Buxom Big & Healthy Lip Stick in "Miami"

I've only ever tried one product from Buxom before, which was a brownish-bronze lip gloss that was extremely goopy and probably gave me nightmares. It had come in a Sephora lip kit, and ever since I've been pretty averse to their products. Recently my friend gifted me this mini lip stick, which I believe is from the Mix & Mingle set.

This is 0.015 oz of product which is very little... I suspect it will be used up very quickly. However, keep in mind this is a mini size and the full size is 0.03 oz which is still not a lot - your standard lipstick will come at around 0.12 oz. Not too impressed with this, considering the full size is $18 in the US and a whopping $23 here in Canada!

"Miami" is a very bright watermelon pink, definitely a statement lip. I found the formula to emphasize all the dry bits on my lips I didn't even know I had, but of course if you exfoliate your lips beforehand this should solve that problem. It felt tingly on the lips and Buxom claims this as plumping, but I noticed no effect whatsoever. That's fine with me, but if you purchase this hoping it'll make your lips bigger you may be disappointed. One good thing about the super fine tip is that this lipstick applies very precisely, which is important for bold colours like this one. I definitely don't think a liner is necessary for this, the colour is pretty long-wearing and it is very pigmented - so pigmented, in fact, that it stained my lips. Even when the lip stick wore off, the stain was still there, keeping colour on my lips the whole day.

Overall I'd recommend this if you like bold colours but don't like the hassle of having to use lip liner and you do not have a problem with dry, flaky lips. However for anyone else, I really cannot justify the high price tag for so little of a product that didn't really wow me.