Almay Smart Shade Butter Kiss Lipstick Review & Swatches

Almay Smart Shade Butter Kiss Lipstick is a new permanent range of tinted lip butters launching for Spring 2015 in twelve skin tone flattering shades. Almay Smart Shade Butter Kiss Lipstick actually takes the guess work out of finding your perfect shade of lip color by creating skin tone complimenting shades. Each of the twelve shades is broken into three skin tone groups of light, light medium, and dark and each selection includes a berry, pink, nude, and red that would be most suitable for your skin tone. Pretty nifty if you’re shy about trying shades that you might feel aren’t suitable for your skin tone.

As for me? I just love all the shades in the Almay Smart Shade Butter Kiss Lipstick and I’m not busy limiting myself to any one shade that suits my skin tone. I like living dangerously haha….!

Needless to say there are two items I obsess about in the lip world and that would be chubby lip pencils and tinted lip balms and butters! Almay Smart Shade Butter Kiss Lipstick fits the bill for tinted lip butter.

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Almay Smart Shade Butter Kiss Lipstick ($6.99) are a buttery tinted lipstick or lip balm or lip butter if you will. These aren’t a traditional lipstick by any means as they have a very nice hydrating, balmy texture. They aren’t as creamy nor as pigmented as Revlon Lip Butter but are more pigmented, moisturizing, and thicker than L’Oreal Color Riche Balm if you wish to reference formula. The hybrid formula has the consistency of a buttery lip balm with a pigment that varies from shade to shade as I find some colors apply sheer where as others apply opaque so pigment does vary. Very few shades are sheer though so expect a nice deal of color here. Possibly the nicest thing about the formula is the melty consistency.

Almay Smart Shade Butter Kiss Lipsticks

Almay Smart Shade Butter Kiss Lipsticks

Almay Smart Shade Butter Kiss Lipstick Swatches (Shades for Light Skin Tones) (Berry-Light, Pink-Light, Nude-Light, and Red-Light)

Almay Smart Shade Butter Kiss Lipstick Swatches (Shades for Light Medium Skin Tones) (Berry-Light Medium, Pink-Light Medium, Nude-Light Medium, and Red-Light Medium )

Almay Smart Shade Butter Kiss Lipstick Swatches (Shades for Dark Skin Tones) (Berry-Medium, Pink-Medium, Nude-Medium, and Red-Medium )

These start out dense but after the initial layer wears away you’ll find a richer melty balm that glides onto lips and leaves behind color, a high sheen, and a hydrating finish. These wear comfortably on my lips for about four hours with the lighter shades at around three. They remain pleasantly moist through the wear and feel very soothing on my drier lips without clinging to drier areas or falling into my natural lip lines. They have absolutely no fragrance or flavor and for those interested they are made within the USA.

I think the nicest thing about the shades that released with the collection is the fact they’ll look differently on everyone depending on how pigmented your natural lip color is. I personally have pigmented lips and found the shades enhanced my natural lip color. Those with less pigmented lips will also find that the colors apply more opaquely and look richer. So they’ll pretty much look differently on everyone depending on your natural lip color and skin tone.

Almay Red Light Smart Shade Butter Kiss Lipstick

Almay Berry Light Medium Smart Shade Butter Kiss Lipstick

Almay Pink Light Medium Smart Shade Butter Kiss Lipstick

Almay Nude Light Meduim Smart Shade Butter Kiss Lipstick

Almay Red Light Meduim Smart Shade Butter Kiss Lipstick

Almay Berry Medium Smart Shade Butter Kiss Lipstick

Almay Pink Medium Smart Shade Butter Kiss Lipstick

Almay Nude Medium Smart Shade Butter Kiss Lipstick

Almay Red Medium Smart Shade Butter Kiss Lipstick

Almay Berry Light Smart Shade Butter Kiss Lipstick

Almay Pink Light Smart Shade Butter Kiss Lipstick

Almay Nude Light Smart Shade Butter Kiss Lipstick

I’m a mush for lip butter as I tend not to reapply my lipstick and gloss when it wears away. I love keeping balm stashed in my desk drawer for easy touch ups. These new Almay Smart Shade Butter Kiss Lipstick are the perfect way to get moisture and beautiful color on my lips easily. Really loving this formula!

I BET you can’t just pick up one shade.

I’d recommend checking these out. A fabulous little budget tinted lipstick with a great formula!

Available now at drugstores or walmart.com.

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