ABBAMART Get Your Lip Crayon in Red Velvet Review + Swatch + Price

"...You got that James Dean daydream look in your eye 

and I got that red lip, classic thing that you like."
-Style.Taylor Swift

I'm borrowing lines from Taylor Swift again. I do have a love-hate relationship with this girl. :) I have just finished watching the 1989 WORLD TOUR for the nth time on my computer (I wish it were live!) and  I suddenly felt like wearing red lipstick again since it's T-Swizzles trademark lip color. Geez! The "T-Swizzle" monicker is so Fearless-era BTW! Ha ha. Anyway, the 1989 documentary has one too many close-up shots of Taylor, hard not to get inspired by those puckers. So I grabbed my own current go-to red lippie and decided to do a review here in my blog. Chop chop after the jump!

Meet the ABBAMART Get Your Lip Crayon in shade Red Velvet. Before I get to the review, here's Taylor working the stage at the 1989 World Tour. ;)

It's the new soundtrack I could dance to this beat. Welcome to New York, y'all!

 ABBAMART Get Your Lip Crayon

Shade: Red Velvet

Price: Php 320.00

Where I Got It: The Althea Online Shop//www.ph.althea.kr

This one was part of my Althea mini haul back in November. I don't really wear red lipsticks that often but there are days when you need a pop of color, or you just feel bold and fierce, or you just feel inspired by Tay's style, so for me it's still smart to keep one in your stash.

The red lippie in my current stash is this one from ABBAMART which is a Korean brand. The packaging definitely caught my attention on first sight. It does look like a crayon or a pen. With the cap on, it could definitely pass for an office supply. (^_^)

It is retractable; no need to sharpen anything. You can see from the photo above that the bullet is pretty slim. It has a fruity smell that at first I couldn't put a name on but when I checked the Althea website it says it has grapefruit smell so I was like, okay, it is a bit tangy. 

Color description at Althea says that it is a cherry red color.

ABBAMART GET YOUR LIP CRAYON RED VELVET SWATCHES

Outdoor, natural light

Indoor, with flash

ABBAMART GET YOUR LIP CRAYON RED VELVET IN ACTION

Sorry about the baggies. :) This was taken indoor with no flash.

MY TAKE

It is a lovely bright red color with blue undertone. It instantly brightens up my face when I put it on. What you see on tube is what you get on your lips. It is matte but not drying. It easily spreads on the lips and easily blends. It doesn't emphasize lines, no patchiness. 

But, it transfers. The color stays bright, it can even survive lunchtime but has the tendency to move to the edges of your lips. It can be easily solved by pressing your lips together and it still looks vivid. I also struggled a bit with the rounded tip of the lippie because I couldn't apply on the tiny corners of the lip.

Here's how my lips look before applying, after and about 4 hours after application.

ABBAMART Get You Lip Crayon on my lips until 4 hours. 

Korean makeup and cosmetics have taken the world by storm and it's not bad if we Pinoys want a little piece of it for ourselves. This Lip Crayon is perfect for the K-Makeup fans out there who dig cute packaging and good performance from their purchases.

When we hear the term matte lipstick we think that it would be horribly dry on the lips but I have experienced none of that with this lippie. No chapping too so that is a big plus.

It's still available on Athea and it has other color varieties: Scarlet and Bad Girl (Burgundy)

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That song line at the start of this post is from Tay's Style and that's basically how red lips are: they never go out of style.

XO,

Carissa

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