Rimmel Wake Me Up Instant Radiance Shimmer Touch

I don't know if it's just in my area, or everywhere in the US, but up until last week, I hadn't seen any of the Rimmel Wake Me Up line at all.  Then last week, I saw the Instant Radiance Shimmer Touches and some of the Wake Me Up concealer colors.

I went ahead and picked up the Instant Radiance Shimmer Touch in the colors 001 Flush of Pearl, 002 Radiant Rose and 003 Peach Glow.

(L-R: Flush of Pearl, Radiant Rose, Peach Glow)

• 001 Flush of Pearl: champagne beige
• 002 Radiant Rose: warm rosy pink
• 003 Peach Glow: peachy shimmer

All of the colors contain quite a bit of glitter.  The swatches above are very heavy swatches and as with a lot of drugstore highlighters, if you sheer it out, you lose almost all of the color and are left with nothing but glitter.

If you sheer it out, it does dry down fairly quickly without being sticky.  But again, glitter.

Rimmel Wake Me Up Instant Radiance Shimmer touch contains 14mL of product and retails for around $5.

Overall: 5/10

Rimmel Scandal Eyes Waterproof Kohl Kajal in Nude and Taupe

In the last couple of months due to a whole host of random and annoying vision problems, my eye doctor switched me out of hard contacts - rigid gas permeable lenses to be exact.  (I know, you didn't even know they made hard contacts anymore, did you?)

So, several takeaways for me from now wearing soft contact lenses are:

• Wow, these aren't excruciatingly painful.
• I can actually see now that random particles aren't constantly attaching themselves to my lenses.
• I could really consider wearing something in my waterline - this was NOT an option for me with hard contacts.  It led to nothing other than extremely painful watery eyes.

Not wanting to plunk down a lot of money in this new stuff-on-the-waterline experiment, I decided to check out the ScandalEyes Waterproof Kohl Kajal (say that three times fast) liners from Rimmel.  I picked up two colors, Taupe and Nude.

As you can see from the swatches, they both lean rather orange, which I'm not crazy about, especially on the waterline, but for less than $10 for 2 pencils, you sort of get what you get.

005 Nude is a very warm orange leaning beige.  I'm not exactly sure who this would be nude for, especially on the waterline.  I really wish this product would have been much cooler toned and blue/pink leaning.

004 Taupe is a warm gray brown.  Again, it leans a bit orange.

The pencils are extremely creamy and they are opaque in one swipe.  They stay sticky, not ever really drying down.  This means that they do have pretty good staying power on the waterline.  

I think that overall staying power is probably going to be dictated by things other than the product.  Namely, how dry was your waterline when you applied and how watery overall are your eyes.

The quality of the product is impressive, especially at this price point.  But my complaint is that for a product designed to be used so close to the eyes, they're too warm/orange.  I think they're going to make your eyes look more red and tired.  Especially for the nude, I would have liked to see a color that would brighten and this one doesn't.

The Rummel Scandal Eyes Waterproof Kohl Kajal pencils contain 1.2 grams of product and retail for around $4.49 wherever Rimmel is sold.

Overall:  7/10.

Rimmel Kate Lasting Finish Matte Lipsticks

I'm not sure when Rimmel launched the Kate Lastinging Finish line of matte lipsticks, but I saw the display in my CVS in early January 2013.  I have several of the regular Rimmel Kate lipsticks and I really like them, plus I tend to love matte lipsticks, so I was very excited to try these out.

I picked up four shades, 101, 104, 109 and 111.  I have absolutely no idea why #111 is the only one of the bunch that has a name, Kiss of Life.

All of the lipsticks were opaque with one swipe and they all seemed to stain to some degree, though obviously, 111 stained a lot more than 101.  As far as matte lipsticks, I didn't like this formula as much as the MAC matte formula (which I actually really like).

This formula wasn't terribly uncomfortable to wear, it just wasn't great.  The wear time was good, which you'd expect from a matte lipstick that stains.  The texture also isn't the greatest, but I'm not particularly sensitive to that.  If you are, you may want to skip this line as it can feel a little gritty.

• 101 - bright neutral (maybe slightly blue based) pink
• 104 - pinky brown with berry undertones
• 109 - mostly neutral coral pink-red.  Color swatches is very true to the bullet.
• 111 - bright red with slightly orange undertones, though less orange than MAC Ruffian Red or NYX True Red (have I seriously not posted that review).

The lipsticks each contain 4 grams of product.  These lipsticks are available wherever Rimmel is sold for around $6.

Overall:  7/10