NARS Lip Lacquer

It's been over a month since NARS week and I am ready for some more NARS in my life.  I had raved about their lip glosses during that theme week and my overall love of the products has been noted many times.  One product of theirs that I feel doesn't get the press that it deserves is the Lip Lacquer.  I originally passed this product over for the lip glosses since I really dislike having place my fingers in a pot of lip gloss.  I wouldn't have even realized how nice this product is if I hadn't tried it out in many of the NARS palettes.  Do I still prefer lip glosses in a tube?  Yes.  Is this still an amazing lip gloss that it worth owrking around the packaging?  Yes.

Lip Lacquer is a shinier formula than the gloss and I find it to be less tacky also.  "High shine formula with sheer pigments of color for luscious lips day or night.  This super-shiny formula can be worn alone or over other lip products.  Unique texture prevents color from bleeding.  Transparent pigments for sexy shine.  Includes Vitamin A, Vitamin E, Avocado Oil, Sesame Seed Oil, and Jojoba Seed Oil."  This product is only available in eight shades at the moment and I wish that it would be offered in a few more, especially a cool toned red.

The shades are...

- Baby Doll - sheer cotton candy pink with a pearlized finish
- Caraibe - glistening nude
- Chelsea Girls - innocent nude beige with a creme finish
- Diablo - playful apple red
- Eros - raspberry rose with shimmer
- Galactica - sheer white with crushed Japanese pearl for the ultimate shine
- Hot Wired - fuchsia
- Sweet Charity - lilac mauve with pearl

The best known shade from this product is the Chelsea Girls, it is often used against a smoky or cat eye by the NARS makeup artist and I have found that this is the shade that most often appears in the palettes.  It has a bit of a nude tint with a medium amount of shine and works well with any type of eye makeup look.  Caraibe has much more shine to it and could be too much with a major eye look, it is the nude that is better nude to a neutral eye look.  My favorite shade of this product is the Baby Girl shade, it is bight pink but is sheer enough that it easy to pull off with either pale or tanned skin.  I was interested to the learn that Diablo is considered an "apple red" shade because it looks so dark in the pot that I passed it by on my search for reds, I will have to give this one another look the next time that I go to Sephora. 

I can get two finishes from this product, depending on my application method.  When I use a lip brush, the application is much more precise with a more pigmented finish.  When I dab it on with my finger, the finish is much sheerer.  I haven't noticed that much of a different in the shine factor during either application.  My favorite method is the fingertip method becuase I think the brush method can pile on too much product and I would use the lip gloss itself if I wanted this finish.

photo courtesy of Sephora