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Starlooks Lipgloss

Price: $15

Shade: Cuddle

Claim: A truly moisturizing, non-sticky formula available in 47 different shades. Tint ranges from sheer to opaque and finish ranges from shimmer to satin. This creamy, glassy, long-lasting gloss adds a glistening effect to any lip look. Designed to be worn alone or in combination with other Starlooks lip products for a truly customizable finish that completes any look. Each tinted Lip Gloss comes beautifully packaged in a translucent tube with a doe foot applicator.

Ingredients:

Bis-diglyceryl polyacyladipate-2: A sticky paste, semi-solid emollient often used as a lanolin substitute. It's valued for its high water-binding properties, excellent adhesion to the skin and glossy finish.

Polybutene: A oligomeric oil, sometimes derived from petroleum, that is used in its hydrogenated form, as a binder, epilating agent, thickener and lubricant. It is naturally tacky or sticky and is also used for its adhesive properties.

Mineral Oil: Skin replenishing and are also among the most effective, established moisturizing ingredients available. 

BHT (Butylated hydroxytoluene): A fat soluble synthetic compound, in the form of a white/yellow crystalline solid. Primarily acts as an antioxidant food additive because of its ability to preserve fats. It's also used as a preservative. As an antioxidant, it helps fight against the deterioration of cosmetic products caused by chemical reactions with oxygen. It's also known to work synergistically with other antioxidants. 

Silica: Used as an absorbent powder and thickening agent. Certain forms of silica can improve even distribution of pigments in cosmetics and prevents them from settling in makeup. Silica particles can enhance the absorption of other ingredients.

Mica: Earth mineral included in products to give them sparkle and shine. The level and look of the shine mica provides depends on the color and how finely it’s milled. Mica's sheer, translucent and skin-hugging properties make it a popular ingredient in mineral powders. Mica powder reflects light from the face because of its glittering or shimmering properties, and can create the illusion of a smoother, softer and more radiant skin tone.

Titanium Dioxide: An earth mineral used in sunscreens that is capable of blocking both UVA and UVB rays; also used as a pigment.

Iron Oxides: Natural oxides of iron (iron combined with oxygen); pigments are used to enhance colors in cosmetics.

Propylparaben: It is used as a preservative for its anti-fungal and anti-microbial properties to extend the shelf life of beauty and cosmetic products.

Tridecyl Trimellitate: Synthetic ingredient used as a skin-softening agent and texture enhancer.

My Thoughts: I received Starlooks Lipgloss in Cuddle in one of my Ipsy bags. Its a sample size square tube with a doe foot applicator. I didn’t like the doe foot applicator since it didn’t pick up the product well, I found I would have to dip it into the tube a few times to get an even amount on my lips. Cuddle is a beautiful copper, rose gold with a shimmer finish. The pigment tends to be sheer to opaque. I would recommend pairing it with a lipstick since it is not very pigmented, or it can be worn alone. I didn’t find the lipgloss to be hydrating, I found it to be very sticky though. Everything would stick to my lips, especially hair! Which is funny since it suppose to be non sticky.

Starlooks Lipgloss Cuddle has a wonderful vanilla scent to it, its not overwhelming but the scent does last for 3 hours. The lip gloss staying power on the other hand doesn’t last at all long, I would say it last 30 minutes tops with no eating or drinking. After 30 minutes I have to reapply. Drinking and eating, wipes it off complete. I notice that they don’t have this lip gloss on their site anymore. Its either been out of stock or discontinued.

Would I purchase Starlooks Lipgloss? No, its far to expensive and one of the worst lip glosses I have tried in a while.

Pros:

Sample size

Received from Ipsy

Square tube

Doe applicator 

Copper, rose gold shimmer finish

Vanilla scent that last 3 hours

Pair with lipstick or wear alone

Cons:

Doe applicator doesn’t pick up product well

Not very pigmented 

Not hydrating 

Very sticky

Staying power is only 30 minutes

Eating or drinking wipes it off immediately 

Constantly have to reapply

Lipgloss is no longer sold on company site.

Expensive

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[spudwitch]

@starlooks replied to your post “@starlooks replied to your post “when your lifestyle requires...”

Yeah as if it was possible. It's just a vague placebo to your mind that you can actually change something in the world, to deny your insignificance in the capitalist production chain. The real change can only be achieved by the hole world in a global revolution to deploy the system. Meanwile, if you live in the first world, you're using products made by poor people9

(your entire point is irrelevant to my original post, just saying, fyi)

no one is claiming ethical consumption is entirely possible. No one, not vegans, not anyone. But you can improve the level of harm you cause by making choices every time you consume something. Animal agriculture destroys rainforests and displaces indigenous peoples, it creates toxic runoff which affects communities (usually poor black communities in the USA, for example), it creates ocean dead zones, it kills reefs, it contributes to climate change at a similar level to the transport industry.

now, you can sit there eating burgers and cheese and pretend this has nothing to do with you. Or you can realise that the only way to scare industries like this is to refuse to give them your money.

i agree that it sucks to live in a world where items like the computer I’m typing this on inevitably involve slave labour, where even my vegetables are picked (being Australian) by under-paid itinerant workers. It sucks. But the damage to the environment is an extremely immediate suckage that we need to address now, or we will never get a chance to improve working conditions in third world countries - because they will be under water, or their fields will become desert, or it’ll become so hot those who can’t find refuge will die. 

there is only one way normal people can have any significant say in the industries that contribute to environmental destruction, and that is by refusing to give them money wherever possible. can you live without your car? maybe not. can you go without heating/cooling your house? doubtful. can you switch to veggie burgers instead of quarter pounders, or rice milk instead of dairy, or potato curry instead of beef? yes, you sure as shit can (unless you are under very dire circumstances, and even under extreme poverty the cheapest commodities are usually plant foods).

if you choose to do nothing when you could do something, you’re making a statement that you, personally, do not give a single tap-dancing crap about the people (poor child labourers) you are talking about. you’re closing your eyes, sticking your fingers in your ears and singing la-la-la-capitalism-la-la-la while forgetting that - good news! - you actually aren’t insignificant at all. capitalism relies on consumers who have power to put pressure on supply and demand. maybe you alone, a single person, can’t change the world, but when you eat a veggie lunch and explain to your friends why you chose it, maybe they’ll see things the same way, and tell their friends, and normalise saying ‘no’ to the beef and dairy industries and then, then, maybe, just maybe, when we are spending more money on bean burgers than beef burgers, when we’re demanding cleaner foods and consumables, these beef and dairy and other companies will scent that’s where the money is and change their practices to get our cash back in their pockets again. 

and the best thing is you can do all this while advocating for the end of capitalism. it isn’t an either-or situation. 

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[spudwitch]

@starlooks replied to your post “when your lifestyle requires several deaths a week but you think the...”

imagine believing in ethical consumption under late capitalism...lol

imagine using that as an excuse to do nothing and make no effort to minimise the harm your consumption causes to the planet, your fellow humans, and other animals...lol

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