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My lip gloss obsession continues! This is a very nice lip gloss — it’s made by Hard Candy, and it’s supposed to be an “ice cold, super-fruity sorbet for your lips.” It’s extra shiny, tastes and smells like exotic fruit and is loaded with cooling ingredients. It comes in red, peach, dark pink, light pink, and clear with gold sparkles.

Lip Sorbet

What’s cooler than being cool? Ice cold! Ice cold, super-fruity sorbet—for your lips, that is! Lip Sorbet is an cool indulgence for hot, sun-filled days and long, steamy nights. These extra juicy, extra shiny glosses taste and smell like exotic fruits and are loaded with cooling ingredients to make lips tingle…just like real sorbet!

Packaged in no-mess squeeze tubes, Lip Sorbets look as delicious as fresh-picked fruit. The creamy, melt-on-your-mouth formula gives maximum shine directly to lips and adds nothing to hips! So stop fantasizing about a tasty treat…satisfy that craving with Lip Sorbet, available in five mouthwatering see-through tints.

So far, there are a few things about this lip gloss I really like. First, I love the pale pink color (strawberry squeeze). It’s pale pink without being too pale as to make me look dead or too dark as to make me look frightening, and it doesn’t look orange on me! I am really pale with yellow and pink skin tones, so finding good lip gloss colors has always been really difficult for me. They usually make me look dead, turn orange on me, or look way too dark. (In terms of color season terminology, I think I’m a spring? Though I’m just guessing.) So a good pink color is excellent. Second, it has a slant-tipped tube — I really like this because there’s no wand to deal with, and the slant tip makes it easy to apply without a mirror. Third, it’s moisturizing (though it doesn’t feel oily — it feels kind of petroleum-y). Fourth, it lasts and lasts and lasts.

However, it does have a few drawbacks. Some minor drawbacks — the smell is awfully chemical, which I’m not really fond of. The ingredients appear to be very chemical-intensive — as you’ll notice in the list of ingredients. It’s also a pretty sticky lip gloss, and I try to apply it sparingly or it sometimes runs off the corners of my mouth (I may be in the market for some clear lipliner in the future!). Also, while it’s a great pink color on me, and looks very natural, I wish it were a little . . . stronger. You can only tell I’m wearing lip gloss from a few feet away — I wish it were fifteen feet away instead. However, I can forgive those things. The drawbacks I really don’t like are that it has no UVA protection, and for some reason it tends to overflow into the cap, especially on warm days so I end up having to wipe off the end a lot, or risk applying a huge amount of lip gloss at a time. So I’m taking a star off because of those two reasons.

Hard Candy Lip Gloss is cruelty-free, (naturally!), vegan, but not organic.

Hard Candy sorbet lip gloss is $10.50 at Hard Candy’s Online Store.

Ingredients:

Raspberry & Strawberry Ingredients:
Diisostearyl Malate, Polybutene, Cera Microcristallina (Microcrystalline) Wax, Quaternium-18 Hectorite, Retinyl Palmitate, Tocopheryl Acetate, Tocopherol, Ascorbyl Palmitate, Propylparaben, Menthol, Mentha Piperita (Peppermint) Oil, Parfum (Fragrance), Limonene

Passion Fruit, & Lime Ingredients:
Diisostearyl Malate, Polybutene, Cera Microcristallina (Microcrystalline) Wax, Quaternium-18 Hectorite, Retinyl Palmitate, Tocopheryl Acetate, Tocopherol, Ascorbyl Palmitate, Propylparaben, Menthol, Mentha Piperita (Peppermint) Oil, Parfum (Fragrance), Limonene, Citral

Cherry Ingredients:
Diisostearyl Malate, Polybutene, Cera Microcristallina (Microcrystalline) Wax, Quaternium-18 Hectorite, Retinyl Palmitate, Tocopheryl Acetate, Tocopherol, Ascorbyl Palmitate, Propylparaben, Menthol, Mentha Piperita (Peppermint) Oil, Parfum (Fragrance), Benzyl Benzoate, Limonene, Citral, Eugenol

May Contain:
Mica, CI 77891 (Titanium Dioxide), CI 77491, CI 77492, CI 77499 (Iron Oxides), CI 75470 (Carmine), CI 19140 (Yellow 5 Lake), CI 15985 (Yellow 6 Lake), CI 42090 (Blue 1 Lake), CI 15850 (Red 6 Lake), CI 15850 (Red 7 Lake), CI 77742 (Manganese Violet), CI 45410 (Red 27 Lake), CI 45410 (Red 28 Lake), CI 17200 (Red 33 Lake)