Beauty Review: Fresh Sugar Lip Treatment

Product: Fresh Sugar Plum Tinted Lip Treatment

Cost: $22.50

What they say it does: “Fresh Sugar Plum Tinted Lip Treatment SPF 15 offers sheer coverage or buildable color and is the perfect partner to the best-selling Sugar Lip Treatment SPF 15. It’s formulated with sugar, a natural humectant that prevents moisture loss, and a superior blend of nourishing oils and protective waxes to soften and smooth dry lips.”

Our review: We’ve been hearing loads about this, as a possible alternative to, say, Benetint or … we don’t know, any of several million other lip glosses at Sephora. We’ll give it this: It bills itself as a “lip treatment,” and it did feel like something other than a lip gloss or stain. (We love Benetint, but it can feel a bit thin, whether in stain or lip balm—just like Korres’s lip butters, which are great, but slide off almost immediately.) This was super, surprisingly heavy—goopy, even. But we found it sat on our lips rather than really moisturizing. Which was a little unappealing. We liked the colors more in theory than on our face, too. Altogether, a little disappointing, and certainly not a replacement for any of the products we mentioned above (Korres Lip Butter, Benetint) that we still prefer.

In short: We’ll stick with what we know.

Our grade: B-