The next review is a lipstick! The NYX Matte Lipstick, shade
MLS30/Aria.
I must say, I love purple lipsticks! So when I peeked inside
the case and saw that it’s purple, I got really giddy. But who knows how good
it is? Let’s see!
.jpg)
Packaging: very simple, just a black case with a clear
section that allows you to see the colour of the lipstick. The packaging looks
kind of cheap, and feels cheap, too. The cap fits very securely, but the
retracting mechanism is rubbish. It is very flimsy and cannot hold its
position, it just starts rolling back on its own, so you have to literally hold
it in position with your fingers. NYX doesn’t usually make cheap-feeling
packaging, but this one is just really not up to the usual NYX standard.
Ingredients: petrolatum, vitamin E for nourishment. No
parabens. The scent is intense and very unpleasant. It smells extremely
chemical, like chlorine. Definitely not a scent you’d want in a lipstick. There
is one very likely reason why it smells like this (and that also explains all the other
bad stuff, too): this lipstick was manufactured a bit over 4 and a half years
ago! Sure, no one opened it since then, but even closed cosmetics can’t last
forever! And I really reckon that caused the bad smell, the dryness and the
tackiness. It’s just gone bad! Eh, it’s typical for ‘mystery bags’ to contain
old stuff, but this is just ridiculous! Anyways, the expiration date is 12
months after opening, if you get a fresh one, not a 4.5 year old one.
.jpg)
The colour of this lipstick is rich purple, with a lot of berry tones in it, making it more like dark magenta than true purple. It’s
still definitely purple, but it’s a different kind if purple than, say, L’Oréal
X Balmain Color Riche in the shade Freedom, now that one is proper purple! This
shade of purple is a bit more wearable in normal circumstances, so I like it
more. It’s a really fancy and unconventional colour! It looks so lovely on pale
skin!
The pigmentation is extremely intense from the first swipe. It
is super easy to apply as it glides across lips; the formula is smooth and
creamy enough for this, but it is also uncomfortably heavy and waxy on lips.
Like, it literally feels like a thick layer of wax on lips. NYX is right, it is
shockingly smooth. But it’s just way too thick and waxy. At least it’s not
tacky.
The texture is matte, but not extremely dry matte. It’s more
silky matte, just like NYX describe it. It doesn’t exaggerate fine lines, but
it does collect in the centre of lips, becoming drier than on other parts of my
lips. After 8 hours of wearing it is quite dry, lighter, yes, but now it’s dry
and uncomfortable. My lips feel dried out by it, so, so much for that statement
“Never dry, always creamy...”.
This lipstick is pretty long-lasting, but it’s not very
spectacular. It fades and smudges visibly after 8 hours. It becomes a lighter,
more reddish shade of purple. It survives meals and drinking, but greasier food
might require you to reapply the lipstick. So, it’s okay, not as extremely
long-lasting as NYX promise, though.
Removing this lipstick was easy with micellar water. I
didn’t have to rub a lot to remove it. But, and this is bad, it leaves a
horrible red stain. That stain is a bastard to remove, and takes a very long
time to remove and requires a huge amount of scrubbing. That all ends up
damaging the lips, so not only are they dried out from the lipstick itself,
they are also damaged from the process of removing said lipstick. To be fair,
purple pigments in general (be it lipsticks or eyeshadows) tend to leave red
stains. So I wasn’t too surprised to see it, I was actually expecting it to
stain! But still, it always annoys me to hell.
In conclusion: this is an average-quality purple lipstick.
While the colour is badass, a really awesome purple that isn’t like royal
purple but more reddish purple, the formula isn’t too comfortable to wear. It
is very thick and waxy and just too heavy. It also dries up after a few hours
of wearing it and then it becomes so much more uncomfortable to wear,
especially because it will have already dried out your lips by then. And then
there’s the staining! This lipstick is extremely easy to remove, don’t get me
wrong, but it leaves a horrible stain, like most purple lipsticks do, anyways. So
then you have to scrub your lips to remove it. Not fun, is it? So the only good
things are the colour and that is is super smooth and glides across lips
without any tugging. See, perhaps if I hadn’t gotten a 4.5 year old lipstick
like this one is, things would be different. But as it stands it is just pretty
to look at, not comfortable to wear. And given the awful chlorine smell, I
don’t feel like I should be using it; it has most likely gone bad and I don’t
want to risk any irritations (or worse). Even if it were fresh, not ancient, I still
wouldn’t recommend it. It’s just too uncomfortable to wear.
Rating: 5 (objectively, if I ignore the fact that it’s probably gone bad)
Would buy again? NO (even if I got a fresh one)
.jpg)
0 comments