I’ve been excitedly waiting for Rimmel Apocalips since hearing about them on international beauty blogs, and they’re just entering Australian stores now. They’re essentially very pigmented lip glosses, which combine bold colour with high shine. They come in gloss-like tubes housing a doe foot applicator with a dent in the middle. There are 8 shades available in Australia, ranging from bright and bold to nude and, well, bold.
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Now for some lip swatches:
Stellar is a bold coral, which is incidentally my favourite shade of neon nail polish.
Apocaliptic is bold bright pink. The darker shades wear off to pretty, more wearable stain-like shades. They’re also less messy once the gloss has worn off – I like to apply a sheer gloss over them.
Celestial is a paler pink which is really pretty, but too light for me – I have this problem where when I’m wearing light pink lippie I feel like my lips are holding a revolt to take over my face.
Nova is a pretty medium pink which wears off to a very natural stain.
Overall, I really like these, but they’re too high maintenance for me to wear on a regular basis – I’ll be busting them out for special events. The shade selection is decent, but naturally I’m lusting after the colours that weren’t released, especially Big Bang (Rimmel’s classic true red which I have to get in all the products). Galaxy (mauvish pink) and Luna (pastel orange) are another two which have been on international blogs that we may hopefully see on our shores soon! You can score these in Priceline (where there’s currently a sale) and other Rimmel stockists, as well as a few places online. This product was provided for editorial consideration, which did not affect my opinion. For more information, see Disclosure Policy. This post contains an affiliate link, which will not cause a price increase for you, but will redirect profit to support this blog in a tiny way 🙂
I’m going to do my swatches of these today – I love them 🙂 I find I can wear them for longer when the colours are blotted.
I prefer blotted as well, I think I’m too unco for high maintenance colour!
Luna was the one I reeeeeally wanted. Curses!
I’m not entirely sure if Phenomenon and Luna are the same shade repackaged.
I’m not 100% sure it’s not the same as Phenomenon…
These are so pretty and I am so sad that Rimmel isn’t sold here anymore. Luckily I found them online at Asos and got Big Bang and Celestial and I love them!
No Rimmel at all? D: That’s horrible, thank god for ASOS!
so pretty shades!
They’re a pretty good selection!
Thank you for the useful swatches! I think I will be passing on them though, mainly because I’m not a fan of glosses and these do seem very liquid. Excellent pigmentation though!
I tried to think of a way to set them but failed – if they weren’t so transferry I think they’d be my HG lip product!
these colors all look so beautiful on you!
Thank you 🙂
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