Lipstick Queen Butterfly Ball in Moment

 Howdy, all! How was your weekend? Mine was...basically I spent the majority of it buried under blankets sleeping because I felt kind of awful. But Friday was good! And tonight I'm meant to be attending a showing of the Hobbit. The original plan was to dress as Kili to my friend Kate's Fili, but then I ran out of time finding a dwarf costume (and, I mean, I'm a dyed-blonde, currently, so the costume would have read even better if I was my natural brunette) so I'm improvising and going as genderswapped glam Kili. I'm not even sure if that's a thing, but basically what it means is I ran out of pants so I have to 1) do laundry and 2) wear a skirt and tights. 

Aaaanyway. Today's color is Lipstick Queen Butterfly Ball in Moment. 

I LOVE Lipstick Queen. I love the name, I love their product, I love all of it. Well; maybe not the price points on some of their lipsticks, but nothing is perfect in this world. Except maybe Tom Hiddleston's cheekbones. I think we can all agree that the man's zygoma are above any criticism. 

So this is the first Lipstick Queen shade I bought, mostly because it was $25 instead of some ridiculously more expensive shade, which I would NEVER BUY*cough*. Lipstick Queen's formulations are really quite unique. Most of the lines are all based on hyper-moisturizing ingredients, like Vitamin E, etc (if you really want to know more, go check out their website, because they have videos where this brunette British lady explains what makes their lipsticks so awesome and at first I found her incredibly irritating but she's grown on me), so the pigmentation isn't quite as dark in some of them, and this includes the Butterfly Ball line. The closest thing I could compare it to is the Clinique Almost Lipstick line: it delivers a hint of color, which is totally buildable, and the formula is really comfortable--it feels more like a chapstick than it does a lipstick. Believe me, I've tried enough of both to know the difference.

Anyway. The Butterfly Ball line is color (it comes in about five, six shades?) flecked through with an iridescent turquoise shimmer, which sounds totally weird. Allegedly, the blue is meant to make your teeth look whiter, but to be honest, I don't really care about that. I don't wear lipstick to make my teeth look white. Moment is the reddest of the shades (of course I went for the reddest, are you kidding me?), and it looks much darker in the package than it reads on the lips. On my lips, it reads as this pleasant, glossy cherry (so somewhere in between pink and red) that can be dressed up, dressed down, probably worn with a bold eye, whatever. It's kind of hard to capture, and my iPhone camera and I are in the middle of a grudging truce, so I've managed to get a few decent selfies out of the deal.

Here are the resultant pictures. 

It almost looks purple in the tube! That's because red + turquoise.
Can you see the shimmer in the bottom left? So pretty.

Not sure if you can see the shimmer, but you can probably see my lips are resting weirdly.
Thanks, canker sore.

What do you mean I have a lipstick problem?

OK, so to wrap up: I love this lipstick. It's probably not your best choice if you're hanging out, eating wings or some other greasy food (pizza, maybe? I love pizza), but it's so pretty and etherial and soft, texturewise, colorwise. I like that you can still make a statement with this kind of lip, and oh, does it feel nice on my winter lips compared to most of the matte textures. It's a little pricey, but if you're good dropping $22 on an UD lipstick, or even $18 on a MAC lipstick, it's not that much farther to fall. Ha.

Sad because it's true. 

I never know how to wrap this up. Go buy this lipstick, I guess, if you want? It's real nice. I'm not paid to promote it and I wouldn't lie about something as serious as lipstick. The end. 

Bonus: An instagrammed pic of me from this "trying to take a good selfie" session
Add making creepy baby faces to my long list of impressive accomplishments.