Wednesday 14 March 2012

Flipping Beautiful!


As if Fire Fantasy was not exciting enough, Mac Factor has expanded their  Colour Effect range with a line of new lipsticks called 'Flipsticks'. Colour  Effect Flipsticks are double ended lipsticks: One end features a rich and  creamy colour, the other a lighter lipstick shade.



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You can wear each colour alone, blended together, one on each lip, or apply  the lighter/brighter shade just to the centre of your lip to give a highlight  effect to your lip.


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Max Factor says:
To add a new dimension to lip colour, you can sweep one shade over your upper  lip and "flip it" to apply the second shade to your lower lip. Another way to customise lip colour is by outlining lips in one colour, then  "flip it" and apply the second shade to the centre, giving a graphic texturised lip.


I don't think I will ever wear the upper lip with one colour and the lower lip  with the other colour but I absolutely love the 'highlight' effect with the  brighter/lighter in the centre of the lips or 'graffiti' effect as Max Factor  calls it. The model wears Gipsy Red all over the lips and then flipped the  lipstick over and dabbed the gold colour in the centre area of the lips.

Let's have a look at some swatches, shall we? From what I can gather from the  website, there are 6 (double) shades available. My local Superdrug is only  storing 5 shades and I missing 'Salsa Red'.


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Bloomy and Swingy leave me indifferent but Folky, Boreal amd Gipsy are to die  for! I don't know if I could pull off gipsy with my yellow teeth but I totally  understand why they chose that shade on the promotion picture. It is simply stunning and most of all, so much fun and has so much more depth than just a lipstick with a bit of gloss on.


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The Flipsticks are sold exclusively in Superdrug and are on special offer at  the moment. Buy them before by 10th April and you get them at £2 off: £6.49 instead  of £8.49


Will you be flipping it?

6 comments:

Nic, Strawberry Blonde said...

Ohh these sound fabby! Brilliant review love the pics!

Anonymous said...

These look really good. I've been seeing this look pop up over the past few months but these make it easier to do rather than trying to match various lipsticks!

Safiyah said...

i want gipsy!! would work so great together <3

Jennifer said...

These look so good! I will have to check them out.

Unknown said...

This is such a wierd/wonderful idea! I love it :)
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Fee - Makeup Savvy said...

I love the look of Gipsy and will probably buy it... but maybe I am being a scrooge but they seem a bit pricey to me! So would only buy the one really and it would have to be on 3 for 2 haha

Fee x

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