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The 'Best Liquid Lipstick I Have EVER Owned' Is $15
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Kevin MacLeod · incompetech.com · CC BY 4.0
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A shopping article promotes a $15 Lip Bar liquid lipstick shade called Bawse Lady, citing reviewers who called it the best liquid lipstick they've ever owned and praising its long wear and lightweight feel. The piece links to purchase pages at Amazon, Target and Walmart, each carrying an affiliate tag.
No independent testing or comparison is cited; the entire case rests on quoted customer reviews pulled from retailer pages.
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✒ FROM THE EDITORIAL DESK
A fifteen dollar lipstick getting called the best ever is the kind of claim that costs nothing to make and nothing to check. Somebody wrote a glowing review on a retail site and a whole article got built on top of it like a barn raised on a rumor. Could be a fine lipstick. That is not the same thing as proof.