink
- Angelic Nude- soft pink with beige undertone
- Pink Peony- bright pink with coral undertone
Now, because they are such a trend we're going to take a look at the large lip crayons by Tarte, quickly. They come in LipSurgence Matte, Luster, and Original and Power Pigment. As with the NYX Chunky Dunk crayon Tarte felt is was important to add the word "matte" to the description of their Fiery Matte LipSurgence crayon. They did not use that word in any of the other descriptions of their matte tints, listed next to each adjective driven name, and not present on the tube. I found that between the 27 different lip crayons in 3 different lines that the color swatches provided were very, very similar amongst 75% of them, no matter what line they came from. If I was to go with one of their lip crayons I would go with the Power Pigment line, the colors seemed the most pigmented and variant.
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| LipSurgence Matte Lip Tint |
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| LipSurgence Lip Tint |
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| LipSurgence Lip Luster Tint |
Now I want to move on to Rimmel London and Revlon Color Whisper lipsticks. I made a comment about seeing other women and girls testing products, not testers, in stores that do not provide testers. I made a very distinct observation while at CVS this afternoon. The lipsticks that did not have a clear indication of shade either in name or packaging were opened, tested, and ruined. The Revlon Color Whisper brand of lipsticks has an opaque top so I was able to see which had been damaged due to testing. It was unbelievable how many of the same shade and product had been opened, tested, and ruined on recapping. These companies are loosing money because they don't provide testers. Those tubes may sell but I promise you they will be returned and forced to refund. Revlon provided a small indication of color in the name such as Lust for Blush, Rose of Attraction, and Made it Mauve but this wasn't enough for the average consumer especially since the opaque top made you believe the color matched it.
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| Lust for Blush, Rose of Attraction, and Made it Mauve. | Did the shades match? |
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| These 4 different shades had been opened, tested, and ruined for sale. |
- OHLA Lilac
- Pink Possibilities
- Pin Up Peach
- Coral Ambition
Now Rimmel London had the same issue. People had opened, tested, and ruined several of their shades of lipstick even though Rimmel had the presents of mind to separate their product into groups all of the Berries, Pinks, and Nudes and so on. I thought that was very smart and helpful but it didn't seem to give their consumer the info they needed or break it down far enough. They may need to break it down to 1) Berry, 2) Pinks, 3) Nudes. Yes, this will make for a strange display but it might save them a lot of ruined product. Rimmel London had a mixture of color/adjective names and just cutesy names (no indication). I'm guessing that's why their breakdown didn't help as much as they thought it would and of course no description on the package. Although I will give them an A for the effort.
Finally, E.L.F. They are the worst. They have cutesy names with the most basic shade in some of the names and absolutely nowhere to find a description for any of their lip products. You'll just have to do the guess work. The one thing that ELF does do that the others do not is box up or package their tubes, glosses, and crayons. You cannot test them unless you're sneaky enough to open the box/packaging then get at the product. Probably not going to happen so you'll have the peace of mind of knowing that no one has touched your newly purchased ELF lip product.
What did we learn?
- You need to look online to get the description of most products.
- Some mobile sites do not provide the description but the full sites do.
- Check that your particular lip product hasn't been tested by someone and ruined before you buy it. Gross!!!
- Every company from high-end to drugstore needs to add their shade descriptions to the packaging, even if it is hard to read.
- Don't add to the ruined products. You wouldn't want to go home with a ruined product and end up not being able to return it. So don't do it to someone else.
- Urban Decay needs more blushes.
- If you're looking for a particular color don't purchase online. The swatch images are not a good indication of color. I went back to the Too Faced Creme Blush swatches entry I posted and guessed the colors before looking at the names, I guessed all wrong.
- Test everything that has a tester.
- Don't trust that a product is shimmery, lustery, matte, or other just because it says so in the name.
- Trust your instincts. Even if it isn't the particular color you were looking for, if you think it'll look good on you, go with that.
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