Almay Pure Blends Lipgloss Review

I was in the cosmetics section at Walmart earlier today and happened to run into the Almay Pure Blends.  The first thing I noticed was the packaging.  This lip gloss comes in the standard little tube but the pretty design on the tube really makes it look so sophisticated.  The second thing I noticed was the very natural shades this product comes in.  I'm not all that into bright or dramatic colors for lips so it seemed like a fairly good match, then the 95.8% natural ingredients was like a bonus.  The shade I ended up getting was the peony.

Before I even put this lip gloss on, I smelled the stuff.  I guess to keep it as natural as possible, a nicer scent wasn't added in and to be quite honest, it smells none too good.  The first thought that came to mind was that it smells faintly like crayons and after a couple whiffs I got a little nauseous.

So anyway, I figured, that's okay it's not like I'm gonna be deeply inhaling this stuff so onwards toward testing!  Now, I don't usually put tubes directly on my lips just because I like being able to even it out as I'm applying lip gloss so I squeezed the gloss onto my finger and was somewhat disturbed by what I found.  There was a creamy colored part and then squeezing off the side was this watery, liquid stuff that I can only assume is the stuff that makes the product glossy on the lips?  All I could think was "Wow, I've never had lip gloss that had the glossy part so apparently separate from the colored part and yet come in the same tube...."  After a couple applications of the lip gloss, however, there was a more even mixing of the two parts and now I'm getting the expected glossy colored lip gloss.  Weird.

I naturally have very dark pink lips so I wasn't too surprised that the color didn't really show on my lips.  It just left a light gloss on my lips.  I will have to try it with nude lips some time.

Overall, I didn't like this product too much.  It didn't really offer anything that regular chapstick or lip balm can't accomplish at half the price.