Ulta Color Core Lipstick

Hello makeup minions! Let's talk lipstick. While at Ulta the other day I saw their Color Core lipsticks for $1.99 so I thought hey why not, let's give it a shot. If you haven't seen them before they look like a lipstick but all the color is in the center and it is surrounded by a lip balm. The idea is to give your lips color while providing a moisturizing balm at the same time. This is a great theory, there were things I liked and things I didn't like about this. I don't want to say I wore it all day because lets be honest it's a Sunday and I didn't even get ready until almost noon. That being said I did wear it for about 6 hours and I didn't even use my eos balm to get a true feel for the color core. (I'm sorry eos, I missed you!) Eos is like my comfort makeup......comfort makeup, is that a thing? Let's make it a thing, it sounds like it should be a future blog post......but like I was saying, comfort makeup, it was very hard to give up for the day. So here is what the product actually looks like, and I purchased mine in Sour Cherry:

Can you see how the color is in the center of the stick? Sorry if the quality of some of the pictures in this post are bad, I have a headache and I got to lazy to retake them.......so moving on. To start off putting it on is a little hard. With the color not being in the whole stick I felt a little like I was applying my lipstick blind and hoping it actually landed on my lip and it was very difficult to get into my cupids bow, but when I finally did make it happen the color was a very pretty pink. I definitely could tell the difference with the balm built in, my lips didn't dry out while I was wearing this HOWEVER....to keep the color and the moist balm feel I had to reapply this baby every 1-2 hours. I mean seriously, I have other things to do in my day besides constantly fixing my lipstick, you know? I also felt like I could feel the edges of my lips. Now some of you will read that and go ok.......you're crazy what on earth are you trying to say. But really, it's like having something just around the edges of your lip and you can feel it but you can't get rid of it. Not necessarily a bad feeling, but a strange one for sure.

I tried to get those side by side but clearly that is just not gonna happen today. The top picture is right after first applying in the morning and the bottom picture is shortly before taking it off. Between then I must have reapplied maybe four or five times, and that's only in a 6 hour period. My final opinion on this would be I will probably not repurchase. It did feel nice on my lips and the color is pretty I just feel like there is way to much maintenance involved for me. If you don't mind applying often you will love this, especially for $1.99.

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