This is the show down of the rosey pink lip/cheek tints! If you recall I received the Elizabeth Mott “Tints and Sass” lip and cheek stain in my July Ipsy bag. At that time I thought it was similar to the Benefit Benetint in Rose or theBalm’s Stainiac in Beauty Queen. So of course a swatch fest ensued and what do you know all three are different! I always find dupe lists amazing because there are colors that in the packaging look identical and when swatched look nothing alike and vice versa.
As you can see they all look very different swatched, this is just one application or coat of each.
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Lets start with Tints and Sass. As you can see it is the darkest out of all three and definitely has the most color. This is good and bad. Good because you don’t have to build up color, but bad because its very easy to go over board because its so pigmented! I felt it was a little to red for the fair skin of my cheeks as it was easy to make it look like I had a bit of sunburn! But I really really like this on the lips as it was a great rose red color. In the picture below I’m wearing it on my lips and my cheeks. After applying to my cheeks it was a bit to much so I went back in lightly with a sheer foundation to mute the color as I looked like I had a sunburn. I think it will work well as a cheek tint I will just need to have a light hand. Out of the three this was the most moisturizing on the lips. And this does have the faint scent of cherries.
The Stainiac in Beauty Queen from theBalm is the stain I’ve had the longest and had the most experience working with. It falls in between Tint and Sass and benetint in color and in pigmentation. Out of all three I feel like this is the most easy to blend and work with. But none of the three are that difficult. On the the cheeks I applied three layers to achieve my desired color and the same on my lips. On the lips I find that it is neither moisturizing nor drying it just is! That being said make sure your lips are moisturized as it will cling to any dry areas. I like my lips to feel somewhat moisturized so I added a gloss on top. At first I didn’t think that this had a scent but after smelling it again I almost detected a wheat scent?! I could totally be crazy as I’m trying to take a break from wheat right now and all I want is to eat a loaf of bread! But I asked a co-worker to take a sniff and she agreed it did have a strange scent…
benetint is propably the most famous of the three as it has been around the longest. Tints and Sass and Stainiac are both more of a gel formula while benetint is much more a liquid. As you can see from the swatches it is the lightest of the three. Which is also good and bad. Good because you have a lot of control over the color as its less pigmented and it’s not something you can easily go overboard with. On the other hand its less pigmented! I added four layers on my cheeks to achieve my desired rosey flush but it still isn’t that detectable in the picture. If you want instant gratification this one isn’t for you, I’d go with Tints and Sass. Out of the three this is the most drying on the lips. I also added four layers of the color to my lips (which were moisturized) and it clung to every single nook and cranny. As you can see in the picture once a gloss was added the appearance was much improved. benetint smells like roses so it get a little extra love from me!
Whatever Lara... 