Clinique keeps adding more and more beautiful shades and textures to their Pop lineup and it always excites me to see what new they’ve come up with next! Say hello the Pop Lacquers!

Clinique describes their Pop Lacquers as “a luscious pop of liquid, high-shine colour in one, full-coverage coat. Luxurious yet lightweight formula with built-in primer glides on effortlessly, wears for up to six hours”. Sadly, I kind of struggled with these.

My first complant is that the applicator isn’t the usual doe-foot, and instead it’s more like a lightbulb shape. It’s round the entire way around which seems to really facilitate poor application. I ended up with streaks and too much product pushed out to the edges of my lip line (so it kind of gave me that lip liner look…).

When I finally did get the lip product on right, it definitely didn’t wear anywhere near six hours and instead started to fade off within about an hour. Even worse was that after only an hour I had intense lip line bleed out around the edges of my lips. And it’s not like I had been talking either when I noticed this. I had been sitting at my desk for the last hour, sipping water from a straw so as not to disturb the lip colour and I might’ve answered my phone once. If that’s what happened from such little activity, I absolutely cannot trust this to last me if I’m out having drinks – I would end up with this all over my face!

The colours, if you can make the formula work, are lovely however! They are intensely bright and beautiful to behold. These are definitely a tacky gloss and I found them very reminiscent of MAC’s lip glasses.

Happy Pop is a gorgeous vibrant mandarin orange.

Sweetie Pop is a vibrant pink that’s bordering on neon.

Love Pop is a muted mauve/pink with a bit of shimmer. The shimmer is not actually apparent on the lips though!

Peace Pop is an intense purple with hints of red.

Final Thoughts

Sadly, although I was really excited to try out the Clinique Pop Lacquers, they just didn’t work out for me. The very short wear time/fading off combined with the lip line bleed out make it impossible for me to wear these without constantly glancing in a mirror. Although my face shots above show a decent looking lip product, the reality is that those were taken in quick succession and were only worn momentarily (you can make any product look good for a brief moment in time!). In practice, they just didn’t hold up for me. 🙁 That being said, my friend Zoë over at Writing Whimsy had a better experience with these, so please be sure to check out her post!

The Clinique Pop Lacquers can be purchased on sephora.ca for $21 CAD each or on sephora.com for $18 USD each.

The products featured in this post were sent to me for consideration.