Saturday 24 December 2011

Review and Swatches: NYX Round Lipsticks - First ever NYX products!


Any beauty blogger, reader, watcher or enthusiast who has seen American beauty videos will know of the brand NYX. NYX is a drugstore brand with great quality products at amazing prices, and sadly predominately available in America. I grew greatly jealous over time of the products people had, so finally, I set out to buy some. I found a seller on eBay who offered a bulk deal of 6 at an extremely reasonable price and set off. When they finally came in the mail, I was ecstatic! 

Let me tell you, from what I have seen, these lipstick do not disappoint. The light fruity smell, smooth consistency and amazing variety of colours can do nothing but invite people in to want the whole collection!



I ordered 6 colours, in a variety of shades. I bough a a few brights, a nude, and a darker shade, and overall, I am quite happy with them.

Spellbound is a gorgeous blue toned muted fushia pink. It's not dramatically bright, but its wearable enough to brighten either a day or evening look. It's different to any other pink I own, but I can imagine this getting more use than many of the others.


Pumpkin Pie is a gorgeous light peach toned neutral colour. I picked this believing it would be a nude colour, but being a colour only a few shades different to my natural lip colour, it is a beautiful colour for the spring and summer.


Femme is a bright, red toned coral shade. At first thought it slightly resembled and orange-toned red I owned and thought it clashed with my skin tone, but after some coaxing I believe it will certainly get some use.


Tea Rose is another blue toned pink, but rather more of a soft pink. With the brighter, deep blue undertones, it is a colour that is not soft enough for a nude, but still a good colour to spice a day look. This is definitely one of my favorites.


Herades is a red brown shade - a deep colour that is more red than brown. This was the colour I was most surprised by, as it was much darker than I expected, and not something that I would usually wear, due to the brown tones. I'll to incorporate it, but I imagine this colour getting less wear than the others. To top off my annoyance, due to the ridiculous heat in Melbourne, I think it melted a bit and broke off at the base. This colour does not seem to want to work for me, but I won't give in.


Fig is another blue toned pink. You might be thinking, 'What?! Another pink?' but I should reassure you that they are three different pinks. This is a gorgeous light pink that could pass as a nude, but still provides that splash of colour to your face. This is certainly one of my favorites!

From Left: Spellbound, Pumpkin Pie, Femme, Tea Rose, Herades, Fig

I love these lipsticks! The scent, consistency and colours are just amazing, and overall I'm really happy with the colours I chose. I do have certain favorites though, and those have to be Pumpkin Pie and Fig.

Do you have Nyx products? Which ones would you recommend?
Love Gianna
xx

8 comments:

  1. Pumpkin pie and Fig look incredible! I have been hearing about these for ages and I was debating whether or not I should get them. I think it might have to be a Christmas present for myself!
    Thanks so much for this post!
    xxx

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  2. I have used some NYX products but I am new to their lipsticks & just got my first few within the last 2 weeks. I also have Pumpkin Pie and it is actually my favorite of the NYX Round lipsticks so far. I use NYC Nude York City lipshine on top of Pumpkin Pie and it gives more of a nude look. Great choices here! Stumbled over from the Monday Beauties blog hop :)

    -- Mina
    www.minaslater.com

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  3. I love nyx lippies! Really want an orange one.
    http://www.sophlife.blogspot.com

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  4. I have been using the NYX HD Eye Primer for months now. IMO it's better than UD Primer Potion! I haven't used any of their other products though but this lipsticks look great!!

    I found you through the Monday Beauties Blog Hop & am now following you!
    beautybyarielle.blogspot.com

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  5. Fun! I wish I had more of a selection of NYX lipsticks at the Ulta by my house. I'm dying to try their black label ones but I'm so finicky about colors I don't want to order them off the internet.

    I found you through the Monday Beauties Blog Hop and I am now following you. http:// adventuresinbeauty.com

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  6. Oh so glad to see a swatch of Pumpkin Pie - it's my favourite colour (along with perfect and iced honey).

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  7. I have Pumpkin Pie and Femme.. love them both! I adore NYX products

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  8. What a good choice!! I just love all my NYX products. Next time you're on the hunt you should look for some red NYX lipsticks, the best reds I have ever used or found! Better than MAC lipsticks!!

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