L’Oréal Collection Star by J.Lo (Rose Lotus) Lipstick Review and Swatches

L’Oréal Collection Star by J.Lo (Rose Lotus) Lipstick

Hello everyone! So welcome back to Mari’s dream! Yes, you’re still inside my dream because if I were to create a lipstick collection, this would be it. You guys know hoooow much I love pink lipsticks that when L’Oréal released their Velvet Pinks collection I just went wild with giddiness. I wear pink lipsticks everyday, save for like the 0.1% of the year when I’m in a red lipstick. But the 99.9% really goes to a pink lipstick or lip balm or lip gloss. I think the feelings of giddiness were intensified by the fact that these lipsticks were sent with super beautiful (and expensive oh my goodness) Ecuadorian roses of Petalier.

You may have already seen the press release for L’Oréal’s La Vie En Rose Velvet Pinks Collection Star Color Riche Lipstcks collection (whew what a mouthful!), with the campaign being hashtagged #IChoosePinks because this whole collection is meant to cover all kinds of pinks to make sure that every Pinay has a pink that she can relate to and would be comfortable rocking out. L’Oréal knows that deep inside, every girl wants to wear pink lipsticks, but sometimes the fear of looking childish or the fear of looking weird with pink gets in the way of getting tickled pink.

So this post in specific is about Collection Star J.Lo, or Rose Lotus.

So this is how the packaging looks like. Since this came in a pretty box with the six other lipsticks in a fancy manner, this unfortunately came unsealed and therefore I have no ingredients lists for this collection. But well, in exchange for the ingredients list I got Ecuadorian roses for the first time in my life (and they’re now potpourri in our living room), so that’s fair.

L’Oréal Collection Star by J.Lo (Rose Lotus) Lipstick Tube

In our territory its other name is Rose Lotus, but I think in other territories even the bottom of the lipstick will say J.Lo, too.

L’Oréal Collection Star by J.Lo (Rose Lotus) Lipstick Tube Bottom

I already own 11 of these lipsticks and I can really say that the packaging is a lifesaver. In real life, L’Oréal is very good in making these plastic squares in colors that are very true to the actual lipstick. So even if they’re side by side, you can still tell by the plastic tile as to which shade is which. It’s relatively easy to look for what you’re looking for in a short amount of time. The signature of the celebrity on the packaging also helps so much because when I am rushing to get somewhere, simply knowing which celebrity made which shade is already enough because I just look for what I want based on the signature.

L’Oréal Collection Star by J.Lo (Rose Lotus) Lipstick Pack Shot

So when I first saw this, I thought this’d be a Lorde levelzz kind of goth lipstick. But well, it just kinda demonstrated how much I stick to mellow pinks hahaha. This is actually more tame and more wearable than that. This is what would count as plum pink or wine pink in most circles. I apologize heavily if I cannot guarantee color accuracy on this shade in particular because I’ve learned the hard way through my addiction to purple eyeshadows that purple tones sometimes don’t show up so well in photos. This is more purple than how you see them in these photos, so this doesn’t look so red in real life. It looks purple enough for me to have first thought that it’s a Lorde color.

L’Oréal Collection Star by J.Lo (Rose Lotus) Lipstick

So this is how the swatch looks like.

L’Oréal Collection Star by J.Lo (Rose Lotus) Lipstick Swatch

This is how it looks like on the lips. So this, and all the other shades in the Color Riche collection, have the ability to be so buildable. You can use this as thinly as tint, or you can pile it on as thickly as you want to make it emulate the effect of a liquid lipstick. For this photo, I have it put on relatively thickly for it to be opaque enough, but not too thickly for it to behave as liquid lipstick altogether. In real life, (since you guys technically will not look at my lips like this), this goes on quite matte-ly.

L’Oréal Collection Star by J.Lo (Rose Lotus) Lipstick lip Swatch

Since this shade is sooo purpley in real life, it helps in a big way to create an illusion of whiter teeth. Since this is also very vampy by nature, this will really be the focal point of your look.

So this is how it looks on me. This is not the shade I’d personally buy for myself, but I’m amused with how it turned out. It was more wearable than I thought it would be. It looks vampy to a certain extent, but it really will end up being remembered for being plummy rather than gothic.

Wearing L’Oréal Collection Star by J.Lo (Rose Lotus) Lipstick

I think that this just gave me the street cred I should be having for someone my age. I’m young, but I like to look even younger than what I really am, which is why my makeup choices for everyday are the teenybopper kinds. In real life I look more mature and career oriented with this lipstick, for reasons I can’t really explain. Like I don’t think Lorde lipstick will make me look job ready, and yet this one does.

I think that this will be a good addition to any lipstick collection that still lacks something dark because this shade is dark enough to have a life of its own but light enough to actually be usable for a good period of time. I have no idea when the crazy rainbow lip trend will end, so I think it’s wiser to experiment with something like this over the suuuper dark and near-black lippies out there.

According to Verna Marin, chief makeup artist of L’Oréal Paris Philippines, this will work best on morena skintones. According to Marilene Perez, writer of this blog, you need this and all the other shades in the collection because every shade is too pretty to not buy.

This collection of L’Oréal has always been consistent in having great quality throughout the years, but if you need the different properties broken down, here goes:

Color Payoff- This collection ALWAYS has the best color payoff. Lipsticks are always as vivid on me as how vivid they are on the tube, and the color is more or less accurate relative to the tube. I’ve also enjoyed how vivid the colors are that most, if not all, of my lipsticks from this collection leave very good stains and tints.

Texture- These lipsticks have a silky texture, and presumably have a powdered formula in order to make them matte and silky. So like when you use these, they’re not as slippery as using lip balm, but they do not resemble the formulae of liquid lipsticks or matte creams as they are much more emollient and spreadable. These later generation ones are less wispy than the old L’Oréal lipsticks, but the structure in the formula is perhaps what helps to make it buildable. You can pat this on and the color will be able to stick on and look like a tint. You can add more, apply it more liberally, or go back and forth several times in order to get a much more opaque look.

Comfort- These lipsticks are less wispy and less spreadable (spread as in how slippery it is when you smack your lips, not to be confused with blendability) than the old generation ones, so they feel less like lip balms now. However, compared to matte lipsticks of other brands, or the high vivacity color formulae of other brands, this is more spreadable and more comfortable. One key feature of this is that it does not weigh the lips down by having an opaque formula, so it doesn’t feel heavy on the lips, which helps to make things more comfy.

Longevity- As a lipstick, you’d need to reapply this every few hours or so depending on how much oily food you are eating. If you want to keep up the opacity, you need to be committed to doing retouches ever so often. But if you want to just have a little color on the lips the whole day, you can slather this on and leave it be because the tint it leaves can stay on the whole day. In a typical jam packed day, I’d more or less reach out for vivid shades of this collection like 3-5 times, and for the less vivid shades, like every hour or so (there are near nude shades from this collection so those types really need to be reapplied or else my natural lip pinkness will override the lightness of the shade)

You can get this (or any other ones in the collection for that matter) for Php400. BUT! L’Oréal often has a lot of flash sales for this product line so be sure to stalk them on social media so you’re the first to know when the deal’s a steal! (Yes there was once that they sold this for Php200 only for a weekend, so when they say flash sale, they really mean flash sale!!)

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