Price: 5,15$ on Koreadepart
Amount: 6g
Description on Koreadepart:
" -Aroma component that relaxes skin
-Excellent moisture ingredients moisturizes lips and skin.
-Soft and no sticky
-Sweet flower scent.
-Mild herb ingredients
-Can be used for lips and cheek."
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| Adorable packaging, in my opinion :D |
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| Description in English, but the ingredients written on the back of it are all in Korean |
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| Printed with soy ink on eco-friendly paper :D And sorry for the way the packaging looks. I carried this in my luggage and used it a few times already before taking photos, so I always put the glass container back into it etc. |
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| the glass container is recycable as well :D |
I picked colour No.3, Sugar Orange....well okay I didn't exactly pick this colour out of all colours available.
I saw this in a Nature Republic store in Insadong, thought the colour shown through the see-through part of the packaging looked nice and bought it. Actually I don't think I even noticed there were other colours ^^''
Shopping in Korea: You spend money just like that
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| "syuga oraenji"= Sugar Orange :D |
Anyways~
I really, really like this colour, because it doesn't exactly look like 'orange' on my lips. I never used any orange colour on my face, and I never planned to because I just couldn't imagine how an orange colour could look good on me.
Swatched on the back of my hand:
with flash:
On my lips:
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| Bare lips |
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| with Nature Republic's Botanical Lip& Cheek colour |
As you can see, it's not very pigmented, but that's what I like about it.
It does look very natural, especially from a bigger distance. The colour is just a warm, subtle tone of orange and makes my face look much healthier than the cold, light pinkish tone that my lips normally have.
It also slightly evens out the discolourations on my lips and makes them appear less thin ^-^
Zoomed in on the tip of my finger. Sorry about the bad quality ^^''
I would say the texture is almost~ creamy and you easily get the colour out of the glass container. Just be careful to not to apply too much pressure or you'll get out way too much of it. It's really easy to spread on your lips, so no need to use much.
Let's just go through it's promises in the description first:
"Aroma component that relaxes skin": ...I don't know how it's supposed to relax my skin but okay, maybe that's right?
"Excellent moisture ingredients moisturizes lips and skin.": Not true at all. I had to apply lipbalm after half an hour or so because my lips felt dry.
"Soft and no sticky": True, it really does not feel sticky
"Sweet flower scent": I didn't really smell anything, but maybe that's just me ^^'
"Mild herb ingredients" Since the ingredients are only in Korean, no idea if that one's right.
"Can be used for lips and cheek" True. I'm a complete newbie at applying blush though, so I didn't swatch that ^^
It is a nice colour, but it dries out my lips way too fast and to be honest, I prefer a tinted lipbalm over this one.
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| 3/5 Stars |
