First, we have the Trend It Up Contour & Glide Lip Liner
in the shade 220.
If you didn’t know, Trend It Up is one of DM’s own brands,
along with Alverde, S.he Colour&Style, Ebelin and Balea. They are all "dirt cheap",
but that doesn’t necessarily have to be a bad thing. This shade has been
discontinued.
I decided to buy this shade in particular because it looked like
a very pretty light pink.
Now, the packaging is simple: black matte plastic with a
light pink cap and sharpener (yes, it has a sharpener on the back end of the
pencil, more on that later). The colour of the cap matches the colour of the
liner itself, so it’s easy to swatch different shades just based on the colour
of the cap. The retracting mechanism isn’t terribly flimsy.
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This is an automatic lip liner; thus, it is incredibly
precise. The pigmentation is pretty good, although super light, even on my pale
skin tone. The formula is easy to apply, no tugging or pulling, and it applies
pigment surprisingly evenly.
The texture is ultra-matte, and it does look very dry on the
lips; indeed, it feels extremely dry, almost like powder, although it does feel
a bit tacky on the inside of the lips. As such, it should come as no surprise
that it does dry out lips. Additionally, after a few hours it can get so
terribly dry that it starts to crack and flake, good luck fixing that mess
without removing the bloody thing altogether.
On the positive side, it is quite long-lasting even after 6
hours and easy to remove using just micellar water. On the (yet another)
negative side, it doesn’t last through meals or drinks all that well, but it
could be worse. You will have to reapply, but only on the centre and inside the
lips.
And here we come to the sharpener, finally. I must say that,
in my opinion, that is the best part of this liner. The sharpener is robust and
sharp enough to quickly and easily sharpen the liner. But, given its small
size, cleaning it might be a bit tricky.
All in all, I am not really satisfied with the quality of
this liner: even though it’s very nicely pigmented and super long-lasting, and
the sharpener is excellent, the liner just leaves a lot to be desired. The
worst thing is how it starts to flake, that is simply unacceptable. It feels horrible on the lips, and makes my lips feel suuuper dry. And it looks bone dry, anyways. Really not good. No, no recommendations.
Rating: 3.5/10
Would buy again? NO
| Price at time of first purchase: | 14.90 HRK ( ~1.98 € ) |
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