Last week when e.l.f. was having their lip product sale, I decided to scoop up their Hypershine Gloss. I purchased mine in Candy Apple and Flirt, but honestly, the color makes no difference as this is a practically sheer gloss.

The gloss resembled a mechanical paintbrush-pen of sorts, because the gloss is up in a chamber and you need to twist the pen to bring it down to the area where it trickles the gloss down into the paint brush-like bristle tip. The pen says to twist it several times, twelve I believe, however it took a lot more twisting than that. I had to twist my gloss pen 32 times until the gloss came into the bristles. I felt like it was taking forever and kept checking the tip. However, that repeated twisting is only necessary when you first open this gloss.

The gloss, which smells and tastes like yummy cotton candy, comes into the center of the bristles to wet it and you brush it across your lips. Just like when you wet a paintbrush and brush color on canvas, these bristles painted my gloss on perfectly without anything extra or any dripping.

I was nervous that once I put the cap back on that the gloss would continue to trickle, but it didn’t. To apply this gloss, you need to twist the pen, as that is the only way the gloss can be released from the chamber. A little annoying, yes, but it seemed to only give me what I needed, making the whole process nice and neat.

Besides all the pen twisting and that the colors I chose where in fact sheer, I did love the shine to this gloss. Also, it lasted a good long while just as the Super Glossy Lip Shine did that I wrote a review about previously on A Girl’s Gotta Spa. This gloss can be worn alone or over your lipstick.