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Friday 10 September 2021

Flashback Beauty Friday 41: Bourjois Docteur Glamour

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row of silver chrome lipsticks on checked background
Welcome back to another flashback beauty product. If you missed last week, I shared the flatter (less ice-cube like) packaging for the Estee Lauder Pure Color Eyeshadow. Today I have a small collection of discontinued lipsticks from a brand no longer available in the UK.
row of colourful lipstick cases with silver chrome finish on checked background
They are the Docteur Glamour moisturising lipsticks from Bourjois.
colourful cases of lipstick standing in a row
Unusually for a drugstore lipstick, these came boxed. They had a cute concept, as Bourjois tend to, with this "medicine for your lips" type theme. The box lids with the shade names were written over a cross and each box clearly reflected the colour inside.
row of boxes of Bourjois Docteur Glamour Lipstick
top of boxes showing shade names and numbers of Bourjois Docteur Glamour Lipstick
This continued onto the lipstick packaging itself with coloured lids representing the shade of lipstick inside and a small silver ball atop the tapered lid, which had a medicinal feel. The silver chrome base also seems quite syringe like. I'm always a fan of self coloured or transparent makeup products, it just makes it so much easier to find the shade you're after.
circle of colourful lipsticks with silver ball on top of case
Bourjois Docteur Glamour Intensive Moisturising Treatment Lipstick collection
The box states; "Docteur Glamour lipstick cares for your lips: apply daily for continuously moisturised and visibly smoother lips". I expected these lipsticks to feel more balm like, with little colour and a more intense moisturisation (the box says "intensive moisturising treatment" with mango and shea butter). However, I never felt they were mega nourishing and actually some have a lot of colour to them, which was a surprise.  They are quite a 'slippy' lipstick, with a shiny finish.  
10 Beige Fievreux, 15 Fuchsia O Bobo, 16 Lilas Ausculte, 17 Rose Requinque, 18 Blouse Blanche and 19 Brique Secouriste Bourjois Docteur Glamour Lipsticks
I have 6 shades and I've swatched them all in the same (numerical) order they are shown in photos. 10 Beige Fievreux, 15 Fuchsia O Bobo, 16 Lilas Ausculte, 17 Rose Requinque, 18 Blouse Blanche and 19 Brique Secouriste.  You can see that even the white one has quite a lot of pigment to it, but 15 and 19 are the most pigmented and lipstick like.  
10 Beige Fievreux, 15 Fuchsia O Bobo, 16 Lilas Ausculte, 17 Rose Requinque, 18 Blouse Blanche and 19 Brique Secouriste lipstick swatches on arm
Bourjois never failed to disappoint me with their packaging and concepts.  I found an old blog post of mine from 2010 regarding these lipsticks, but I think they launched a few years prior to that.  Do you remember these?  

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