Buxom Plumpline Lip Liners (Review & Swatches)
Buxom recently launched their Plumpline Lip Liners in a whopping 20 shades! These new lip liners promise a plumping full coverage formula with a creamy matte finish.
The Plumpline shades cover the usual suspects in a lip range: nudes, to pinks, to reds and a handful of purply-vampy shades. Although they claim to be creamy, I’d argue and say they’re really not. While they do glide on the lips smoothly (which is fantastic), these are very much a drying matte formula once they’re locked in place.
Most surprising to me is that the Plumplines are an incredibly fat pencil. Most lip pencils tend to be on the skinny side for preciseness, so I wasn’t really sure how this was going to work out. Also, due to the size, I felt more like these should be used in place of lipstick.
They also come with a brush which… honestly had me scratching my head a little bit. I’ve never felt the need to use a brush with a lip pencil before. Since this also isn’t a creamy formula, you can’t really use the brush to blend anything out. I tried it, and the lip pencil really wasn’t going anywhere after I’d applied it.
Buxom Plumpline Lip Liner Swatches
My Thoughts
As a lip liner, the Buxom Plumpline Lip Liners do their job: my lipstick stayed in place and, rather amazingly for me, I didn’t have any lip line bleedout even with the vampier shades. I also really love the colour range – of the ten I tried, there wasn’t a single shade in there that I wouldn’t wear on the regular.
But honestly… I think this is a really weird product. The fatness of the pencil makes for some awkward application and it’s far less precise because of it. I ended up sharpening the pencil quite a bit in order to keep the tip as precise as possible. I also don’t understand why there’s a brush attached to this pencil. It’s a dry formula when it gets on your lips, so you really haven’t got a hope in hell of using the brush to blur out any edges. It also claims to be plumping, but I can’t figure out where on earth that would come from unless you’re overlining your lips. There is nothing in formula to support the look of plumper lips.
I’m sad that I don’t like how fat the pencil is because it really makes it difficult for me to get a precise line (and I’m already not that great at being precise in general!). I love the shade range and I would absolutely love to wear these under lipsticks, but the lack of preciseness absolutely ruins it for me.
The Buxom Plumpline Lip Liners are available on sephora.ca for $20 CAD each or on sephora.com for $17 USD each.
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An International Makeup Giveaway!
Alright guys! Because I had a ton of Canada-only giveaways over the last month or so, I wanted to do something where EVERYONE in the world would be included. So here you have it! One ENORMOUS makeup giveaway open to everyone!
Here’s the full listing of items for this giveaway:
- Bite Beauty Amuse Bouche Lipstick in Beetroot
- Bite Beauty Agave Lip Mask (mini)
- Bite Beauty tin container
- Too Faced Melted Ruby
- Urban Decay Pro Larger Powder Brush
- Physicians Formula Butter Bronzer
- INGLOT Kohl Pencil in 01 (Black)
- INGLOT HD Lip Tint Matte in 12 (Red)
- INGLOT False Lash Effect Mascara
- INGLOT Eye Shadow in 329 (matte dark brown)
- eos Berry Blossom Body Lotion
- Sephora Collection Dry Revive Dry Body Brush
- Rodial Baking Powder
- essence The False Lashes Mascara – Extreme Volume & Curl
- essence Rock ‘n’ Doll Crazy XXXL Volume Mascara
- essence Satin Touch Blush in 10 Satin Coral
- essence Satin Touch Blush in 20 Satin Love
- essence All About Toffee eyeshadow palette
- essence Rock ‘n’ Doll Duo Stylist Eyeliner Pen
- essence Contouring Eye Pencil
- wet n wild Ultimate Brow Kit
- wet n wild Gel Lip Balm in 955B Love
- wet n wild photofocus Pressed Powder in 823C Neutral Beige
- wet n wild photofocus Concealer Corrector in 841B Light/Med Beige
- Burt’s Bees Beeswax Lip Balm
- NYX Pigment in Magnetic
- NYX Pigment in Go H.A.M.
- NYX Suede Matte Lip Liner in Prune
- Maybelline Master Strobing Stick
- QUO Radial Blur Translucent Powder
- Mary Kay Satin Lips Shea Butter Balm
- Mary Kay Mini Eye Brush Set
- Mary Kay plastic makeup bag
Giveaway Rules
- This giveaway is open internationally!
- This giveaway starts on March 24, 2017 and runs for two weeks.
- Please be aware that all entries will be double checked to ensure fairness.
- One winner will win the Prize Pack pictured and described above.
- The winner will have 48 hours to respond to my e-mail. If they fail to respond within that time frame, I will pick another prize winner. (And so on.)
- “Giveaway accounts” will not be considered for this prize. (If you want to know what I mean by that, please click here.)
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What I Bought This Month – March 2017 Haul
My haul is a little bit early this month for two reasons:
- I don’t anticipate myself buying anything more in the month of March (and even if I do, I’ll just hold it over till April).
- I didn’t have a review ready for today, so I thought I’d slot this in early!
The one thing I was the most excited for was definitely the brand new limited edition Too Faced Peanut Butter and Honey palette. I have fallen deeply in love with its predecessor, the Peanut Butter and Jelly palette, and I was sooo anxious to get my hands on this one!
It’s an Ulta exclusive, so my wonderful friend Sara in Baltimore picked it up for me as a gift and shipped it up here! Sadly… the quality is nowhere near what the PB&J palette was and although I’ve only used it twice now, I’ve been very sad with how it performed. 🙁 Ah well, you can’t love them all!
Alongside the PB & Honey palette, Sara sent along a few more gift items (we exchange Christmas gifts) and this adorable cupcake bath fizzy was one of them. I’ve always been intrigued by these kind of cake looking bath bombs, but haven’t ever used one yet!
And the last item Sara put in my gift was this trio of Philosophy shower gels. I’ve mentioned before that I definitely do not need anymore shower gels in my life but I had told her how much I loved the holiday Philosophy ones so she grabbed me up a sweet set! I know I’ve used the Candy Cane one before, but I’m excited to try the other two scents since they’re completely new to me!
Since there were a few sales on at Ulta, Sara offered to grab me some items I was after. I think the Real Techniques duo pack of the sponges was around $9, but I’m not entirely sure since I paid her about four months ago for it. I always have a stockpile of these becuse they are the BEST!
Another thing I snapped up (via Sara) when they went on sale for the holiday season was the Too Faced Merry Macarons set (again, another Ulta exclusive item!).
As we’re all aware now, I’ve become a rather rabid Too Faced fan so I kind of feel like I need to own every single palette they put out. (I acknowledge that this is not only an expensive habit, but also kind of ridiculous.) It’s kind of pointless to talk about this item at this point since the holiday season is long gone, but I did buy it and just got it, so it’s worth mentioning!
And that’s it for the month! Looking back, I actually didn’t spent ANYTHING this past month – these items were all either gift products or something I paid for back in December! That’s kind of impressive actually…