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There’s a brand new product on its way from MERIT and it’s looking beautiful. Here’s the lowdown on MERIT Beauty Shade Slick Gelée UK launch.
What is MERIT Beauty Shade Slick Gelée?
- Designed to deliver a wash of moisturising colour
- Ultra-sheer finish
- Provides the same lightweight moisture of MERIT’s Shade Slick lip oils but with a sheerer finish
- Infused with blooming pigments, which leaves a subtle stain based on your lips’ natural colour and pH
- Glossy finish with no stickiness
- Formulated to soften and smooth the lips
- Infused with Squalane and Quinoa Seed Oil help to restore the barrier function and protect from environmental aggressors
- Can be applied without a mirror
- Available in four shades exclusively at MERIT Beauty*
MERIT Beauty Shade Slick Gelée Shades & Swatches
The shades are:
- Jeté
- Le Deux
- Maraschino
- Mapleton
I have the shades Le Deux and Mapleton to show you which are both very pretty.
Swatches
Here are the swatches of Le Deux and Mapleton:
And here are the brand swatches so that you can see the other shades in the collection:
My Review
The MERIT Beauty Shade Slick Gelées are lovely, easy to use lip products that deliver a nice hit of hydration, in a sheer, cushiony, adaptive formula. They are a sheer gloss and compared to the original MERIT Lip Oils, they are much less pigmented.
You can apply these without a mirror because they are such soft shades. They are really pretty but they don’t really offer any kind of dramatic result. They do, however, leave a light stain on the lips even when the shiny finish has gone.
In terms of a comparison to the Rare Beauty Tinted Lip Oils, they don’t leave quite as much of a stain once the gloss has gone. I find with the Rare ones, you have to be fairly precise with the application because the stain is visible, whereas I think these MERIT ones are an easier formula to chuck on. They both give a really nice juicy effect.
I think that if you are a MERIT Beauty fan, you will really like these as a lighter, less oily feeling version of the original Lip Oils.
When does MERIT Beauty Shade Slick Gelée launch in the UK?
The new sheer lip colours are available at MERIT Beauty* for £26 each.