Even though I am trying not to buy more shit (and I've been doing pretty good), I somehow ended up with these three lipsticks. A bit of a gamble for someone who isn't a huge lipstick wearer, and who has found almost every matte lipstick I've ever tried to be hideously fucking uncomfortable, but I'd seen such good reviews that they seemed worth a shot. I also had some CVS coupons to use, and I wanted some more neutral lip colors for work. I ended up being way, way more impressed with these things than I'd hoped, so I don't regret them a bit.
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| Swatches of Maybelline Color Sensational Creamy Mattes in Lust for Blush, Touch of Spice, and Divine Wine |
My lip swatch photos aren't particularly impressive, and I'm not sure if the camera, the lighting, or my lips themselves are to blame. (Blogger is also doing that annoying fucking thing where it washes out the color of my photos when I upload them, even though I have photo enhancing turned off and I saved them as PNGs, etc., etc.) Let me direct you to other photos
Touch of Spice and
Divine Wine, so you can get a fuller sense of how they might look on you. I've included my mediocre photos below so you can see the contrast between these shades and my pasty skin, in case you are similarly pale. For example,
Touch of Spice looks like the medium neutral on many people, but on me it is really quite dark and warm. It doesn't look vampy, but it's definitely a bit intense. Flattering though!
Divine Wine is very vampy on me, and I haven't actually worn it out yet, because drama. But I will! The nice thing about it is that it isn't completely purple. Purple lipsticks tend to draw out the purple in my face and require a lot of other makeup to make sure I don't look like a corpse. This one has enough brown in it that it doesn't do that, while still looking like a true wine color.
Lust for Blush is close to my natural lip color, but pinker. It looks pretty subtle when I wear it.
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| Maybelline Color Sensational Creamy Matte Lipstick in Lust for Blush |
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| Maybelline Color Sensational Creamy Matte Lipstick in Touch of Spice |
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| Maybelline Color Sensational Creamy Matte Lipstick in Divine Wine |
The formula of these is delightful in every way. They texture is just perfect, so I can apply
Touch of Spice and
Lust for Blush directly from the bullet and get a neat enough line without having to fuck around with a lip liner. I think they look a little sloppy in the close up, but from a normal distance, they look perfectly neat. I used a Jordana lip liner (in
Cabernet Wine) to clean up the edges of
Divine Wine, because it is so dark that any unevenness is more obvious.
They're not drying at all - and I'm really picky about products drying out my lips. I just won't even bother with anything that dries out my lips, because they get chapped easily enough already. And these lipsticks wear fantastically well, despite not being uncomfortable like more long-wearing products. They last for hours. You can snack and have a drink and your face will still look great. They go on opaque in one swipe and aren't patchy (despite the somewhat misleading photo of
Divine Wine above). If your lips aren't perfectly smooth, they won't look like shit. This lipstick doesn't exactly camouflage roughness, but it also doesn't highlight it or settle into lines. It has no real scent or taste. I honestly have no complaints about this shit. It's some of the easiest, best lipstick I've ever tried. I'm thinking 2015 might be the year I finally embrace lipstick, though ideally without buying a bunch more of them. Because look: dupes. Well, sort of.
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| Swatches/dupes of Maybelline Color Sensational Creamy Matte in Lust for Blush vs ULTA Lip Crayon in Fashionista, and Maybelline Color Sensational Creamy Matte in Touch of Spice vs. Lord & Berry 20100 Lipstick Pencil in Intimacy. |
The ULTA pencil is a little cooler and a bit more drying. It also has a slightly gross lipsticky smell. The Lord & Berry pencil is much nicer than the ULTA one, though it smells a bit too. The color is almost identical to
Touch of Spice, but it's creamy rather than matte. I'm a big fan of the L&B, but the formula isn't as long wearing or foolproof as the Maybelline.
No dupes for
Divine Wine! That one is a whole new adventure for me.
I never wear lipstick (or much makeup in general) either and yet I ended up with 4 this past week. I only have the lightest of the maybelline matte, it makes me feel like an angry zombie, but in a good way. Every post I see on them makes me want to go back and buy them all. D:
ReplyDeleteAngry zombie! I'm afraid it would just make me look like a pathetic zombie. I am restraining myself from buying the orange and the red. I'm sure they will be wonderful, but I wouldn't wear them enough to make it worthwhile.
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