Besides the opaque, almost pastel, candy-colored lipsticks for which they are well-known, Lime Crime has expanded into lip gloss with their new Carousel Glitter Glosses. This winter 2011 Limited Edition collection includes 5 colors:
Candy Apple (ruby red w/ crimson glitter), Cherry On Top (pink-red jelly w/ rainbow sparkle), Golden Ticket (bronze metallic gold w/ gold glitter - on my wish list), Loop-de-Loop (midnight blue w/ multi-colored shimmer - see my review), and Kaleidoscope (reviewed below).
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Kaleidoscope is a very dark plum-purple with turquoise sparkle. I can see the fine turquoise micro-glitter on my lips, and i can kinda sorta feel it when i rub my lips together *very hard*, but it is really not at all gritty. Like Lime Crime lipsticks, it, too, has a slight synthetic vanilla scent, but no flavor. It is nowhere as sticky as many other glosses i have, such as MAC, and has quite a bit of staying power, even staining the lips a bit.
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I am rather fair and i like dark lipsticks. I also think this would also look good on darker skinned beauties, on whom the unusually colored glitter and sparkle would stand out more than on us pale people.
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The case is transparent plastic with twisting spiral grooves. The long cap is metallic purple with lavender and white printing in festive curliques and fancy script saying Carousel Gloss. The top of the cap has little stars and a unicorn head embossed in relief. The white plastic wand has a nicely functional brush applicator. The tube comes in a hexagonal cardboard tube printed in white, pale orchid, and deep metallic purple
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This is not a terribly unusual lip color, as several cosmetic companies make purple and violet lipsticks and glosses - i am particularly thinking of MAC. I own way too many purple and violet lipsticks & glosses, but i can always find room for more of my favorite color :-) And, at least in my opinion, purple is a bit more wearable than midnight blue (Loop-de-Loop). Kaleidoscope is very dark and quite dramatic, and i would recommend a more than naked eye makeup, so your eyes stand out along with your lips.
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If purples are your thing, then, as the Lime Crime website says, "...hurry: this collection melts away with winter's last snow..." continued >>