I bought a MAC Powder Kiss lipstick in Mull It Over. When I tried it on it had a sickly sweet taste so I looked at some reviews. Temptalia’s website said it tastes and smells like rubber, and other reviewers said it tastes sickly sweet. So it wasn’t just mine, they all smell and taste like this. To me it tastes and smells like artificial sweetener, which makes me not want to wear it. But then as I was closing it I noticed this white thing up shoved up inside the lid. I took it out with tweezers, it’s a circular piece of foam or sponge. I’ve never seen this before in any of my MAC lipsticks and wonder if this the reason for the awful smell and taste. I couldn’t find any info about it on Mac website. What is this and what is it for?
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I bought a MAC Powder Kiss lipstick in Mull It Over. When I tried it on it had a sickly sweet taste so I looked at some reviews. Temptalia’s website said it tastes and smells like rubber, and other reviewers said it tastes sickly sweet. So it wasn’t just mine, they all smell and taste like this. To me it tastes and smells like artificial sweetener, which makes me not want to wear it. But then as I was closing it I noticed this white thing up shoved up inside the lid. I took it out with tweezers, it’s a circular piece of foam or sponge. I’ve never seen this before in any of my MAC lipsticks and wonder if this the reason for the awful smell and taste. I couldn’t find any info about it on Mac website. What is this and what is it for?
Anyone? There’s thousands of people on this sub, I’d hoped someone might know….🙁
I bought six Powder Kiss lipsticks last week and all of them have this. I don’t know what it is either, but the lipsticks are fine so I don’t mind it.
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