The Best & Worst of Pat McGrath Lip Fetish Sheer Colour Lip Balms

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Pat McGrath Lip Fetish Sheer Colour Lip Balm
Pat McGrath Lip Fetish Sheer Colour Lip Balm
Pat McGrath Lip Fetish Sheer Colour Lip Balm
Pat McGrath Lip Fetish Sheer Colour Lip Balm
Pat McGrath Lip Fetish Sheer Colour Lip Balm
Pat McGrath Lip Fetish Sheer Colour Lip Balm
Pat McGrath Lip Fetish Sheer Colour Lip Balm
Pat McGrath Lip Fetish Sheer Colour Lip Balm
Pat McGrath Lip Fetish Sheer Colour Lip Balm
Pat McGrath Lip Fetish Sheer Colour Lip Balm
Pat McGrath Lip Fetish Sheer Colour Lip Balm
Pat McGrath Lip Fetish Sheer Colour Lip Balm

Pat McGrath Lip Fetish Sheer Colour Lip Balm ($38.00 for 0.12 oz.) is designed to have a “tease of color” with a “lightweight veil of hydration.” The balm has a smooth consistency that glided across my lips without tugging but did not feel overly slippery or wet like some balm-like formulations can. I felt like this made it easier to apply them evenly and had them wear decently–anywhere from two to four hours–and I found that a couple of them stained my lips lightly (most notably, Passion Flower looked significantly pinker on my lips, and it also stained my hand pink when I tried swatching it again to verify!). I found the formula to be moderately moisturizing with coverage that ranged from sheer to medium with the deeper shades having more noticeable color and coverage. I didn’t detect any scent or taste to these.

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Kristen Jaoui Avatar

A friend got me one of these. They left a weird fuzzy feeling in my mouth almost immediately. So… I can’t properly test it out since it seems I’m allergic to something in them. That said, for the time I did have it on, it felt very very VERY (did I say very?) similar to the clinique chubby sticks.

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