New Milani Color Statement Lipstick Formula and Packaging plus Sucky Liquid Liners

Was strolling in my local grocery and saw these displays. I only purchased 2 of the liquid liners, a matte black and a nano-glitter laden teal--both say they're waterproof. I let them dry on my hand just now and licked just once at them--obliterated. Now I suppose they'll more waterproof in a fair test with waterdrops but geez. Anywho the lipstick looks and smells great! I think I'll exchange the liners for the lipsticks.

Ok this lippie is gonna be something! I hope they dupe Mac colors! 1-2 swipes gave me this opaqueness! Feels good on my lips, has a good smell, no weird taste, and doesn't have that slippery waxy feel. All creamy and dreamy!

Found a reset for lipsticks today in store! They kept about 4-5 colors but the rest are all new! Had to replace my Black Cherry and so glad I did. The glide is so smooth! My next replacement will be Rose Hip! And then I gotta get this Sangria l/s. It looks like it could be Cyber or Young Rapunzel l/s. Def had to get Sweet Nectar as it replaces the matte orange from the old line.  Flamingo Pose is a bright Pink-Coral.

Rose Hip, Bronze Beauty, Nude Creme, Teddy Bare, and Sangria.

Flash, -L-R Teddy Bare, Nude Creme, Bronze Beauty, Rose Hip, and Sangria underneath.

No flash, T-B Rose Hip, Bronze Beauty, Nude Creme, Teddy Bare and Sangria to the right.

My favorites so far are Dark Cherry, Rose Hip, Orange Nectar, Teddy Bare, Flamingo Pose, Fruit Punch, and Bronze Beauty. I bought Sangria and Nude Creme. I'm NC50. Nude Creme is making me look a tad Jim Crow at full strength and Sangria is a lighter version of Dark Cherry with more red-pink. Sangria also lacks the liquid shine of the other mattes CREAMS and seems dull and not as opaque.

2-4-13 Edit: Sangria is considered a MATTE by Milani which is not too correct based on my swatches. It's more a pseudo matte. All other lipsticks but Bronze Beauty, a shimmer, are CREAMS.

Milani Color Statement Lipsticks come in 6 types:

• Cream - Orange Nectar, Nude Creme, Fruit Punch, Flamingo Pose, Teddy Bare, Rose Hip, Dark Cherry
• Matte - Sangria
• Vinyl
• Metallic
• Shimmer - Bronze Beauty
• Pearl
   

On second thought with Nude Creme, it doesn't hurt as long as I put it on lightly. I don't have very dark lips.
 

Hop on this if you haven't!

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Also I don't usually shop online, but I just looked at the page for these and the drag queen in me is screaming! 

http://milanicosmetics.com/p-153-color-statement-lipstick.aspx?PC=10&#!prettyPhoto[gallery1]/29/

Violet Volt, a purple metallic

D'Oro - Gold Metallic

Double Espresso - Dark Brown Pearl

Wore Rose Hip today and yesterday. Someone asked me if it was MAC, so complimented!
 

3 more today: Dulce Carmelo - Pearl, Chilled Brandy - metallic, and Flirty Fuchsia - vinyl.

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Originally Posted by harlem_cutie 

thank you so much for all your swatches gge! I ordered a bunch of colors off milani. Can't wait to get them.

No problem! I'm actually happy I took pictures, I thought I was being OCD for no reason lol. I noticed a barrage of youtuber beauty gurus are getting these l/s in a red lip-shaped bag from Milani but they've all been sent the same reds and two oranges in the collection. So everyone is reviewing the same thing but they're not reviewing or swatching (IMO) the most exciting colors--excluding Orange Nectar. :p

Here's hoping Violet Volt is all that as a metallic. I wore Chilled Brandy today and it is truly an opaque sheet of red tinged burgundy. I usually don't like metallics either.

Violet Volt, Double Espresso, and D'Oro arrived today. Alright, I'm let down by Violet Volt but I'm most likely keeping the it. VV is a dupe for Violetta; Violetta has a pinch of blue iridescence to make it tad different.

Milani Violet Volt-Left  MAC Violetta-Right

No flash

Flash

So completely unasked, I decided to take pics of the lippies on my crusty sick person lips outside. Enjoy.

*Note: If you see any stringy, white threads in the lipstick or around my face, it's just annoying baby wipe particles.

Nude Creme - Cream

Teddy Bare - Cream

Dulce Carmelo - Pearl

Bronze Beauty - Shimmer

Chilled Brandy - Metallic

Fruit Punch - Cream

Rose Hip - Cream

Flamingo Pose - Cream

Orange Nectar - Cream

Flirty Fuchsia - Vinyl

Black Cherry - Cream

Sangria - Matte

Edit 2-8-13 More daylight lip swatches

Violet Volt - Metallic

D'Oro - Metallic

Double Espresso - Pearl

Edit 6:20 pm 2-11-13 indoor light swatches

Cherry Craze in bright light - Metallic

Red Label - Cream

Ruby Valentine - Vinyl

Rose Amour - Cream (It's a true bubblegum)

Hot Pink Rage - Matte

Raspberry Rush - Metallic (This is a very weak shade, it's like a balm and hardly metallic. I do not recommend...unless you like that sort of thing. I'll be returning this.)

Uptown Mauve- Cream

Chocolate Berries - Cream

Edit 2-13-13

Plum Rose- Cream (Though it looks like a boring pink brown cream in the tube, it's actually a tame pink-mauve! This is an unexpected favorite!)

Best Red - Matte

Quote:

Originally Posted by DILLIGAF 

What's the staying power on these?

I don't know what people consider the standard hours of wear, so I don't want to bias any decisions. But the longest I've worn one, Rose Hip or Fruit Punch, was 7 hours. I had to touch up after eating and the cream sheen died overtime. *shrugs* But I still had the tube color and lord afterward my lips were pigmented when I wiped it off. Yesterday taking those lip swatches, less than a minute of application and my lips were stained.

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Originally Posted by neondust 

I've been wondering if the rose hip looks exactly like the old one did. I'm absolutely horrible at comparing colors if I don't have the other in front of me. I'm actually just bad at thinking colors will look way and then get them on me and look completely different.. I've been meaning to take my old rose hip to compare. I'm also going for the hot pink rage, it def isn't as what I would consider a "hot pink" but its matte...and anything pink and matte find there way into my already to big lipstick collection... and for now that and nude cream are the ones I want to try.

They're pretty close, just different formula, smell, and lasting power. The newer Rose Hip is cooler and the older one is warmer, but it's something you barely notice.

**Note: Please ignore my faint wrist hairs that are being extra magnified.

ROSE HIP

Old Milani - Left, New Milani- Right

Edit: 4:00PM

Orange Nectar and (Old Milani) Mandarina

Mandarina- Left, Orange Nectar - Right

Black Cherry

Old- Left New- Right

Violet Volt

MAC Violetta - Left, Violet Volt- Right

So did some swatches on toilet paper to compare the Color Statement (cs)  l/s to older or close alternatives. BTW, waited about 30 minutes or so indoors before taking pics of the swatches, oil from certain swatches is being absorbed by the toilet paper!

Column 1 Top-Bottom : Milani Violet Volt, MAC Violetta, Milani Orange Nectar, Old Milani Mandarina

Column 2 T-B: Milani D'Oro, Milani Bronze Beauty, Old Milani Bonfire

Column 3 T-B: Milani Black Cherry, Old Milani Black Cherry

Column 4 T-B: Milani Rose Hip, Old Milani Rose Hip

Daylight Swatches w/o flash

In bright daylight with flash