It melted…

Depotted: The Etude House Dear My Jelly Lips in ‘JPK002’.

Hello, everyone. As you can probably tell, this was an unplanned/unscheduled post. The idea was to write an homage to this product before it turned into mush. Hence, the odd photographs and what not. You can’t not write a post on this product, it’s that post-worthy.

THE BACK-BACKSTORY: I feel like I own a lot of Etude House products. I normally feel the need to buy everything they come out with. Of course, thanks to a bunch of friends and an almost-always empty wallet, I keep my spending urges in check. Their Sweet Recipe line, that came out in the Summer of 2013, is easily one of their most popular lines, even today – the Jelly lipstick line in particular. Whoever tried these lipsticks had raved about them. That convinced me enough to place an order for one.

THE SAD BACKSTORY: I loved this particular lipstick so much that I put it in my handbag (for reapplication purposes, I guess) and forgot about it. The handbag and I travelled a lot, apparently. To extremely warm places to boot. During one of my cleaning sprees, I discovered several of my lip products that had gone missing, in my bag’s bottomless warp. While I was delighted to find this lipstick again, the moment I twisted it up, my heart was broken – it had melted. And I fully accept that it was completely my mistake. I knew how to depot lipsticks because of an incident that had happened in the past –  my absolute stunner of a lip product, Revlon’s Lip Butter in ‘Peach Parfait’ dying a similar death. I loved the colour too much to let it sit idly in my collection and so, I had depotted it. I figured I’d do the same with this lipstick.

The Etude House Dear My Jelly Lips in ‘JPK002’.

The melted Jelly Lips in ‘JPK002’.

THE PRODUCT: The Etude House Sweet Recipe Dear My Jelly Lips in ‘JPK002’ is an absolute stunner. It’s a vibrant pink shade with a red base and it is capable of looking amazing on every skin tone. The hubbub around these lipsticks are definitely the texture. What I found was that it wasn’t creamy or matte like your regular lipsticks; the texture was something I had previously only encountered once in a lipstick. The jelly-like texture and the extreme hydration and sheen it provided reminded me of my Yves Saint Laurent Volupté Sheer Candy in ‘Succulent Pomegranate’. This Etude House lipstick is around the $10 mark while the YSL one is $34. Granted, it isn’t as good as the YSL one, it is still good enough to be comparable. These are basically a lipstick and a moisturising lip lacquer hybrid in signature Etude House packaging. The colour variants range from different shades of pink to oranges to a neutral one that can adapt to the user’s lip shade. Oh, did I mention it smells like candy?

HOW I DEPOTTED IT: I twisted up the lipstick till all the product was exposed and with a tissue in hand and minimal pressure, I wrapped the tissue around the lipstick bullet and pulled it out. I put the lipstick in a glass container and put that glass container in a saucepan of warm water and left it there for about 10 minutes. The lipstick soon melted completely and I transfered it from the glass container to a plastic one. You could leave it in the refrigerator if you want it to set faster but I just let it set at room temperature for some odd reason. I basically just followed this tutorial here.

PRICE: $7 – $10 for 3.4 grams of product.

AVAILABILITY: Cosmetic-Love.com, Ibuybeauti.com etc (I got mine from Ibuybeauti, for $7.50)