This Kiss - Lancôme’s Juicy Rouge Lasting Juicy Shine LipColour
Written: Feb 26 '04 (Updated Feb 26 '04)
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Pros: Scent
Cons: Not long lasting, more gloss than stick, pills and feathers
The Bottom Line: Two stars for this unsuccessful hybrid, and, sadly, no recommendation from me.
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| jaxmom28's Full Review: Lancome Juicy Rouge Lasting Juicy Shine Lipcolor |
Well now, this is just not acceptable. I know that only the mediocre are always at their best, but I really wasn’t prepared for a letdown from my favorite cosmetics house. I’m going to have to ingest at least two chocolate chips to get over my disappointment with Lancôme’s Juicy Rouge Lasting Juicy Shine LipColour.
The Product
Kiss me, kiss me, and when you do I'll know that you will miss me, miss me (1)
This tall, elegantly thin lipstick is packaged in a sleek, iridescent silver tube with gold trim, the little Lancôme flower logo ever so discreetly tucked in the center. The .08 oz of product (quite a bit less than the .13 oz you usually get with regular sticks) shimmers and slightly sparkles in the tube. It’s a bold, disarmingly seductive departure from Lancôme’s usual gold-trimmed black, shorter, squatter offerings (think normal lipstick), and it ensnared me with its pretty looks and even prettier promises: Luscious Color. Lasting Shine. Captured for Hours.
Oooh, shivers of excitement quite o’ertake me! Deal me in, baby! Yes, I want Luscious Color! Yes, I need Lasting Shine! Yes, I will Capture it for Hours! Lancôme, take me away!
Application
He kissed me in a way that I've never been kissed before (2)
Simple version: Remove cap, twist up, smooth on lips, twist down, replace cap.
Complex version: Find lip liner that will match your Juicy Rouge shade. Apply lip liner and be certain to smooth edges with brush or sponge because lines will show up under the Juicy Rouge. Curse the need for lip liner. Replace lip liner (or find a place in your already overcrowded travel bag for it) and pick up Juicy Rouge. Curse it’s glistening, gleaming, lie of a body and apply as per the “Simple Version.” Sigh heavily. Move on.
My Experience
U don’t have 2 be rich 2 be my girl (3)
Scent is the best thing going for Juicy Rouge. Quite pleasant and vaguely fruity, it’s one of the better scented lip products I’ve encountered. The fragrance is reasonably discernable in the tube, and dissipates almost immediately upon application.
Luscious Color: Let me state for the record: I do not care for gloss. I want color, darnit: bold, sassy, discreet, demure, bodacious, beautiful, definite color. If I wanted gloss, I’d buy something called “gloss” or “glass” or whatever the latest fancy name for slightly pigmented petroleum is. Got it, Lancôme? You lied to me, and I’m very upset with you about that.
This deceptive little product looks like a lipstick, you see. It’s opaque in the tube, and even appeared to be so testing on my hand in the store. It’s solid, like regular lipstick and doesn’t come in a pot or a squeeze tube or a Pez dispenser – all time-honored hints that what you’re buying is not lipstick. I purchased this in “Brownie,” one of the darkest colors in the line, expecting full-coverage, shiny lipstick, and what I got was more sheer-coverage shiny gloss – that tends to feather terribly if I don’t prime my lips with foundation and a lip pencil. This is not what I would call “Luscious Color.” That’s a letdown, but I probably could have dealt with it if Juicy Rouge had lived up to its other promises.
Lasting Shine: This stuff goes on silky at 7:15 am and is tacky by 8:15 am. It starts to “pill” around 9, and feels dry and annoying – with the color almost gone – by 10:00 am (and just one cup of coffee). I get longer lasting shine from their Rouge Sensation Lipstick or a can of Wet Tire. Well, maybe they meant the tube was full of lasting shine, rather than the actual product. That’s true. I’m looking at the tube now; it’s still quite shiny.
Captured for Hours: The residue is stuck like flypaper to my lips for hours, if that’s what Lancôme means, but not the glorious color they promised. Little pills of color attempt to stage sit-ins in the corners of my mouth, and my lips are ready to revolt from the unpleasantness in very short order. If this is “captured,” I’d far rather set the stuff free.
Really, compared to other “long lasting” lip products out there, this one doesn’t pass muster. Both Max Factor’s Lipfinity and Lancôme’s own Rouge Sensation out color and outlast this product. Juicy Rouge is shinier out of the gate – but who really cares when it’s gone two legs into the race? At least with Factor’s Lipfinity, you can keep reapplying the gloss over the base color for as long as you like to achieve maximum shineage.
Ingredients
If you wanna know if he loves you so, it's in his kiss (4)
Diisostearyl malate, isodecyl neopentanoate, phenyl trimethicone, polyethylene, VP/hexadecene copolymer, sorbitan oleate, polybutene, polyvinyl laurate, kaolin, lauroyl lysine, calcium sodium borosilicate, acrylates copolymer, rosa canina/rose extract, calcium aluminum borosilicate, silica, caprylic/capric triglyceride, synthetic fluorphlogopite, polyethylene terephthalate, allyl stearate/VA copolymer, polymethyl methacrylate, parfum/fragrance, BHT. May Contain: Red 7, yellow 6 lake, yellow 5 lake, blue 1 lake, red 22 lake, red 28 lake, carmine, iron oxides, titanium dioxide, mica.
Available in 16 colors: Sweet Nectar, Sorbet, Orangelle, Radiance, Guanaja, Nala, Praline, Caramel, Brownie, Sugar Rose, Pink Candy, Sugar Plum, Sweet Violette, Grenadine, Baby Rose, and Sterling Thérèse.
Overall Recommendation
This kiss, this kiss. It's criminal! (5)
Overall, Lancôme’s Juicy Rouge is difficult for me to rate on stars. As a lipstick it fails completely, as a gloss it does work, but claims of “long wearing” are totally unsupportable (unless you wear it on a chain around your neck, in which case I guess you could wear it forever if you so chose). The scent is nice, and the colors in the tube are quite fetching, but the product really has nothing else to recommend it in practical application. Two stars for this unsuccessful hybrid, and, sadly, no recommendation from me.
Looking for more Lancôme?
♦ Bienfait Total Moisturizer
♦ Colour Focus Eye Colour
♦ Rouge Sensation Lipstick
♦ www.Lancome.com
Note - Headers taken from the following songs:
(1) “Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me” Originally performed by Mel Carter. Written by Harry Noble.
(2) “Then He Kissed Me” Originally performed by The Crystals. Written by Phil Spector, Ellie Greenwich, and Tony Powers.
(3) “Kiss” Originally performed by Prince. Written by Prince.
(4) “Shoop Shoop Song” Originally performed by Betty Everett. Written by Rudy Clark.
(5) “This Kiss” Originally performed by Faith Hill. Written by Robin Lerner, Annie Roboff, and Beth Nielsen Chapman.
Recommended:
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