I love liquid lipsticks, so I have bookmarked the Sweetpea & Fay site to browse when I am more sensible!
Here is the last set of swatches - I apologize if there are any mistakes in this post, I have already taken my nighttime meds and they tend to make me loopy. Also, by the time I took these, the natural light was failing and it totally ruined the swatch of Key Lime. My bad! But the color from the indoors photo is very true to color, so you should still get a good idea. The reason it took so long is because I simple cannot find three of my tubes. Pandora, Platonic and Bombshell have all just up and vanished. I think they are in a purse, somewhere, but I haven't the foggiest which one. So sorry! :blush:
Anyways, these are the more "untraditional" colors I own. Of them all, Melancholy and Space Cadet are the easiest to wear. Space Cadet is nicely textured, more cool-toned than Storque (but not too cool-toned) and the color is a dupe for LC's D'Lilac. Melancholy is difficult to apply due to the dry texture, but it is a lovely deep purple and can be worn on the lighter side (similar to the indoors picture) or the darker side (more what you see in the natural light). Bon Bon, is for me, the most difficult to wear, color wise. It is a very cool toned grey and wearing it with the wrong clothing/makeup makes my teeth look super yellow. I usually pass on this color unless I want to tone down something that is a little too warm. The hardest to wear, application wise, is Smoking Gun. The swatch on the Impulse website makes it seem like a beautiful dark navy, but I have found that it is nearly impossible to replicate that color. What you get is either much too light (see swatch) or much too dark (lip swatch, below). The only way to get a true navy lip, from what I have played around with, is mixing and layering with a lighter color. Bon Bon is a good one, or the new color Tart might work, although I don't own it to test that theory. You can see how much I had to work the color out on Melancholy and Smoking Gun. The other three are just a clean swipe. (Bon Bon and Key Lime from the tube, Space Cadet with my finger from the palette.)
So yeah - Impulse's lip swatches are a bit deceiving. They admit this right on the website, sooo... I don't even know. I just buy them and figure WTH, I can make it work somehow.
This is my lip swatch of Smoking Gun. I did it for a gal on Facebook who wanted to see what it would take to build up a really deep blue color. A couple things to note - in the areas it looks black, that is bad lighting. The lip color does look blue, you can see it in the very center of my lower lip where my lights were actually hitting just right (this was taken indoors, at night, with no flash). The edges are lighter than the rest of my lips due to the cleaning I had to do to make them even. All in all, it took about 15-20 minutes to achieve this deep of a color.
I hope that is helpful - I am more than willing to do more lip swatches if anyone is interested. I have neutral/leaning yellow undertones and my lips are naturally quite pigmented, so they do tend to change the color of more sheer lipsticks - a problem I haven't have with any of Impulse's lipsticks.
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Here is the last set of swatches - I apologize if there are any mistakes in this post, I have already taken my nighttime meds and they tend to make me loopy. Also, by the time I took these, the natural light was failing and it totally ruined the swatch of Key Lime. My bad! But the color from the indoors photo is very true to color, so you should still get a good idea. The reason it took so long is because I simple cannot find three of my tubes. Pandora, Platonic and Bombshell have all just up and vanished. I think they are in a purse, somewhere, but I haven't the foggiest which one. So sorry! :blush:
Anyways, these are the more "untraditional" colors I own. Of them all, Melancholy and Space Cadet are the easiest to wear. Space Cadet is nicely textured, more cool-toned than Storque (but not too cool-toned) and the color is a dupe for LC's D'Lilac. Melancholy is difficult to apply due to the dry texture, but it is a lovely deep purple and can be worn on the lighter side (similar to the indoors picture) or the darker side (more what you see in the natural light). Bon Bon, is for me, the most difficult to wear, color wise. It is a very cool toned grey and wearing it with the wrong clothing/makeup makes my teeth look super yellow. I usually pass on this color unless I want to tone down something that is a little too warm. The hardest to wear, application wise, is Smoking Gun. The swatch on the Impulse website makes it seem like a beautiful dark navy, but I have found that it is nearly impossible to replicate that color. What you get is either much too light (see swatch) or much too dark (lip swatch, below). The only way to get a true navy lip, from what I have played around with, is mixing and layering with a lighter color. Bon Bon is a good one, or the new color Tart might work, although I don't own it to test that theory. You can see how much I had to work the color out on Melancholy and Smoking Gun. The other three are just a clean swipe. (Bon Bon and Key Lime from the tube, Space Cadet with my finger from the palette.)
So yeah - Impulse's lip swatches are a bit deceiving. They admit this right on the website, sooo... I don't even know. I just buy them and figure WTH, I can make it work somehow.
This is my lip swatch of Smoking Gun. I did it for a gal on Facebook who wanted to see what it would take to build up a really deep blue color. A couple things to note - in the areas it looks black, that is bad lighting. The lip color does look blue, you can see it in the very center of my lower lip where my lights were actually hitting just right (this was taken indoors, at night, with no flash). The edges are lighter than the rest of my lips due to the cleaning I had to do to make them even. All in all, it took about 15-20 minutes to achieve this deep of a color.
I hope that is helpful - I am more than willing to do more lip swatches if anyone is interested. I have neutral/leaning yellow undertones and my lips are naturally quite pigmented, so they do tend to change the color of more sheer lipsticks - a problem I haven't have with any of Impulse's lipsticks.
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