Barry M are taking us back to the nineties with their latest launch; the Barry M Shade Game Lip Palette. They’ve launched a nine pan lipstick palette, with three different finishes, and keep on reading to find out more…
Barry M Shade Game Lip Palette
“Introducing Barry M’s Shade Game Lip Palette, a compact, multi-finish palette containing 9 neutral sheer, satin and matte shades, perfectly wearable for all skin tones.
Every pigment-rich shade delivers long-wearing, fade-resistant finish and contains Apricot Oil for smooth kissable lips.”
The Barry M Shade Game Lip Palette is £5.99, and is housed within a clear plastic, square compact without a mirror. The lipsticks are laid out in rows of finishes, with the top row being a ‘sheer’ finish, the middle row is a ‘satin’ finish, and the bottom row is said to be a ‘matte’ finish.
All of the shades within the Barry M Shade Game Lip Palette are variations of nude, and they look very waxy and oily in the photo above. Lipsticks just aren’t conducive for a lipstick palette, and whilst a lipstick palette might be handy for a makeup artist.
You’d need to use a lip brush to apply the lipsticks, or use your fingertip, which isn’t hygienic, and you won’t get a precise application. Plus the pans are extremely shallow with very little product (0.42g per pan) so you’re getting less than one gram of lipstick per pan, making it a very bad value palette too.
You’d be better off making your own lipstick palette by melting, or cutting off a section of your existing lipsticks, and depotting them into a multi-well palette like this, to make your own lipstick palette.
The formula would be much better quality this way, and you could choose your own shades. If you did want to check out the new Barry M Shade Game Lip Palette, it’s available right here.
All images belong to Barry M.
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