Chanel Lilas Baume Essentiel Review & Swatches
Lilas
Chanel Lilas Baume Essentiel ($45.00 for 0.28 oz.) is a translucent, pinkish-lavender with neutral-to-cool undertones and a dewy, lightly pearlized sheen. In my experience, this formula really works best as a highlighter or lip balm, as it has no staying power as an eye product (it is marketed as a multi-tasking formula!).
- Sheer coverage (as marketed)
- Balmy, emollient, spreadable
- Applied fairly evenly but best with a brush to avoid lifting base products
- Lasted ~6 hours as a cheek product, ~2 hours as a lip balm, almost no longevity as an eye product
Top Dupes
- ColourPop Showtime (LE, $10.00) is more shimmery, cooler (95% similar).
- Lethal Cosmetics Stellar (P, $18.00) is more shimmery, darker (90% similar).
- Pat McGrath Iridescent Pink 003 (LE, $25.00) is more shimmery (90% similar).
- MAC Violet FX (LE, $31.00) is more shimmery, cooler (90% similar).
- Kaleidos Sky Walker (P, $14.00) is more shimmery, more pigmented, cooler (90% similar).
- Sydney Grace Pink Mist (P, $9.00) is more shimmery (90% similar).
- ColourPop Light Chaser (LE, $10.00) is more shimmery, cooler (90% similar).
- OFRA Cloud 9 (LE, $29.00) is more shimmery (90% similar).
- Dior Pearlescent Glow (03) (P, $50.00) is more shimmery (90% similar).
- Kaleidos Moon Cruiser (P, $14.00) is more shimmery, darker, cooler (85% similar).
Ingredients
DIISOSTEARYL MALATE | POLYBUTENE | OCTYLDODECANOL | SYNTHETIC WAX | CERA CARNAUBA (COPERNICIA CERIFERA (CARNAUBA) WAX) | PENTAERYTHRITYL TETRA-DI-T-BUTYL HYDROXYHYDROCINNAMATE | TIN OXIDE | DICALCIUM PHOSPHATE | CI 42090 (BLUE 1 LAKE) | CI 77491 (IRON OXIDES) | CI 77492 (IRON OXIDES) | CI 77499 (IRON OXIDES) | CI 77891 (TITANIUM DIOXIDE) | MICA | BS000040A
Disclaimer: Ingredient lists are as available by the brand (or retailer) at the time of publishing. Please always check product packaging, if it exists, for the ingredient list applicable to the product you're purchasing, or the brand or retailer's website for the most up-to-date ingredient list.
With OUR heat? And me waiting for buses? Disaster central! I can see it melting down my face, and God forbid dusty wind gusts come up, I’d have that stuck to me!
That is one expensive lip balm🤪
In europe they pulled the Baume essentiel line for what I had hoped was a reformulation. I had one of the LE gold ones and i had the same experience- no chance as an eye product (it also got into my eyes and left a greasy film under my contacts) and as a highlighter it never set on my skin. So it’s a very expensive chunky lip balm for me. I was hoping with the re-release thé formula would be updated, but it appears not as your review lines up with my experience with the original. A shame as I love stick products and I love the packaging on these.