Yes, I am addicted to purple makeup. There is a shade to make essentially every eye colour pop, and it also works nicely with my cool skin and the red in my hair. Plus, it's just hella pretty!

Curiousity got the best of me when I was looking at Star Gazer lipsticks the other day (and all the unusual shades available!), so I decided to order one to try out. I picked the shade 115, a creamy lilac, for my test run purposes, as I figured it's not quite the ordinary, but it's also something I'd actually wear.

Little did I realise quite how blue this sucker is!

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Now, don't get me wrong, I love the colour, but it's a bit cool toned even for me to wear it straight up. Also, that packaging? Not what I'd call aesthetically pleasing! The texture, however, is worth writing about.

I found this lipstick to apply smoothly without drag; it's creamy, and glides on opaque. Definitely something I love in a lipstick! Furthermore, I wore it around home all afternoon, and it didn't dry my lips out (hallelujah!). I hung out, chatting and drinking water and whatnot, and it wore respectably. Yes, I had some fading (and a purple rim to my drinking glass!), but it still gave me basically full colour to my lips.

Damn, son! I need to do some work on my lip-swatching skills.

All in all, I find myself overall quite pleased with this lipstick formula and the general experiment. At a scant £3 a pop (I got mine from ebay), these are very affordable. It seems to wear just fine under gloss, too (read: it doesn't break down and die), so I can certainly see myself picking up more of these in the future! I think I need to see if they have green...