Presents to myself - OCC Lip Tars

Hello:

Hope you all are having a good weekend!  As a make-up/skincare consultant I am working and today is actually my Tuesday.  But because I'm doing what I love, it always flies by and allows me to buy presents for myself like this gem!

Is that 5 new Lip Tars for me?  oh yes!  I got it from Sephora and usually the Lip Tars are $16 each, but this full sized set was only $49 and it came with a full size lip brush - Score!

The five colors are (from left to right) Pretty Boy, Stalker, Vintage, Grandma, and Melange.  I love OCC's names - like Grandma is totally a coral that older ladies like to rock with a modern edge.  I had to look up Melange - it's either rock formations or it can mean a literal mixture of things.  I just saw Sephora now has some of the Metallic Lip Tars so you know I'll be workin hard for the $$ this weekend so that can be my next gift to myself.  :) 

They are all amazingly pigmented and you need so little product, that these may last me my entire life.  The full size lip brush that came with them is really nice as well.  Also they are "made to be mixed" so I think Grandma and Stalker need to meet :)

Do you have a favorite Lip Tar?

Jasmine

Review - OCC Lip Tar in Strumpet

Hello!

Today I finally tried one (yes I have 7) of my OCC Lip Tars!  And I am in love :)  It is all the things I heard it would be - Long lasting, Excellent color payoff and you only need the tiniest amount. 

I would definitely recommend exfoliating your lips before applying as it will show all your dead skin bits.  They also recommend applying clear lip tar first, but I found as long as I exfoliated and had a used a bit of balm like 20 minutes in advance it was fine.

 

Here it is swatched on my arm - I could not get a clear picture, excuse the blurriness:

 

 

And like the directions show it works best to apply it directly to the brush, you need a teeny, tiny amount.  About the size of  a large hex in a glitter polish :)

 

And the results - wa-lah:

 

 

It actually looks much more like the color of the swatch on my arm in real life - I took the pictures in 3 different kinds of light but my camera just couldn't seem to catch it, but you can see the lovely texture and coverage non the less.  And it lasts and lasts, and than fades to a stain.

 

I will definitely be trying my other colors in the next few days.

 

Have you ever tried the Lip Tars and if so what is your favorite color?

 

 

Jasmine