November 8, 2024

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Applebee Bets on Wing-loving Beauty Fans with Winky Lux’s Saucy Gloss Lipglosses! Colors of a barbecue!

 

 

Some Things Have No business Being Combined.

Until today, I would’ve Put Lip Gloss and Barbecue Sauce in that Category,
…but Here We Are.

Applebee’s has teamed up with makeup brand Winky Lux to create four “savory” lip glosses inspired by the restaurant’s signature wing flavors. For $18 a pop, you can choose among a creamy coral “Honey BBQ-T,” a deep-red “Sweet Chile Kiss,” a golden “Be My Honey Pepper,” and a smoky red “Get Me Hot Buffao!

 

                                                                          [Photo: Winky Lux]

Aptly named Saucy Gloss, the collection is part of a “dateable” music video campaign designed by Grey New York that
showcases real, single people wearing lip glosses while viewers can slide into their direct messages and ask them out.

“Yes, we have reached peak millennial ridicule, but at least now we can indulge in wing sauce sans the calories.”

This incongruous collaboration began a year ago, when Winky Lux founder Natalie Mackey got a surprise LinkedIn message from Applebee’s amounting to,
“Are you able to make lip glosses that taste like barbecue sauce?”
This inquiry kick-started a full year of R&D, from sourcing food-grade ingredients that can be used in lip gloss (think: garlic oil, chamomile oil, and honey) to nailing the texture so it doesn’t literally feel like a congealed chicken wing on your lips.  “The entire lab smelled like barbecue sauce,” Mackey says.
                                                     

Each flavor comes with a matching shade designed to look like the real sauce but with a twist, like golden flakes for “Be My Honey Pepper,” or chili specks for “Sweet Chile Kiss.”

 

 

 

Flavor-wise, Mackey says the Hot Buffalo sauce’s “pepper aroma” was the hardest to replicate. After more than 25 iterations, the team landed on a combination of red pepper chili, basil, tomato, molasses, and parsley.

“Actual sugar, which features in most wing sauce recipes, was a no-go as it would be too sticky on the lips, so the flavors, according to Mackey, are “mostly savory.” She says, “I think [people] are going to think it’s either genius or super weird.”

This collaboration between Winky Lux and Applebee is sheer genius. This is really a fun product that’s available for purchase now!!

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Enjoy your exciting new lipglosses!

 

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