Kylie Jenner Lip Kits - Review

Seeing girls covering my Instagram over the past few months with their Kylie Jenner lip kits, looking like their lips were carved by angels, I couldn't resist getting one (or two) for myself.

One of my oldest friends was giving my minute by minute updates from Kylie's SnapChat as to when the website would be open for sale. Safe to say when 12am hit in the UK I was refreshing the page like a crazy woman! Luckily, it worked, and although I knew I only had about a 35 second limit to get the colours I wanted AND to pay, I took the risk of getting Candy K (an older colour) and her brand new colour, Exposed.

As I got to the final checkout, the total came up - $27 for each lip kit seems reasonable for a product with such fantastic reviews, but the $18 delivery seemed a bit steep. Regardless, I had committed to the purchase and clicked 'submit' on my $75 (ish) purchase. The fact it was going to take 3-5 days to process purchase, and a further 14 days for delivery added salt to the wounds, but by this point I had spent my life savings (i'm exaggerating, of course) and so time was not going to deter me now.

Candy K on the left, Exposed on the right

Two weeks passed, three weeks passed, and I was started to get impatient. Then, a mystery note arrived in the post stating an international delivery had been attempted to be delivered but a £23 fee needed to be paid before I could collect it. Yes, that's right, ANOTHER £23 on top of the seventy I'd already paid. Very angry by this point, I sent a strongly worded email to Kylie Cosmetics, with a smug reply letting me know it's on the terms and conditions and I should use my eyes better. They were correct, it is in the small print, so my argument was invalid. Regardless, by this point i had spent around £100 for two lip glosses - these had better be good!!

Luckily for Kylie (because my opinion is the make and break of her business empire, obviously) they did not disappoint. Now don't get me wrong, I won't be spending money on these ever again, ever, but making the best of a bad situation, they really are fantastic.

Let me give you a brief summary of my favourite and least things about the lip kits:

- The colour is fantastic, I am obsessed with nude shades, and both of these are nude but very different to the ones I've owned before
- The lip liners really help to exemplify the shape of your lips, not to mention help it stay on.
- It really does stay on ALL day! This isn't a scam, it doesn't even come of on your coffee cup, and anyone who works long hours will know how important this is! Even when I wiped it off, it took some effort to get it to fully come off with no more traces!!

The shade in the above image is Exposed

- It smells fabulous. Okay this is a personal thing, but a nice smelling lipstick really does make a difference, some of the ones I've had before have smelt like deep heat and made me gag!
- It drys almost instantly! One of the negatives of a matte lip gloss is it has to have time to transform. Previous styles I've tried have taken about a minute to successfully mattify and begin that horrible dry feeling on your lips (it looks good though so who cares!), but the Kylie lip kit took 20 seconds MAX!
- It doesn't make your lips feel as dry as most other kits, which is great.
- The lip liner makes it easy to 'stay in the lines' and not end up with it all over your face!
- Perhaps the effort to get it off is a bit too much! I tried wiping it off once my lips started to shed parts of it but you cannot achieve this if you are out of the house with no access to make up remover.

Overall, this is not a cost effective option for perfect lips, nor is it a fast option if you live outside of the US. However, I do think it is important that everyone has one as a staple make up bag essential, to only be used on special occasions, or when the Queen is coming!

Thanks Kylie, my lips might not be as big as yours, but I guess your kits are still cheaper than fillers!