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The Hit List: Most Opaque Lipgloss
What’s the Most Opaque Lipgloss…?
What brand/product wins this category? Any particular reason it wins?
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MAC Just Add Color… I love the texture, love the color, the creamy feel and the fact that I just need one layer to fully cover my lips!
I TOTALLY agree! It’s hard to believe that its a lipgloss. I know people were raving about True Babe, but Just Add Color beats it hands down. If you can get your hands on one, I totally recommend it 😀
ive never actually owned one but ive swatched them in sephora and i think makeup forever’s glossy full couleur are really pigmented! judging from your swatches the illamasqua intense lipgloss are also looking really opaque!
…but im satisified with my semi opaque mac lipglass 🙂
I’m never sure exactly what category they’re in, but for me OCC Lip Tars take the cake on this one. They’re the texture of a gloss but dry a little. As anyone who’s seen them knows, the tiniest drop covers your whole mouth & it’s opaque and gorgeous color! Plus the fact that there’s a whole rainbow & they’re perfect for mixing!
I must say it’s the Illamasqua Intense glosses.. quite impressive.
I think Illamasqua intense lip glosses are the best ones I’ve tried so far, along with the OCC lip tars, but I don’t think they are lip glosses at all =D
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Illamasqua intense l/g, they’re as opaque as lipstick!
the lipglosses of a german brand called P2 are the most opaque ones I´ve ever tried
I love p2! A friend in Germany got me the most beautiful color, Bridget Bardot! :] It is really pigmented and opaque, with a great creamy-ness to it with shine! Do you know how else to get them without going all the way to Germany? :p
what color(s) have you tried? :]
Haha!
I think so too!
I love those lipglosses but i don’t think that they’re lipglosses… they’re called “lipcream” actually.
I’ve tried Rita Heyworth
i’ve tried one of those ones too and i totally agree.
but to my mind they’re called “lip cream” instead of “lip gloss”.
my colour was rita heyworth but i am definetly willing to try another one.:)
OCC Lip Tars are pretty opaque!
Mac lipglass in Russian Red!
PS I think reading your blog has been a bad shopping influence, today I went to Mac and had my first big haul !
I would definitely say Illamasqua intense lipglosses!! They win for me because they are bam in your face with the same color as in the tube!! Especially the ones in Fierce and Move which I have and Love!!
I’ve been pretty lucky with Chanel Glossimers.
same here!
Mac Cremesheen glass and tinted Lipglass are the most opaque. The darker coral, brown and plum shaded show up true to color on my lips.
i think i consider NARS pretty opaque…
Fyrinnae Lip Lustres. Not quite a gloss, but it’s really slick (non-sticky) lip color opaque in one swipe. The ones I’ve tried have a metallic finish. They’re intense and extremely affordable.
it’s funny that my vote would be for something that i haven’t used yet! i’m going to say the illimasqua ones that i’ve seen you use on the site recently – they seem ultra opaque! i don’t know that i’ll get any of them (okay, well maybe that light purple! haha) cause i think if i wanted an opaque gloss, i’d just mix one up (usually i wouldn’t want an opaque gloss tho).
Hourglass Siren!!! Whoa baby!
I’d say that Nars’ lipgloss is the most opaque! They’re sticky though. Wish there were opaque ones that weren’t so sticky.
Well, I like sheer glosses… and I don’t buy expensive stuff like YSL or Chanel… So I’m gonna go with my H&M lip gloss in Anni-Can Rock
still searching……..
Easy peasy Illamasqua definatley
NARS all the way!
Illamasqua, judging from your photos and swatches!
Definitely the Illamasqua Intense Lipgloss. All the colors are so vibrant and totally opaque on my lips, so opaque that there’s absolutely no need for a stain or lipstick underneath.
definately either the mac lipmix or the obsessive compulsive cosmetics lip tar’s!
Illamasqua! Their intense lipgloss is amazing- like liquid lipstick with a lipgloss feel.
Bobbi Brown Rich Colour Gloss is my absolute favourite!!! I don’t know if it is necessarily the most opaque, because I’m sure there are many I have yet to try, but I like that it has high coverage without compromising on the “glossiness”. Some full colour glosses end up looking more like liquid lipstick in my opinion. In plus, the Bobbi Brown ones smell and feel amazing… so big thumbs up from me. 🙂
Coastal Scents has really opaque lipglosses.. plus they are only like $6 so you can’t go wrong with that.
I’m not really a lipgloss girl, so for the few ones that I have, it would have to be MAC’s English Accents.
I have a few of the Bare Escentuals Full Color lipglosses and they’re true-to-name. They’re opaque on me and you get a cooling tingly plumping bonus! Love ’em.
I know they’ve got a couple different kinds of gloss now, so I should clarify: I’m talking about the Full-Color Buxom glosses.
I just got one last week & love it, esp the feeling on the lips. I plan to buy another this weekend 🙂
NYX Mega Shine – some of them are pretty opaque
Quo Eiffel Tower l/g Completely Opaque (and feel nice and smell like Caramel!)
I’ll put another one in for OCC Lip tars – they are amazing!
The Kat Von D Painted Love lip glosses are very opaque, almost like a liquid lipstick. I wear Lolita all the time.
MAC Russian Red!
The discontinued (probably because it felt like Elmer’s glue on the lips) Dior Plastic Gloss. Gosh that stuff tasted nasty but it was very opaque and stayed on until you scraped it off.
deff occ lip tars!
Surprisingly, the new spring/summer collection from Revlon. I found that all of the colors (Lilac, Coral, etc) are super pigmented, but the Coral Reef color is by far the most opaque! Plus they’re only like 6 bucks! =)
I definitely agree with you about the new revlon lipglosses. I also have some nars lipglosses that ate really opaque. boogienights come to mind.
I feel like the L’Oreal HIP Shine Struck Liquid Lip things (can’t remember the rest of the name for the life of me, don’t feel like walking to the bedroom to find one XD) are ridiculously pigmented. I don’t think they even feel like a gloss. They’re so creamy, too! I just wish there were some lighter colors. I feel like they’re all more winter/fall shades.
nars dolce vita!
By experience, I’d have to say OCC Lip Tars. Unbelievable! Unfortunately, I find them a bit drying and just too extreme. Haven’t learnt my lesson, though. I just ordered two of the Illamasqua Intense lip glosses from Sephora. Looking forward to trying them out but have no qualms with returning them if they’re ridiculously intense.
I would say Dior Crème de Gloss together with Chanel Rouge Allure Laque… those are very pigmented and NOT sheer! Like a liquid lipstick!
Winner of the most opaque lipgloss in my stash belongs to Illamasqua Intense Lipgloss, I have it in Mistress.
I would say Illamasqua’s in general, the sheer ones are actually very pigmented and the intense are just amazing! also NARS Bloodwork is like liquid lipstick
Illamasqua Intense for sure. Their sheer ones even come out pigmented. But their Intense line for sure.
MAC True Babe
Illamasqua intense lipgloss. I think they are the most opaque lipgloss that I`ve tried.
love my NYX megashine gloss!
the most opaque lipgloss i’ve ver had in my collection is MAC’s Russian Red Lipglass
you wouldnt know it’s a lipgloss unless you were told 🙂
MAC Feeling Dreamy lipglass is the most opaque lipglass that I’ve ever own next to Love Nectar lustreglass!
For me, the most opaque glosses I have tried are Masochist (blue based red) and Modern Love (muted plum) from Beaute.
I’m all for L’Oreal HIP Lip Glosses, those bad boys come on so strong I have to use only a little so as to not over do. They can also be ‘diluted’ with a balm or a clear gloss for sheerer color.
I like the glosses in the squeeze tubes as well as the plastic tubes with applicators.