Makeup Madness: Up Close - Revlon Colorburst Lip Butter in Strawberry Shortcake

As promised, I'm trying to get through all the reviews of the products from my most recent beauty hauls! These are way overdue so please bear with me.

I'm starting off with the Revlon Colorburst Lip Butter in Strawberry Shortcake, because the lip butters have been out for a while. (Check out my previous posts on the shades Tutti Frutti and Wild Watermelon.) I got Strawberry Shortcake when I went drugstore beauty shopping and found the Revlon Lip Butters on sale. It was around the time when I realized that I needed some girly pink in my life because my lipsticks and eyeshadow palettes were all neutral or strong colors.

Makeup Madness: Getting to the Bottom of the Revlon Colorburst Lip Butter Lipstick in Tutti Frutti

TGIF! Let's get to the bottom of this post, shall we? By "getting to the bottom" I meant literally getting to the bottom of a lipstick! In makeup circles it's known as "hitting the pan", but the phrase doesn't really work for lipstick, so "getting to the bottom" it is.

This phenomenon (haha) is actually a rare thing for me, simply because I have a ton of lipstick (and lip gloss and lip balms and whatnot). It's my favorite beauty product and I just can't get enough. I do try my hardest to make good use of everything though. Great makeup shouldn't go to waste! Cue Exhibit A:

The top box was my lipstick bin last year. I've tossed out some lip things that expired (that I never got to the bottom of) but I got new ones since then.

The Revlon Colorburst Lip Butter wasn't my first orange lipstick, but it's the one I ended up using the most. I got it last year in May, and though it has been on constant rotation with a few of my favorites, I only just reached the bottom of it now. That simply means it packs a lot of product in the tube! Cue Exhibit B:

Brand new

Fresh lipstick

Makeup Madness: Up Close - Revlon Colorburst Lip Butter in Wild Watermelon

In a past life (a very recent one, heh), I used to do beauty product reviews (among other things). It was the best job ever, since I got products to try out for free and write about them to boot. However, it was also what it was - a job. I sometimes got entire collections of products and I had to swatch them and try them all. I had to give everything that passed through my desk a fair chance.

Now though, I can do whatever I want, yay! I can just talk at length and rant and rave about one product at a time or acquire just one lipstick out of an entire line because it's the only one I want. I don't have to worry about not being too technical (cold, warm skintones and all that jazz). I can choose to write about all the components of a single look, or buy and talk about an entire collection if I want to.

So I'm starting off the makeup madness with a rave about my newest lipstick - Revlon's Colorburst Lip Butter in Wild Watermelon. It's one of the four new colors that Revlon released for the summer (along with Juicy Papaya, Sorbet, and Pink Lemonade) and I've been on the lookout for it ever since I found out about the new colors from YouTube's Missglamorazzi. When they finally arrived in the country, I took a look at the four shades and still decided on Wild Watermelon. I've recently had my fill of orange lipsticks so I've been looking for a red one for regular days. I couldn't wait to try it, so I don't have any decent pics of the lipstick in its just-unwrapped glory. I just took a couple of hurried pics in the car before putting it on.