MUA Alexandra Burke Lip Boom review

This lipstick has got to be one of my favorites ever. I purchased this when I was shopping with a friends and came across it in a Superdrug shop, the packaging caught my eye and although this isn't the colour that I originally intended to go for after seizing them all up (and trust me I did A LOT of seizing up) I decided this colour was the one! The colour i chose was "Its A Situation" and it is a deep purple. I was actually so excited to try this that I ran into the changing rooms at primark because I couldn't wait to get home! My first impression was that it was VERY dark and for a horrible minute I thought I had bought a colour that didn't suit me at all (to be honest that probably wouldn't have mattered as it only cost me about 3 quid!). Luckily my friend had a lip balm with her so what we decided to do was to apply the lip balm as a base coat and a top coat to sort of soften out the colour a bit and I have to say it looked great! The colour stays well and although the lip gloss included is very nice it's a bit thin and you have to apply about 5 coats for it to have much effect, also its VERY VERY sparkly so I prefer to not use it, still 100% worth it as I would have paid more than the price for even just the lipstick, I always find MUA is great value for money!

P.S Sorry for the crappy photo quality,  these where taken using bad artificial lighting and on the messy surface of a chest of drawers.