Illamasqua Intense Gloss - Frenzy

Illamasqua Intense Glosses (£12.50 for 7ml) aren't kidding at all by naming these intense because these are the most pigmented, opaque glosses I have ever seen in my life! What you see in the tube is what you get on your lips.

It has a high-gloss finish, comfortable to wear, not sticky in the slightest but will be gloopy if you applied a lot (and don't see why you would need to) they have a very faint scent to them but it isn't enough to repulse anybody who really dislike scented products, and although in the lip product World more pigmentation means more ingredients to suck the moisture from your lips (well OK, that mainly applies to lipsticks, but...) Intense Glosses will not leave your lips feeling and looking parched, and the glossiness will fade in about two or so hours, but the colour itself is quite long-lasting, and when it's gone after say, a meal, itslightly stains your lips to a MLBB shade.
So really, it's almost a liquid lipstick that does not dry out the lips.

I bought an Intense Gloss in shade 'Frenzy,' which the website describes as a 'Hot fuschia pink,' and I would have to disagree with the fuschia part - Frenzy is pure hot-pink, baby.

The product is within a thin, sleek tube which is quite firm when squeezed. The product is released via a plastic slanted tip and it isn't very good when trying to give a precise application, but I use a lip brush so that solves it for me. I'm actually happy there's no added brush because I think they're stupid and they waste product.

Picture taken in full sunlight

Alternative picture 

 Picture taken in sunlight and shade

With flash on bare lips

Would I buy more?: Heeeeeeeeeeeelllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll yaaeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I can't wait, I can't wait, I can't wait! I don't even know which shade I should buy. Maybe a totally radical one like Repulse (pure black) or Gender (apparantly sky blue, but it looks teal to me) or maybe the bright orange one.

 Grade: A-
I wish it had more diifferent shades (I don't know, but the lip swatches on the website look quite similiar...) and I just wish the tube was slightly fatter! I want more product... but other than that I love it.


What shall my next Illamasqua Intense Gloss shade be, and would you buy them?