Friday 21 December 2012

Nip + Fab lip butter trio disappointment!


After recently using and really liking the Nip + Fab pistachio body butter (review here), I decided to buy and try out their lip butters when I saw them in Sainsbury's recently. I had high hopes for them and at the time they were 1/3 off making them £3.33 - bargain!


As you can see the lip butters come in little pots and are in cherry tarte, coconut latte and mango smoothie. As soon as I had paid for them, I quickly opened them up because I was so eager to smell them and at the time they seemed perfectly fine. I then bought them home and left them on my bedroom floor, in the box and bag until I was ready to put them away. However, when I did go to put them away and opened the cherry tarte one to use it, I was met with a really runny and gloopy mess and after checking the other two, found they had all done the same thing.

I didn't keep them these by any form of heat and since I opened them when I bought them knew they were okay and that this isn't how they are supposed to be. I have no idea what happened to them but it's a huge disappointment!

I've since put them in the fridge to see if it hardens them up and while they're not as runny, they still aren't solid and pretty much unusable. It makes a mess when you try to get some out and the products feels like putting greasy water on your lips and slides right off. They smell really nice (although the 'mango' one reminds me more of a melon scent than it does mango) but other than that I can't comment on how well they work and right now they are not what I would consider to be 'lip butters'. 

Have you tried these lip butters? Has anyone else had the same thing happen?

21 comments:

  1. That is such a shame, these sound they could of been nice. you should take them back. x

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    1. Yeah I agree with this ^ or take some photos and send an email to them x

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    2. I wish I took pictures of them before I tried putting them in the fridge. I should leave them out now and see if they go back to as runny as they were.

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  2. Such a shame - I've used the body butter and was tempted by this at one point x

    mezmadeup.blogspot.co.uk

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    1. I really like the body butter which made me interesting in the brand but now I'm not so sure..

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  3. Oh dear! I bought these for my brother's girlfriend for Christmas so I hope hers aren't like this! xx

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    1. Ick, did you wrap them yet? If not maybe you could check them? They were fine at first though so I don't know what happened!

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  4. What a shame, they sounded so promising

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  5. I'm actually currently wearing the mango one (my mum bought me the set as a little coming home present) and yes, they do go on rather greasy but after about a minute they sink so well. My lips feel like silk right now, haha. I just thought I'd give another opinion because if looks like you got a bad batch but they really are quite nice! xx

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    1. I'm confused about what happened though because they were fine right after I bought them!

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  6. Oh, such a shame, but they look so lovely in these little containers.
    X Deja

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  7. oh no what a shame! everything else from the range I have really enjoyed. Maybe you should send them back to the company- they might refund :)
    Poppy @ lets drive far away x

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    1. I bought them because I've enjoyed their other products and probably would have liked these as well had they not melted!

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  8. Mine are exactly the same as this but I actually like it once they soak in! :) x
    meguana.blogspot.com

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    1. Oh really? Interesting that someone else has found the same thing! It was really weird though because they weren't like it when I bought them.

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  9. Aww these look super cute, so strange how they were runny though! :/ nobody likes runny lip balm, that's what lipgloss is for ;) x

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    1. I threw them away in the end. They were too messy to use!

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  10. Hey, I tryed those from Asos on http://us.asos.com/NIP-FAB-Lip-Butter-Triple-Set/11sfrw/?iid=3418687&r=1&mk=VOID&mporgp=L05pcEZhYi9OSVBGQUItTGlwLUJ1dHRlci1UcmlwbGUtU2V0L1Byb2Qv and I like them but it could be better.
    I really don’t like the consistency. They are so runny! They are like watery goo! I expected them to be much firmer- like the Body Shop lip butters I guess- so was quite disappointed when I opened them. They do sink in after a while though.
    But they do smel realy good.

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  11. I've been trying to buy more of these - I really love them and am half way down my third pot. They are brilliant. If anyone knows where I can buy them please post here.

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