Friday Flop: Fusion Beauty’s LipFusion Infatuation Lip Fattener… or I spent $31.03 on WHAT?
Posted on September 24, 2010 by Liza Rae in Beauty, Friday Flops
LipFusion Lip Infatuation
Hi, I’m Liza. I blog at Cira’s Lyrics and can also be found on twitter. When Britt put out the call for people to review and write at Buy-Her I was very excited to be a part of it as I’ve been an admirer of her blogs for a few years.
Today I thought we’d talk about Fusion Beauty’s LipFusion Infatuation Lip Fattener.
I have been on a quest since I was about 14 or 15 years old to get perfectly plumped lips (without a collagen injection because, well, a needle to my lips frankly scares the crap out of me). Lets go back to where it started. It was the early 1990′s. I spent the summer babysitting kids who spent the summer playing outdoors at a friends house. What’s on during the day? Soaps I discovered. Days of Our Lives. Lisa Rinna played Billie Reed and I wanted lips.like.that.
Lisa Rinna's lips
My lips
….yeah.
Little did I know then you probably couldn’t get her lips, uh, naturally shall we say. And truth be told maybe I don’t want them that big, but I would love them to be fuller and plumper. Over the years I have spent time and money looking for the perfect plumper. I have tried more than I can count, and even siphoned some from my sister when she wasn’t looking. (Sorry Ali!) Each one worked a little, just not enough for what I wanted.
I had read about Fusion Beauty’s LipFusion Infatuation Lip Plumper “the most revolutionary breakthrough in lip plumping technology” according to their website and thought my quest was finally over. Heck, even Kim Kardashian is endorsing it so it Must be true, Right? I went to Ulta and pondered over the colors. Ultimately I like my lip plumper clear so I can put whatever I want on top or just leave it alone. Since it doesn’t appear they make one clear I settled on one of the palest colors I could find and purchased ‘Angelic’ for $29 ($31.03 after tax). This was more money than I would usually spend on a lip plumper but I was taking a chance.
The product is also advertised to be the “first liquid lip color with extraordinary Amplifat technology to increase and maintain body fat just where you need it most”. This really is for me! Lord knows I am still carrying what I can no longer call a post baby bump 3 years later from having 3 kids in the span of 18 months. Body fat, I had that. Results were supposed to occur within 10 minutes.
Let me say I desperately wanted this product to work. Clean dry lips, check. Started to apply. The first thing that turned me off is the applicator looks like a tiny little paintbrush and the color spreads unevenly. I felt like I was painting it on. A minute or two later I barely felt a slight tingle on my lips. Not bad I thought. I’m not opposed to the tingle most lip plumpers give you but some people don’t like it. Then I waited.
And waited…and waited. Nothing. No plump.at.all. I spent a few days using this product and each time, still nothing. Is it kissable at least? Not according to my husband, he didn’t like the taste. I was very disappointed with LipFusion Infatuation Lip Fattener. Really it just seemed like a sticky not so easily applied gloss and nothing more. This is not only the most money I’ve ever spent on a plumper but the first one that gave me no results at all. Are you obsessed with plumper lips like I am? Which products have worked great for you?
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Posted on September 24, 2010 by Liza Rae in Beauty, Friday Flops
Aww, that sucks. Know what plumps my lips for free and every guy I’ve ever been with finds sexy? A good old-fashioned cry. I never knew my lips plumped up when I cry, but apparently the guys notice.
(I know, this isn’t a helpful tip, who wants to cry when they don’t have to?)
I think your lips are cute just the way they are. Unnaturally plumped lips freak me out.
SHAME ON FUSION BEAUTY!
@Poppy, thanks poppy! i had no idea that a cry helps. lol i’ll have to check that out next time.
Wow. I can’t believe that company gets away with charging SO MUCH for that, especially when the results are NOT what they advertise!
I think it must be Cranston thing, Liza, with the thin lips, because I have them too! LOL
Thanks for the review!
@Cissa Fireheart, i know. it’s awful but at that price i thought it was a sure thing.
I’ve had limited success with Lip Venom and Too Faced Lip Injection but my husband refuses to kiss me when I’m wearing either of them because he’s a weenie who thinks that his lips are going to fall off if he gets “the burny-ness” on them.
But I’ll tell you what has worked for me more than anything. It’s an old trick of my mom’s from her modeling days in the early 70s. You need Vaseline and an UNUSED emery board.
Put a thin layer of Vaseline on your lips and let it soak in for a minute or two. Then buff your lips with the emery board. Not only will they be soft and exfoliated, they will also plump up way more than if you had used something like Lip Venom. They will stay plumped for about 4-5 hours before going back down. It’s a GREAT trick!!
@PaintingChef, that sounds a little scary, but heck i’ll give it a try! thank you!
That’s a lot of money for nothing…
Wow, that sucks. It’s so pretty in the bottle, but $31? That’s crazy, especially when it didn’t work.
Crying doesn’t make my lips any fuller, it makes my eyes puffy and my nose red and my face blotchy and I look like a hot mess. Not pretty.
I think that those lip plumpers work by irritating your lips so they swell. I’ve had that happen without a lip plumper (allergic reaction, I think) and it’s not a feeling I’d like to relive.
Wow if only I had purchased this product and only complained that it didnt work I might be smiling… however, after trying about 3 other lip plumper products this is the first one that within 24 hrs had me in tears! Lips were red, irritated, a horrible itch, bumps, sores, cracks at the corners, ANYTHING hot, spicy, acidic would creep into those cracks and cause me to nearly SCREAMMMMMMMMM….. the blistering is so horrific that if this doesnt go down with cortisone cream and ice packs, I will have to head to the ER!