No7 High Shine Lipgloss Review

For those of you who don't know, No7 is a slightly higher-end drugstore cosmetics company. No7 began in Boots UK, however to my knowledge it has spread to the states. No7 is available in pretty much every Boots store in the UK, excluding Boots Opticians.
I've enjoyed No7's luxury products since I was very, very young. I think No7 is targeted at the more mature market as their line includes lots of anti-aging lotions and potions. Anyway, my mother basically buys ALL her makeup from No7 and I used to sneak into her room and play with all the lipsticks on her dressing table. Perhaps the reason for her consistent purchasing of No7 products is because there is nearly always some kind of offer or promotion on their products. Despite this, they are still an excellent makeup brand and at a fairly reasonable price for the quality. No7 are considered a rather expensive beauty brand from the drugstore, most products are around the £10 price.
The No7 product I will be reviewing today is the High Shine Lipgloss. Two of the shades are mine and one is my mother's. These lipglosses are priced at £9 each, but are frequently in free gifts after over £25 of purchases or something like that.

From top to bottom: 'Lust', 'Smile' and 'Glaze'.

Firstly the packaging is excellent and of premium quality, the lid is sleek, shiny and a gun metal colour and screws securely onto the tube. The applicator is a brush, which is really handy and precise. The only thing I would say that is bad about the packaging is that the logo tends to rub off after long wear, however this tends to happen with all lipglosses so it's okay. Also, once you peel the barcode sticker off the lid, there is no way of detecting the shade. As far as I know there are six shades in the line.

The consistency is not very sticky at all, smooth, very shiny and really pigmented for just a gloss. It has SPF 15, which is always good as burnt lips are incredibly painful. The staying power isn't great, it would last probably maximum two hours on the lips, but as I said the pigmentation is wonderful. It is scented, a kind of irresistible sickly sweet kind of 'fake fruity vanilla' scent and taste. Some might find it quite intolerable but I enjoy it's lingering taste, which is probably why it doesn't last long on my lips because it's so tempting to lick it off! 

Please note that in the lip swatches my lips probably look quite sore and chapped because I'd been doing other lip swatches all day and then rubbing them off. 

This is the shade 'Smile', probably my most worn of them all, not necessarily my favourite, (because they all are!). As you can see it's a beautiful natural rosy peach  shade with very, very subtle gold shimmer, with not much pigmentation. However, a colour like this doesn't need much pigmentation and it's looks naturally pretty and complements most skin tones.

This is the shade 'Glaze'. This lipgloss is my Mum's but it's just an example so I thought I'd chuck it in. This shade in the tube looks like an iridescent lilac taupey kind of colour with lots of glitter, however it looks significantly toned down on the lips. It suits my mum's yellow-toned skin more than mine, though I feel. Still, definitely seemingly plumps your lips without having a painful tingling sensation for ages.

This is the final shade 'Lust', and probably the most impressive. In the tube it looks very deep and you think 'How could that possibly translate onto your lips in a gloss formulation?' Well.. I don't know how, but it does! In this photo, I am only wearing a very sheer coat, so I do believe it's buildable but it would probably get quite cloggy and gloopy after more than two layers. I wore this divine, seductive gloss on Christmas Day but I think it's quite suitable for summertime as well. Personally I'd say this is a more tomato-red rather than cherry-red so it's fairly different to other red glosses on the market. It also has plumping qualities so makes lips look fuller. I really don't know what skin tone this suits, but I will continue to wear it as it constantly blows me away with the colour.

So in conclusion, these are, in my opinion excellent lipglosses. They are priced at £9 in UK Boots stores which is quite expensive for 'drugstore' or highstreet lipglosses, but they often have £5 off No7 with most purchases in Boots so I'd just wait for a promotion and you'll be able to buy one for £4 instead!

Thanks for reading :)