Loose Powder

I wasn’t sure what product I should chose to make as my first review on Loose Powder, but my question was answered when I stuck my hand into my gym bag and pulled out my ChapStick: True Shimmer.

Lately the weather has been unkind to my lips, and I’ve been using a lot of lip balm. When I ran out of my Classic Strawberry flavored ChapStick, I decided to give the True Shimmer version a try. I figure a little shimmer added to my lip balm would be nice without the stickiness of lip gloss.

There are four flavors for the True Shimmer line of ChapStick: Botanical Berry, Tropical Peppermint Rush, and Blended Fruit Sherbet.

I opted for Botanical Berry, since I figure that would have the closest flavor to the Strawberry. Botanical Berry smells like berries with a little tangy scent in it, while the Classic Strawberry has a sweeter smell, and there is always that slight hint of the petroleum jelly scent, but that scent doesn’t bother me unless I’m inhaling my ChapStick, and lip balm goes on my lips, not in my nose. So that isn’t a problem.

The color of the True Shimmer is a lot darker compared to the bright pink Strawberry stick. It is a bit hard to see the color differences in the pictures, but you can see there are quite a bit of speckles of glitter mixed in the True Shimmer stick, which makes the color look almost metallic, but not quite. Though it might just be the trick of the light.

Out of curiosity, I took both sticks and rubbed them over a piece of white paper. The Strawberry stick has a pink hue, while the True Shimmer has an orange tint to it. Since the colors are so light the slightly different tint in colors do not make much of a difference.

When I applied both onto my lips, half Strawberry and the other half True Shimmer, I couldn’t really tell the difference when I stood at a normal distance from the mirror. I only noticed the “Shimmer” when I was literally two inches from the mirror.

Also the glitter speckles on the True Shimmer stick made the color of the ChapStick seem lighter when applied. I like my lip balm to give my lips a light hue since I don’t use lipstick much, and Classical Strawberry had just the right tint for me.

I have to say that I am a bit disappointed by the True Shimmer Chapstick. For $2.99 I was hoping for the color to be like the Classic Strawberry with a little Shimmer, but it was not. If I wanted color on my lips and prevent it from chapping, I would stick to my Classic Strawberry, but the True Shimmer: Botanical Berry is still a fun ChapStick to have because of the shimmer, and it has the sweet taste that makes me love ChapStick brand lip balm.