Rose Rush - Calvin Klein

This cute little lipstick isn't great, I wont lie. The sticker said it retailed for £15.99 and I would have been pretty annoyed if I'd have paid that price, but as I nabbed it for under £3 I'll just blog rant instead.

A few weeks ago, me and my sister decided to trail after my parents who were on a school shoe mission. We ended up at a designer outlet where we bought lots of 'damaged' Cadbury chocolate and I somehow I managed to find a Calvin Klein lipstick for £2.99.

Still not entirely sure how that happened, but it did.

The Good Stuff: 

It smells quite floral, which is nice and the colour is a nice punchy pink with a hint of shimmer. It makes a nice autumnal colour, hurrah!

It lasted quite a while too, which is always good!

The Not-So-Good Stuff:

The packaging has no indication of shade, it just has the name, so you have to pop the top off in order to see the colour.

Actually getting the lipstick out is a hassle, it feels like it's stuck or broken, getting it back down again is even worse the plastic is that stiff. I'm really struggling and I fear one day it's going to get stuck. I have never had this issue with a lipstick before.

The consistency means it moves! So you end up with bits of lipstick everywhere, it starts off just on the side of the tube, obviously rubbing off when you twist it, but then you end up with it on your fingers, on the lid... aaaall the places. I tried keeping it in the fridge to see if that helped and it did a little, but I really shouldn't have to keep lipstick in a fridge.

It's very drying. Shortly after applying and my lips start to feel really dry, I can't wear it for more than a day. It also doesn't look good if you have dry lips, you can really tell. Not sure if it's the shade that makes dry lips more noticeable, but either way be warned!

So basically, I'm glad I didn't pay the full price for it. If it was just the packaging that was bugging me I'd probably be quite happy to buy another CK lipstick again. But the dryness and consistency is really letting it down, especially when I have drug store lipsticks that perform better.

Sorry Mr Klein, it's a 1/5 for this... although for a rrp of £15, I don't even know why I'm sorry. I'm not.

Anyone ever had a CK lipstick before? Did you like them? :-)