Hourglass Confession Lipsticks (Spring 2020) Swatches

For spring, there are eight new shades in the Hourglass Confession Lipstick ($36.00 / $22.00 refill) range, plus a new, limited edition duo for Valentine’s Day ($72.00, includes two full-sized shades with packaging).
Hourglass Spring 2020

Hourglass Only You/I Hope We Confession Lipstick Duo

Hourglass Only You/I Hope We Confession Lipstick Duo

Hourglass Only You/I Hope We Confession Lipstick Duo

Hourglass Only You/I Hope We Confession Lipstick Duo
I’m always a little disappointed by the limited edition lipsticks from hourglass. The colors are the same pretty basic shades of Rosey nude/mauve and red, and the packaging is basically the same, aside from Christmas 2018, which was lovely, and 2019, which I personally didn’t love. I’d love to see some pretty lawyer packaging or something like that.
I do NOT want to love any of these! Ugh! Too late, though, because I love “I Am” so much. I’ll be checking for dupes, but I don’t know that any of them will have the very noticeable quality and smoothness of this one.
I prefer PMG’s LuxeTrance to Hourglass’s Confession, but Every Time deserves an in-store swatch from me.
The lipstick shades are all beautiful – bright, vibrant colours. It’s just the holder that would put me off.
These look really nice.. I love the finish. I want to pick up ONE. I’m about to torture myself selecting.
The quality control seems off on these lipsticks and I don’t know why. For the amount of money spent they should be a perfect bullet. Otherwise I get most of the money goes towards packaging. I wonder how much a refill goes for as this is only 0.17 amount of product.