Cheap Supermarket Lipstick

Hello, I hope you all had a lovely New year! I spent mine in onesies with my parents, watching fireworks out the window and eating lots of sweets, it was perfect! Also a positive note, if you didn't already know, my dad has been fighting a hard battle with brain cancer, and he got his scan results back today, and his tumor has shrunk! I am so happy and proud of him, I think we are just going to have a family movie night tonight to 'celebrate' which will be lovely! I went into a shop called 'Aldi' today and my dad got some sauce he has been trying to find for ages, and I seen they had a make-up section. I didn't know what to expect and it was only £1.99 for a lipstick and I wanted to review it. I know you can get some products that are dupes or just as good as more expensive make-up and I wanted to have a look for myself. 

 The packaging itself does look cheap, and by looking at the outside packaging you can immediately tell that it's very inexpensive, but I didn't let the outside packaging decide how I felt about the actual lipstick.

It claims to leave lips 'soft and smooth while also preventing them from becoming dry and chapped' which I think is a perfect way to describe the lip product. When applied it does go on quite sheer, but after 2 or 3 coats it is very opaque. It has a slight shine to it, but nothing dramatic. It is very moisturizing  to me it felt like a coloured lip balm, I was pleased with that because I suffer really bad dry/chapped lips. The colour is really quite pretty too, a bright red, but as it's quite sheer it isn't very dramatic. I really liked how the lipstick looks out of the packaging, the metal looking effect makes it looks a lot more expensive than it was, and I think it looks really nice. The only downside is the lasting power, it doesn't last that long, about half an hour (eating/drinking), but I always have lipstick on me to reapply anyway. I am happy with this product and for £1.99 you can't really go wrong. I would like to buy the other colours in the collection, because I know they have about 6 other colours too. I recommend this lipstick to anybody that has an Aldi store near them.