Accessorize Lipsticks in Love-Struck and Passionate: Swatch and Review

Hello everyone!

I have two matte lipsticks to share with you today - and you know I love mattes, I did a whole series on them! These two are from Accessorize and come in two rather bold shades - a bright candy pink called Love-struck (£4.95)* and a darkened plum by the name of Passionate (£4.95)*. These shades are available from Superdrug or Accessorize, but I could not find them online.

First off, how cute is the floral packaging? We all know I like to keep it classic when it comes to packaging but these have such a pretty, retro vibe that they would be fun to pull out of your purse. The tube also comes with a little lid containing a matching glossy balm in the shade of the lipstick, so that you can gloss your matte lipstick or wear it alone as a coloured balm. MUA do a similar thing with their lipsticks.

L-R: Love-struck balm; Love-struck lipstick; Passionate balm; Passionate lipstick.

Love-struck is a bright, Pepto-bismol pink. As a matte lipstick alone it is bright and pigmented, but a little patchy and chalky in places, so I immediately reached for the balm and glossed it down a little. I love the effect with the balm, it's such a beautiful, vivid fuchsia.

Of course, the gloss wears away after a while, leaving a more satin-matte finish which fades pretty evenly, I found. Keep in mind that while I do swatches often in the same day, I test the products properly while reviewing for wear and so on.

My favourite of the two, as you may have already guessed, was Passionate. As a matte it was pigmented and opaque and had a blackberry-stain red-pink undertone to it's blackened purple hue.

With the addition of the purpled gloss, the tone became somewhat more raspberry hued, and very shiny. I love it!

From afar, this is still a crushed berry, black cherry kind of colour that I find ridiculously pleasing.

Do you like these shades?