I wanted a good rosey color lipstick,so I bought this lipstick from 100% pure in rosepetal. Rose petal..sounds romantic and so does the colour. See the swatch here:

Actually the color isn't that red as you can see above,it's less pale.My camera white balance makes it darker than what actually it is and honestly I have no idea how to fix it since I'm not techie in photography thingy.And no photoshop in this blog pls,unless for watermarking. So basically the color is a nice red rose with a slight hint of pink in it.

A really nice color...on my hand!But not on my lips!! Somehow all of 100% pure lip colors products have the same hue which is: pink when it's applied on your lips. No matter color that you choose,pink,red,dark red,orange,even brown.....they all will look exactly the same color as it is IF ONLY you apply it on your anywhere part of your skin but lips area!By far I have 3 different colors for lips products from 100% pure collection: peach(it's orange),pink grapefruit(it's pink),and rose petal(it's rose color). But when applied on lips,they all come in one same shade:pink! I found this very weird,I thought it's only me and my lips chemical reaction so that those products turn pink on me. But it's not only me,I reckon at least 3 bloggers have experienced the same: Testedonhuman, Scremata,and EcoBelleElle. They're all from various skin color and nations,so it's about the product and not about who wears it.

So if you want red,brown,or purple color as your lipstick colors..you'll be dissapointed.They're all pink,what differs them is only whether it's soft pink,bright pink,or weird pink like this rose petal that I have.It's such a weird pink on my lips,I can't describe how weird it is.It's a bright,and bit pale pink at the same time. 

Just like my previous lipglaze from 100% pure(see here),texture of this lipstick is creamy,it smells fruity also.This one is sheer also(1 sweep),and this one also has no exp.date on its packaging.If you ask me why I still stand for a product with an unknown exp.date like that, my main and only reason is that their products are fruit pigmented. Periods.  Before buying this I asked the seller 1st whether this product is fresh on their selves or what,and the seller said it came 2 weeks before my purchases. 

Arrgh,seriously 100% pure..this no exp.date thingy makes me look like a fool as your customer for buying the product"blindly"!When will you put it on your products?and more..why not putting it??@_@

On my stand to still buying their products"blindly",true that the only reason was and will always be because of its source of colorants which is plant based.On my 2nd line of source of colorants is minerals,then on the 3rd is synthetic colorants. I avoid as much as possible to use animals as colorants.It's just not ethical and feels yuck for me,so no animals based colorants for me.

However,each colorants has its own goodness and badness.Plant based colorants are generally not highly pigmented compared to minerals and synthetic colorants. As for this 100% pure case,somehow the result is pink when it's applied on lips skin.Not all plant based colorants resulted in pink color like 100% pure does,however in general they aren't highly pigmented so that the lipstick result is generally sheer.

Minerals and synthetic colorants are more pigmented than plant based colorants.However,it brings the consequences of such amount of lead in lipstick(see this USFDA link)Yes,mineral colorants also possibly contain of lead since in their natural state lead does exists. The process of removing lead and refining the minerals reduces the natural state to a naturally derived state. If there's trace of lead that still can be found in some minerals based colorant products,so the biggest chance it has is that the lead hasn't been totally removed and refined.Or,that the color of the lipstick could be opaque.Opaque color has bigger leads level than sheer color one.Why?because to have such opaque color,you'll need to have stronger pigments(lots of amount number of colorants)on your product.Small amount number of colorants will only create sheer product,not opaque.Let's see this pic below:

I compare the same lipstick(not lipstick vs lipgloss) products in the same shade.Opaque lipstick fully cover your lip natural color.By seeing the result you can tell how many colorants that each of them need to create the product? That's why,more opaque = more lead.  Opaque lipstick can also be resulted from Titanium Dioxide as opacifying agent. True that Titanium Dioxide as the opacifying agent can be generally considered safe according to USFDA to be used in cosmetic product, however when an opaque lipstick contains high level amount of lead trace,it could be the combination of many factors in it(amount of colorants,lead removing process of Titanium Dioxide,synthetic colorants,etc).

Now,which one is better:mineral or synthetic/artificial colorants since they both may contain lead? The answer is minerals.Synthetic colorants have more toxins and health effect than minerals one plus they still have the same chance amount of lead trace.However,the synthetic colorant is the most pigmented one among all source of colorants.That's why it's still widely used simply because it's the cheapest and the most pigmented one.That's all.

So,seeing how complicated it is to create one good safe product with high pigmentation without high level of lead,this is why some of clean cosmetic producers still use carmine-CI 75470/E120(animal based colorant,from bug)as carmine can give wide array of red hue,something that plant based colorant hard to do. Or else they have to deal with synthetic colorants,or large number of minerals just to create good red pigmentation product.Both means lead. I personally don't take carmine as that it is a cruel product though it's "natural".

So in all if you want to have less lead in your lipstick,these are what you should do:

1.Buy plant based colorants product,this one generally has sheer result.

2.Buy mineral based colorants product,the sheer one since it has less lead than opaque one.

In all,the lead in lipstick can be basically a combination factors: amount of colorants,the less refined and removed lead in minerals color(remember,Titanium Dioxide is also a mineral colorant),and the using of synthetic/artificial colorants.As for this reason,I love 100% pure lip color products!.It's just they need some major improvement,especially the exp.date one. And...to bear in my mind to have 1 of their lip product only since they all have the same shade : pink.  Anywho,I'm a bit dissapointed with this rose petal purchase since I wished to have rosey color,red hue but instead I got pink hue.So I'll give this lipstick 3 points out of 5,I prefer my previous peach one.

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I love tint products,be it lip tint,cheek tint,anything tinted products.Before making this conversion to clean and green beauty products,I have tried some liptints,so when I saw 100%pure had lip & cheek tint on their range,of course I deffy wanted to try.If you don't know what 100%pure brand is,or having a high curiousity about source of your make up colorants,read my prev.post here.If you're new and jump to this blog by accident,well..I know that some people are even just too lazy to click another link(I do it sometimes,hehehe...),so here I'll copy and paste from my previous post for you:

As you might know,when we buy colored cosmetic(lipstick,blush on,eyeshadow,even skincare),there're sources of cosmetic color that we buy.Now,what are sources of our cosmetic color?Generally it can be classified into these:

1.Plant

Leaves,Fruits,Root,Flower,basically from plant.

2.Animal 

From insect,fish,snail,and anyother animal.Yes,animal.Royal purple color,once worn only by royalty as the name suggests, is obtained from the Murex snail. Sepia is obtained from cuttlefish, and Indian yellow is obtained from the urine of cows that have been force-fed mango leaves.The most famous animal that is made into color source of cosmetic will be cochineal.Cochineal is an insect that is used to make carmine color in food and cosmetic industry.Carmine color is extracted from the insect's body and eggs and mixed with aluminum or calcium salts to make carmine dye .The insects are killed by immersion in hot water (after which they are dried) or by exposure to sunlight, steam, or the heat of an oven. Each method produces a different colour that results in the varied appearance of commercial cochineal. The insects must be dried to about 30 percent of their original body weight before they can be stored without decaying.It takes about 70,000 insects to make one pound of cochineal dye.Okay,that torturing animal activity is enough to ban it from my cosmetic purchase.Also,I certainly don't want to see insect on my cosmetic product.More,if you're a moslem like me,carmine is haram according to some islamic religious council.Just google it for sure!;)Carmine is labelled as CI 75470,or E120.Carmine is also called Crimson Lake, Cochineal, Natural Red #4.And,carmine is widely used in food industry as well.Just check your candy or yoghurt.Basically,carmine is used to make red color in both food and cosmetic industry.Also,as a food dye it has been known to cause severe allergic reactions and anaphylactic shock in some people.

3.Mineral

The minerals are pulverized and mixed with a dispersing or spreading agent. Sometimes heating the minerals produces different hues.This mineral origins(elements, oxides, gemstones, salts, and complex salts)are insoluble,so can be defined as pigments.

4.Synthetic Color

Synthetic colorants are copies of vegetable, animal, and mineral-based colorants, and are made in a laboratory. Until the nineteenth century, all colorants were of natural origin. The first synthetically made commercial colorant, mauve, was developed from aniline, a coal tar derivative, by William Henry Perkins in 1856. Today, chemists arrange and manipulate complex organic compounds to make dyes of all colors. Synthetic dyes, made in a controlled atmosphere, are without impurities and the colors are more consistent from batch to batch.The most common synthetic colors used in cosmetics and hair dyes are called FD&C colors or D&C colors.FD&C colors means the colors has been certified by USFDA to be used in Food,Drugs,& Cosmetics. D&C colors means the color can be used in Drugs & Cosmetics only,and not in Food. FD&C and D&C colors are derived from coal tar, which in turn is a by-product of petroleum. Because some coal tar dyes have been known to cause cancer, they are are regulated by the USFDA as to the amount of lead or arsenic they contain, limiting these elements to 10 parts per million.Lake colors can also be derived from coal tar.Lakes are produced from the FD&C Dyes and are oil dispersible (but generally not oil soluble) and thus can be mixed with oils and fats. They can also be dispersed in other carriers such as propylene glycol, glycerin and sucrose (water and sugar).That's why it's often used in cosmetic industry since generally cosmetics are made of oil.So,if in our cosmetic there're either:"FD&C color,or D&C color,or Lake color"on ingredients list,it means the cosmetic uses synthetic color as the colorants.

Yeah,those are some of what I've posted before.For detil info,you can click whole of my prev.post about it here.So,basically 100%pure source their products colorants from fruits & vegetable as their pigments.By far,their lips products are my fave since I love to see plants as my cosmetic pigments.What I'm avoiding the most is animal colorants which is unfortunately,widely available.Even on some natural and green companies products.What i'm talking about here is carmine.Carmine is no.1 fave source colorants since it can produce various beautiful red hues.I deffy say no to insect on my cosmetic products(and ingesting insect is a yuck idea for me -__-..). Also,recently I found on the market that now producers tend to write the CI number instead of the common name for the color(for exp: FD&C Blue no.1,D&C Yellow no.10,etc)which is absolutely a big loss for consumers since they won't be able to differ whether their make up source of colorants are either from synthetic or mineral,or what???? There're thousands of colors on CI list,unless you're a pro in color industry,so it's impossible to detect which one is synthetic and which one is mineral/animal source of colorants just by reading the CI number on ingredients list. As a consumer,I have the right for such info before making a buying decision of a product. And now they just don't give it....Haha..well,they can still continue doing such things forever,personally I'll deffy leave those kind of producers :).

Now,how about this product?Well,the packaging is simple but cute imo.It came with a plastic seal wrapped arround it.

They have 6 shades,see below:

I was confused about what color to pick honestly.I don't like either sheer or shimmer,so what left for me are shades: peach glow,pink grapefruit glow,and cranberry glow.But from the swatch what I love the most was sugar plum sheer color.However,I was worried of the word"plum"since in the past,all lipstick that I had with plum word in it always ended up they had mauve/violet color. I can't imagine a violet color on my cheek,it'll deffy look more like bruises on my cheeks rather than a healthy cheek!Beside,the picture can be mistaken in the actual color. Then,between peach glow,pink grapefruit glow,and cranberry glow,I could only choose pink grapefruit glow or cranberry glow since I already ordered my lipglaze in peach color.I don't want to have 2 products in peach color since they can substitute each other(yep,you can use your lipstick as your blush on too;) ).So,only pink grapefruit glow and cranberry glow left.The cranberry one looked tempting,but again the extra red color made me worried.Yeah,I don't want it to make me look like I've been slapped or something.So I chose this pink grapefruit glow shade.And this is the swatch on my hand and paper:

Overall I like this product.But I won't give it high ratings.Why?simply because it has no expiry date printed on it.Just like my previous 100%pure lipglaze,I'll give this product a 4.5 points.Nice product,they just need to provide a better info for consumers about its expiry date.That's all I can post for now.Thank you for Reading:)  And please,don't be hesitated to share some of the joy you have today for those in need below:

I've been at my state of lazziness to write a post on this blog these days(oh,like i've never done it before.Lol!).This month has been a busy month for me,so whenever i had free time,i did blogwalking instead of writing.Now that I finally have a cozy time to write,sure I decide to write something here:).This time I want to review liptint products from my beloved brand,Badger. Talking about badger,do you know that they actually wanted to name it"Bear Balm"instead of Badger Balm?It's because Badger Bill,the founder,thought that the balm that he made could soften even the roughest hands of a bear^^.Hmm..somehow I prefer Bear Balm to Badger Balm;) I'm a bearnatics,as you could see on my previous,many2 posts;)..

Ok,let's talk about the badger liptint that I bought.I bought 2 badger liptints:red jasper and copper.I wanted to make separate review about this,but then I think I should make it into one so that you can compare the color differences.Badger has 4 shades for their lip tint products:rose tourmaline(pink),garnet(purple),red jasper(red),and copper(brown).

See pic below:

I chose red jasper and copper since I want red color and copper color.I had lipsticks from clinique and oriflame in copper color before,and I love copper color,so thats why I chose this copper color.Rose tourmaline will suit someone in a very fair skin color,like caucasian people,so deffy not match to my skin tone.And garnet,I assumed it'll be a purple in color which I absolutely hate purple color on my lips.Back then I've ever bought l'oreal lipstick in purple,and it's very very odd imo.I bought it not because I like it nor want to waste my money,it's just I wanted to have purple lip color to complete my lipstick color collection(silly reason,huh?).Well,the purple lipstick end up on my trash can since neither me,nor my mum,nor my friends want that lipstick if any of you are curious about it:p..

The badger liptint has a good,nice packaging.Packaging is made of plastic with a badger pic on it.It has 2 tops,one is for the liptint color,and another top is for shimmery color.They put expiry date on it too.

So,if you want to add shimmery finish,just use the shimmery one(the white cap).It has the label there on each cap,and it also has different cap color so you won't be confused about how to use this stuff.I like this one better than what burt's bees lip shimmer has(read my post here).Burt's bees already mix the shimmery effect on one tube,so if you dislike shimmer color like me,the only option is just to dump the product. This badger liptint,well..I don't like shimmer color,so I just use the tinted color.Just that easy!:)

So,here are the swatch on my hand and plain paper:

Looks pretty similar,but it doesn't! The copper one falls to a mix of golden-brown-orange category.And the red jasper one is just a brick red color,my fave color.The copper one will be good as a bronzer too,since it's really bronze. If you ask me which one that I like,red jasper or copper,I'll choose the red jasper one.Red jasper will brighten my complexion no matter how dull or bright it is. You know,time when you're tired,lack of sleep,bad mood,or even sick.This red jasper color will make you bright.The copper one will work well only when I have good skin complexion(aka in prima condition).Which I mostly don't:D..So,how about the shimmery one on another cap?it has a slight hint of shimmer.I don't use it for my lips,instead..i use it for my eyes,or brow bone.It's good for a light high lighter.See,very practical!:)

Now,here is the inci:

*Olea Europaea (Extra Virgin Olive) Oil, *Cera Alba (Beeswax), *Theobroma Cacao (Fair Trade CertifiedTM Cocoa) Butter, *Ricinus Communis (Castor) Oil, *Aloe Barbadensis (Aloe) Extract, and CO2 Extracts of *Rosmarinus Officinalis ( Rosemary), *Rosa Canina (Rosehip) & *Hippophae Rhamnoides (Seabuckthorn).

Each Tint contains one or all of the following: Titanium Dioxide, Mica, Silica, Iron Oxide.

* = Certified Organic

If you think this is like anyother beeswax lipbalm that you've ever tried,you're wrong!This is buttery,and not waxy at all(compared to burt's bees lip shimmer).The texture is even harder than 100% pure lipglaze on my previous post here.That lipglaze is even more creamy than this one.This liptint doesn't melt on warm indonesia temperature,while burt's bees lip shimmer did melt!More,this one taste and smells chocolate,just like my badger sunscreen(see the post here).Very yummy. Since this is a liptint,so what you'll get is a sheer(but not tinted-if we compared to those liptint like benetint and stuffs.Those one tinted your lips,and this one layering on your lips)result on one sweep.For a bolder result,just apply it 3-4 times to get more coverage. Hmm..i think they should name it lipcolor instead of liptint?I know that lots of people are confused about this"tint"thing.But tinted in my experience,the product tint the lips instead of layering the lips with color. Source of colorants?right,it's mineral.Read my previous post here about source of colorants in our cosmetic if you want to know more about it.

Overall ratings,it's 5 points. It's worth the money I've paid for,and I like the result too.Also,this badger company has a good PR.I've ever sent an e-mail for them,and they replied it very quickly.

Talking about the value of the products that I buy,I remember my previous post here which has made me realize that this kind of green products are worth the money we've paid for.Not getting what I mean by that?see the pic below: (you can always preview the image in its original size by clicking it)

A.This is one of lipsticks that I purchased last year(2010),a high end brand.I haven't reviewed it and don't want to review it.I forgot the price nor time when I bought it,but now the price on its official web is USD 22.The brand?guess what?;)

its ingredients:

Octyldodecanol, Polybutene, Phenylpropyldimethylsiloxysilicate, Polyglyceryl-2 Tetraisostearate, Ethylene/Propylene Copolymer, VP/Eicosene Copolymer, Cetyl PEG/PPG-10/1 Dimethicone, Polyglyceryl-4 Isostearate, Ozokerite, Caprylic/Capric Triglyceride, Silica, Dicalcium Phosphate, Hexyl Laurate, Stearalkonium Bentonite, Ethyl Vanillin, Propylene Carbonate, Tocopherol, BHT, Hydrogenated Coconut Oil, Methicone, Commiphora Mukul Resin Extract, Gardenia Tahitensis Flower. May Contain: Mica, Titanium Dioxide, Iron Oxides, Carmine, Red 7, Red 7 Lake, Red 6, Red 30 Lake, Red 27, Red 27 Lake, Red 22 Lake, Red 28 Lake, Blue 1 Lake, Yellow 5 Lake, Yellow 6 Lake. 

B.And this is what I recently purchased.Price on official web is USD 15.
Its ingredients:

Organic Avocado Butter1, Organic Cocoa Butter1, Contains all or some of the following Fruit Pigments: Organic Cherry2, Organic Plum2, Cabernet Grape, Organic Raspberry2, Organic Blueberry2, Organic Blackberry2, Organic Peach2, Organic Apricot2, Organic Tomato3, Organic Pomegranate2, Organic Cacao (chocolate)2, Organic Rose Petals1, Organic Lavender Flower1 and Organic Cinnamon3, Organic Shea Butter4, Organic Rosehip Oil5, Organic Mango Butter1, Vitamin E (a-tocopherol), Vitamin C (ascorbyl palmitate), May contain Mica (natural shimmery mineral)

1 certified organic by Oregon Tilth Cerfitied Organic

2 certified organic by Organic Certifiers

3 certified organic by QAI

4 certified organic by Soil Association Certification Limited

5 certified organic by Baystate Organic Certifiers

Which one that you think worth the price I've paid for?If you're dizzy enough to decode what is in high end brand ingredients list,you can always try googling it for sure.But one thing for sure,synthetic colorants prices are cheaper than natural colorants price.As well for wax,plant based waxes and butters have higher price than synthetic/petroleum waxes one.If that's not enough,say hallo to this ingredients that is listed on that high end brand:BHT(Butylated Hidroxy Toluene). BHT is linked with cancer risk,and is still used in cosmetic industry as an aditive.Some industries have replaced it with BHA(Butylated hydroxyanisole). But apparently The US National Institutes of Health reported that BHA is reasonably anticipated to be a human carcinogen based on evidence of carcinogenicity in experimental animals. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has"admitted" that it's carcinogen on their carcinogen list report,see this link. You can see it's there along with a very familiar preservative in cosmetic industry,which is..formaldehyde. If you don't know what formaldehyde is,it is in the same family with formalin which has been an issue here in Indonesia. I've posted about it before here,but i'll list again what formaldehyde agents are:

-DMDM-Hydantoin
-Quaternium-15
-Diazolidinyl Urea (or Germall 115)
-Imidiazolidinyl Urea (or Germall II)

Sound familiar?sure,it's everywhere.Even in toothpaste,or baby products.Check it your self for a better result!;)   So,back to those lipstick above.Yes,that high end brand contain carcinogen agent.Why did they use it there? Hahaha,I don't want to discuss about it :D.. but certainly now I want to base my buying decision making just based on what is inside the product,not from the brand.Why?simple,why I should buy"cheap"materials in high price just because it's labelled under a high end brand while in fact what's in it is nothing(and some even contain dangerous ingredients)?.Absolutely no!;)...

Another high end brand lipstick that I have,it contains microcrystalline wax which is apparently is just a by product of lubricant oil production!Microcrystalline waxes are derived from the refining of the heavy distillates from lubricant oil production. Imagine,how wasted the material is(I imagine"that"car lubricant oil..err..a heavy distillates of that?Not flattering at all..-__-..),and thanks to the high end brand,it's priced high.Just check any of your high end brand cosmetic,mainly lipstick and if you find"microcrystalline wax"in it,you know how it should be priced then;).I was so dissapointed to know that a lubricant oil by product can be priced that high(and I bought it too in the past,gladly too!-__-)so that I told my fren and discussed about this.She laughed me and said"Hahaha,got you!a brand minded person!:p ....".I bitterly laughed and said"yeah,what a shame!Now i'm a brain minded instead..trust me on that!"...

I think,whatever we'll buy no matter the price it will be,the product should worth the money we'll pay for.Here,I've made a conclusion that good brand doesn't equal good stuffs.As a consumer,we must read carefully what's in it since it's us who'll use the product AND taking benefit/loss of what is inside it. Not the producer whom gain profit from it. All in all,I just want to be a wise consumer my self. Certainly not being irrational by just whatsoever called..brand.
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