So I've been desperate to type this up but wanted to give both products a fair chance. I used one for one day and one for another. This is my personal take on this so called 'dupe'. I'm talking about lime crimes velvetine and MUAs velvet lip lacquer. So both items came in glass packaging, with a soft sponge applicator, in side cardboard bottles. They also both claim to give a matte 'velvet' effect on the lips. Even the name is similar. But for me, this is were the similarities end!
Let me just quickly say each product was a different colour, though both brands make a version of both shades. the lime crime shade I used was suede-berry and the MUA funk.
Let's start with the lime crime. this retails at £12.50 on cocktail cosmetics. Firstly as always with lime crime, the packaging was very cute! They never fail in this department. It also smells great, in a yummy kind of way! The texture of the lip gloss is veeeery.... wet? this sounds weird I know but it literally felt like water going on my lips. When applying it you have to be really careful because any mistakes or messy application stains fast, so fixing it is a pain. I find scraping the wand a little first helps with this. This way it's not to full of product thats kind of not simple to control with such a wet texture. Though it does dry very fast to a lovely matte finish. Now I have really dry lips so it does draw attention to any dry spots I had but that's expected with all matte lip products. I found I avoided a lot of that by using a lip scrub before hand. I had it on all day and yes it did start to fade of in places, like where your lips touch, but it took a good few hours to do that! I ate, i drank and It basically lasted all day for me. I love this lip stain and it's effect and I just wish I had softer fuller lips to do it justice!
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| lime crime suede-berry |
OK now onto the MUA. I saw it in my local superdrug and got really excited! At a fraction of the cost, only £3, and far more easily accessible. I bought one and youtubed a few clips on it on the way home. I'd not heard if it before then! People seemed to really like it and even called it lime crimes dupe. This made me even more excited to try it! Though, sadly, this was not the case for me.
It smells like, well, paint... It goes on thick like, well, paint, and it flakes of like (yep you guessed it!) Paint!! I tried to use it for the day to give them a fair comparison but only half an hour later I looked in the mirror and found that, where my lips touch, it had already been flaking of a quarter way down my bottom lip. I was really aware of it on my lips too the whole time like I wanted to pick at it! But I resisted because we was out and about for my daughters birthday. The second we was back in the car I rubbed my lips and flaked it all off. It was driving me crazy and by that point looked terrible. I'm so upset because I really did love the way it looked at first and wanted it so badly to be great. But the truth is, yes it is hugely cheaper and yes so easy to get. But frankly, so is paint...
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| MUA Funk |
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| less then five minutes after application |
With this one i couldn't get a better picture as it had come off before i even had a chance!
Have you tried the mua and had a same or different experience? I'd love to hear your views.
