24 hour lipstick???

I have that Maybelline 24 hour color, where the color is followed up with a balm by the way. What can I say about it? Yes, it's a long lasting lipstick, that much is for sure. After a whole day at work, it was still on and it didn't look half bad, but it also didn't look the same way it did when I freshly applied it. I also had really dry and chapped lips afterwards and the lipstick was difficult to remove! Overall, yes, I'd wear it again especially for dinner or something, but at the same time it doesn't quite live up to its promises.

If lipstick stays on for 24 hours, then it must be bad for you. What kind of chemicals or glue are there in that stuff? And if it stays on your face, what goes inside your body? It is embalming fluid or what? It sounds creepy. And can you swim with it as well, in a chlorine pool? And what if you apply it and you accidentally put it in the wrong place, how do you get it off then?

Not for me, thank you very much. I'd go for more natural options. Even put henna on your lips if you want, but this sounds dangerous.

I looked up the ingredient list for the Maybelline 24 hour lipstick and there's a load I don't understand... all -ium, -ane, -ate ending stuff, but I don't buy that these lipsticks are more harmful for your body than any general lipstick. Having said that you pulled me in and I just Googled "is 24 hour lipstick safe". I was led to something about lipstick in general that said loads of them contain heavy metals and so aren't exactly safe, but that included.... natural lipsticks, I mean ones marketed as being natural. I guess heavy metals are natural when you think about it that way... Maybe there's something in henna that ain't good for you all the same.

I read the reviews and would't personally use 24 hour lipstick because the reviews were not that great. I'm not going to buy a product unless I think it is going to work out for me. I would simply rather apply lipstick several times than deal with something that was meant to stay on and didn't, and then convince myself I shouldn't be applying it again because it was meant to be 24 hour lipstick!

If you are the kind of person who'd rather have residual lipstick than no lipstick at all and you were not going to reapply it anyway I would say go for it. 

Thanks for the replies. 

Yeah, you are right that there are mixed reviews. Of course I'm not expecting an absolute miracle and I know that marketing people tend to exaggerate, but 8 hours is still a pretty good deal for a lipstick. My yardstick would be whether it survives eating or kissing in a decent condition, you know? If it does that, and lasts through most of the waking day at least, I'm cool. I don't need my lipstick to survive overnight. 

How do you remove this? Will waterproof eye makeup remover do the trick? What if I don't want it to last 8 hours?

Oh, that Maybelline stuff? I was hoping for something that would actually, you know, last when I clicked here. I've already tried that one and it wasn't much good. The application looked, hmmm, how do I put this, not very nice from the very start and after drinks, dinner and all that stuff, there were some remnants but they weren't in the class of not actually screaming for a touch up. I'd rather my lipstick went right off so I could start from scratch than be left with a hot mess. Not getting that again and in fact I threw it away.