Because the tenth was a Sunday I got my money on Friday. So I headed out to Wal Mart on Saturday to pick up the lipstick.
Let me just start off by saying I. Love. Revlon. When I was eighteen they came out with the first Just Bitten stain and I used it religiously. They had come out with it along with some other special products that I picked up, that I liked, but not like my lip stain. When it was gone I went to pick it up again, but they were not selling it anymore.
On Saturday I went to get my new lipstick. I specifically wanted a coral/more orangey shade than I usually go for. I chose the new Colorstay Ultimate Suede Lipstick. I had seen a display of them previously, and the colour selection is just stunning, and I hadn't seen or read anything about it on the internets. I like to live dangerously.
The colour of this is gorgeous! I fell in love with it as soon as I swatched it on my hand. It's an absolutely lovely coral colour with flecks of gold in it. It is exactly the colour I had in mind.
The packaging is also very nice to look at. I would prefer if it were more the regular height and width of a lipstick, but that's just a storage thing for me.
I haven't seen this advertised, so I had to go onto the Revlon website to see what they have to say about this product (not the easiest site to navigate, but it wasn't overly difficult to figure out).
"Is your lipstick giving you both moisture and wear? This velvety soft formula with moisturizing shea butter and aloe is food proof and doesn’t quit. 20 shades. Apply once and go."
Revlon boasts the following features for this product:
- Instant moisture
- All-day colour
- Shea butter and aloe
- Food-proof wear
- Soft suede finish
- Availabile in 20 shades.
In My Opinion:
IMO, this is a stunning colour both in the tube and on my lips. Revlon was spot on with the shade selection, because I want every single one of those colours. There is a bright fuschia one that is calling my name. And it does have a matte-ish, suede feeling to it.
It is also not even a little bit food-proof. This got all over my coffee cup when I got my coffee this morning. I never buy into the food-proof thing because I have yet to find one that actually is food proof, so this was not a big surprise to me at all. I expected that.
Having been a little underwhelmed I went on a mission to find a way to love this lipstick, and I think I may have succeeded. Yay! When I reapplied the lipstick after I had my coffee I put a gloss over it. I went with something that has little pigment to allow the colour to show through. I added the Gosh Light'n Shine lip glaze in the colour 03 (available at Shoppers Drug Mart). The result was absolutely gorgeous. It intensified the colour I fell in love with at the store, and took away the dry feeling.
Overall this is an okay product. The only thing that would prompt me to repurchase is the colour (which I'm fairly confident I could go into MAC or Sephora and find a shade for which this is a dupe). Everything else about it was not all that impressive.
If you have a product you would like to know more about please let me know...I just might have it (likely), and if I don't I will make an effort to get my hands on it so I can let you know what I think!
xoxo
Jordan
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