Review: Bodycology Healthy Kiss Lip Glosses

Debuting this past summer at Walmart, I was excited to see that Bodycology was branching out into lip products when I first spotted these a few months ago. Today I'd like to show you the shades I recently received for review.

So do these lip glosses pull their weight or are they just a novelty? Find out after the jump!

 Bodycology Healthy Kiss Lip Glosses

(retail: $2.99 each, 0.3 oz)

My camera had a heck of a time capturing the true shades of these little glosses, so please read each description to get a better idea of their true shades:

 Pomegranate Splash is actually a little cooler than it looks in this photo. It's got more blue to it, but it is a deep red.

Juicy Watermelon is more of a blueish-pink than the coral shade you see above, but it is not a bright shade (the vividness in my photo is pretty spot-on).

Fresh Strawberry is actually extremely close to what you see in this picture. It's a soft peach in person.

I always try to include a photo of the ingredients when possible, and even though this one was a challenge (tiny font on a partially reflective background) I managed to capture most of the list:

I was happy to see so many fruit extracts in this gloss, as well as olive oil, cocoa butter and coconut oil. Also, this formula is paraben-free.

Some swatches:

Clearly, Pomegranate Splash is the most pigmented of the three. Actually, Fresh Strawberry and Juicy Watermelon translate as clear glosses on my lips, but Pomegranate Splash has really nice, visible pigmentation. I love sheer red glosses, so it's my favorite of the three.

Texture, shine and stickiness: Anyone thinking these are going to be sticky and tacky will be quite pleasantly surprised to find that they're neither! I get no stickiness at all with any of the three shades. Although what I love most is that the texture is thick--it's not a thin, runny gloss by any means. This is a substantial gloss that coats the lips wonderfully and it's also a high-shine gloss.

Fragrance and flavor: One word? YUM. Each gloss exactly matches its name in both fragrance and flavor. If you love big flavor and fragrance in your glosses, and you LOVE fruity-smelling and tasting glosses, I think you will fall in love with these. I literally can't stop licking my lips when I wear these.

Staying power: Given how little stickiness there is to these glosses, I was pleasantly surprised that I could get 2-3 hours of wear with these. That's really saying a lot given that I'm chronic gloss eater.

Moisturization: This is probably the thing I'm the most excited about--these babies do a fantastic job of keeping my lips protected and moisturized. A few hours into wearing them, my lips feel very soft and hydrated, and they continue to stay that way throughout the day.

FINAL VERDICT:  To be perfectly honest with you, I thought these might be a novelty when I first tried them. But OH what a surprise they turned out to be. For a $2.99 gloss, I am over-the-moon excited about these. They hit every mark for me: no stickiness, great fragrance and flavor, super shiny, great staying power AND they're hydrating. I really can't think of a bad thing to say about these, except that I wish Fresh Strawberry and Juicy Watermelon were more pigmented. I think these are the perfect glosses to wear over lipstick--they would bring an added shine to any lip color and oh they smell and taste so yummy! I would certainly purchase these when I run out, and coming from a gal that's not even that into glosses, I hope that conveys to you how much I love these little sweet treats.

Do you own any Bodycology Health Kiss Lip Glosses? If so, what shades do you own and how do you like them?

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