e.l.f. Essential EX-tra Lip Gloss, 22116 Brett, 0.9 oz

I used to work as an executive trainer for Christian Dior so imagine my surprise that this little company exceeded my expectations. Wow and then some! I am saving SO much money without sacrificing quality.

I did some Googling of product reviews by bloggers for these, and I noted that all of the colors seemed like they might work for people with the "Spring" color scheme. I was also impressed with the level of pigmentation and the look of these glosses in the examples I saw. So I decided to buy four different colors, including two including a rosy/berry tone and a red tone which normally wouldn't work for me. I went for those because the rosy/berry tone contained gold microglitter, which I figured would warm it up; and the red, while looking close to the classical blue-toned type, still seemed warm enough. I was extremely pleased when these arrived and I tried them. All of the colors are excellent, as is the product. It has a quality of being definitely "there" and looks like lipstick but a little softer, without being Va Va VOOM! in intensity, even for these very pretty, intense and feminine tones. I think I will buy the rest of the colors as well, and I hope that the company continues to make this product. It's definitely a win in terms of a truly useful, highly pigmented gloss.