{"id":15465,"date":"2015-07-27T08:30:54","date_gmt":"2015-07-27T00:30:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mywomenstuff.com\/?p=15465"},"modified":"2018-08-04T16:12:38","modified_gmt":"2018-08-04T08:12:38","slug":"estee-lauder-pure-color-envy-sculpting-lipstick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mywomenstuff.com\/2015\/07\/estee-lauder-pure-color-envy-sculpting-lipstick\/","title":{"rendered":"Don’t be Envious, You too can be Dominant and a Rebellious Rose with Estee Lauder Pure Color Envy Sculpting Lipsticks"},"content":{"rendered":"

Some time last year (2014) I showed you a new lipstick from Estee Lauder called Pure Color Envy Shine<\/a> and I said how much I liked it. Estee Lauder lipsticks and I go way back… back to the days of Tea Rose – because it was in every GWP I ever received! haha! If you too remember using that, please holler!<\/p>\n

But even as I was raving about Pure Color Envy Shine, our friends in the other half of the world looked at me in a little puzzlement. They didn’t get any shine lipstick, what they got was Pure Color Envy. I read that it was a beautifully creamy formula with lovely bright colours. Naturally I wanted what I couldn’t have. Don’t we all?<\/p>\n

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However, early this year, Estee Lauder finally brought in the Pure Colour Envy Sculpting lipsticks<\/strong> and I finally understood why these come highly raved. They are fabulous lipsticks, if you like creamy, pigmented, opaque lipsticks that come in lovely packaging. I have 3 shades and I wouldn’t\u00a0say that any of them have any shine or gloss to them, but they aren’t matte either.<\/p>\n

They are… adult lipsticks. I know, that sounds weird, but this isn’t a lipstick you’d buy if you were younger, I feel because you’d still be put off by the more mature vibe that Estee Lauder and the texture of these lipsticks give off. I know, I’ve been there. When I was younger, I’d go “Estee Lauder? That’s for aunties!” Now that I’m an aunty, I buy Estee Lauder – don’t judge me LOL \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n

But before I finished up the tube of Rebellious Rose<\/strong> that you see in the foreground of the picture above, I thought I’d better tell you why I like these \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

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Well, the main reason I like these is because of the opacity and\u00a0creamy texture. I like sheer lipsticks, the way the Japanese brands do them<\/a>, but when I want a punchy lip colour, I have to turn to an opaque and pigmented texture. For these, I like a lipstick that will swipe on opaque in one swipe, and not dry my lips out. A couple of personal favourite creamy lipstick textures are from Guerlain Rouge G and Tom Ford.<\/p>\n

So, when I tried these Pure Color Envy lipsticks, I had a moment. It felt like I was using a lipstick like a Rouge G or a Tom Ford, except it didn’t carry a similar wallet-busting price tag.<\/p>\n

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The Pure Color Envy lipsticks are creamy with strong pigment so the colour in the tube applies pretty much as it looks on the lips. I also find that because it’s so pigmented, the colour of your lips doesn’t really affect how it looks the way it can a sheer lipstick.<\/p>\n

The packaging is similar to that of the Pure Color Envy Shine – a sleek and sturdy dark blue case with a cover that holds shut with a\u00a0magnet. The Pure Color Envy Shine lipsticks have a blunt, flat top, while the Pure Color Envy ones have the traditional slanted bullet.<\/p>\n

They slick on lips like butter, spreading very easily and going on opaque with just 1 swipe. It is also comfortable to wear and not drying for me at all. I thoroughly enjoy wearing these but for one little niggling thing – scent.<\/p>\n

There is no scent. Not in a true sense. It doesn’t have that strong fig scent that has infused Estee Lauder lipsticks since time immemorial, but it has a\u00a0faint, sweet scent with an underlying waxy ‘lipstick’ smell. I found that the waxy scent seemed more pronounced in 2 of the shades I own, while it was much fainter in the other. It isn’t awful but it’s there and it cements this as a bit\u00a0of an ‘aunty’ lipstick \ud83d\ude1b<\/p>\n

I was sent 3 shades over time – Rebellious Rose, Envious and Dominant and it was opportune that they were from 3 different colour families so you have an idea of the sort of colours and opacity I mean.<\/p>\n

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Each of the swatches were done with just 1 swipe down my arm and on lips, which I think gives you an idea of the sort of opacity and pigment in these creamy bullets. They are incredibly easy to wear\u00a0and flattering. There isn’t any shine, although it isn’t a flat matte. I’d just call these a creamy texture, with the attendant shine that comes with cream, and leave it at that.<\/p>\n