L’Oreal Colour Riche Extraordinaire is a new lip gloss that comes in 16 shades and offers rich, glossy color and smoothes the surface of lips. From the ads I’ve seen, these seemed like they might be some sort of liquid lipstick but to me they feel mostly like a gloss. They have a moisturizing, non-sticky feel and offer vibrant but sheer to semi-opaque color. Rose Melody is a light peachy pink with fine multi-colored sparkles and Purple Prelude is a cool lavender gloss with no sparkles or shimmer.
Price/Quantity: About $8.00 for 0.18 Fl. Oz. / 5.5 mL
Availability: Drugstores, Ulta, Target
Packaging: Short, lipstick-sized gloss tube. The outside of the packaging is a metallic, reflective gold with a swatch of the color inside on the front. There is a label on the top with the color name as well. The rounded doe foot applicator is very soft to the touch and pulls out enough gloss to cover lips without having to go back into the tube. I have an acrylic lipstick caddy and these fit nicely in the compartments right next to my lipsticks.
Smell: These have a light floral fragrance that I only noticed when I smelled the applicator or smelled a swatch on my hand. I can somewhat taste the fragrance. It faded away soon after I applied the product.
Application: One pass is enough for me to get plenty of color and shine from these glosses. If I attempt to add a second layer, it does smooth out lip lines but it also looks too thick, bordering on goopy. So, one layer is just perfect.
Texture/Finish: There is no stickiness in this gloss, even when I press my lips together. They feel moisturizing but they also have a slight “oily” feel to them, which makes sense since L’Oreal says that these are infused with micro-oils. Some of these have shimmer and sparkle and others have none. I like the sparkles in the shades I bought because they are big enough to see but you can barely feel them. There are incredibly shiny and glassy-looking.
Pigmentation: All the shades I have tried are semi-sheer. The brightest one I have is Rouge Allegro and it is very vibrant and can be built up to appear more opaque but for me it is most comfortable to wear a light-medium weight coating of these on the lips. The first ones I bought were Rose Melody, Purple Prelude, and Dancing Rose. I went with lighter colors first because I was under the impression these were going to be very loud on the lips but they are not. Don’t be afraid to try the brighter colors, since they are sheer enough to tone down.
Longevity: About 4 – 5 hours. The color started fading after 3 hours but the shine kept on going and faded between 4 and 5 hours.
Worth Buying?
Yes, if you like extra glossy lips and semi-sheer color. If you like lighter weight glosses (like Maybelline Color Sensational High Shine Glosses), or you like opaque to nearly opaque glosses then you might not like these as much. The light fragrance doesn’t bother me but those that are extra sensitive to smells may want to be wary of that.
They certainly look nice on you! Enjoy them 😉
Thank you 🙂