From the Vintage Vault: Revlon Lip Glide Color Glosses

The most popular request I receive when it comes to this blog is, "Please do more Vintage Vault posts!" So even though there are always so many things to share with you and talk about here on a daily basis, this week I finally just put everything aside (other things can wait until tomorrow, right?) and wrote this blog post. I know, I know...long overdue, and I apologize for that!

For newer readers, let me give you a little background info about how the Vintage Vault series came to be. A few years ago, I uncovered a box of old cosmetics that I completely forgot I had tucked away in my spare bedroom. In that box were some of my favorite drugstore (and higher-end) beauty products from the late 80s, 90s and early 2000s. So I decided that, one by one, I'd show you everything in that box, as sort of a walk down memory lane.

So that's how it all began, and today I'd like to revisit an old favorite from Revlon: Lip Glides!

Revlon Lip Glides first debuted in drugstores in 2002. They had a nice, long run (gloss products seem to come and go quickly sometimes) until they were discontinued in 2008 or 2009...my memory's a little foggy on that one but I think they were discontinued in 2008.

Lip Glides were available in ten shades and you can see one of the magazine ads (featuring Halle Berry) right here if you'd like to see the other shades.

 Revlon Lip Glide in Ruby Slippers

The Lip Glides has a twist-up pen delivery system and the gloss came up through little holes in the sponge-tip applicator:

I'm not sure if this was the first time I had ever seen this type of delivery system at the drugstore (at that time, it could have been) but of course there have been several since then!

I remember falling in love with Ruby Slippers because it was one of the most pigmented gloss-type products I could find at the drugstore back in the early 2000s. I think this was actually my second or third tube of it! It was intensely pigmented, but the one thing  I remember not liking about it was that the staying power wasn't the greatest. I think I was lucky if it survived a full hour (which probably explains why I went through so many tubes). Also, the flavor and fragrance were sort of a "chemical-y" with a slight berry undertone. It still smells that way, all these years later.

Thanks for taking this walk down memory lane with me, and expect more Vintage Vault posts in the future. If you love these types of posts, click here to see all of my past Vintage Vault posts (when you get to the end of the page, click "older posts" and keep reading...you'll eventually see what the ORIGINAL Sinful Colors nail polish bottles looked like, if you don't remember them!).

Do you remember Revlon Lip Glides? Did you own any? If so, do you remember which shades you owned?