Clinique Black Honey lipstick has transcended time—by means of the ‘70s, ‘80s,’90s, the aughts, the 2010s— and it is nonetheless glistening on lips in 2024. The your-lips-but-better pigment went viral earlier than “going viral” was even a factor (first in 1971 as the unique “honey pot” gloss after which all through the 90s after it was reinvented into slim lipstick form), and once more extra recently on TikTok with tens of millions of individuals tagging #cliniqueblackhoney, displaying how a “black” lipstick might look so gorgeously sheer… on everybody. The shade is a phenomenon—and shortly that magic will now not be restricted to bullet and gloss type: Pop Lip + Cheek Oil and High Impact Mascara are each launching in a Black Honey model on June thirtieth.
The new two-in-one tint gleams in the identical vampy aubergine hue, and like the unique, the mix of blue, purple, and yellow pigments imparts solely a kiss of rosy shade. “What makes Black Honey distinctive is that it is common—it is completely between a heat and funky tone,” make-up artist Jewels Grogan tells Attract. What makes the oil totally different: its extremely-plush, extremely-glassy end. One swipe of the very nourishing system (it is overflowing with hydrators together with safflower, jojoba, olive, sunflower seed, and castor oils) was sufficient to melt my lips and provides them a 3D sheen immediately. (That top-shine end does soften to extra of a berry stain after a while or, in my case, after consuming lunch.)
Observing my glazed lips within the mirror, I hesitated so as to add the identical system to my cheeks. However a couple of dots (positioned proper alongside my cheekbones) sheered out to a fairly, dewy flush of shade—and there was no sticky really feel. Attract affiliate magnificence editor Annie Blay had the identical preliminary feeling about making use of the shiny oil as a blush however was pleasantly stunned with the beautiful wash of shade it left on her deep pores and skin.
To spherical out the monochromatic look, the High Impact Mascara in Black Honey lives as much as its identify. Grogan suggests carrying it as a “topcoat over your on a regular basis mascara, ensuring to at all times curl the lashes for the perfect, eye-opening impact first.” At the moment, burgundy mascara is having a second as a result of it goes simple on the eyes. “It is universally flatting to each eye shade,” Grogran says, including that “it is going to work particularly nicely with brown eyes.”
I’m a brown-eyed woman and ensure the delicate bristles added quantity whereas additionally abandoning a fairly wink of shade. Attract senior editor Jesa Marie Calaor was additionally a fan of the super-subtle tint and the lifting impact on her skinny, wispy lashes. Candidly although, until your lashes catch the sunshine, the pigment appears to be like extra chocolate brown than burgundy. Attract content material director Kara McGrath and her inexperienced eyes are large supporters of the burgundy mascara pattern (McGrath has been reaching for Benefit Cosmetics’ Badgal Bang Mascara within the Wild Plum shade), too, and she or he says the colour makes her eyes look brighter than common ol’ black mascara does.
That’s the no-so-secret secret behind the famed shade: it’s a really wearable, on a regular basis pop of shade. Janet Pardo, senior vice chairman of worldwide product improvement, beforehand advised Attract in a 2018 situation that the coveted Black Honey lip shade “just isn’t a fussy product, but it surely’s received a particular one thing that folks simply love.” And now that’s additionally true on the cheeks and lashes.
