[REVIEW] Peripera Lip Water Tint in #5 Strawberry Pink

By now, most of you must have guess that I am a big fan of MeeJMuse unnie. 

I love her videos, I agreed with most of the opinions that she talked about, and I found that I am in love with the products that she loves as well. 

Thus, I am always looking for what products she is loving as a references. 

(Not all the products she loves will suits me anyway)

One of the reasons why I am buying this lipwater is because she loves it and I fell in love with this colors when she wore it on one of her video. 

This one!!

Since Peripera brand is not available 'on store' at Indonesia, I have to buy it online.

This color, #5 Strawberry Tint a.k.a Candy Juice is a new color and not all online shop has it. 

I need to order them from the one in Jogyakarta (Center Java) #determination

Peripera Lip Water Tint #5 Strawberry Pink

It comes in a very cute packaging. Look at the cat-lady.

The product comes in a small glass-like container that I am sure is plastic.

It has some production code printed on the bottom on the container.

Is it the word "Jeju" written there?

It comes with a build in sponge applicator.
The applicator is somewhat pointy means that it is user friendly.
The liquid is watery. Living up to the name water tint.

Peripera Lip Water Tint #5 Strawberry Pink applied on hand (Left)Peripera Lip Water Tint #5 Strawberry Pink blended (Right)

I tried to apply the products on the back of my hand for a test.

It absorb quite fast. See on the left picture, the edge of the product already turns into a soft looking pink.

After blending it out, the color was even out. There is no reddish spots, dots, or harsh line left out.

Peripera Lip Water Tint #5 Strawberry Pink applied as blusher

As I am sure about the blending 'ability' of the products, I am going to check it out on my cheeks as a blush. 

I know some products like benefit, tend to leave some dots or marks when you leave it even for just couple seconds. But not this products.

Turns out that it blends beautifully without leaving spots and the color is quite nice. 

Since it is a water tint, the color pop out quite nicely and it last longer than powder blush. 

Left: Bare lips
Center: Applied Peripera Lip Water Tint #5 Strawberry Pink, and blend out
Right: Close Up

It turns to a beautiful shades of reddish pink. Not too red, not too pink.

After blending out, the color looks like a beautiful naturally looking lips. 

I love it.

Review:

Price: Rp 70K-110K

Pros:

• Beautiful color, natural looking

• Medium durability (gone after meal)

• Easy to blend out

• Cheap with loads of products

• Beautiful Packaging

Cons:

• Tend to dry up the lips (since it is a water tint)

• Not easily found

Recommended: YES!! The color is sooooo beautiful <3

Repurchase: Maybe? I love the color but since I love exploring other color (now I am having plenty of other colors). I guess I will think about it later.

Secret Key (Sweet Glam) vs Dior (Lip Glow)

I have been loving the Dior Lip Glow.

I have a tendency to have a dry cracked lips and the lip glow really helps my lips to look healthy effortlessly. 

The product will react with your body pH and turn to a color depends on it.

However, it is expensive. I purchased it last year at Singapore Duty Free shop at around Rp 350K and now, with dollars climbing up, the price has reach up to more than Rp 420K (last I checked).

It is not long lasted (only for 2-3 months?) I do not think that it is quite an investment. 

Then...

I found out about the Secret Key Sweet Glam.

They claim to be the cheaper version of Dior Lip Glow. 

I was curious and I decided to buy it. 

I bought the one in #1 Baby Pink as it bears the most resemblance to the Dior Lip Glow

This is the comparison of the product packaging.

Secret Key (Sweet Glam) vs Dior (Lip Glow) --- THE PACKAGING

At a glance, it looks almost similar: the color and the design.

Although, the Secret Key's packaging tend to be 'plump'er and shorter.

Secret Key (Sweet Glam) vs Dior (Lip Glow)
See that the secret key's are bigger yet shorter.

The bottom of the tube is different too. 

The secret key's bottom is in a soft square with the production codes and stuff. 

Dior's bottom is a round end, with CD initial engraved. More elegant I guess.

Secret Key (Sweet Glam) vs Dior (Lip Glow)

Applied on the lips, there is a different actually. 

The Secret Key's are more moist and have the oily feel. 

Dior's are moist without the 'too-oily' feel. 

The color is different too, as you can see on the picture below.

There is a slight difference.
Dior (left) are more matte yet moisturizing and the color are more of a natural lip color.
Secret Key (right) are more dewy/oily and the color are slightly brighter (reddish) then Dior's

Which one do you like more?

I personally didn't like the too oily feel on my mouth. I am not comfortable with that, that is why I am leaning towards lip tint and lip water all this while. 

But I guess I can live with Secret Key.

With price, comes quality, right?

Solution for Dry and Chapped Lips (EOS lipbalm)

Chapped lips is my once-in-a-while lip problem that doesn't seems to go away completely. It just keeps happening from time to time. In fact chapped lips can happen to anyone and usually we will just realize it when they get really chapped or bleeding. It doesn't help if you have the habit of bitting your peeled skin, just like me.

Dry lips especially chapped lips will have a negative impact for our overall appearance as in today's world, where ladies lips should be plump, soft, and kissable. Our lip product won't sit well on chapped lips as well. They will crack and look bumpy, giving uneven color, and unnatural finish. No matter how expensive or beautiful the color of our lip products are, chapped lips will bring those down to nothing. 

Well, the big question: 

Why is our perfectly soft lips be chapped the next day? 

There are couple of reasons for that according to my experience:

• Lack of Moisture/Dehydration

Lips doesn't contains oil glands like other parts of the skin. Oil glands is actually needed to lock the moisture in to our skin. The absent of oil glands on our lips skin tissue has actually caused it to be more prone to losing moisture, dry out, and be chapped. 

Furthermore, based on my observation from time to time, my chapped lips occurs when I do not drink enough water. Our body consist of mainly water (72%) and the lack of water has actually have a large impact on our body mechanical system. Drinking water will ensure that you have enough moisture to maintain the needs of our whole body (which includes our lips).

• Lips licking habit

I saw a lot of article saying that you are not suppose to lick your lips but I personally never take that into consideration until two year ago when I got the confirmation from a dermatologist who told me not to lick my lips as our saliva will do more harm than good. Licking lips will cause more persistent dryness. It will only moisture your lips for a while but then the saliva will actually eats away the thin skin layer on your lips and caused more dryness! In a long run, it will caused a darkening lips! which is a big NO-NO. Our lips should be pinkish.

• Consumption of certain drugs/medication

I have actually experienced this during those time when I was on dr. Kun's acne medicine. I am sure if you are living around Jakarta area, you would know him. He is a very popular doctor (dermatologist/acne specialist) and he treated many patients who suffered from mild to severe acne.
Some acne medication which helps to control sebum in your face does affect your lips involuntarily as a side effects. I was once given an oral medication (pill) and facial ointment (face cream). After I consumed the pill and apply the face cream for around a week, my whole face which was usually oily, dried out. That indirectly affect my lips. My lips chapped no matter how many glasses of water I drank. I have to use a heavy consistency lipbalm to keep it from peeling and bleeding. 

After those 'tragedy', I used my lipbalm even when I sleep, which leads me to discover the potential to use the lipbalm as a "sleep-mask". I think rather than buting a separate mask for your lips, it is better to just use your lipbalm. Save your money for new attire. 

You can use honey or royal jelly as well for more natural options, but considering that I move a lot on my sleep, I do not want the honey or royal jelly to smear all over my bed cover and invites unnecessary insects. 

You can use any lipbalm you have. I just happen to own the EOS lipbalm. 

I first found out about the EOS lipbalm from Hillary Duff's "Chasing the Sun" music video.

Hillary Duff's "Chasing the Sun" Music Video + EOS Lipbalm

Isn't it eye catchy? Not to mention a hell lot of celebrities are caught using the lipbalm. I owned the cute pink EOS lipbalm in Strawberry Sorbet. It has a nice sweet scent as well.

EOS Lipbalm in Strawberry Shorbet

I usually just apply the lipbalm on my lips and sleep with it over night. The result is pretty amazing. 

Before: Chapped and Dry Lips
After: After applying the EOS Lipbalm. It looks more moist (of course)
The next day: I let it set overnight. The results on the next day is more distinct. The chapped parts are smooth out and it actually turn more healthy and pinkish.

See the difference? I was wearing the lipbalm on 8 PM to 5 AM the next morning (Next day picture). My lips are actually looking softer and healthier. The peeled skin was somewhat healed and it was glowing pinkish-ly. I usually continue wearing it as a sleeping-mask for 2-3 days to ensure that the chapped lips gone away. Until it comes again. *sigh

Review:

Price: $ 3.29 on the website (here)

Pros:

• Cute packaging 

• No coloring and sweet scent

• Deeply moisture without being too sticky.

• Convenient to bring a long (in your bag)

• The egg shape (round) easy application

• It is on a hype, so why not?

Cons:

• It last too long (LOL)

• Aside from the hype, I do not see too distinct features that will make me want to continue buying it.  

Repurchase: Probably not. One EOS lipbalm will last for God knows when. I think I will be so bored by that time comes. 

Recommend: Yes, you should try it. It is a overall good lipbalm.