One of the products that I rediscovered is the Diamond Lip Gloss, one of my first Longo purchases and one of their hardest products for me to wear. I bought this gloss in the Diamond Rose hue, a warm medium rose with a huge amount of gold shimmer laced into the formula. This level of shimmer is on par with the MAC Dazzleglasses and makes your lips the focal point of your face, a look that is best reserved for nighttime makeup.
The Vincent Longo website provides a full product description and usage instructions. "Diamond Lip Gloss is a lip-moisturizing, stardust-shimmering, full color gloss. High-tech reflective pearls combines with pure pigment for a brilliant finish that wears significantly longer than traditional lip glosses. Glides over lips with an ultra-silky, cushiony soft texture. Aloe Vera and Vitamin E moisturize and condition the lip tissue. Vanilla extract adds a beautiful fragrance."
Some thoughts on the formula - it is very hydrating and is an almost watery texture. It is very creamy and silky, I love the feel of this gloss during application. It is also one of the more hydrating lip glosses that I have used. My major complaint with this product is the wear time, or lack of wear I should say. The product description states that it wears longer than most lip glosses, however I have a completely different view on that aspect. This gloss stayed on for less than two hours for me and came off as soon as I ate or drank anything. I know that lip glosses don't stay on as long as lipsticks but the wear time on this one is one of the shortest that I have ever used, so I don't know from where the company is pulling the "long wear" aspect of this product from. It is pretty while it is on but it comes off so fast that it is a very high maintence lip gloss formula.
The usage instructions, "For beautiful, lush looking lips, be sure to prep your lips with either our Lip and Gel Stain or Lip Pencil. This will also prevent your lips from looking bare or unshaped when the shine starts to wear away. Then dab your choice of Diamond Gloss onto lips. Using VL Lip Brush #35 or #36, completely paint lips up to and including the lip line." So I use this product all wrong... I use it on clean lips straight from the tube, using the doe foot applicator. Perhaps if I followed the instructions (which I never saw on the tube or on the box), then this lip gloss would last longer for me. I would try using this over a nude or rose lip pencil, the shade that I have wouldn't really work with any other shades.
The shades are...
- Traviata Pink - bright blue pink with silver shimmer
- Capri Bronze - deep warm bronze with gold shimmer
- Rosewood Luster - neutral medium rose with gold shimmer
- Berry Crush - warm medium berry with gold shimmer
- Diamond Rose - warm medium rose with gold shimmer
- Lavender Mews - pale lavender with silver shimmer
- Starlet Pink - light blue pink with silver shimmer
- Goldleif - pure gold foil
Diamond Rose is one of the few warm shades that I own in my lip gloss collection, it didn't look warm in the tube and the gold comes out the most during application. This shade looks the best during the summer, it is more flattering on slightly bronzed skin than on pale winter skin. This is why I get much less use from it than I do from many of my other lip glosses, I only pull it out from the months of June to September. I like the Starlet Pink and the Lavender Mews shades from this gloss, they are both much cooler than the shade that I bought so maybe I would get more usage from them. In addition, I will have to find a neutral lip pencil to use with this gloss and see if it helps to anchor it better.
photo courtesy of Vincent Longo
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