{"id":11959,"date":"2013-04-15T20:00:28","date_gmt":"2013-04-15T12:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mywomenstuff.com\/?p=11959"},"modified":"2013-05-20T13:01:17","modified_gmt":"2013-05-20T05:01:17","slug":"lipstick-bandits-coral-lipstick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mywomenstuff.com\/2013\/04\/lipstick-bandits-coral-lipstick\/","title":{"rendered":"Lipstick Bandits: The D\u00e9lice-ful delight that is Coral lipstick"},"content":{"rendered":"

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If you’ve ever seen the colour of corals in the ocean, they come in every shade of the rainbow. So technically, a coral coloured lipstick could be blue or green or yellow. But we’d look rather strange walking around with blue, green or yellow lips (beautiful if we were tropical fish, less beautiful on humans, I can assure you) so the most common shade we associate with “Coral” is a reddish-orange.<\/p>\n

The Lipstick Bandit assignment this time is to pick a coral lipstick. There was a bit of a debate as to what entails the colour “Coral” but I’ve always associated it with the reddish orange of a coral trout.\u00a0Ever seen one? (If you haven’t, you’re in for a treat!) I think that’s where the color “Coral” comes from.\u00a0I picked a coral lipstick once<\/a> for the summer edition last year so I was a little stumped because as much as I love the bright shade that is coral, I realised I don’t own many. But as I started to despair, as providence would have it, along came a coral delight \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n

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My pick for this edition of Coral coloured lipsticks is the Dior Addict Extreme lipstick in\u00a0D\u00e9lice<\/strong> layered with the new Addict lipgloss in\u00a0D\u00e9lice<\/strong>.\u00a0D\u00e9lice means “Delight” in French and none is as delightful as these bright sunny shades that bring thoughts of sunning on the Riviera with the deep blue sea yonder.<\/p>\n

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The lipstick is in the Dior Addict Extreme formula<\/a> which by way of a quick refresher is a more pigmented version of the regular Dior Addict lipsticks, without losing the balmy, moisturising, smooth texture that I associate with Dior Addict lipsticks.\u00a0D\u00e9lice is a new shade available from this month, and is in tube, a lovely bright coral that is a true blend of orange and red. I received these last month and have been dying to tell you about them since simply because the colour calls to me \ud83d\ude1b<\/p>\n

The lipstick on its own is glossy and fairly pigmented in one swipe and absolutely non drying on lips. Don’t expect it to last though. Lipsticks that have slip and are moisturising rarely last very long on lips but the colour is a very lovely coral that immediately brightens up the complexion. I layered it with the new formula Dior Addict lipgloss extreme in\u00a0D\u00e9lice which is the sparkly version (It comes in 3 formula and I’ll talk about it in a separate post) and as a colour, pulls more orange than coral.<\/p>\n

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Here’s\u00a0D\u00e9lice lipstick layered with\u00a0D\u00e9lice lipgloss. It is a bright shade but not so bright that you feel self-conscious wearing it. You may also notice that it pulls more orange than red but it has a lovely way of brightening up the complexion even worn with minimal makeup as I did here.<\/p>\n

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Here’s another shot to show you that no, its not as washed out as it looks in the first picture. The\u00a0D\u00e9lice lipgloss is very shiny and flashy. Less pigmented on its own than when layered over the matching lipstick. I like how this is orange but not orange, and bright but not too bright. Its a very fun colour to wear and definitely worth checking out if you’re a fan of the Addict lipgloss and lipstick as I am.<\/p>\n

If this shade of coral doesn’t do it for you, the rest of the Bandits will have something that you may like, I’m sure :-<\/p>\n