Hard Candy Fierce Effects Lipsticks

Hard Candy is an American cosmetics company, founded in 1995. In 2009, Hard Candy announced a partnership with Wal-Mart and premiered it's new line in the fall of 2009, which consisted of 261 products that caters to persons of all race and complexions. 

Hard Candy products range from face products, to eye products, to lip products to nail products.  Hard Candy also offers a fashion line that ranges in sizes from S to XXL, and an eyewear accessory line.  Hard Candy can be purchased from Wal-Mart stores and the prices are purse friendly.

About these Fierce Effects Lipsticks:

• Part of Hard Candy Fall 2015 collection
• Great color pay off
• Nice formula that glides on smooth

This product sells for $5.00 a pop at Wal-Mart and comes with3.2g/0.11 ozs
of product in the lipstick bullet.

There are 10 colors in the collection and I picked up 4 of the colors to share with you and give my opinion on the line.

Let's get into the product:

 

Color featured here is 1047 Glisten To Me.  Glisten To Me is a frosty bronze color.  The color is very light and took several swipes to get it to a nice pigmentation.  The good thing about this color is it is buildable, so you can use it for a touch of color, or you can build it to be a more show stopping bronze.

 

 

1051 Prowler is a vampy berry that applies evenly to the lips and required very little building.  This color would be perfect for a night out on the town.  This color will stand out on any complextion.

 



 

1052 Show Off is a pinkish red that also applied very evenly and did not require much building up.  This color is the perfect color to compliment many skin tones and is perfect for that day or night look.  We know that the perfect red is a must have in our lipstick collection, and this is very close to perfect in that red category.

 

1054 Black Diamond is a frosty black.  I stepped a little out of my comfort zone in picking up this color, but was happy I did as the color is a beautiful black.  It did take a little work to get the color to apply perfectly on the lips.  This formula was not as smooth as the other three from the line that I tried and the formula did leave a bit to be desired.
 
My overall opinion-:
We will start with the cons as I did have a few on this product - as mentioned above the color Black Diamond, the formula was not smooth and the color did apply a bit patchy and took some work to build and get it to look perfect on the lips. 

The lipsticks were purchased new, but on opening and dispensing the lipstick from the tube, the shaft of the product looked used as it did not have that smooth appearance of a brand new lipstick that we have grown so use to.

Not that I really expected it to as there was no claim to this on the packaging, but the lipstick did not last very long on the lips.  I got about an hour of wear time before having to reapply.

As mentioned before these are new to Wal-Mart and to the Hard Candy line, which I assume is the reason I could not find any information about the product, even on the Hard Candy website.

The packaging was a very nice pleasant surprise to me for a $5.00 drug store makeup item.  The packaging is a matte black tube with tiny embedded clear gems on the top part of the lipstick bullet.  The bullet is made out of a nice sturdy plastic that feels heavy in the hand, and there is a true to color indicator on the top, which is always really nice to have when purchasing cosmetics.  The biggest thrill for me was that the product came with a seal.  This is a love, love, love, love for me on drug store products as it screams to me "buy me as I have not been tampered or played with by others".

I give this product an A+ for the outside packaging, a B+ for product formula, and a C+ for actual product appearance.  Would I purchase more from this particular Fierce Effects Lipstick product line - for the formula and price - yes, however in this time a girl needs a lipstick that she will not need to be re-applying every hour, so over all - unfortunately no.

  

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Ulta Matte Lip Creams

Ulta Lip Creams are an in-house Ulta brand product.  This line of lip creams is designed for women of all color and age.  The lip creams can be purchased from Ulta stores or from Ulta.com.

About these lip creams-:
- they are velvety smooth
- mousse like cream (almost like the Anastasia Liquid Lipsticks)
- bold intense color and very pigmented with one swipe of the applicator
- dries to a matte finish
- rich and creamy formula
- light and non-drying product
- doe foot applicator
- reds, pinks, purples and nudes to choose from

The product sells for $9.00 a pop and carries .12 fl ozs or 3.7 ml of product.  Matte Lip Cream lovers - exciting news currently (09/13/2015) the lip creams are on sale buy two get two free.

There are 10 colors in the collection and I picked up 3 of the colors to share with you and give my opinion on the line.

Let's get into the product-:

Color featured here is Striking.  It is a beautiful bright pink color.  The color applies very evenly to the lips.  There is no blotchiness or bleeding.  I wore this product both with and without a lip liner.

 



Passionate is a bright, beautiful red.  This color also applies very evenly to the lips with no bleeding or feathering.  This color is perfect for day or night.  This was hands down my favorite color purchased and my favorite color offered in the collection.

Stirring is a deeper mauve/red.  This color also applies very evenly and pigmented.  This color was on the vampy side of the collection and can also work well for day or night wear.

My overall opinion-:

We will start with the con as I did have one on this product - the product once applied takes about 10 to 15 minutes to dry completely kiss proof.  This was no biggie for me as I do not apply and then jump into eating or drinking so I did not mind waiting the dry time and below you will see why.

I am a huge fan of the product and the formula.  The color selection is also amazing and of all three that I purchased, the product applied evenly to the lips.  These lip creams are very pigmented and the applicator picks up enough product for one swipe of precise color application.

The product held up for approximately 6 hours through eating and drinking and did not bleed.  As mentioned in my previous piece on the Milani Amore Matte Lip Creams, I have never been a big fan of the matte lipstick fad, however these Ulta Lip Creams have made a believer out of me.  They wore comfortably on the lips and the color payoff is BEAUTIFUL.

I have to admit that I am a bigger fan of these over the Milani Amore Matte Lip Creams.  Ulta pleasantly surprised me with this product and I am looking forward to purchasing a few more in the line.  I give this product two very big thumbs up :-)

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