Obsession with Lime Crime

Purchased by me

I haven't really dived into my new obsession with Lime Crime.  I have been hearing, reading and seeing so many things about this company's lipstick line but honestly the price point is what has stopped me.  The lipsticks normally run for $18 on their website and the Velvetines are $20.  If you are lucky, you can find the shade you want actually in stock (they are out of stock on the more popular shades).  I do admit that I didn't buy mine from Lime Crime's direct website.  I found mine through a seller on Ebay.  It was the same price so I didn't get a deal but at least the shipping was free.  Can't complain.  BUT...what sold me on finally deciding to go ahead and getting something from Lime Crime was reviews of the Red Velvet from the new Velvetine line.  1) The color was amazing and I LOVE red lipsticks, 2) it dries to a matte finish...second all time favorite feature in a lip product and 3) super long wearing.  Nothing bugs me more when a lipstick fades off my lips in an hour or so without doing anything!  No talking, drinking, eating, licking my lips...like nothing and the lipstick is gone.  Like it melted into my lip forever.  My second pet peeve is when a color bleeds around the outside of my natural lip line.  Now...I am pretty good about picking out lipsticks that I know won't bleed on me.  But occasionally I will get sucked in to trying a brand I have never tried or a texture that I know will bleed but claims to not...which it does.  I don't often use lip liners, it's just an extra step that I feel I don't need to do if I wear a good lip product.  With the Lime Crime's Velvetines, you definitely will be in awe by how well this performs.  It is not a lip gloss but it does come in a lip gloss form.  The applicator is a smaller doe foot but very precised at applying the color where you need it to go.  I will say it is a liquid lip stick, similar to the Milani Liquid Intense lipsticks that I reviewed a few days ago.  But the biggest different with the Milani is that it stays somewhat wet, you can feel it is there and it stains a little bit but will rub off when you eat or drink.  You do have to keep reapplying that product to maintain the intense color.  With the Velvetines, it applies wet but takes a few seconds for it to dry matte.  Once it dries...this sucker is not going anywhere.  Well unless you eat something that has a lot of grease/oil in it then it will slide off.  When I drink from a straw, you can see a reminiscence of the color left on the straw but you don't even notice anything missing from your lips.  Now I have seen people kiss the back of their hand and have nothing transfer.  Sometimes I do this and I get no transfer, other times...like today, I see a small amount of transfer.  But it really is small amount compared to the intensity that is on your lips.  And you don't see any color missing anywhere on your lips.  I posted a picture of the tube and of me wearing Pink Velvet on Instagram today.  

I did buy Red Velvet first and then a week later went back to the same Ebay seller and got Pink Velvet.  Have not regretted that purchase at all!  There is a third shade in Suedeberry which is more of a coral-pink shade.  To me it pulls more orange than I like.  But then I see other pictures where it is more pink.  For now I am going to pass on that shade and hope that Lime Crime brings out more shades because this product is bomb.com!  I wish it was also cheaper and more available at like Sephora or Ulta.  I do have one Lime Crime lipstick in Glamour101 which is a rich red that I love also.  But I don't reach for it that much because...well it's my only one and I don't want to use up the product hahahaha.  Makeup hoarder problems...I KNOW!  

FINAL THOUGHTS: I highly recommend trying one of the shades out.  You won't be disappointed.  OH..I didn't mention anything about the feel on the lips once it dries.  When the color dries, it does not dry your lips out.  It almost feels like you aren't wearing anything at all.  I'm a HUGE lip balm freak and I constantly apply lip balm throughout the day and I have to remember not to with this stuff because it feels like you have no product on your lips and I keep wanting to add a lil' somethin somethin.  I know IMATS LA just happened last month which I was so bummed I could not go.  One year though...I will make it there.  Everything looked so amazing and I heard there was a discount if you bought these Velvetines there.  Sad Panda :(  Where ever you can get these...GO get them!  I'm not yelling...just enthusiastically cheering you on :)